Man's War Against Nature

Lingvo: English

Eldonita je 8-a de aprilo 2021 de Penguin Books, Limited.

ISBN:: 978-0-14-199696-7

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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.

With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, Rachel Carson reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.

Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world

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Stephanie Jane recenzis Man's War Against Nature de Rachel Carson

An excerpt from Silent Spring

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Penguin's 'Green Ideas' series is a new publication of twenty short books each written by an eminent environmental thinker and focusing on different aspects of our planet's environmental crisis. I am grateful to Penguin for sending me review copies of five of these works and, on the strength of what I have read so far, I look forward to completing the set myself.

Rachel Carson's famous call to action book, Silent Spring, which was first published in the 1960s, has been on my TBR list for a few years now and I will get around to reading it one day but, in the meantime, the excerpt published as part of Penguin's Green Ideas series under the title Man's War Against Nature has given me lots to mull over. In this little book Carson talks about the disastrous effects of our widespread dousing of chemical insecticides and herbicides across agricultural land …

Penguin's 'Green Ideas' series is a new publication of twenty short books each written by an eminent environmental thinker and focusing on different aspects of our planet's environmental crisis. I am grateful to Penguin for sending me review copies of five of these works and, on the strength of what I have read so far, I look forward to completing the set myself.

Rachel Carson's famous call to action book, Silent Spring, which was first published in the 1960s, has been on my TBR list for a few years now and I will get around to reading it one day but, in the meantime, the excerpt published as part of Penguin's Green Ideas series under the title Man's War Against Nature has given me lots to mull over. In this little book Carson talks about the disastrous effects of our widespread dousing of chemical insecticides and herbicides across agricultural land and urban centres.

At the time her words were written, DDT was the controversial new marvel - the Monsanto Roundup of its day - and Carson relates incidents of its use destroying natural food chains far beyond what it was originally intended to kill. She also brings other chemicals to our attention, explaining how, although they might be declared harmless by the companies trying to sell such products, their long-term effects are likely to be seriously detrimental to the health of the planet - including human health. Particularly chilling were her comments about the potential for increased cancer cases decades in the future. We now are decades into that future and seeing exactly that result.

Man's War Against Nature was a particularly apt book for me to read immediately after another Green Ideas publication, The Dragonfly Will Be the Messiah by Masanobu Fukuoka. Positioned opposite each other, Fukuoka's book discussed utilising nature's own methods for successful agricultural cultivation while Carson demonstrates the damage done by our arrogantly assuming we know better and can destroy nature at will.