arthur gholston, who was a plant , coined the yale term -- arthur galston. if you areaid separating an organism from the way they interact with the natural world, you are participating in their death. they protested the war, not only ithumanitarian grounds, but was problematic from a humanistic point of view. he argued that science has been co-opted by the government and the defense department for too long and it was time for science to work for good. not to create things like agent orange, but things that would better humanity. the american association for the advancement of science sent a-team in august 1970 two effects ofstudy the operation ran hand -- ranchland. they found that herbicidal spraying had utterly destroyed fully half of vietnam's mangrove forests and had done irreparable harm to its tropical hardwood result, theys a were being replaced by invasive bamboo and grasses. createdspread tree kill soil erosion and nutrient dumping. i failed to mention -- it was not just against forests, but rice patties. eventually operation ranch hand targeted agr