We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
— Rachel Carson Modern

Silent Spring, environmentalism

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'Silent Spring'

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1962

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Controversial

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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27333.Silent_Spring

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