Silent Spring
A Environment, Ecology, Nature book. Carsons writing initiated a transformation in the relationship between humans and the natural...
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Rachel Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes...
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- ISBN: 9780141184944 / 141184949
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As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the one hand delicate and destructible, on the other miraculously tough and resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no "high-minded orientation," no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring // Quin ha tomado la decisin que pone en movimiento esa cadena de envenenamientos, esa ola creciente de muerte que se va extendiendo como las ondas que se forman cuando se lanza una piedra sobre un estanque tranquilo? Quin ha puesto en un platillo de la balanza las hojas que podran haberse comido los escarabajos y en el otro los lastimosos montones de plumas de diversos colores que forman los restos sin vida de las aves que cayeron bajo el golpe generalizado de los venenos insecticidas? Quin ha decidido (quin tiene derecho a decidir) en nombre de legiones... Incidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not 9nly scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized. Rachel Carson, Silent Spring //
My notes while reading the book:Originated the modern environmental movement.Short summary of her and her book. She was a biologist and scientific writer, faced pressure from the industry after publishing the book, but she triumphed over them. Died due to breast cancer.Read by a soft female voice. Very appropriate since author is a... Seminal work. Important read. As important as reading The Feminine Mystique for feminists. This book opened my eyes to some of my behavior. I resent when my city refuses to spray to kill mosquitoes. We occassionally have mosquitoes that carry some particularly nasty diseases. I want the mosquitoes killed by city personnel spraying in... How could I forget the first book I read about pesticides, and how they are destroying our planet? Rachel Carson is literally my hero. After reading Carson's book, I decided this is what I wanted to do with my life. I spent many years in the field of environmental geology, and I have her to thank. I believe this book is as relevant...
