Silent Spring

You go back in time to, you're probably too young for this, Jeff, a lady by the name of Rachel Carson.

She wrote a book called Silent Spring, and she was advocating for preventing the use of DDT.

And DDT was used quite a bit in the 60s and 70s.

And they found that it was actually causing large birds' eggs to not mature properly.

That's right.

And many people say it was all the result of one woman, Rachel Carson, and her book that she produced called Silent Spring.

She noticed that none of these birds were coming back for spring migration and kind of started to sound the alarms and The whole story of DDT and how it was banned and the people that did it is quite fascinating.

It was a very small group of people that faced challenges everywhere they went for many years and were often laughed out of court, but they just kept going.

There's no supplements that were used during that time, during that experiment.

so taking something to remove chemicals or finding out how they're getting in is really important because you could do a double whammy right lower your exposure while taking things to help get them out it's a really great quote by rachel carlson or carson in silent spring and she says nothing in nature exists alone and this is true everything in our body works in systems and our detox pathways our organs they all adapt to the environment they work together there's a synergy to all this and when she wrote that silent spring she was talking about the connections and ecosystems and the ecosystem i want to explore in this episode is our internal ecosystem in response to the external ecosystem that's the things we eat the things we store in our bodies how we cook what we breathe in they all intersect in the body that we're living in so this ecosystem both internal and external kind of really just shows us that in nature, nothing exists alone.

Everything is connected.

And this is one of the things doctors just don't realize is that you can't just be a knee doctor, right? You can, but the human body is connected.

But what they did is they appropriated the language and the moral absolutism of the civil rights movement and put it in the environmental movement.

Of course, in 1962 is the publication of what I've said elsewhere is the most important book of the post-war period, which was Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

And that was the germ seed of the ideology that was then taken up by these white liberal boomers, which I think explains why your friend got so upset with you when you put a question mark over all of this.

Then they made a prediction.

She was an American world-renowned marine biologist and author and conservationist.

Her probably most famous book, Silent Spring, is credited with advancing global environmental movement.

So this quote is from 1952, I believe.

I really liked how Carson reframes the sentiment on environmentalism and conservation.

And that deepening, you know, deepening our genuine curiosity comes, you know, cures that destructive impulse.

So this is, it definitely had a, I was reading a lot of quotes saying this one really had a, I had a real reaction to, and that's why I'm using it today.

Yeah, but I have to say that some of the things she concludes in her book Silent Spring— Oh, I

didn't read it.

And also, I got radicalized by reading books about the environment.

Silent Spring is an important book to me.

It was written in 1963 by Rachel Carson, and she spoke about pesticides and so on.

So sorry to go off the rails here, but you see, it started to tap into my mind.