Silent Spring (The Macat Library)
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| Rating | : | 4.33 (829 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073RP62MJ |
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| Number of Pages | : | 315 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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. She is currently researching her PhD in environmental management at Yale. Nikki Springer has studied at MIT, Harvard and Yale
While environmental battles still rage, few now deny the strength and persuasiveness of her reasoning.. Carson, however, gathered, organised and set out the evidence in Silent Spring in a way that proved her contentions without a doubt. At the time, the argument directly contradicted government policy and scientific orthodoxy – and many studies that corroborated Carson’s views were deliberately suppressed by hostile business interests. Indeed, it had to be: upon its publication, the chemical industry utilised all its resources to attempt to discredit both Silent Spring and Carson herself – to no avail. The central argument of the book is that the indiscriminate use of pesticides encouraged by post-war advances in agriculture and chemistry was deeply harmful to plants, animals and the whole environment, with devastating effects that went far beyond protecting crops. The book is also a monument to the power of closely reasoned argument – built from well organised and carefully evidenced points that are not merely persuasive, but designed to be irrefutable. Its closely reasoned attack on the use of pesticides in American agriculture helped thrus
She is currently researching her PhD in environmental management at Yale. . About the AuthorNikki Springer has studied at MIT, Harvard and Yale