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tangleroot_eli's review against another edition
slow-paced
I am too cynical for this book.
As I started, I kept skimming through sections and skipping ahead, wondering when the “scary parts” would start. I was almost halfway through before I realized: these are the scary parts.
When Silent Spring was published in 1962, complete environmental collapse probably sounded like dystopian fiction to most people. Carson’s page after page of horrific examples and statistics sounded an alarm sufficient to move laypeople and leaders alike to demand, and when possible make, change.
Now here I am in 2024. DDT use has been significantly curtailed worldwide, but environmental disasters Carson couldn’t’ve dreamed of threaten us every day. At most, this book made me feel a slight, melancholic hopelessness: yeah, we’re all doomed. Now what?
As I started, I kept skimming through sections and skipping ahead, wondering when the “scary parts” would start. I was almost halfway through before I realized: these are the scary parts.
When Silent Spring was published in 1962, complete environmental collapse probably sounded like dystopian fiction to most people. Carson’s page after page of horrific examples and statistics sounded an alarm sufficient to move laypeople and leaders alike to demand, and when possible make, change.
Now here I am in 2024. DDT use has been significantly curtailed worldwide, but environmental disasters Carson couldn’t’ve dreamed of threaten us every day. At most, this book made me feel a slight, melancholic hopelessness: yeah, we’re all doomed. Now what?
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Terminal illness
Graphic: Environmental degradationac_rva's review against another edition
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Minor: Animal death, Animal cruelty, Child death, and Cancer
good_names_dont_exist's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.25
Probably just not my type, or wrong headspace.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer
helena_chris's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
4.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death and Animal cruelty
Moderate: Cancer, Medical content, Terminal illness, and Medical trauma
erinwolf1997's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal death, Terminal illness, Cancer, and Death
Moderate: Child death
wai's review against another edition
challenging
informative
slow-paced
3.75
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Terminal illness, Animal death, and Medical content
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