Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson
Intro -- Table of Contents -- 1. Silent Spring at 50 -- 2. The Lady Who Started All This -- 3. The Intellectual Groundwaters of Silent Spring -- 4. Silent Spring as Secular Religion -- 5. The Selective Silence of Silent Spring -- 6. Rachel Carson's Health Scare -- 7. The Balance of Nature and "The Other Road" -- 8. Did Rachel Carson Understand the Importance of DDT? -- 9. Agricultural Revolutions and Agency Wars -- 10. The False Promise of Federalization -- 11. The Precautionary Principle: Silent Spring's Toxic Legacy -- 12. Risk Over-Simplified -- Notes -- Index -- Contributors -- About the Cato Institute