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Rachel Carson. Silent Spring
Silent Spring
Table of Contents
1. A Fable for Tomorrow
2. The Obligation to Endure
3. Elixirs of Death
4. Surface Waters and Underground Seas
5. Realms of the Soil
6. Earth’s Green Mantle
7. Needless Havoc
8. And No Birds Sing
9. Rivers of Death
10. Indiscriminately from the Skies
11. Beyond the Dreams of the Borgias
12. The Human Price
13. Through a Narrow Window
14. One in Every Four
15. Nature Fights Back
16. The Rumblings of an Avalanche
17. The Other Road
List of Principal Sources
CHAPTER 2: THE OBLIGATION TO ENDURE
CHAPTER 3: ELIXIRS OF DEATH
CHAPTER 4: SURFACE WATERS AND UNDERGROUND SEAS
CHAPTER 5: REALMS OF THE SOIL
CHAPTER 6: EARTH’S GREEN MANTLE
CHAPTER 7: NEEDLESS HAVOC
CHAPTER 8: AND NO BIRDS SING
CHAPTER 9: RIVERS OF DEATH
CHAPTER 10: INDISCRIMINATELY FROM THE SKIES
CHAPTER 11: BEYOND THE DREAMS OF THE BORGIAS
CHAPTER 12: THE HUMAN PRICE
CHAPTER 13: THROUGH A NARROW WINDOW
CHAPTER 14: ONE IN EVERY FOUR
CHAPTER 15: NATURE FIGHTS BACK
CHAPTER 16: THE RUMBLINGS OF AN AVALANCHE
CHAPTER 17: THE OTHER ROAD
Index
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Rachel Carson
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Chlordane, another chlorinated hydrocarbon, has all the unpleasant attributes of DDT plus a few that are peculiarly its own. Its residues are long persistent in soil, on foodstuffs, or on surfaces to which it may be applied, yet it is also quite volatile and poisoning by inhalation is a definite risk to anyone handling or exposed to it. Chlordane makes use of all available portals to enter the body. It penetrates the skin easily, is breathed in as vapor, and of course is absorbed from the digestive tract if residues are swallowed. Like all other chlorinated hydrocarbons, its deposits build up in the body in cumulative fashion. A diet containing such a small amount of chlordane as 2.5 parts per million may eventually lead to storage of 75 parts per million in the fat of experimental animals.
So experienced a pharmacologist as Dr. Lehman has described chlordane as “one of the most toxic of insecticides—anyone handling it could be poisoned.” Judging by the carefree liberality with which dusts for lawn treatments by suburbanites are laced with chlordane, this warning has not been taken to heart. The fact that the suburbanite is not instantly stricken has little meaning, for the toxins may sleep long in his body, to become manifest months or years later in an obscure disorder almost impossible to trace to its origins. On the other hand, death may strike quickly. One victim who accidentally spilled a 25 per cent solution on his skin developed symptoms of poisoning within 40 minutes and died before medical help could be obtained. No reliance can be placed on receiving advance warning which might allow treatment to be had in time.
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