Silent Spring
著者: Rachel Carson
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| Paperback: | 400 ページ |
| 出版社: | Mariner Books |
| 出版日: | 2002年10月22日 |
| ISBN: | 0618249060 |
| ISBN-13: | 9780618249060 |
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First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time"s 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson"s watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson"s courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
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: Patricia D. Tucker Bethesda, MD United States - 2010年6月24日Awful
If you want to be in the worst mood you've ever been in for no reason at all, I highly suggest reading this book.
: John D. Swallow Thailand - 2010年6月12日This book has killed millions
Along with acid rain the alarmist like to bring up DDT referring back to R. Carson's "Silent Spring" that led to the restrictive use of DDT that is one of the oldest pesticides & is still the best for controlling mosquitoes. Spraying DDT in houses and on mosquito breeding grounds was the primary reason that rates of malaria around the world declined dramatically after the Second World War. Nearly one million Indians died from malaria in 1945, but DDT spraying reduced this to a few thousand by 1960. Today there are once again millions of cases of malaria in India, and over 300 million cases worldwide-most in sub-Saharan Africa. Cases of malaria in South Africa have risen by over 1000 percent in the past five years. Only those countries that have continued to use DDT, such as Ecuador, have contained or reduced malaria. It appears that if you can't see it from your house, it is no problems. Dead birds or dead people, there would be neither if DDT was allowed to be wisely applied.
Seems that Al Gores loves a convent lie, such as this one: "#27 - Mosquitoes "climbing to higher altitudes"
Gore says that, because of "global warming", mosquitoes are climbing to higher altitudes. They are not. Most recent outbreaks have been at lower levels than those of a century and more ago. He says that Nairobi was founded 1000 m above sea level so as to be above the mosquito line. It was not. In the period before anthropogenic warming could have had any significant effect, there were ten malaria outbreaks in Nairobi, one of which reached as far up as Eldoret, almost 3000 m above sea level. Malaria is not a tropical disease. Mosquitoes do not need tropical temperatures:they need no more than 15 degrees Celsius to breed. The largest malaria outbreak of modern times was in Siberia in the 1920s and 1930s, when 13 million were infected, 600,000 died and 30,000 died as far north as Arkhangelsk, on the Arctic Circle. There is no reason to suppose that malaria will spread even if the climate continues to become warmer.[...]
The lies continue and so do people dying because of them. Is that part of the plan?
: T. A. Zimmermann USA - 2010年5月12日Environmental Importance
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was a landmark book at the time and sparked an entire generation's interest in environmental care and issues. Former US President had the claims made in the book investigated by his Science Advisory Committee which vindicated her claims and led to the immediate strengthening of chemical pesticide regulations. If you are looking to read one of the most influential books on environmental protection, this is one of the earliest, as well as one of the most renowned and popular. It is often cited and recommended in Environmental Issues classes.
: E. Webster Trempealeau USA - 2010年4月3日The more things change
Silent Spring created a stir when it was first published and reading it nearly 50 years later feels, in many ways, like deja vu. The specific details may be different, but the overall picture is far too familiar. Chemical companies, government agencies, popular media, special interests, all continue to tell us that we must destroy every organism that might conceivably cause discomfort or inconvenience to our perceived "good" life. The fact remains that heavy-handed, get-them-before-they-get-us,kill-them-all-off mentality will, in the end, do just that - destroying the very life it strives, supposedly, to protect. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
: ndnickyk Latin America - 2010年1月11日It Was All There From The Get-Go !
I got this info from an article on some "fairness in media" website so it is not mine and I'm only drawing on the parts that express the view I wish to express. That given, I will comment upon it at its end.
""Sometimes you find mass murderers in the most unlikely places. Take Rachel Carson. She was, by all accounts, a mild-mannered writer for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service--hardly a sociopath breeding ground. And yet, according to many in the media, Carson has more blood on her hands than Hitler.
