April 3, 2010

The Other Road


Carson is nearly swept away in her veneration of poisons coming out of the biologist's laboratory rather than the chemist's — especially the andricides — but she recovers to emphasize natural, non-violent methods of insect control, finally leaving us with one of the most important statements of environmental philosophy ever written.

Read "The Other Road" in Silent Spring by Rachel Carson



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