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“Silent Spring” & DDT Reexamined
- September 7th, 2012
“Silent Spring” & DDT Reexamined We recently passed the fiftieth anniversary of the first publication of the book “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson’s book which raised public awareness of pesticides and their risk to the environment. The bans on DDT are reportedly the eventual result of this book. As a child, I remember reading about DDT […]