Since Silent Spring

by Frank Graham

"The explosive new book about the battle to save our environment"

Genres: Nonfiction, Environment, Science

297 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1970

Reviews

[Nancy Craft · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found myself putting post-its on every page as important! This book was written a mere eight years later, but is filled with more evidence that we were still not doing very much to rectify the situation.

I remember as a teen in the late sixties seeing Raid commercials that taught us insects were rotten enemies, and there was no teaching in biology that insects were a precious form of life, a necessary one. No environmental science was taught in my high school.

I am going to continue to investigate the message Rachel Carson set out to explain to all of us. it doesn't seem to have gotten better, but worse. I have stage 4 ovarian cancer found to be caused environmentally, I am nearly certain, by pesticides and GMOs.

Now there are advertisements for a spray "barrier" on your house, with not a warning about its possible toxicity.

As a historical reference, this is a must read. I'm not going to pick apart Mr Graham's writing style, his book is very sufficient as an investigative journal.

[Rogue · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a followup to Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring', about 8 years after it was published. It focuses on the followup to the publication of that book, and the viewpoints of different stakeholders as well as changes to the law caused by the book. Overall this was written in a fairly easy manner, with points explained and people referred to in a manner that made it quite easy to pick up. Context is obviously required- Silent Spring is essential reading- and although obviously dated, interesting to make comparisons to today's use of pesticides and current environmental problems at hand, such as plastics.

[Lauren · Rating 3 out of 5]

The subtitle on the cover of this book is "Rachel Carson has been proved right. What have we done about it?" Considering that the answer to that question is often an obvious and overwhelming "not a whole hell of a lot," I did a bit of skimming through this book. It was informative, though, and depressing -especially considering it was written nearly 40 years ago and we're still getting our act together concerning pesticides and the environment...

[Jeff Keehr · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this a long time ago. Anything related to Carson's book has to be good.

[Merahnaga · Rating 5 out of 5]

Indonesia adalah negara yang paling lambat soal wacana dll. keterlambatannya benar-benar mengerikan. siapa saja yang baca buku macam ini? :) sedikit.

menemukan buku ini, sebelum tuntas membaca Silent Spring milik Rachel, tak mengapalah. setidaknya, ini cukup menarik. dan saat membacanya perlahan, ternyata, buku ini adalah panduan yang menyenangkan untuk sedikit mengenal Rachel Carson itu sendiri.