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Silent Spring

I’ve just started reading Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson, which is one of those seminal books I can’t quite believe I haven’t read yet. I feel I’m going to enjoy it. My sleep cycle is too messed up to permit any sensible comment on it, but I was struck by this sentence (p28 of the Penguin Classics edition):

Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?

Discuss.

3 comments April 27, 2009

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    Rob Hopkins, Transition Handbook

    “Environmentalists have often been guilty of presenting people with a mental image of the world’s least desirable holiday destination – some seedy bed and breakfast near Torquay, with nylon sheets, cold tea and soggy toast – and expecting them to get excited about the prospect of NOT going there. The logic and the psychology are all wrong.”

    Barbara Kingsolver, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

    "Food is that rare moral arena in which the ethical choice is generally the one more likely to make you groan with pleasure."

    Carlo Petrini

    "A gastronome who is not also an environmentalist is an idiot. An environmentalist who is not also a gastronome is, well, sad."

    Sharon Astyk

    "I am, of course, firmly opposed to consumerism and corporatism in all its forms, and I believe that we are deeply confused about material needs and wants. Now let me explain how books and yarn are totally different than the material things that other people want ;-)…."

    Raj Patel, at Slow Food Nation

    "Biofuels, which is the preposterous policy that we should grow food not to eat it but to set it on fire."