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 Wed Jan 25, 2017 8:15 am |
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This played last night on PBS KCTS 9 and was a very good biography, and timely once again in the current period of ignorant denial. I had never read "Silent Spring" or either of her two other books and this makes me put that book and perhaps the others on my reading list.
Biography of Rachel Carson
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I just watched it and would have missed it completely if you hadn't posted the link to it. She was a remarkable woman.
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Wed Jan 25, 2017 6:17 pm |
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DVR'd it last night, will watch it soon. I read Silent Spring when I was in high school. It was one of a handful of non-fiction books that formed my world view. (Others include Cadillac Desert, Beyond Geography: The Western Spirit Against the Wilderness and Wildlife in America)
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It came out when I was in junior high. I did a science fair project feeding rats DDT in 9th grade. Results,were ambiguous not enough adult help to distinguish between acute poising and build up of small exposures over a period of time. Resulted in a lifetime of environmental awareness.
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
"You do not laugh when you look at the mountains, or when you look at the sea." Lafcadio Hearn
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Wed Jan 25, 2017 7:38 pm |
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A remarkable human being that showed we can and do have the power to change our environment.
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Thu Jan 26, 2017 2:55 pm |
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| RichP wrote: | | A remarkable human being that showed we can and do have the power to change our environment. |
I concur. It is hard to think of another private citizen, save MLK, that had such an impact on American life.
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Thu Jan 26, 2017 5:19 pm |
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And like MLK, there was a bias against the messenger, in addition to the message. . . .
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
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Sat Jan 28, 2017 4:25 pm |
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Yes, she was a social revolutionary who spoke truth to power, and a very fine prose writer too.
We watched it and thoroughly enjoyed it. Well written and directed per American Experience standards of excellence. I'll withhold political comment re looming public funding cuts for PBS, NEA, NPR, etc.
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