The Closing Circle: The Environmental Crisis and Its Cure [Hardcover]

Barry Commoner (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd; First GB Edition edition (January 27, 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0224006444
• ISBN-13: 978-0224006446
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,802,031 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An import early work on the environmental crisis, January 12, 2004

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K Scheffler (Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Closing Circle: Nature, Man, and Technology (Mass Market Paperback)

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.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An unbeatable and fundamental book!, October 28, 2004

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Hiram Gomez Pardo (Valencia, Venezuela) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Closing Circle: The Environmental Crisis and Its Cure (Hardcover)

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 .