First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
尽管有法布尔的《昆虫记》这样的书做良师,我还是没有爱上昆虫,事实上,我讨厌几乎一切昆虫,从苍蝇、蚊子到无害的甲虫、蚯蚓,我都巴不得把它们消灭掉。因为在城市里长大的我,害怕它们。每当搬开一块儿红砖,看到下面抱团翻滚的蚯蚓,就差点作呕。洗菜时,遇见一只白虫...
评分(一) 最近在网络上,一个关于石油化工方面的项目的异议,唤醒了我的一些记忆。 我从小在一家化工厂的单位里长大,对于什么是污染,还是有些切身的感受。 在我们那里,一般人都牙齿不太好,或多或少有鼻炎。每次厂子里,安排体检时,被检查出脾大,通常被认为是太正常不过...
评分题目不是问题,无论是《寂静的春天》还是 春天的寂静。 问题是我们究竟有多少人认识的没有鸟叫的春天是多么可怕的一件事情! 是的,我们可以用科技模拟一切,当然包括鸟叫虫鸣,我们不必出去,我们可以宅在家中,外卖,一个电...
评分一 今天下午碰到写《哈佛经济学笔记》的陈晋,说到一个故事。 说DDT当年是消灭蚊虫的,减少传播致命的疟疾。Rachel Carson在1962年出《寂静的春天》,说鸟语花香在几十年后因为环境恶化不见了,罪魁祸首之一是DDT,书出版后,很多地方禁止使用DDT,但与此 同时,2000万儿童死...
评分【书评人俱乐部】环保主义的圣经?还是毒药? 《寂静的春天》自1962年出版以来,就被奉为现代环保主义的圣经。有趣的是,我国著名科幻作家刘慈欣的《三体》一经问市,也就迅速的被广大科幻迷奉为当代中国最杰出的科幻小说。而我第一次知道《寂静的春天》,也正是从大刘的这本...
half in original text and half in summaries. don't know how much I still remember...
评分环境保护、食品安全这种看似烂大街的题材,却深入浅出,交织穿插各方利益博弈角逐,游刃有余,是科学人文写作范本。人类的短视打破了生态链,自以为消灭了害虫,其实毁掉了人和近乎无限繁殖的昆虫之间的自然屏障。50年前的写作深度和立意比国内“惊!苹果竟然不能吃!”不知道高到哪里去了。
评分想起滴滴涕等農藥在我國應用的時間, 不禁生起了一絲希望. 或者我國90後已經有抗藥性了. 中國人將稱霸全世界
评分落叶剂制造 落叶的秋 辐射尘覆盖 清晨的冬 地球还残喘 人就创作末日 又何必等到 上帝没收
评分当初学习生态文明与经济学关系,根本没有新的切入点,无非就是循环经济和可持续发展。
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