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There is hope for our home, the Earth...
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Finally, I sat down and opened the book, "Silent Spring." A book I heard about when I was a little girl, from my mother who was an environmental scientist by the government's order in the late 1950s. (I became a meteorologist in China, also not by my own choice.)
Even for someone who has been involved in co-teaching "Global Environmental Change" since spring 2008, the book impressed me greatly. I love the author's ability to express herself, with such a force, and am taken by her knowledge and vision of the Earth as a living being.
A friend was afraid that this book would be too depressing to read. Well, yes and no. Maybe I refuse to get depressed. While I am still only half way through the book, I THINK there is hope for the Earth. Why? This is because most people would agree with me that today's America is a beautiful country (when compared to many heavily polluted developing countries). If the America could recover from the chemical assault lasted from the 1950s through the early 1970s, we surely can expect similar recovery in other countries.
So, do not give up, when you see polluted food, air, water, and land in your country. It will pass, IF people stand up and speak out...
Link to 《寂静的春天》
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-306792-456825.html
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Even for someone who has been involved in co-teaching "Global Environmental Change" since spring 2008, the book impressed me greatly. I love the author's ability to express herself, with such a force, and am taken by her knowledge and vision of the Earth as a living being.
A friend was afraid that this book would be too depressing to read. Well, yes and no. Maybe I refuse to get depressed. While I am still only half way through the book, I THINK there is hope for the Earth. Why? This is because most people would agree with me that today's America is a beautiful country (when compared to many heavily polluted developing countries). If the America could recover from the chemical assault lasted from the 1950s through the early 1970s, we surely can expect similar recovery in other countries.
So, do not give up, when you see polluted food, air, water, and land in your country. It will pass, IF people stand up and speak out...
Link to 《寂静的春天》
http://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=space&uid=306792&do=blog&id=456147
https://blog.sciencenet.cn/blog-306792-456825.html
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