Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
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.
This is a rigorous presentation of the effects of pesticide use as well as a call to greater awareness of our environment.
《寂静的春天》描述了农药所带来的一连串连锁反应。它导致地表下和地下海受到污染、土壤贫瘠、生物链断口,最后发生一场无人幸免的天灾。这种惊世骇俗的预言招到了各方的抨击。因为,当时在政策中还没有“环境”这一条款时,她以《寂静的春天》为扩音器,在1962年,大声喊出了...
评分不知别人的感觉如何,我读了这本书之后的感觉,作者并没有过多地责怪科学,而是把矛头指向了制订愚蠢政策的政府。 如果读过迪特里希・德尔纳的《失败的逻辑》之后,或许能够更明晰一下概念:杀虫剂的滥用完全是因为对于事态发展的估计不足。制订政策的人往往只考虑到事态的...
评分寂静的春天,雷切乐在病中写下痛彻心扉却娓娓道来的故事。 当农药泛滥,昆虫肢解,土壤板结,花草带毒,水质败坏,殃及鱼虾,鸟禽瘫痪,走兽灭绝,世界上只剩下了自私的人类,一片寂静与所谓自由,到来了。 法布尔很早就说过:一切都将死去,以便于一切重生。 看清这一排多米诺...
评分有很长一段时期,我们拒绝谦卑。我们人类履至尊而制地球、执敲扑而役自然的决心是如此不可动摇,我们怎么可能谦和、卑从地甘受少数异端的蛊惑,回归到听天由命、膜拜造化的时代。我们的决心来自那份如今依然被部分人标为不容置疑的信念——人乃万物之灵。人类应当平等地对待其...
评分有很长一段时期,我们拒绝谦卑。我们人类履至尊而制地球、执敲扑而役自然的决心是如此不可动摇,我们怎么可能谦和、卑从地甘受少数异端的蛊惑,回归到听天由命、膜拜造化的时代。我们的决心来自那份如今依然被部分人标为不容置疑的信念——人乃万物之灵。人类应当平等地对待其...
经典;不过 人类对外界环境的改造 是不是也是人类进化的一环呢?或许 人类这一物种 将以前所未有的速度进化
评分经典;不过 人类对外界环境的改造 是不是也是人类进化的一环呢?或许 人类这一物种 将以前所未有的速度进化
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评分经典;不过 人类对外界环境的改造 是不是也是人类进化的一环呢?或许 人类这一物种 将以前所未有的速度进化
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