• How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?

    Rachel Carson: How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
    Rachel Carson (2002). “Silent Spring”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt