A review by jhobble10
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

3.25

This was an interesting and very informative read. I feel like I’ve learned a ton on the main topic, being the history of pesticides and how damaging they were/are to the environment and humans, but also on ecology, entomology, etc. It was interesting hearing about the state of the art research and non-pesticide solutions being proposed in 1962 and I would be interested to follow up on the progress of the field in the last 60 years. However interesting, I struggled to get through the book due to its exorbitant amount of details and examples. I feel like Carson was really beating a dead horse throughout much of the book. Maybe that was the point, though.