Silent Spring’s impact on DDT is only one of the many legacies of the book. Environmental activists took many of Carson’s ideas and developed them into a host of environmental scare campaigns. Many of these have been problematic like the DDT case, on a significant, although smaller scale. The ongoing battle to control mosquito-borne illnesses, in particular, continues to be undermined by the green’s anti-pesticide campaigns. The following links address just a few of these topics.
Environmentalist Crusades against Pesticides
Pesticides Brief
The Environmental Source, January 2002
Pesticides and the West Nile Virus: An Examination of Environmentalist Claims
Angela Logomasini, Spring 2004.
Pesticide Spin Belies Safety Record
Angela Logomasini
Hawaii Reporter, July 29, 2005
Endocrine Disrupters
Nature’s Hormone Factory
Johnathan Tolman
Competitive Enterprise Institute, March 1996
Endocrine Disruptors
Angela Logomasini
The Environmental Source, 2007
Our ‘Stolen Future’ and the Precautionary Principle
Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H.
Priorities, July 1996
Chlorine
Rachel’s Folly
Michael Fumento and Michelle Malkin
Competitive Enterprise Institute, 1996
The War On Chlorine
Michael Fumento
Investor’s Business Daily, November 9, 1994
Persistent Organic Pollutants
Ratification without Representation?
Angela Logomasini
September 8, 2004
Eroding U.S. Sovereignty: POPs Implementation
Angela Logomasini
Monthly Planet, December 1, 2003
Stockholm Syndrome
Roger Bate
Tech Central Station, August 27, 2003
Large Scale Campaigns to Ban\Phase Out Man-made Chemicals
Europe’s Global REACH
Angela Logomasini
November 2005
The U.N.’s Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management Program
Angela Logomasini
March 29, 2006
Greening a Homeland Bureaucracy
Angela Logomasini
May 2, 2006
