6/19/2023 0 Comments Rachel carson pesticides![]() ![]() I will also be inviting various interested parties to join the debate, too. Is such an analysis fair? Would the environmental movement have developed at the same speed - and in the same direction - without the book's publication? Does it stand the test of time, particularly regarding its analysis of pesticides? And, more widely, what is the book's legacy? The book still clearly evokes plenty of emotion, not least in those who try to argue that Carson was directly responsible for millions of malarial deaths in the developing world due to the book's influence in getting DDT banned in the early 1970s. ![]() ![]() Its warning about the dangers of pesticides touched a direct nerve in many, but it also reflected wider concerns at the time - a period that saw the birth of a "counter-culture" - that modern technologies, combined with rampant consumerism, were causing environmental problems that had otherwise not been widely noticed or, worse, suppressed by vested interests. The book is often cited as an environmental classic - of which there can be little doubt - but it is also said by some to have largely triggered the modern environmental movement. 9.00am: Today marks the 50th anniversary of the US publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. ![]()
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