{"id":17118,"date":"2012-09-28T07:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=17118"},"modified":"2012-09-28T07:57:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T12:57:32","slug":"reason-tv-rachel-carsons-silent-spring-at-50-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/09\/28\/reason-tv-rachel-carsons-silent-spring-at-50-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason.tv: Rachel Carson&#8217;s <em>Silent Spring at 50 Years<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dNL5vOpMZiY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;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&#8217;t get to use DDT,&#8221; says the University of Alabama&#8217;s Andrew Morriss, co-editor of the new book <em>Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Published by the Cato Institute, the collection of essays by environmentalists, law professors, economists, and other analysts argues that the legacy of Carson&#8217;s best-known book &mdash; widely considered the starting point of the modern environmentalist movement and the international ban on the malaria-fighting pesticide DDT &mdash; has caused many more problems than it has solved.<\/p>\n<p><em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Katherine Mangu-Ward sat down with Morriss to talk about Carson&#8217;s work and influence on environmental policy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It&#8217;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&#8217;t get to use DDT,&#8221; says the University of Alabama&#8217;s Andrew Morriss, co-editor of the new book Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson. Published [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,65,7,28,13],"tags":[86,39,661],"class_list":["post-17118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-environment","category-history","category-media","category-usa","tag-criticism","tag-junkscience","tag-regulation"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4s6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17119,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17118\/revisions\/17119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}