100. Saving Nature
Undeceptions with John Dickson
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Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was released in 1962 under a hail of protest from the American chemical industry. After Bumitzvah when he said, okay, well that's religion done with, now I'm going birding for 30 years. The reason I didn't see Sparrowhawks in London where I was growing up was because they'd all died out because of pesticides. Only silence lay over the fields and woods and marsh. It was a spring without voices. On the mornings that had once throbbed with the dawn chorus of Robins, catbirds, davs, jays, wrens and scores of other bird voices, there was now no sound. only silence lay over
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