Man's War Against Nature
Aug 2021 · Penguin UK
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement.
With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, Rachel Carson reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
With the precision of a scientist and the simplicity of a fable, Rachel Carson reveals how man-made pesticides have destroyed wildlife, creating a world of polluted streams and silent songbirds.
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.
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Rabilatul Adawiyah Zakaria
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October 8, 2021
I don't regret every hour I spent acquiring the knowledge. Carson's has provided meticulous reports on the vile use of pesticides and insecticide; starting from most fatal, DDT, to the ones that seem less harmful but in reality, struck as much. And as I emerging deeper into this book it makes me so remorseful and devastated just thinking that how ignorant we can be as a human, you know? I believe that is what Carson what us to see. That at one point it would all comes back to us and what we did is simply digging our own grave.
Rabilatul Adawiyah Zakaria
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October 8, 2021
I don't regret every hour I spent acquiring the knowledge. Carson's has provided meticulous reports on the vile use of pesticides and insecticide; starting from most fatal, DDT, to the ones that seem less harmful but in reality, struck as much. And as I emerging deeper into this book it makes me so remorseful and devastated just thinking that how ignorant we can be as a human, you know? I believe that is what Carson what us to see. That at one point it would all comes back to us and what we did is simply digging our own grave.
About the author
Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a marine biologist who inspired the modern ecological movement when she exposed the destruction of the natural world through pesticides in the 1960s.
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