Thread: Silent Spring turns 50
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Old 06-28-2012, 12:38 PM   #20
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So, I spent 30 seconds of research on this issue and discovered that Carson herself never called for a ban of DDT in the book. She warned against indiscriminate spraying of large quantities of it. Something that science, even her critics concede, backs up. From wikipedia article on Silent Spring.
Yes, the book itself did not call for DDT to be banned, but it doesn't change the fact that that is what the effect was. The environmental movement spawed by the book is often built on absolutism. If something is bad in some circumstances, ban it in every circumstance. Heck, you know there are environmentalists now who are calling for the voluntary extinction of the human species right?

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