> Bookchin warns of the dangers of pesticide use, and espouses an ecological and environmentalist worldview.
> Our Synthetic Environment was one of the first books of the modern period in which an author espoused an ecological and environmentalist worldview. It predates Silent Spring (1962) by Rachel Carson, a more widely known book on the same topic widely credited as starting the environmental movement.
https://libcom.org/article/our-synthetic-environment-murray-bookchin
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> ... the scientific community remained largely unmoved. More than a decade passed before Hammond and Horn finally presented the problem of the relationship between lung cancer and smoking in a form that was too compelling to be ignored. ... It should be noted that it has taken many years for an obvious link between environmental changes and the rising incidence of a major disease to gain wide acceptance among scientists. ...
http://www.revoltlib.com/anarchism/our-synthetic-environment/view.pdf
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" A large number of people are breaking down prematurely. " Murray Bookchin in 1962.
https://libcom.org/files/Bookchin%20M.%20Our%20Synthetic%20Environment.pdf
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