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).

Cite this page: "Carson's Letter to Reader's Digest" Online Ethics Center for Engineering 7/6/2006 National Academy of Engineering Accessed: Thursday, February 09, 2012 <www.onlineethics.org/Topics/ProfPractice/Exemplars/BehavingWell/carsonindex/letterRD.aspx>