Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1937184994 ISBN 13: 9781937184995

Verlag: TradeSelect - IPSUK, 2012

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Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. The conclusion makes it abundantly clear that the legacy of Silent Spring is highly problematic. While the book provided some clear benefits, a number of Carson’s major arguments rested on what can only be described as deliberate ignorance. Despite her reputation as a careful writer widely praised for building
her arguments on science and facts, Carson’s best-seller contained significant errors and sins of omission. Much of what was presented as certainty then was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.

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Edited by Andrew Morriss; Roger Meiners and Pierre Desroches

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• Verlag: TradeSelect - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1937184994
• ISBN 13: 9781937184995
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 344
• Herausgeber: Morriss Andrew, Meiners Roger, Desroches Pierre
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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