Silent Spring

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Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson in 1962, about the use of pesticides to kill insects in agriculture and houshold pests like the common bedbug.^[1] The book was an attack on capitalism and the chemical industry during the Cold War.^[2] It has been credited with helping to start the environmentalism movement in the United States.

Criticism[edit]

Michelle Malkin and Michael Fumento wrote:

A daunting theme runs throughout Silent Spring — that man’s ingenuity would be his own worst enemy. And therein lies the essence of Rachel’s folly. Carson and her intellectual heirs in the environmental movement embrace a mistaken vision of technology. It is an impaired vision that considers only the risks of industrial chemical compounds, and not the risks created by their absence.^[3]

See also[edit]

• Environmentalism

References[edit]

1. ↑ "In the 1950s, after they saved the world from Hitler and before they perfected the three-martini lunch, the Greatest Generation wiped out bedbugs - or so they thought. They hit the tick-size parasites with DDT by the barrel, then mopped up with malathion." How to Fight a Scourge: Scenes from the Bedbug Summit, By David Von Drehle, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. Time magazine.
2. ↑ Nature and Society, from Karl Marx to Rachel Carson, by Louis ProyectIt, September 18, 2020.
3. ↑ http://www.fumento.com/rachel.pdf