Archive for April 16th, 2012

When I was a teenager, the grownups around me were in raptures over Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring — a poetically written exposé that raised fears about chemical pesticides, which were going to kill all the birds, and possibly us, too. I thought Silent Spring was wonderful and demonstrated much that was wrong with the greedy, destructive industrialized system that the past few generations had built up in their mad fervor to conquer nature and make money. Never mind that I hadn’t actually read the book. Read the rest of this entry »