Corrections to Last Post

In my last post I said I had not been able to find a copy of  Where There Is Life. Well, I have done so, and it's in the mail. (The wonders of online old book dealers.) I also said that Sears et.al. were among the first ecologists. That, too, was incorrect. It seems ecology has been around for a while, picking up steam in the 19th century with the work of Darwin. The authors we read first in the OWU course "Conflict and the Human Condition" were helping to increase public awareness of the degradation of the planet by over-population and other processes. Environmentalism, if not ecology, was a household word in the 60's, at the heart of which was the best-seller Silent Spring by Rachel Carson.