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Silent Spring (Houghton Mifflin, 2002 edition)

Rachel Carson · c. 1962

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  1. Our reading

    Contaminating air, land, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials is humanity's most alarming assault on the environment

    Their wordsThe most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

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  2. Our reading

    The objection is not to all insecticide use but to handing potent poisons indiscriminately to the largely or wholly ignorant

    Their wordsIt is not my contention that chemical insecticides must never be used. I do contend that we have put poisonous and biologically potent chemicals indiscriminately into the hands of persons largely or wholly ignorant of their potentials for harm.

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  3. Our reading

    Huge numbers of people have been exposed to pesticides without their consent and often without their knowledge

    Their wordsWe have subjected enormous numbers of people to contact with these poisons, without their consent and often without their knowledge.

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  4. Our reading

    The public must decide whether to stay on the present course, and can do so only with all the facts

    Their wordsThe public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.

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  5. Our reading

    Pesticides were allowed into use with little or no advance study of effects on soil, water, wildlife and people

    Their wordsI contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself.

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  6. Our reading

    Future generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent care for the natural world that supports all life

    Their wordsFuture generations are unlikely to condone our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the natural world that supports all life.

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  7. Our reading

    This is an age of specialists who each see their own problem and miss or reject the larger frame

    Their wordsThis is an era of specialists, each of whom sees his own problem and is unaware of or intolerant of the larger frame into which it fits.

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  8. Our reading

    This is an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make money at any cost is seldom challenged

    Their wordsIt is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

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  9. Our reading

    Spraying campaigns like eastern Illinois's raise a moral question: can a civilization wage relentless war on life without destroying itself

    Their wordsIncidents like the eastern Illinois spraying raise a question that is not only scientific but moral. The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.

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  10. Our reading

    Every human being is now exposed to dangerous chemicals from conception until death, for the first time in history

    Their wordsFor The First Time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.

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  11. Our reading

    Insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species people want to be rid of

    Their wordsThese insecticides are not selective poisons; they do not single out the one species of which we desire to be rid.

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  12. Our reading

    Chemical insect control seems to have assumed that soil could absorb any amount of poison without striking back

    Their wordsChemical control of insects seems to have proceeded on the assumption that the soil could and would sustain any amount of insult via the introduction of poisons without striking back.

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  13. Our reading

    Shifting even a small share of spending on ever more toxic sprays into research could help keep poisons from waterways

    Their wordsIf we would divert to constructive research even a small fraction of the money spent each year on the development of ever more toxic sprays, we could find ways to use less dangerous materials and to keep poisons out of our waterways.

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  14. Our reading

    Plant life is part of a web of life with intimate, essential ties to the earth, other plants and animals

    Their wordsThe earth's vegetation is part of a web of life in which there are intimate and essential relations between plants and the earth, between plants and other plants, between plants and animals.

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  15. Our reading

    Cancer cures must still be sought, but for the unaffected and the unborn, prevention is the imperative need

    Their wordsFor those in whom cancer is already a hidden or a visible presence, efforts to find cures must of course continue. But for those not yet touched by the disease and certainly for the generations as yet unborn, prevention is the imperative need.

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  16. Our reading

    Booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers show how readily unsound methods catch on

    Their wordsThe booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers are another example of how readily unsound methods catch on.

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  17. Our reading

    Predators and prey are part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account

    Their wordsThe predator and the preyed upon exist not alone, but as part of a vast web of life, all of which needs to be taken into account.

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  18. Our reading

    A primitive science of insect control has armed itself with modern weapons and turned them against the earth

    Their wordsIt is our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with the most modern and terrible weapons, and that in turning them against the insects it has also turned them against the earth.

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  19. Our reading

    Known alternatives to chemical spraying should be used more widely, and ingenuity and resources devoted to developing new ones

    Their wordsWe must make wider use of alternative methods that are now known, and we must devote our ingenuity and resources to developing others.

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  20. Our reading

    Modern insect control overlooks that the really effective control of insects is the one nature applies, not people

    Their wordsTwo critically important facts have been overlooked in designing the modern insect control programs. The first is that the really effective control of insects is that applied by nature, not by man.

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