Is modern environmentalism anti-progress?
This week, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias read Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring — the book that launched the modern environmental movement. Jerusalem and Matt find themselves surprised by what’s actually in it. Is it a visionary scientific critique or a romantic backlash against modernity? And did Carson’s le…
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