Arlian’s Reviews > Silent Spring > Status Update

I think the most upsetting thing about this book is this fact: North American has 3 billion LESS birds now than it had in 1970. DDT was legal in the US until 1972.

That means we have less birds NOW than at the height of the DDT crisis. That's insane, and it's insane that more people aren't aware of this.

But knowing it makes this book extra hard to read.