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开 本: 16开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780618872763
For environmentally critical times, Courage for the Earth is a
centennial appreciation of Rachel Carson’s brave life and
transformative writing Rachel Carson’s lyrical, popular books about
the sea, including her best-selling The Sea Around Us, set a
standard for nature writing. By the late 1950s, Carson was the most
respected science writer in America. She completed Silent Spring
(1962) against formidable personal odds, and with it shaped a
powerful social movement that has altered the course of history. In
Silent Spring, Carson asserted that “the right of the citizen to be
secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by
other persons” must surely be a basic human right. She was the
first to challenge the moral vacuity of a government that refused
to take responsibility for or to acknowledge evidence of
environmental damage. In this volume, today’s foremost scientists
and writers give compelling evidence that Carson’s transformative
insights — her courage for the earth — are giving a new
generation of activists the inspiration they need to move
consumers, industry, and government to action. Contributors include
John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert
Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest
Williams, and E. O. Wilson
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