By Sarah Fallon — 2016
He was a zany crank and a brilliant genius—today's designers and problem solvers should think more like he did.
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CLEAR ALL
“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.
If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.
Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...