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
>