“Silent Spring” Common Read Opportunity Drawing
CSUSM and other partners across San Diego county join for a second annual common read. Aligned with SAND’s environmental theme for the year, the book is Rachel Carson’s "Silent Spring" (1962).
“Silent Spring exposed the hazards of the pesticide DDT, eloquently questioned humanity's faith in technological progress and helped set the stage for the environmental movement. DDT, the most powerful pesticide the world had ever known, exposed nature's vulnerability. Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, was uniquely equipped to create so startling and inflammatory a book. Although she rarely used the term, Carson held an ecological view of nature, describing in precise yet poetic language the complex web of life” -NRDC
If you would like to enter the opportunity drawing for a copy, submit the below form by January 14th. Your name will be entered into a drawing to win one of ten copies of "Silent Spring," courtesy of SAND.
