Summary
First Published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. "Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ...... Full description
- Introduction
- Fable for tomorrow
- Obligation to endure
- Elixirs of death
- Surface waters and underground seas
- Realms of the soil
- Earth's green mantle
- Needless havoc
- And no birds sing
- Rivers of death
- Indiscriminately from the skies
- Beyond the dreams of the borgias
- Human price
- Through a narrow window
- One in every four
- Nature fights back
- Rumblings of an avalanche
- Other road
- List of principal sources
- Afterword / Edward O. Wilson.