“Had we been lied to, not only about pesticides, but about progress, and development, and discovery, and the whole ball of wax?”
In The Guardian, Margaret Atwood reminds us of the importance of one of the first environmentalist writers, Rachel Carson. The impacts of her advocacy–including the very visible consequences of ignoring her warnings–are still relevant today.
This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Silent Spring. What do we have to show for ourselves? Only craftier pesticides, genetically modified crops, and exponentially increasing extinction rates.
