Silent Spring (1000 Books to Read)

Finished: April 15

I thought I should post this on the weekend of her birth.

She is the mother of the modern-day environmental movement. This is a dated book (most research was from the late 50s), but it is a classic. I am glad I read it. 

Here is why James Mustich thinks it should be one of the 1000 Books You Read Before You Die:

More than four decades before Al Gore’s Oscar-winning documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring issued a chilling—and groundbreaking—warning about humanity’s careless contamination of our planet. Researched and written over four years, it examines the interdependence of species in nature and postulates a world in which chemical pesticides have not only upset that delicate balance, but wiped out entire species as well. Lyrically written, scientifically astute, and passionately argued, Silent Spring informed opinion and changed policy across the nation; it led to a ban on DDT and became a catalyst to the global environmental movement.