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- shiwani - Jun 05 2007 | science, health, environment, news
I definitely buy the argument that Rachel Carson's work uses scare tactics. But it's not like she was entirely wrong about DDT. I think this journalist is right in suggesting that reading both books helps form a balanced opinion...
Quoted: Rachel Carson’s warning on pesticides in “Silent Spring” ignored the good that they did. Students who read this work should read it against I.L. Baldwin's 1962 "Chemicals & Pesticides," which found that “Silent Spring” was not a scientific balancing of costs & benefits but rather a “prosecuting attorney’s impassioned plea for action.”
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well, at the time (and I think the conditions of the time may be true again) there was a desperate need for someone to just really call for action. At the time everything that was published was pro-pesticides so in many ways, Rachel Carson's book actually balanced the debate (and is one of the likely reasons that we still have eagles around today...) Action was what was needed, and action is what Carson got.
Exactly. I don't think Carson's book failed to use "real science" - that's harsh. But I also think this is a topic that needs to be opened up more. I was talking to this girl whose family farms cranberries and she was explaining the pros and cons of organics to me. It was a real eye-opener, although at the end of the day, I still think I'd rather give up the pesticides...