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tangleroot_eli's review against another edition
slow-paced
I am too cynical for this book.
As I started, I kept skimming through sections and skipping ahead, wondering when the “scary parts” would start. I was almost halfway through before I realized: these are the scary parts.
When Silent Spring was published in 1962, complete environmental collapse probably sounded like dystopian fiction to most people. Carson’s page after page of horrific examples and statistics sounded an alarm sufficient to move laypeople and leaders alike to demand, and when possible make, change.
Now here I am in 2024. DDT use has been significantly curtailed worldwide, but environmental disasters Carson couldn’t’ve dreamed of threaten us every day. At most, this book made me feel a slight, melancholic hopelessness: yeah, we’re all doomed. Now what?
As I started, I kept skimming through sections and skipping ahead, wondering when the “scary parts” would start. I was almost halfway through before I realized: these are the scary parts.
When Silent Spring was published in 1962, complete environmental collapse probably sounded like dystopian fiction to most people. Carson’s page after page of horrific examples and statistics sounded an alarm sufficient to move laypeople and leaders alike to demand, and when possible make, change.
Now here I am in 2024. DDT use has been significantly curtailed worldwide, but environmental disasters Carson couldn’t’ve dreamed of threaten us every day. At most, this book made me feel a slight, melancholic hopelessness: yeah, we’re all doomed. Now what?
Graphic: Animal death
Moderate: Cancer, Child death, and Terminal illness
Graphic: Environmental degradationac_rva's review against another edition
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Minor: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Cancer, and Child death
erinwolf1997's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
sad
medium-paced
4.75
Graphic: Animal death, Cancer, Death, and Terminal illness
Moderate: Child death
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