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Silent Spring

By: Rachel Carson
Narrated by: Kaiulani Lee
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First published in 1962, Silent Spring can single-handedly be credited with sounding the alarm and raising awareness of humankind's collective impact on its own future through chemical pollution. No other book has so strongly influenced the environmental conscience of Americans and the world at large. Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Science Conservation Pollution
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"Silent Spring came as a cry in the wilderness, a deeply felt, thoroughly researched, and brilliantly written argument that changed the course of history." (Al Gore)
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Not an easy subject matter but beautifully writen. A vivid and detailed description of the web of life on our planet and how our unconstrained use of chemicals threatens to distrust and damage those systems, often to our own detriment.

Compelling

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A terrifying cautionary tale and without doubt a truly seminal piece of work and with excellent reason. "Do we really want to live in a world that is just not quite dead?".

Essential reading for any environmentalist.

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This is a famous book, but even so I didn’t expect it to be so well written and engaging. It takes science seriously, as might be expected, but also honours the distress that ordinary people feel when their backyard birds disappear. Carson has great respect for the reader - clearly explaining the complex biochemistry of pesticides, starting with molecules and ending with heartbreaking descriptions of the death of birds. There are of course some mistakes, but this book is a remarkable achievement and well worth reading now.

Extraordinarily good

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There is a reason this book is a classic
YOu’ve done it justice by having Kaiulani Lee narrate it

Love, love, loved it all

Classic for a reason

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I could only wish this book was made apart of the school education for high school. All people need to be made aware of what humans have done to unbalance nature. This book was the saddest book I’ve ever read Rachel Carson has written this book with so much detail and in depth exposes the truth on how badly humans have destroy the ecosystem with use of pesticides and toxic chemicals that damage us and all things great and small. This book brought me to tears and just to now that the businesses behind the use of these products and governing bodies just keep doing the same thing over and over for a lot of the time for money and not for the good of all.

Thank you Rachel Carson

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