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Article: Chemical addiction.(The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement)(Book review)
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- The Christian Century
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- May 1, 2007
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The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. By Mark Hamilton Lytle. Oxford University Press, 288 pp., $23.00.
I THINK OF myself as rather ecologically savvy. I buy vegetables from a chemical-free subscription farm during the growing season and use organic lawn fertilizer. My four-year-old has been known to hold up an apple and ask with suspicion, "Was this one grown with chemicals?"
Several years ago, however, when I found lice on my scalp and the heads of my sons, I promptly submerged any environmentalist inclinations under a wave of delousing shampoo. My brother-in-law, an organic farmer, called us ...
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