TRIBUTE: Climate-change pioneer Bernard Forde
16 Oct 2018
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Dr Bernard John Forde, MBE JP PhD.
Born February 17, 1935, died October 11, 2018.
By ADELIA HALLETT
Today is the funeral of a man who pushed, to the best of his scientific and political ability, to get action on climate change.
Dr Bernard John Forde, MBE JP, was a plant physiologist who worked on environmental issues, and that, inevitably, led to climate change. And although I didn’t know it at the time, he also turned out to be one of the most influential people in my life.
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