| The Invention of Ecocide: Agent Orange, Vietnam, and the Scientists Who Changed the Way We Think About the Environment Subjects: Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Extinction (Biology); Agent Orange -- Health aspects; Agent Orange -- Toxicology; Vietnam War 1961–1975 -- Chemical warfare; As the public increasingly questioned the war in Vietnam, a group of American scientists deeply concerned about the use of Agent Orange and other herbicides started a movement to ban what they called "ecocide." DAVID ZIERLER directs the Caltech Heritage Project. He lives in South Pasadena, CA with his wife and four children. |