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Capitalism Magazine: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Environmentalist Mythology Killing Us Softly
Article blames Carson's "mythology" about DDT for unnecessary deaths from diseases that DDT was once used to fight.
capmag.com
Center for Global Food Issues: The Cancerous Legacy of Rachel Carson
Article contends that Carson's warnings about the risks of pesticides were wrong.
www.cgfi.org
Competitive Enterprise Institute: Rachel Was Wrong
Brief article on "Silent Spring" argues that "many of the concerns Carson raised were unfounded."
www.cei.org
FrontPage Magazine: Rachel Carson's Ecological Genocide
Argues that "Silent Spring" resulted in countless deaths from malaria and other diseases by causing reduced use of DDT.
www.frontpagemag.com
National Resources Defense Council: The Story of "Silent Spring"
The positive influence of "Silent Spring."
www.nrdc.org
National Wildlife: How Rachel Carson Helped Save the Brown Pelican
Tells how the coastal brown pelican survived as a result of Carson's success in warning of pesticides' danger to wildlife. From National Wildlife magazine.
www.nwf.org
New York Times: There's Poison All Around Us Now
Review of "Silent Spring."
www.nytimes.com
Al Gore's introduction to the 1994 edition of "Silent Spring."
clinton2.nara.gov
Reason Online: "Silent Spring" at 40
Finds the legacy of the book "troubling," particularly in regard to carcinogenic effects of pesticides.
reason.com
Rachel Carson, "Silent Spring" and the Environmental Movement
Discusses the controversy spawned by the publication of "Silent Spring."
www.hort.purdue.edu
Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science at Case Western Reserve University: Rachel Carson
Carson's warning about the dangers of pesticides and essays on her environmental ethics.
onlineethics.org
Smithsonian Magazine: Sounding the Alarm
Assesses the influence of "Silent Spring" forty years later: "It forever changed our view of the environment."
www.smithsonianmagazine.com
Frontline: Silent Spring Revisited
Discusses how supporters and critics assess Carson's influential book. From the Web site of the PBS TV series Frontline.
www.pbs.org