commoner
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The first book I read about it, some 50 years ago, was “The Closing Circle,” by Barry Commoner, which lays out the damage humans had already done to the ecosphere.
From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2022
Commoner finally agreed to make the ad, provided he wouldn’t have to say the repellent word himself.
From Time • Dec. 2, 2016
As individuals, the gaudy businessman from New York City and the Great Commoner from the prairies don’t have much in common.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 15, 2016
Some of the most influential leaders of the movement, including Barry Commoner and Rachel Carson, broadened their attention to other ways that technology seemed to threaten human health or nature itself.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2014
He was educated at the College school at that town, and in due time he was entered a Gentleman Commoner of Jesus College, Oxford.
From A Biographical Sketch of some of the Most Eminent Individuals which the Principality of Wales has produced since the Reformation by Williams, Robert
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