Silent Spring

Paperback, 304 pages

English language

Published Feb. 12, 1977 by Fawcett.

ISBN:
978-0-449-23125-8
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4 stars (20 reviews)

This account of the effects of pesticides on the environment launched the environmental movement in America.

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4 stars

I remember hearing about the book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson in my fifth grade science class. The story of a women scientist who sounded the warning about the danger of pesticides and chemicals in the environment was told almost like a legend. Indeed, the book itself has had an impact far beyond its content. It ranks as one of the most influential books of the 20th century and one of the few works in human history that can be said to have a direct impact on how we live and understand our world. The books reputation is well-deserved. It is a damning critique of modern society and our over-reliance on technology, chemicals, and poisons to attempt to dominate and control nature. Carson concludes that, like the threat of nuclear war, humanity's use of increasingly deadly forms of toxic chemicals in agriculture put into the power of our own destruction …

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5 stars

This is beautiful scientific writing, a synthesis of diverse studies and cases across the country explained simply, clearly, and damningly. Across fields, rivers, soil, insects & fish & mammals & humans, Carson tells the repeated story of needless destruction without bothering to understand the goal or the system or the past: ultimately counterproductive and unintentionally broadly harmful, toxic, and wasteful.

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Subjects

  • Insect pests -- Biological control.
  • Pesticides -- Toxicology.
  • Pesticides and wildlife.
  • Urban ecology (Biology)

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