The problems started in the 1940s, when Carson left the Service to begin writing full-time. In 1962, she published a series of articles in the New Yorker, resulting in the book Silent Spring--widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement. The book discussed how pesticides and pollutants moved up the food chain, threatening the ecosystems for many animals, especially birds. Without them, it warned, we might face the title's silent spring.
Farmers used vast quantities of DDT to protect their crops against insects--80 million pounds were sprayed in 1959 alone--but from there it quickly climbed up the food chain. Bald eagles, eating fish that had concentrated DDT in their tissues, headed toward extinction. Humans, likewise accumulating DDT in our systems, appeared to get cancer as a result. Mothers passed the chemical on to their children through breast milk. Silent Spring drew attention to these concerns and, in 1972, the resulting movement succeeded in getting DDT banned in the U.S.--a ban that later spread to other nations.
And that, according to Carson's critics, is where the trouble started. DDT had been sprayed heavily on houses in developing countries to protect against malaria-carrying mosquitoes. Without it, malaria rates in developing countries skyrocketed. Over 1 million people die from it each year.
To the critics, the solution seems simple: Forget Carson's emotional arguments about dead birds and start spraying DDT again so we can save human lives.
Worse than Hitler?
"What the World Needs Now Is DDT" asserted the headline of a lengthy feature in the New York Times Magazine (4/11/04). "No one concerned about the environmental damage of DDT set out to kill African children," reporter Tina Rosenberg generously allowed. Nonetheless, "Silent Spring is now killing African children because of its persistence in the public mind."
It's a common theme--echoed by two more articles in the Times by the same author (3/29/06, 10/5/06), and by Times columnists Nicholas Kristof (3/12/05) and John Tierney (6/05/07). The same refrain appears in a Washington Post op-ed by columnist Sebastian Mallaby, gleefully headlined "Look Who's Ignoring Science Now" (10/09/05). And again in the Baltimore Sun ("Ms. Carson's views [came] at a cost of many thousands of lives worldwide"--5/27/07), New York Sun ("millions of Africans died . . . thanks to Rachel Carson's junk science classic"--4/21/06), the Hill ("millions die on the altar of politically correct ideologies"--11/02/05), San Francisco Examiner ("Carson was wrong, and millions of people continue to pay the price"--5/28/07) and Wall Street Journal ("environmental controls were more important than the lives of human beings"--2/21/07).
Even novelists have gotten in on the game. "Banning DDT killed more people than Hitler, Ted," explains a character in Michael Crichton's 2004 bestseller, State of Fear (p. 487). "[DDT] was so safe you could eat it." That fictional comment not only inspired a column on the same theme in Australia's Sydney Morning Herald (6/18/05), it led Senator James Inhofe (R-Ok.) to invite Crichton and Dr. Donald R. Roberts, a longtime pro-DDT activist, to testify before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works.
But other attacks only seem like fiction. A web page on junkscience.com features a live Malaria Death Clock next to a photo of Rachel Carson, holding her responsible for more deaths than malaria has caused in total (you Must tag on other deaths that are caused by the same transmission method: Yellow Fever etc). ("DDT allows [Africans to] climb out of the poverty/subsistence hole in which `caring greens' apparently wish to keep them trapped," it helpfully explains.) And a new website from the Competitive Enterprise Institute, RachelWasWrong.org, features photos of deceased African children along the side of every page.""
What is not mentioned in all of this is that much of the data that Carson used to back up her work was of her own making. Studies that are quoted did not and never have existed. No one can find where it was drawn from. Sources she quotes do not exist. Papers and publications she sites were never written and their authors are nowhere to be found. From what can be told at this juncture it was all a fabrication . . . a lie, made up to elevate her own personal insights to dogma.
Given the above the only true virtue that can be attributed to "SILENT SPRING" is that it conclusively demonstrates that the shameful inclinations to lie, cheat, exaggerate, miss quote, quote out of context, misalign graphs (a la Al Gore) and out & out prevaricate that have lead to the current Climate-Gate e-mail scandal in the eco-terrorist/Chicken Little movement, have been there since the very beginning and are indelibly etched upon the collective movements soul.
