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 . (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