Presidents and the American Environment by Otis Graham

Author:Otis Graham [Graham, Otis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, Presidents & Heads of State, History, United States, 20th Century, Nature, Environmental Conservation & Protection
ISBN: 9780700620982
Google: aIfDrQEACAAJ
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2015-01-15T03:12:30+00:00

There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. . . . Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change. . . . Mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. . . . The farmers spoke of much illness among their families. . . . There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone? . . . The feeding stations in the backyards were deserted. . . . It was a spring without voices. . . .

This town does not actually exist . . . yet every one of these disasters has actually happened somewhere. . . .

What has already silenced the voices of spring in countless towns in America? . . .

It was the “contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials . . . synthetic creations of man’s inventive mind, brewed in his laboratories . . . in an endless stream.”

No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced this stricken world. The people had done it themselves.

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