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Put Out the Dung Fires.(Earth Summit, Johannesburg, South Africa)(Statistical Data Included)
Forty years ago Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring," an environmentalist's view of industrial society and the havoc it was wreaking on the natural world. The thrust of the book was, to many people at the time, novel, and the tale it told was vivid. The issue of the day was pesticides, particularly DDT, and the unintended damage they were causing to wildlife and human health. DDT was an "elixir of death" dispensed by industry, concerned with the pursuit of profits at the expense of the Earth and its people. (In the retelling, industrial nations were sometimes cast as the villains and developing nations the victims.) The book struck home so forcefully that it ...
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