Book Review- "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson

"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson is one of the most important environmental books of the twentieth century. Ms. Carson's findings regarding certain pesticides and their harmful effect on Raptors led to the banning of the insecticide DDT.

Silent Spring is primarily about the reckless use of herbicides and insecticides but the overall theme of the book is that humanity changes and destroys ecosystems all over the world whose complexity and importance we are just beginning to understand.

It has been more then fifty years since Silent Spring was first in print, but it still retains a powerful message that we should not ignore.