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Chemicals’ use sacrifices our health and well-being

This month is the 50th anniversary of the publication of “Silent Spring,” Rachel Carson’s landmark book calling attention to the harmful effects of chemical pesticides, specifically DDT. She charged that pesticides caused food contamination, cancer, genetic defects and the elimination of entire species.

In a CBS documentary, Carson said, “Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.” Read full article.

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