The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology

by Barry Commoner

Book Overview

"I regard him as right and compassionate on nearly every major issue." -- Stephen Jay Gould A radical argument about the root causes of climate change, The Closing Circle was progressive when it was... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039442350X
• ISBN13: 9780394423500
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.

Customer Reviews

An unbeatable and fundamental book!

Despite Barry Commoner wrote this famous essay thirty years ago , you will be surprised about the fact these reflections have not aged a bit . Commoner is not only a worried investigator about the environment but also too a smart thinker , and when these two qualities join the result is the sum of all your satisfied demands and requirements . Commoner makes a careful study of the first effects of the radioactive clouds , and clarifies the cycle in one of the chapters . His pen is clear sugestive and powerful . This book is a must for all those are really worried about this unfinished and still present serious concern around the world conversation motive . This text appeared just several months before that famous Rome Club Report of 1972 when the first voices of warning and alert were raising all around the globe .

An import early work on the environmental crisis

Written over thirty years ago and now dated, The Closing Circle was one of the early important books on the environmental crisis. As a neophyte to this issue, one who was interested in gaining a better understanding and perspective, I still found this book profoundly useful.