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Printemps silencieux

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Lutte Nature -- Protection Ecologie Écologie -- États-Unis -- Histoire Environnement -- Protection -- États-Unis Insectes nuisibles -- Lutte biologique contre Effets de la pollution Écologie profonde Environnement -- États-Unis Pollution par les pesticides -- États-Unis Écotoxicologie -- États-Unis Insect pests -- Biological control Pollution par les pesticides Insect pests -- Control -- Biological control Nature Pesticides -- Environmental aspects Pesticides -- Toxicologie -- États-Unis Environnement Pollution Pesticides -- Toxicology Pesticides and wildlife Résistance aux insecticides Protection Écotoxicologie Écologie Pollution -- Lutte contre -- Appareils et matériel Écologie profonde -- États-Unis

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Silent spring

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Silent spring

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First Published in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. \"Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations ... Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters\" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's \"100 Most Influential People of the Century\"). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with new essays by the author and scientist Edward O. Wilson and the acclaimed biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in 1963, the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death. First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. \"Silent Spring became a runaway bestseller, with international reverberations . . . [It is] well crafted, fearless and succinct . . . Even if she had not inspired a generation of activists, Carson would prevail as one of the greatest nature writers in American letters\" (Peter Matthiessen, for Time's 100 Most Influential People of the Century). This fortieth anniversary edition celebrates Rachel Carson's watershed book with a new introduction by the author and activist Terry Tempest Williams and a new afterword by the acclaimed Rachel Carson biographer Linda Lear, who tells the story of Carson's courageous defense of her truths in the face of ruthless assault from the chemical industry in the year following the publication of Silent Spring and before her untimely death in 1964

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