The late Rachel Carson(1907-1964), author of Silent Spring, is an iconic figure to the enviromental movement. Yet while I suggest that Carson was not per se an evil person of the nature of say Adolf Hitler, the deaths attributed to Carson are comparable to those attributable to Hitler.
To some Carson is some sort of hero:
She was the mother of environmentalism, and in 1962 she published what turned out to be the founding text of modern ecology: Silent Spring. Its title was meant to evoke a time – not far in the future – when the season of new growth would be one in which, to quote Keats, “no birds sing”, because they had all died from pesticide poisoning. It was a work which was to be listed – alongside The Wealth of Nations, Das Kapital and The Origin of the Species – as a book which changed the course of history.
To others, not. J.R. Dunn, American Thinker, examines Carson’s legacy of death.
Carson’s book was rife with omissions, misrepresentations, and errors.
It is not fitting and it is not proper that bridge intended for use by the livng, should be renamed to “honor” a woman who contributed to the deaths of so many millions.
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