Events2Join

Silent Spring and The Population Bomb


Silent Spring and The Population Bomb -- Can Books or Lives Make ...

Silent Spring and The Population Bomb changed many people's lives. They caused a lot of money and effort to be spent on pesticide regulation and family planning ...

Deconstructing The Population Bomb - PERC

... Silent Spring (1962). Ehrlich's tract is now best remembered for its inflammatory statements that “the battle to feed all of humanity is ...

The Population Bomb Revisited | MAHB

That movement had been triggered in no small part by Rachel. Carson's Silent Spring (Carson 1962). ... Population Bomb was no exception. It was vetted by a.

The Population Bomb - Free

Since Silent Spring. Houghton. Mifflin, Boston. Hardin, Garrett (ed.) 1969. Population, Evolution and. Birth Control. W. H. Freeman, San Francisco and. London ...

Silent Spring | Rachel Carson's Environmental Classic | Britannica

Works such as Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962), Garrett Hardin's “The Tragedy of the Commons” (1968), Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb ( ...

Paul Ehrlich and The Population Bomb - Films Media Group

Rachel Carson exposes the threat that synthetic pesticides pose to the balance of nature. Her opposition to "Silent Spring" believes that humans must control ...

Rewriting the History of the Environmentalist Movement

Paul Ehrlich's famous and influential book, The Population Bomb ... Silent Spring was a catalyst for the environmental movement, but the ...

Rachel Carson & the Clearwater - Scenic Hudson

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring ... And so I made almost a 180-degree turn, started reading books like The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich, or The Poverty of Power ...

The Earth First - Digital History

In 1962, a marine biologist named Rachel Carson published a book, Silent Spring ... Erhlich, a Stanford ecologist and author of the 1968 bestseller The Population ...

Biologist Paul Ehrlich, Author of The Population Bomb to Speak on ...

... Population Bomb which, along with Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, helped launch the U.S. environmental movement. Ehrlich's book warned of ...

The Lost Lessons of 'Silent Spring' - Textbook History

Later “eco-catastrophes,” such as Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book The Population Bomb and Garrett Hardin's 1968 article “The Tragedy of the Commons,” ...

Environmental Despair Springs Eternal, Part 3: Mentors of ... - Econlib

... Silent Spring. Vogt argued that humans had ... Population Bomb in 1954 whose title Ehrlich's publisher eventually borrowed with permission.

The Essay, Beyond 'Silent Spring', The Population Bomb - BBC

Biologist Charles Godfray discusses The Population Bomb, published in 1968, a text that warned of mass starvation to come in the 1970s and ...

Silent Spring - Wikipedia

Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the ...

The Story of Silent Spring - NRDC

Silent Spring. Thirteen years later, in 1958, Carson's ... What you need to know about the toxic insecticide that's decimating populations of pollinators.

The Personal Attacks on Rachel Carson as a Woman Scientist

As long as we have the H-bomb everything will be O.K. —Letter to the editor of the New Yorker (cited in Smith 2001, 741). Opponents of Silent Spring attacked ...

Silent Spring—I | The New Yorker

Such a system sets the stage for explosive increases in specific insect populations. Single-crop farming does not take advantage of the principles by which ...

About Environment - CEPAL

These included Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962), The Population Bomb by Paul Ehrlich (1968) and The Limits to Growth, commissioned by the Club of Rome ( ...

Paul Ehrlich, the 1960s, and the Population Bomb - De Gruyter

As with Carson's use of fallout imagery in Silent Spring, the bomb metaphor evoked the overriding concern of the era—war and destruction. Bombs suggested ...

Rachel Carson's 'Silent Spring' 60 years on: Birds still fading from ...

Population abundance indices for bird species dependent on major habitat types in (a) North America, (b) Europe, (c) India, and (d) Botswana and ...