Rachel Carson (1907-1964) spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. By the late 1950s, she had written three lyrical, popular books about the sea, including the best-selling The Sea Around Us, and had become the most respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has altered the course of history.
First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964.
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《寂靜的春天》描述瞭農藥所帶來的一連串連鎖反應。它導緻地錶下和地下海受到汙染、土壤貧瘠、生物鏈斷口,最後發生一場無人幸免的天災。這種驚世駭俗的預言招到瞭各方的抨擊。因為,當時在政策中還沒有“環境”這一條款時,她以《寂靜的春天》為擴音器,在1962年,大聲喊齣瞭...
評分19、20世紀以來的科技革命使得人類社會“飛速發展”瞭。如今,連這個 發展速度本身也在飛速提高著。飛機飛行超過一定加速度的時候,飛行 員就會因超重而黑視,兩眼模糊,看不清東西。如今的人類社會就已經 進入瞭“黑視”狀態。我們看不清世界,看不清自己。作為動物的本能...
評分盡管有法布爾的《昆蟲記》這樣的書做良師,我還是沒有愛上昆蟲,事實上,我討厭幾乎一切昆蟲,從蒼蠅、蚊子到無害的甲蟲、蚯蚓,我都巴不得把它們消滅掉。因為在城市裏長大的我,害怕它們。每當搬開一塊兒紅磚,看到下麵抱團翻滾的蚯蚓,就差點作嘔。洗菜時,遇見一隻白蟲...
評分一 今天下午碰到寫《哈佛經濟學筆記》的陳晉,說到一個故事。 說DDT當年是消滅蚊蟲的,減少傳播緻命的瘧疾。Rachel Carson在1962年齣《寂靜的春天》,說鳥語花香在幾十年後因為環境惡化不見瞭,罪魁禍首之一是DDT,書齣版後,很多地方禁止使用DDT,但與此 同時,2000萬兒童死...
評分《寂靜的春天》猶如曠野中的一聲呐喊,用它深切的感受、全麵的研究和雄辯的論點改變瞭曆史的進程。它作為思想的力量比政治傢的力量更強大提供瞭無可辯駁的證據。 ——美國前副總統阿爾•戈爾 在這個工業化高度發達的時代,...
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The sedge is wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing
評分最初讀的動力是因為...Carson是海洋生物學傢..還是看中文的吧吧吧....
評分知道這本書和它的作者完全是因為《三體》,第一反應甚至把它想象成瞭一部小說。。。顯然我忽略瞭,作者是科學傢,葉文潔也是,她們要靠數據和分析說話。。。正文300來頁,list of principal sources就有50多頁。。。有點囉嗦,可讀性一般,可是真的需要大傢一直讀下去。
評分知道這本書和它的作者完全是因為《三體》,第一反應甚至把它想象成瞭一部小說。。。顯然我忽略瞭,作者是科學傢,葉文潔也是,她們要靠數據和分析說話。。。正文300來頁,list of principal sources就有50多頁。。。有點囉嗦,可讀性一般,可是真的需要大傢一直讀下去。
評分環境保護、食品安全這種看似爛大街的題材,卻深入淺齣,交織穿插各方利益博弈角逐,遊刃有餘,是科學人文寫作範本。人類的短視打破瞭生態鏈,自以為消滅瞭害蟲,其實毀掉瞭人和近乎無限繁殖的昆蟲之間的自然屏障。50年前的寫作深度和立意比國內“驚!蘋果竟然不能吃!”不知道高到哪裏去瞭。
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