More on Rachel Carson: http://www.isreview.org/issues/57/feat-rachelcarson.shtml On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 8:42 PM Mitchel Cohen <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I'm sending this PDF of a quite wonderful piece by Michael B. Smith, > "Silence, Miss Carson!" Science, Gender, and the Reception of "Silent > Spring", *Feminist Studies,* Vol. 27, No. 3 (Autumn, 2001), pp. 733-752, > about the intense "criticism" Rachel Carson received upon publishing *Silent > Spring* in October, 1962. > > My essay contrasting *Silent Spring *with Michael Harrington's *The Other > America*, published the same year, was published Monday in > www.Counterpunch.org <http://www.counterpunch.org/> . (Scroll down the > Left sidebar to find it!) > > Here's one letter to *The New Yorker *that I found to be remarkable, and > yet sadly typical > > *:* “Miss Rachel Carson’s reference to the selfishness of insecticide > manufacturers probably reflects her Communist sympathies, like a lot of our > writers these days. We can live without birds and animals, but, as the > current market slump shows, we cannot live without business. As for > insects, isn’t it just like a woman to be scared to death of a few little > bugs! As long as we have the H-bomb everything will be O.K.” > > > Mitchel Cohen >