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Silent Spring: by Rachel Carson

© Irene Taylor

I first read Rachel Carson's landmark book, Silent Spring, about 15 years ago. I was especially interested as my brother-in-law was very involved with pesticides in his job. What I picked up to read as a reference and source of information surprisingly became one of the best books I had ever read - surely a great book, and one to consider if you've never read it.

Reading Silent Spring from the vantage point of the early 21st century will give readers some amount of comfort, as much of what Miss Carson discusses has been documented by science, and changes have been made to the way we treat our environment.

But in 1962 when it was written, Silent Spring was an eye-opening indictment of the environmental practices that were standard procedure. As early as 1945, Ms. Carson was making her concerns about the use of pesticides, espeically DDT, known. As new insecticides, herbicides and fungicides were discovered, their uses became rampant in an effort to control our environment, and little or no regard was given to the effects of those agents on nature and on US!

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