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Article: 25 years later, truth of `Silent Spring' upheld
- Article from:
- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 10, 1987
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Twenty-five years ago this spring, a former zoology teacher at
the University of Maryland and one-time government worker who edited
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service publications, wrote a series of
articles for the New Yorker. The essays, elegantly written, were
flush with muckracking details about pesticide companies and their
lack of "humility before the vast forces (of nature) with which they
tamper." The author, who had devoted four years of research into how
human beings and the earth were being poisoned, called the chemicals
"elixirs of death."
Rachel Carson's articles became the book Silent Spring. Miss
Carson, a retiring, self-effacing woman in her early 50s who had
never married ...