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| Silent Spring (Edition 001) | 
| Author: Rachel Carson
Creators: Edward O. Wilson, Linda Lear
Publisher: Mariner Books
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  137 reviews
Sales Rank: 4510
Format: Special Edition
Media: Paperback
Edition: 104
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 400
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0618249060
Dewey Decimal Number: 363.7384
UPC: 046442249065
EAN: 9780618249060
ASIN: 0618249060
Publication Date: October 22, 2002
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 Horribly misunderstood January 2, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
I love this book. Mostly because of its beauty and poignancy in its ability to make true science and ecology accessible to the average reader.
Unfortunantly, this book has also been used, and misused, by both sides of the environmentalist movement to justify there rather flawed beliefs.
You see, because of the wide ban of DDT, the death rate of malaria has grown tremendously over the past 40+ years. The reason is because uninformed individuals misunderstand the purpose behind the book. Carson's concern was the use of DDT for AGRICULTURAL purposes, NOT health care purposes.
Unfortunantly, social conservatives have used this rather unfortunante and tragic mistake from the environmentalist movement as ammo against the environmentalist movement as a whole, using a gross and unfair generalization that is just as tragic as the millions who have died from malaria due to the irresponsible and uninformed DDT regulations in our country.
Be smart, be open minded, be knowledgeable, and THEN read this book, and its true purpose and beauty will eventually come to you quite easily, and you will be informed.
The book they tried to dismiss ... December 13, 2005
7 out of 11 found this review helpful
In "Any Questions" on BBC Radio 4 a panel of politicians were quizzed in turn as to one person they thought would be regarded as an important person in the future from the 20th century who improved the lot of us humans. Of about four panelists one said Nelson Mandela. Being unimaginative this was backed up by about two of the others. I would have mentioned Rachel Carson although she still represents an unsung heroine - the pioneer of the "Deep Ecology" movement.
Unfortunately a lot of what she had to say is still ignored by mainstream politicians though enough has trickled through to create a stream of people who think in the context of concern for all life on Earth rather than how best one group of us can dominate and manipulate our human and environmental resources at irreplaceable cost to life as we know it.
This is the book that started it all - showing us that science and technology unrestrained were not the solution to all our problems. The EPA at least owes its very existence to Carson.
I salute Carson and her book as a lighthouse that guided our thinking from the cliffs of short sighted destructiveness. Long may the beacon prevail.
This is an important book. Perhaps dated, Carson's voice is not shrill but reasoned and strident. A classic worth sharing and upgrading.
 murderous, over the top propoganda. December 12, 2005
12 out of 59 found this review helpful
to save us all time, type this into a search engine: "ddt: a case study in scientific fraud"
Rachel Carson's work has killed an astonishing number of people.
 Dated, but not dated October 26, 2005
8 out of 13 found this review helpful
The value of this book, more than 40 years after it was published, is not what it tells us about DDT. Regardless of whether or not you think DDT causes cancer in humans, we don't have it to kick around anymore -- DDT is effectively outside the zone of reasonable environmental policy debate. Instead, focus on what Silent Spring tells us about the interconnectedness of nature, the unintended consequences of our attempts to control it, and the forces that might be trying to deny those consequences exist. Those are lessons that apply not just to DDT but to industrial agriculture, genetically modified organisms, and other more current topics. This is a very insightful book, even for 2005.
Great book on environmentalism October 3, 2005
1 out of 13 found this review helpful
This order came to me very fast; before the delivery date. Rachel Carson's book is truly one of the forerunners in the race to save mankind from destroying itself through destrying the planet and very essential resources we need to survive centuries from now. Amazon is the best book selling source for me, especially since this book was cheap and made it's way into my hands after a speedy delivery. Thank You!!
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