Lynton Caldwell,A Founding Father of America's 'Environmental Magna Carta'

摘要

The year was 1970.About this time,I had been designated chairman of Earth Day for my high school,although that was still many months away.One of my friends,Keith,was a member of the local John Birch society,which maintained that Earth Day was part of a global communist conspiracy to undermine American civil liberties.I countered that Earth Day was being sponsored by our own powerful Senator Scoop Jackson(D-WA),to which Keith simply replied that Jackson was also part of the grand conspiracy.Neither of us changed each other's minds,but surprisingly,we managed to remain friends.