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A review by katieinca
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
4.0
The thing I wondered most about while reading this is "whatever happened with that?" I wanted an anniversary edition. Barring that, I recommend reading this book with wikipedia at your side (not, as I did, as an audiobook while driving 70 MPH). There are books like "Silent Spring at 50," but from what I can tell they're focused on things like trying to blame Carson for harming the war on malaria, when in fact if you read the book she devotes considerable time to the seriousness of human disease vectors, and explains that large populations of mosquitoes had already become DDT-resistant by the time she wrote the book. I'd prefer a Silent Spring Wiki that goes chapter by chapter with updates on when various things were banned or when and where they're still allowed, and how various alternative approaches have progressed. But I'm not about to start it.
The thing I wondered about the second most was how we, as a species, have not yet managed to render ourselves extinct.
An excellent companion for those interested in the environment, agriculture, and the relationship between science and policy, but at times a slow read for those of us living in the 21st century.
The thing I wondered about the second most was how we, as a species, have not yet managed to render ourselves extinct.
An excellent companion for those interested in the environment, agriculture, and the relationship between science and policy, but at times a slow read for those of us living in the 21st century.