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Silent Spring
Published 60 years ago, on September 27th 1962, the book created at the same time a new genre and a new sensitivity to environmental issues.
Carson's book documented the devastating ecological impacts of pesticides, a theme that is still hot today. She was fiercely criticized by industry lobby, and chemical companies launched vicious anti-Carson campaigns. Whatever the subject of ecological concern, science has always occupied a core position in environmental conflicts. At the same time, corporate lobby groups deploy "science" to manipulate the public, as discussed by a recent book by investigative journalists and sociologists.
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