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.
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.
原刊于中华读书报 2007年8月 文:余凤高 -声明:如需转载先请私信联系 春天是鲜花盛开、百鸟齐鸣的季节,春天里不应是寂静无声,尤其是在春天的田野。可是并不是人人都会注意到,从某一个时候起,突然地,在春天里就不再听到燕子的呢喃、黄莺的啁啾,田野里变得寂静无声了。美...
評分不知别人的感觉如何,我读了这本书之后的感觉,作者并没有过多地责怪科学,而是把矛头指向了制订愚蠢政策的政府。 如果读过迪特里希・德尔纳的《失败的逻辑》之后,或许能够更明晰一下概念:杀虫剂的滥用完全是因为对于事态发展的估计不足。制订政策的人往往只考虑到事态的...
評分【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...
評分原刊于中华读书报 2007年8月 文:余凤高 -声明:如需转载先请私信联系 春天是鲜花盛开、百鸟齐鸣的季节,春天里不应是寂静无声,尤其是在春天的田野。可是并不是人人都会注意到,从某一个时候起,突然地,在春天里就不再听到燕子的呢喃、黄莺的啁啾,田野里变得寂静无声了。美...
本來還覺得隻讀瞭四分之一就標看過有點不好意思 轉念一想 其實隻要看完課文就可以標看過瞭 於是毫不遲疑 其實如果不是課文應該得分更高的 看在這本書當時掀起如此軒然大波擁有五花八門的封麵的份上
评分She is a great woman.
评分幾十年前,Rachel Carson關於為何不應使用DDT的書。書一齣來,即遭到DDT生産廠傢的攻擊。更糟糕的是,因為後來禁止使用DDT,蚊蟲沒有被消滅掉,導緻非洲等地瘧疾數量迅速上升。因此反對者們謾罵Carson謀殺瞭比希特勒還多的人。於是,2002年,聯閤國又部分開放DDT的使用,以應對瘧疾。但是,接著也有環保主義者指齣,應該采取生態方法控製蚊蟲,而不是DDT。因為如果大量使用DDT,蚊蟲會産生抗藥性,甚至更加肆虐。——這是一個非常值得探討的問題。這本書的觀念在今人看來,已經落後瞭,因為我們都知道不能大量使用殺蟲劑,知道生態鏈的重要性。但在當時,是非常突破的一本書,且它的爭論也尚未停息。作者文風非常講究,甚至有點過於講究,而不像科普讀物。
评分THE environmental popular science book.
评分half in original text and half in summaries. don't know how much I still remember...
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