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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Silent Spring is a 1963 environmental science book by biologist Rachel Carson. It raises concerns about the rise and widespread use of chemical pesticides and would become a foundational text of the American environmentalist movement, leading among other things to the US banning DDT.The book begins with a short parable called "A Fable for Tomorrow" about an idyllic American town whose plants, animals, and residents suddenly begin to sicken and die, with no discernible cause—revealed to be the consequence of powdered herbicides being dispersed by aircraft. The story is a warning: Carson states at the end of the chapter that, while no such extreme example had occurred yet, every individual element had in one place or another.The rest of the book describes these events, detailing the proven effects of commonly used chemicals on every level of the environment—from estuaries to forests to humans—and compiling numerous cases from around the country where ecosystems had already been seriously damaged. Highlights include the extinction of Dutch elms; the massive die-off of robins in the Midwest when chemicals got into the worms that the robins ate; the tendency for pesticides to kill off natural predators to the pests they target, exacerbating the problem; the use of flower-killing herbicides to clear the view on roads when all that was needed was to cut down trees and scrub; the ease of coming into contact with (and dying of) dangerous chemicals by accident; and the unknown effects of a multitude of compounds mingling and creating new, even more dangerous poisons.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })The later chapters discuss alternatives to chemical control such as the introduction of natural predators, male sterilization, and generally more sustainable farming practices, calling for the public to inform themselves and protest the poorly understood dangers they were being exposed to. | |
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Alliterative Title: Silent Spring. | |
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Chemistry Can Do Anything: Deconstructed. Carson credits this popular belief with the public's trust in chemical companies' claims that their products could achieve some sort of new Eden. In reality, the chemicals being used could not be honed to poison only their targets and often were not even particularly effective at eliminating them. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: The parable in the first chapter, appropriately titled "A Fable for Tomorrow", is supposed to take place in the very near future to the book's publication. | |
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