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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
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Silent Spring

by Rachel Carson

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Picked up this book having heard it was a landmark piece of literature in the ecological movement. Worth a read, but it's a sad book and in some chapters the author does labour the point a bit. In context of time written, a well-researched and quite frankly bold piece of work! Fact that it is still referred to 40 years on proves its significance. ( )
lozzer | Jun 21, 2009 |  
well i guess she could just write 'ddt kills' and have said the same thing; so repetitive, but apparently necessary at the time ( )
lonake | Mar 20, 2009 | 1 vote
I read this book this summer. It was good, but sort of depressing! ( )
oleiah | Jan 4, 2009 |  
Paperback edition with an introduction by former Vice President Al Gore. An incredibly powerful, landmark book.. ( )
seavac | Jul 11, 2008 |  
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To Albert Schweitzer who said "Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.'
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In a letter written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had long been concerned. (Acknowledgments)
There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to be in harmony with its surroundings. (1. A Fable for Tomorrow)
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Amazon.com (ISBN 0618249060, Paperback)

Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson's book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened more than a few eyes about the dangers of the modern world and stands today as a landmark work.

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