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diff --git a/chapter4.md b/chapter4.md index 70eea82..e008ed1 100644 --- a/chapter4.md +++ b/chapter4.md @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ public, is necessarily presented in the format of laboratory reports, maximising their utilisation of technical jargon in order to avoid under-qualified persons from understanding their contents. Carson had no PhD, no academic institution, and no network of scientific colleagues to back her -up. [@silent-spring, Afterword] +up. [@silent-spring, pp. 122-124] To fight the chemical lobby, Carson had to adopt minority epistemology. So, alongside her considerable arsenal of traditional scientific facts, she @@ -148,22 +148,22 @@ attempt to fit them into clearly-defined quantifiable metrics, in the scientific style favoured by the chemical industry. One memorable example was her report that parathion poisoning had been known to induce serious illness not only in those exposed directly, but also to the physicians who treated -them, and even the hospital staff who washed their clothes. \[PAGE NUMBERS\] +them, and even the hospital staff who washed their clothes. [@silent-spring, p. 27] Like St. John, she was also forced to undermine the chemical industry's majority epistemology. In _Silent Spring_, she showed how the chemical -industry funded the same science which enabled its profits \[CITE\]. She +industry funded the same science which enabled its profits. She undermined their conceptual frameworks, arguing that the use of words like 'pesticide' and 'insecticide' function to mask the truth that the chemicals involved are in fact poisons (and in some cases were originally developed by military scientists for the purpose of deliberately injuring and killing human -beings) \[CITE\]. And she showed how the chemical lobby used science to dismiss +beings). And she showed how the chemical lobby used science to dismiss valid first-hand experiences and impose their solutions on people against their interests and expressed desires. For instance, she told the story of Joseph -Sweeny Todd, a \[WHO\] in Ohio, who, in opting for a targeted approach to +Sweeny, a forestry official in Ohio, who, in opting for a targeted approach to containing dutch elm disease rather than blanket poisoning, had to go against the advice of the chemical companies, the universities, and the US Department -of Agriculture. \[CITE\] +of Agriculture [@silent-spring, p. 57]. More recently, Sunita Narain, a veteran of India's environmental regulator, the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), has written about the CSE's attempts @@ -280,9 +280,3 @@ horizon' [@ajl-gnd, p. 95]. Or, as utopia scholar Lisa Garforth puts it: > unsettling postnatural philosophies. Where the former works around > modifications of and continuities with business as usual, the latter imagines > a break – in culture, politics and modes of subjectivity. [@green-utopias, p. 153] - -### TODO - -- Cite page numbers / find quotations from _Silent Spring_ -- Read all about the Green New Deal and incorporate evidence - - https://theconversation.com/the-green-new-deal-is-already-changing-the-terms-of-the-climate-action-debate-112144 |