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This exhibition was created by Donald Worster in 2020 under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International license. This refers only to the text and does not include image rights. A Mandarin-language version of this essay is forthcoming in 中華讀書報 (China Reading Weekly).
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Rachel Louise Carson (1907–1964). Unknown photographer, n.d.
Rachel Louise Carson (1907–1964). Unknown photographer, n.d.
Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Corn near Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Corn near Muskogee, Oklahoma.
Photo: 1939/1940 Russell Lee (ca. 1939). Source: Library of Congress
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Red-tailed hawk at an airport in the United States. Photograph by USDA, 2015.
Red-tailed hawk at an airport in the United States. Photograph by USDA, 2015.
Courtesy of U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Accessed via Flickr on 15 April 2020.
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A woman appreciates spring flowers in a Qingdao city park on 3 April 2020. Photograph by Shen Hou.
A woman appreciates spring flowers in a Qingdao city park on 3 April 2020. Photograph by Shen Hou.
2020 Shen Hou.
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How to cite:
Worster, Donald. “Another Silent Spring.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2020, no. 1 (22 April 2020). Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. doi.org/10.5282/rcc/9028.
Another Silent Spring
In this virtual exhibition, historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, are at the core of a majority of epidemics. In the face of the current coronavirus crisis, he argues that an exclusive focus on human life and economy will keep neither the planet nor ourselves healthy. We must decide “whether we humans can or want to restore and protect the health, not just of ourselves, but also of the planet.”
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