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Daily Archives: June 26, 2021

Gairdner B. Moment: How the Cold War Pushed an Almost Revolutionary Off the Rails

Textbook HistoryBy Ronald LadouceurJune 26, 2021

A visionary naturalist in the early 1940s on the order of Rachel Carson, by the 1960s, college biology professor Gairdner B. Moment devolved into a reactionary critic of the emerging culture of environmentalism he had helped spawn, and is remembered today as the scientist who wanted grizzly bears eliminated.

© 2008-22 Ronald Ladouceur
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