'''''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]].
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