Scott nearing biography
Scott Nearing was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate of simple living.
Scott Nearing (August 6, – August 24, ) was an American radical economist, educator, writer, political activist, pacifist, vegetarian and advocate.!
Nearing, Dr. Scott (1883 – 1983) American Conservationist
A prolific and iconoclastic writer, a socialist, and a conservationist, Scott Nearing—along with his wife Helen—is now considered the "great-grandparent" of the back-to-the-land movement.
Nearing was born August 6, 1883, in Morris Run, Pennsylvania. He is the author of nearly fifty books and thousands of pamphlets and articles, some of which have become classics of modern environmentalism .
Originally a law student at the University of Pennsylvania, Nearing received his B.S.
from that university in 1905 and a Ph.D. in economics in 1909. He was the secretary of the Pennsylvania Child Labor Commission from 1905 to 1907.
John Saltmarsh's biography traces Nearing's life from his early days as a social radical to his later life with wife Helen on their model homestead.He taught economics at the Wharton School, at Swarthmore College, and at the University of Toledo in Toledo, Ohio. In 1915, he was dismissed from his position at the Wharton School for his politics, particularly his position on child labor.
A pacifist, he was arrested during World War I and ch