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chmaldon · 11 years ago
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chmaldon · 11 years ago
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“Written to alert the world to the poisonous legacy of pesticides, Silent Spring was one of the most effective books ever written.”
"Its impact was immediate, far-reaching and ultimately life-enhancing: it earned her a posthumous presidential medal and put her face on the 17 cent US postage stamp. It also earned her sustained vitriolic assault from the chemical industry and a claim from a former US Secretary of Agriculture that (because she was unmarried) she was "probably a communist": this, in a McCarthyite world, was almost the ultimate in character assassination." - Tim Radford, 2011
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