Can anyone believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on the surface of the earth without making it unfit for all life? Rachel Carson posed this question in Silent Spring, published in 1962, considered the founding work of the ecological movement. They should not be called insecticides but biocides. She went on: This industry is a child of the Second World War. In the course of developing agents of chemical warfare, some of the chemicals developed in the laboratory were found to be lethal to insects. The discovery did not come by chance: insects were widely used to test chemicals as agents of death for men.
Posted on: Mon, 01 Dec 2014 02:44:55 +0000
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