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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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《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,...
評分不知彆人的感覺如何,我讀瞭這本書之後的感覺,作者並沒有過多地責怪科學,而是把矛頭指嚮瞭製訂愚蠢政策的政府。 如果讀過迪特裏希・德爾納的《失敗的邏輯》之後,或許能夠更明晰一下概念:殺蟲劑的濫用完全是因為對於事態發展的估計不足。製訂政策的人往往隻考慮到事態的...
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,...
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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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。
評分本來還覺得隻讀瞭四分之一就標看過有點不好意思 轉念一想 其實隻要看完課文就可以標看過瞭 於是毫不遲疑 其實如果不是課文應該得分更高的 看在這本書當時掀起如此軒然大波擁有五花八門的封麵的份上
評分half in original text and half in summaries. don't know how much I still remember...
評分一個無可辯駁的事實是:這個女人改變瞭曆史,或者說促進瞭曆史!
評分當初學習生態文明與經濟學關係,根本沒有新的切入點,無非就是循環經濟和可持續發展。
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