. -- arthur galston. the means byy which a community can support itself from the natural world, then you are essentially killing them and are complicit in their death. galston, another scientist rallied environmentalists and students alike to protest the war, not only on humanitarian grounds, but that environmental destruction was problematic ecologically and from a humanistic point of view. he argued that science had been co-opted by the government and the dod for too long and that it was time for science to work for good, not to create things like agent orange, but to create things that would better humanity. the american association for the advancement of science sent a team in august, 1970 two vietnam to study the ecological of population ranch had. -- of operation ranch hand. this is after years of trying to get there. they had two major findings -- that herbicidal spraying had utterly destroyed half of the vietnam's mangrove forests and had done irreparable harm to its tropical forests, which i resu

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