Rachel Carson’s ‘Silent Spring’ 60 years on: Birds still fading from the skies

Mongabay
May 23, 2022, 3:26 pm222 pts
In her landmark 1962 book, Silent Spring, biologist Rachel Carson chronicled the damage — and looming consequences — of human “contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials,” which she called “elixirs of death.” In the book’s spellbinding opening parable,…

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