Carson's Letter to Reader's Digest
The following is a paraphrase of an excerpt from the letter Rachel Carson sent to Reader's Digest in 1945 offering to write an article about the dangers of DDT:
The experiments at Patuxent have been planned to show what effects DDT may have if applied to
wide areas: how it will affect insects, waterfowl, or birds that depend on insect food, and whether the use of DDT may upset the whole delicate balance of nature * (Stwertka, p. 37).
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"Carson's Letter to Reader's Digest"
Online Ethics Center for Engineering
7/6/2006 12:39:55 AM
National Academy of Engineering
Accessed: Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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