2009-02-JoGoy

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READ poster featured: Jo Goy, Biology
Book selected: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Date poster was featured: February 2009

Comments by Jo Goy about the book:
"Silent Spring is among the most influential science books written for the public. With this book, author Rachel Carson played a pivotal role in the environmental movement initiated in the '60's. She challenged the trust placed in mankind's technological prowess. Often, with the best of intentions, humans have manipulated the wild -- we have altered species diversity, transported organisms around the world into novel geographic distributions and even manipulated the chemical composition of the environment. But have we improved on creation? As you read this book you cannot help but ask, "What impact am I personally having on the environment?" . . . You will also ask, although less enthusiastically, "How am I being affected by the havoc resulting from man's alteration of the natural world?" Is it possible our arrogance and attitude of dominating nature will be the demise of the human species? This book is thought-provoking at the least."

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