Status Updates From Silent Spring

”Kommande generationer lär knappast förlåta oss att vi så helt avstått från all vettig omtanke om integriteten hos den natur som bär upp allt liv här på jorden” Rachel Carson 1962

i think this book is genuinely what one of my high school science teachers based her curriculum off of. she referenced it all the time and taught us about concentrations of chemicals up the food chain and how pesticides are so so so bad and honestly? everyone shut up and pick up this book now. just because it's old IN NO WAY means it's irrelevant. we're losing bees and birds right now like. we CAN afford to get angry

As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric delicate & destructible, yet miraculously tough & resilient, and capable of striking back in unexpected ways. These extraordinary capacities of life have been ignored by the practitioners of chemical control who have brought to their task no humility before the vast forces with which they tamper