“Fifty years ago, on September 27, 1962, Houghton Mifflin
published Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, among the 20th century's most
influential books. Carson didn't live to see the Clean Water Act of 1972 and
the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 that her writings helped inspire. But she
also didn't live to see U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, a former Halliburton
chief executive, chair the energy task force that resulted in the 2005 bill
exempting high-risk hydraulic fracturing (fracking) from the requirements of
those same two acts.”
That is a quotation from an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education this week
by Rob Nixon, the Rachel Carson professor of English at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison. He honors the
anniversary of the publication of her book and relates it to our current
environmental progress or lack thereof.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education, September 3
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