For the Birds
When
in 1962 Rachel Carson wrote, “Only within the moment of time represented by the
present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the
nature of the world,” she was sounding an alarm to the world, a clarion call
that rings ever clearer each day, alerting humankind to the grave folly of its
tampering ways. We are sliding down a slippery slope, she warned, and
there’s no telling where we’ll end up. Her book was titled Silent Spring,
and it galvanized a global movement: environmentalism.
Page Photo Credits – Golden-crowned Sparrow - Peter Pearsall/USFWS
Last Updated: Feb 20, 2016