Rachel Carson's Silent Spring at 50 Years - The False Crises of Rachel Carson.

The USDA was doing little for the "common good," but Carson spawned the movements that have wasted our time, treasure and lives for 50 years. Unfortunately her more measured approach died with her and it became radicalized with government expansion with regulatory and non-govermental organizations intruding where it has done much more harm than good on both sides. m/r

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          Published on Sep 27, 2012 by ReasonTV

"It's not polite to talk about brown and black people dying because rich white people in America feel better about themselves when the brown and black people don't get to use DDT," says the University of Alabama's Andrew Morriss, co-editor of the new book Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson.

Published by the Cato Institute, the collection of essays by environmentalists, law professors, economists, and other analysts argues that the legacy of Carson's best-known book - widely considered the starting point of the modern environmentalist movement and the international ban on the malaria-fighting pesticide DDT - has caused many more problems than it has solved.

Reason's Katherine Mangu-Ward sat down with Morriss to talk about Carson's work and influence on environmental policy.