It's Time to Move Beyond All-Or-Nothing Environmentalism 60 Years After 'Silent Spring.'

Rachel Carson launched a broadside against agricultural companies' unrestricted use of pesticides in her barnstorming environmental polemic Silent Spring, which commemorates its 60th anniversary this year. Carson's magnum opus sparked the current environmental movement: Within a year, U.S. Senators praised the book for "altering the path of human history." Soon after, the United States' leaders approved the Clean Air and ....