Review: Silent Spring

Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I purchased this book from Kew & Willow. I figured this is too much of a classic to not read, so I picked it up when I saw it.

It's definitely interesting to read a book like this that was written over fifty years ago. So many of the things Carson writes about are terribly alarming, and it seems amazing that we are still here fifty years later. With everything that was going on, it's amazing that we haven't driven everything (except snails, apparently) to extinction.

I'm guessing that the state of things are better now, but I don't really know. I wonder how much I would want to read about this for the present day. It seems like I would be scared to eat anything.

I'm sure that culture has changed, but it was interesting to read about the successful importation of predators and parasites of an invasive pest. There are a lot of fantastic failures of that at this point, but maybe they hadn't happened yet?

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