05 MAR 2015 by ideonexus
Carson's Silent Spring and the Chinese Cultural Revolution
More than four decades later, in her last moments, Ye Wenjie would recall the influence Silent Spring had on her life. The book dealt only with a limited subject: the negative environmental effects of excessive pesticide use. But the perspective taken by the author shook Ye to the core. The use of pesticides had seemed to Ye just a normal, proper—or, at least, neutral—act, but Carson’s book allowed Ye to see that, from Nature’s perspective, their use was indistinguishable from the Cu...Folksonomies: environmentalism cultural revolution
Folksonomies: environmentalism cultural revolution
TODO: Is it true that the Chinese Communist regime distributed copies of Carson's book in order to have intellectuals debunk it as Capitalist propaganda?