By Mike DiGirolamo It’s been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S.

At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...

1. Against absolutes Although the chemical industry attacked “Silent Spring” as anti-science and anti-progress, Carson believed that chemicals had their place in agriculture. She “favored a restrained ...

In the first episode of Nature in Crisis, Meehan and Peter show how Carson wrote at the edge of science, anticipating the ...

Rachel Carson : her vision and her legacy / Shirley A. Briggs -- The not so silent spring / John A. Moore -- The science and politics of pesticides / C.F. Wilkinson -- Assessing the toxicity of ...

That was well understood by evolutionists early on, but it took a marine biologist and talented writer, Rachel Carson, to bring the pesticide problem to public attention and, incidentally, to launch ...