Rachel Carson’s Message True 50 Years Later

Fifty years ago the publication of the late Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” caused a sensation. Her book’s main premise was that we might want to seriously reconsider buying the sales pitch the chemical companies had been successfully using for decades. That pitch was that if there’s a real or imagined insect pest problem, the solution was to buy a lot of chemicals and spray them profligately. As Carson documented in example after example, there are major faults in that approach.… Read More »