SILENT SPRING
CARSON, RACHEL.;.LEAR, LINDA INTRO.;.WILSON, EDWARD O. AFTERWORD
- Publisher: Mariner Books.;.houghton mifflin harcourt 1962,2002
- Date published: 1962
- Format: Softcover
- ISBN: 9780618249060
GOOD+ Cond.some minimal pencil marginal notes ,otherwise quite nice; White titles on green paper covers. "50 Fiftieth Anniversary" circle cover blurb. THE CLASSIC THAT LAUNCHED THE ENFVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT" ; 378ps pages; Environmental Classic.book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products as well as the use of sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death.
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