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[阅读] 一本改变三体女主叶文洁命运的书 silent spring

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    Carson believed that human health would ultimately reflect the environment‘s ills. Inevitably this idea has changed our response to nature, to science, and to the technologies that devise and deliver contamination. Although the scientific community has been slow to acknowledge this aspect of Carson"s work, her concept of the ecology of the human body may well prove to be one of her most lasting contributions.
    In 1962, however, the multimillion-dollar industrial chemical industry was not about to allow a former government editor, a female scientist without a Ph.D. or an institutional affiliation, known only for her lyrical books on the sea, to undermine public confidence in its products or to question its integrity. It was clear to the industry that Rachel Carson was a hysterical woman whose alarming view of the future could be ignored or, if necessary, suppressed. She was a "bird and bunny lover," a woman who kept cats and was therefore clearly suspect. She was a romantic "spinster" who was simply overwrought about genetics. In short, Carson was a woman out of control. She had overstepped the bounds of her gender and her science. But just in case her claims did gain an audience, the industry spent a quarter of a million dollars to discredit her research and malign her character. In the end, the worst they could say was that she had told only one side of the story and had based her argument on unverifiable case studies.
    There is another, private side to the controversy over Silent Spring. Unbeknown to her detractors in government and industry, Carson was fighting a far more powerful enemy than corporate outrage: a rapidly metastasizing breast cancer. The miracle is that she lived to complete the book at all, enduring a "catalogue of illnesses," as she called it. She was immune to the chemical industry‘s efforts to malign her; rather, her energies were focused on the challenge of survival in order to bear witness to the truth as she saw it. She intended to disturb and disrupt, and she did so with dignity and deliberation.
    After Silent Spring caught the attention of President John F. Kennedy, federal and state investigations were launched into the validity of Carson"s claims. Communities that had been subjected to aerial spraying of pesticides against their wishes began to organize on a grass-roots level against the continuation of toxic pollution. Legislation was readied at all governmental levels to defend against a new kind of invisible fallout. The scientists who had claimed a "holy grail" of knowledge were forced to admit a vast ignorance. While Carson knew that one book could not alter the
    dynamic of the capitalist system, an environmental movement grew from her challenge, led by a public that demanded that science and government be held accountable. Carson remains an example of what one committed individual can do to change the direction of society. She was a revolutionary spokesperson for the rights of all life. She dared to speak out and confront the issue of the destruction of nature and to frame it as a debate over the quality of all life.
    Rachel Carson knew before she died that her work had made a difference. She was honored by medals and awards, and posthumously received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1981. But she also knew that the issues she had raised would not be solved quickly or easily and that affluent societies are slow to sacrifice for the good of the whole. It was not until six years after Carson"s death that concerned Americans celebrated the first Earth Day and that Congress passed the National Environmental Policy Act establishing the Environmental Protection Agency as a buffer against our own handiwork. The domestic production of DDT was banned, but not its export, ensuring that the pollution of the earth"s atmosphere, oceans, streams, and wildlife would continue unabated. DDT is found in the livers of birds and fish on every oceanic island on the planet and in the breast milk of every mother. In spite of decades of environmental protest and awareness, and in spite of Rachel Carson"s apocalyptic call alerting Americans to the problem of toxic chemicals, reduction of the use of pesticides has been one of the major policy failures of the environmental era. Global contamination is a fact of modern life.
    Silent Spring compels each generation to reevaluate its relationship to the natural world. We are a nation still debating the questions it raised, still unresolved as to how to act for the common good, how to achieve environmental justice. In arguing that public health and the environment, human and natural, are inseparable, Rachel Carson insisted that the role of the expert had to be limited by democratic access and must include public debate about the risks of hazardous technologies. She knew then, as we have learned since, that scientific evidence by its very nature is
    incomplete and scientists will inevitably disagree on what constitutes certain proof of harm. It is difficult to make public policy in such cases when government’s obligation to protect is mitigated by the nature of science itself.
    Rachel Carson left us a legacy that not only embraces the future of life, in which she believed so fervently, but sustains the human spirit. She confronted us with the chemical corruption of the globe and called on us to regulate our appetites—a truly revolutionary stance—for our self-preservation. "It seems reasonable to believe," she wrote, "that the more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for the destruction of our race. Wonder and humility are wholesome emotions, and they do not exist side by side with a lust for destruction."
    Wonder and humility are just some of the gifts of Silent Spring.
    They remind us that we, like all other living creatures, are part of the vast ecosystems of the earth, part of the whole stream of life.

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    发表于 2019-2-16 00:54:36 | 只看该作者
    从民主的角度看  实在不明白叶文洁这个知识分子凭什么觉得自己有什么资格代表人类回答三体人的信息。

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    寂静的春天啊,就像十年前,只有城市才有麻雀,农村麻雀绝户了。现在生态有所改善,中印为全球增绿,中国增加占比25%  发表于 2019-2-16 12:26
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    wallacecjj 发表于 2019-2-16 00:54
    从民主的角度看  实在不明白叶文洁这个知识分子凭什么觉得自己有什么资格代表人类回答三体人的信息。 ...

    在“疯狂的年代”中目睹了双亲如此如此,后以为找了知己却又被陷害,这时候心里对人类已经绝望了,也许就是出于报复心理吧。

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    不是报复心态吧,小我的无助,像外星人求神拜佛而已。不过迂腐在于,以为是神佛,岂知是鬼魔。东方传统文化是向善为之,以为他人也是。  发表于 2019-2-16 12:31
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    nullname 发表于 2019-2-16 09:19
    在“疯狂的年代”中目睹了双亲如此如此,后以为找了知己却又被陷害,这时候心里对人类已经绝望了,也许就 ...

    因为是“疯狂的年代”所以想要改变,但自身又无力改变,只能寄希望于外星人(文明世界的人)改造世界。
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    wallacecjj 发表于 2019-2-16 00:54
    从民主的角度看  实在不明白叶文洁这个知识分子凭什么觉得自己有什么资格代表人类回答三体人的信息。 ...

    难道还需要“民主选举”产生一个能与外星智慧生命沟通的人吗?
    别说在那个年代,就是现在,也根本不存在有一个具体的选举方法能够选出来一个“有资格”的人... ....