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Focuses on the effects of the indiscriminate use of chemicals, describing how pesticides and insecticides are applied almost universally to farms, forests, gardens and homes with scant regard to the contamination of the environment and the destruction of wildlife.

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Silent Spring by Carson Rachel With An Introduction By Shackleton Lord And Preface By Huxley S

Rachel Carson's exposure of the effects of the indiscriminate use of chemicals which describes how pesticides and insecticides are applied almost universally to farms, forests, gardens and homes with scant regard to the contamination of the environment and the destruction of wildlife. She argues that unless we recognize that human beings are only a part of the living world, our progressive poisoning of the planet will end in catastrophe.
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ISBN 13 9780140138917
ISBN 10 0140138919
Title Silent Spring
Author Carson Rachel With An Introduction By Shackleton Lord And Preface By Huxley S
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
Year published 1991-01-31
Number of pages 320
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