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'''''Silent Spring''''' is a book written by [[Rachel Carson]] in 1962. It has been credited with helping to start the [[environmentalism]] movement in the United States.
'''''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]].<ref>"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 [[parasite]]s with [[DDT]] by the barrel, then mopped up with malathion." ''[http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2021056,00.html How to Fight a Scourge: Scenes from the Bedbug Summit]'', By David Von Drehle, Thursday, Sept. 23, 2010. [[Time magazine]].</ref> The book was an attack on [[capitalism]] and the chemical industry during the [[Cold War]].<ref>''[https://climateandcapitalism.com/2020/09/18/nature-and-society-from-karl-marx-to-rachel-carson/ Nature and Society, from Karl Marx to Rachel Carson]'', by Louis ProyectIt, September 18, 2020.</ref> It has been credited with helping to start the [[environmentalism]] movement in the [[United States]].
==Criticism==
==Criticism==
[[Michelle Malkin]] and [[Michael Fumento]] wrote:
<blockquote>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.<ref>http://www.fumento.com/rachel.pdf</ref></blockquote>
[[Michelle Malkin]] and [[Michael Fumento]] wrote:
==See also==
* [[Environmentalism]]
==References==
==References==
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[[Category:Environmentalism]]
[[Category:Liberal Books]]
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