Donald Eaton Carr

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Donald Eaton Carr

Donald Eaton Carr (October 17, 1903 – September 1986) was an American journalist, writer, environmentalist and research chemist.

He was born in

Union Oil Company. He wrote seven books, mostly about air and water pollution
.

Carr's The Eternal Return, published in 1968 was a work on the

philosophy of time which advocates a theory of eternal return. Carr dismissed the idea of reincarnation and stated that everything that happens has happened an infinite number of times and will recur an infinite number of times in the future.[1]

Selected publications

  • The Breath of Life (Norton, 1965)[2]
  • Death of the Sweet Waters (Norton, 1966)[3]
  • The Eternal Return (Doubleday, 1968)
  • The Sexes (Doubleday, 1970)[4]
  • The Deadly Feast of Life (Doubleday, 1971)[5]
  • The Forgotten Senses (Doubleday, 1972)
  • Energy and the Earth Machine (Norton, 1976)[6]

References

  1. ISBN 9780313295973
  2. doi:10.1016/0004-6981(67)90018-2
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  3. ^ "Reviewed Work: Death of the Sweet Waters by Donald E. Carr". Journal (American Water Works Association). 59 (4): 50. 1967.
  4. JSTOR 4443631
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  5. ^ "The Deadly Feast of Life". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 30, 2020.
  6. ^ "Energy and the Earth Machine". Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved March 30, 2020.


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