New article in Prospect praises Rachel Carson — the authors post the longer version at Crooked Timber.
It’s spring. It’s not a silent spring here in Dallas, thanks to the efforts of Ms. Carson and others more than 40 years ago.
It’s spring, and the efforts to smear Carson and all people who work for clean air and water and good wildlife habitat ramp up again. Articles accusing Carson of genocide are on the upswing. Iain Murray has a book out on the disreputable Regnery label, so desperate to smear that he names this author, and so morally vacuous he includes a chapter complaining about “endocrine disruptors” without acknowledging that one of the chief endocrine disruptors is DDT and its byproducts.
Take a deep breath. If your air is clean, you’re lucky. Now let’s go to work to make sure others can safely take a deep breath, too.
Tip of the old scrub brush to reader Bernarda.
More about Rachel Carson at Millard Fillmore’s Bathtub:
- World malaria politics, every day
- Dangerous, anti-science, bigoted ignorance
- ‘Twas DDT nearly killed the beast
- Rising at Buffalo News: Carson was right
- DDT linked to testicular cancers in next generation
- World Malaria Day 2008
- DDT no silver bullet; environmentalists, medical care not monsters
- How to tell if someone is wrong about DDT and Rachel Carson
- Quote of the moment: Ted Williams (the conservationist)
- 100 things about DDT: Dissecting #10
Update: Why do we need to post links to the truth about Rachel Carson? Blogs like Tarpon’s Swamp carry on the slanderous campaign of calumny against the truth. Astoundingly crass, don’t you think?
A bump, not surge. Nice bump. I like them, too. It was nice of you to mention the Bathtub over there.
I worry that some people came over and expected not to have to search for Rachel Carson stuff.
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Thanks. Notice that I also didn’t forget to mention you in the comments. A “surge” in traffic maybe?
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