Breaking Nature’s Silence: Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson
Posted by Lisa Budwig on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Breaking Nature’s Silence: Pennsylvania’s Rachel Carson She was belittled as an anti-humanitarian crank, a priestess of nature, and a hysterical woman. The director of the New Jersey Department of Agriculture believed she inspired a “vociferous, misinformed group of nature-balancing, organic gardening, bird-loving, unreasonable citizenry.” An official of the Federal Pest Control Review Board, ridiculing her concern about genetic...read more