[LAF] Murray Bookchin died 30th July 2006

[Adrian Williams]

For general interest.

Associated Press
BURLINGTON, Vt. --Murray Bookchin, an early proponent
of what he described as social ecology, died at home
early Sunday at the age of 85.

...Murray Bookchin long was a proponent of
left-leaning libertarian ideas and was among the first
people in the early 1960s to promote the then-emerging
field of ecology into political debate.

He published "Our Synthetic Environment" under the
pseudonym Lewis Herber in 1962 in which he called for
alternative energy supplies among other environmental
proposals. It was in that book, which predated by five
months the better known work Rachel Carson "Silent
Spring," that Bookchin introduced the notion of social
ecology.

He argued that only a completely free and open society
can resolve the problems that confronted the
environment at that time.
(30 July 2006)



	
	
		
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