Silent Spring by Rachel Carson

Silent Spring RACHEL CARSON Author of THE SEA AROUND US THE EXPLOSIVE BESTSELLER THE WHOLE WORLD IS TALKING ABOUT ...

SILENT SPRING, winne r of 8 awards*, is the his tory making bes ts eller that s tunned the world with its terrifying revelation ...

Silent Spring ( By Rachel Carson ) “I recommend SILENT SPRING above all other books .” --- N. J. Berrill author of MAN’S EMERGI ...

Silent Spring By Rachel Carson (ONE SIN GLE BOO K WH ICH BRO UG HT TH E ISS UE O F PES T ICIDES CENT ER STA GE. W IT H MA SS SC ...

To Albert Sch weitz er who said “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” ...

Contents i. Acknowledgments ii. Fore wo rd A Fable for Tomorrow The Obligation to Endure Elixirs of Death Surface Waters and Un ...

Acknowledgments IN A LETTER written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of he r own bitter experience of a small world m ...

Foreword IN 1958, when Rachel Cars on undertook to write the book that became Silent Spring, s he was fifty years old. She had s ...

company tried to s top publication on the grounds that Mis s Cars on had made a miss tatement about one of their products. She h ...

1. A Fable for Tomorrow THERE WAS ONCE a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its s urroun ...

misfortunes I describe. Yet every one of these disasters has actually happened s omewhe re, and many real communities have alrea ...

2. The Obligation to Endure THE HISTORY OF LIFE on earth has been a his tory of interaction betwee n living things and their s u ...

endless stream; almost five hundred annually find their way into actual use in the United States alone. The figure is staggering ...

crops .’ All this is not to s ay there is no ins ect proble m and no need of control. I am s aying, rathe r, that control mus t ...

abroad, and mos t of them have come as hitchhikers on plants. In new territory, out of reach of the res training hand of the nat ...

unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being as ked to ass ume the ris ks that the ins ect controllers calculate. The publi ...

3. Elixirs of Death FOR THE FIRST TIME in the his tory of the world, every human being is now s ubjected to contact with dangero ...

arsenic, which is still the basic ingredient in a variety of weed and insect killers. Arsenic is a highly toxic mineral occurrin ...

four hydrogen atoms have become attached: Chemis ts have dis covered that it is poss ible to detach one or all of the hydrogen a ...

the carbon atom is highly important. Such ingenious manipulations have produced a battery of pois ons of truly extraordina ry po ...