Silent Spring, one of the most environmentally significant publications in history, was published on September 20, …Silent Spring, one of the most environmentally significant publications in history, was published on September 20, 1962. I update this review in the face of some mildly encouraging news on speaking to climate change from the Biden administration, which I hope is not as I fear, too little, too late.Original review: Happy Earth Day, 2020, though it feels more like a dirge than a waltz we are dancing today, as Trump takes the occasion of a global pandemic to relax all environmental poison controls while we are supposedly listening daily to his self-promoting campaign speeches. To allow more mercury to be dumped into, for instance, my/all of our Great Lakes, is both homicidal and suicidal, that particular combination of arrogance and ignorance that characterizes "our" approach to the environment today. Read Rachel Carson to recall that getting back into the bars and back on the beaches and back to business as usual may not be the best central purpose for this year's Earth Day.“She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted”--Mitch McConnell, about Elizabeth Warren (and also was said of Rachel Carson, decades ago)Poisoning the Planet with Impunity [Part 2, 2017]“Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth”—Albert Schweitzer This lovely, eloquent, poetic book, published in 1962 and nominated for The National Book Award, was read to me by the woman, Kaiulani Lee, who played the part of Rachel Carson in a recent film biography of her, in a gentle voice that belies the storm the book still faces even today. The book was written by a scientist, marine biologist Carson, who had written the perhaps more poetic and less scientific but also popular The Sea Around Us, …