文档介绍：SILENT SPRING
RACHEL CARSON
(ONE SINGLE BOOK WHICH BROUGHT THE ISSUE OF PESTICIDES CENTERSTAGE. WITH MASS
SCALE POISONING OF THE LAND WITH PESTICIDES AND WITH THOUSANDS OF FARMERS
COMMITTING SUICIDE THIS BOOK IS ESSENTIAL FOR PUBLIC RESEARCH IN INDIA.)
Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Foreword xi
1 A Fable for Tomorrow 1
2 The Obligation to Endure 5
3 Elixirs of Death 15
4 Surface Waters and Underground Seas 39
5 Realms of the Soil 53
6 Earth’s Green Mantle 63
7 Needless Havoc 85
8 And No Birds Sing 103
9 Rivers of Death 129
10 Indiscriminately from the Skies 154
11 Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias 173
12 The Human Price 187
13 Through a Narrow Window 199
14 One in Every Four 219
15 Nature Fights Back 245
16 The Rumblings of an Avalanche 262
17 The Other Road 277
List of Principal Sources 301
Index 357
Acknowledgments
IN A LETTER written in January 1958, Olga Owens Huckins told me of her own bitter experience of a small world
made lifeless, and so brought my attention sharply back to a problem with which I had long been concerned. I then
realized I must write this book.
During the years since then I have received help and encourage ment from so many people that it is not possible to
name them all here. Those who have freely shared with me the fruits of many years’ experience and study represent a
wide variety of govern ment agencies in this and other countries, many universities and research institutions, and many
professions. To all of them I express my deepest thanks for time and thought so generously given.
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