| | Silent Spring |  | Author: Rachel Carson
Publisher: Crest
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 422671
Media: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8BK7K
Publication Date: 1962
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 Silent Spring June 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Rachel Carson (1907-64) died of complications from breast cancer at the age of 56 which makes Silent Spring, published before she told anyone of her condition, a haunted book, a dead woman walking seeking justice for a crime. Carson's body is almost is a metaphor for the planet. The so-called "environmental movement" - which the book is commonly thought to have started - is really about human justice, people are part of the environment and justice for the environment is justice for people. By reading Carson today and remembering how and when she died, we are reminded that keeping our campsites in better condition than we found them (old Boy Scout motto), not trashing our backyards, is a moral consideration both about nature and people, ultimately one and the same. Carson's appeal for justice from the grave has not been met, her predictions have come true: cancer is epidemic, public health in general is eroded, and DDT and other chemicals now permeate the earth from the Arctic to our mothers milk. Progress has been made but "environmentalism" still carries a heavy stigma among many. The American pledge ends with "and justice for all" - human justice can never be obtained so long as nature, of which humans are a part, continues to be debased.
 The Facts!! August 6, 2007
0 out of 6 found this review helpful
Perhaps her cause was just in writing this book, but her short-sighted ignorance of the repercussions was inexcusable. Because of the ban on DDT which largely resulted from Silent Spring, the WHO has estimated that around 20 MILLION children have died of malaria.
DDT was, & still is, one of the very best insecticides to control mosquitoes, the sole transporter of this deadly disease. Best of all, DDT is very NON-toxic to humans.
The need for DDT is so urgent that even the Sierra Club is justifying it's use inside houses in malaria stricken locations of Africa, South America, & Asia.
Way to go Rachel. Save the Birds, Kill the Children...Wake Up People!!
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