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https://www.youtube.com/@dockboys2023/featuredWhat I know about this book going into this:
This book asks the reader to imagine a "silent spring" where you don't hear any birds chirping (or maybe also other animals like bees or squirrels) as they're all dead.
This was written im response to farmers' excessive usage of "-cides" that ran off crops into the environment. A particularly deadly one was DDT and its byproduct DDE, whereby it made eagle eggs very soft and fragile, to the point many eagles weren't given the chance to even be born before they've died.
This book is one of the most important and influential environmentalist works, as it caused outrage by the general public, leading to political reforms and improved regulation on environmentally harmful chemical products, especially in agriculture.
“I don’t know about you guys, but, um, you know, I’ve been thinking recently that… that you know, maybe, um, allowing giant digital media corporations to exploit the neurochemical drama of our children for profit…
You know, maybe that was, uh… a bad call by us.
Maybe… maybe the… the flattening of the entire subjective human experience into a… lifeless exchange of value that benefits nobody, except for, um, you know, a handful of bug-eyed salamanders in Silicon Valley…
Maybe that as a… as a way of life forever… maybe that’s, um, not good.”
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You know, maybe that was, uh… a bad call by us.
Maybe… maybe the… the flattening of the entire subjective human experience into a… lifeless exchange of value that benefits nobody, except for, um, you know, a handful of bug-eyed salamanders in Silicon Valley…
Maybe that as a… as a way of life forever… maybe that’s, um, not good.”
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