Sunday, April 3, 2011

Binary

I may be barking up the wrong tree, but I have decided to put out a binary. I noticed in the book that there was a contrast between people who make environmental decisions and those who understand the implications of those decisions, namely scientist and environmentalist. For the former, she attributed the name "control men" on page 56. I think, thus far, this binary is to sew the seeds of distrust in us. That lack of faith is to be targeted at policy makers and people who blithely spray their fields with chemicals of the properties of which they cannot comprehend. I suppose she would agree the bronze has more control than the brains in environmental issues in our country. The top of page 86 reminds us that we have not really changed. A debate she describes going on in the sixties, seemed to me, almost unaltered. A side note, apparently Ronald Reagan's administration years overturned much of the environmental protection laws formed under the influence of Silent Spring's message. A pity.

1 comment:

  1. Yes, this is indeed the central binary, the one she pins her hopes on overturning. Once everyone is a scientist--in the sense of knowing about science and not leaving it to the specialists--the tide might turn.

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