Silent Spring At 40

14 June 2002 - 5:00am

Rachel Carson's classic is not aging well, Reason columnist Ronald Bailey writes.

The modern environmentalist movement was launched in June 1962, when excerpts from what would become Rachel Carson's anti-chemical landmark Silent Spring were published in The New Yorker. Reason Science Correspondent Ronald Bailey says her disciples have wasted tens of billions of dollars over the last four decades chasing imaginary risks without measurably improving American health.

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Source: Reason Online, June 13, 2002
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