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Silent Spring

Binding: Mass Market Paperback
EAN: 9780449209387
ISBN: 0449209385
Label: Fawcett
Languages: EnglishUnknownEnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishPublished
Manufacturer: Fawcett
Publication Date: July 12, 1985
Publisher: Fawcett
Release Date: July 12, 1985
Studio: Fawcett

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A new edition of one of the most influential books of the last fifty years. After its publication in 1962, Carson's concern for the future of the planet spread throughout the world. Her book helped to launch the environmental movement.

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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring is now 35 years old. Written over the years 1958 to 1962, it took a hard look at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States, whose declining numbers yielded the silence to which her title attests. "What happens in nature is not allowed to happen in the modern, chemical-drenched world," she writes, "where spraying destroys not only the insects but also their principal enemy, the birds. When later there is a resurgence of the insect population, as almost always happens, the birds are not there to keep their numbers in check." The publication of her impeccably reported text helped change that trend by setting off a wave of environmental legislation and galvanizing the nascent ecological movement. It is justly considered a classic, and it is well worth rereading today.

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