"The Fish and Wildlife Service has found it necessary to express serious concern over this trend..." (1)

"...but the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death."(1)

"Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful heap of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons."(4)

(paragraph 2)

"But the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death." (1)

"But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottom lands and perhaps never visited the farmers' cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence or cared" (2)

"The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power; he has made it during a moment of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the ordered world of nature still have a meaning that is deep and imperative." (4)

(Paragraph 1)

"In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only though skilled medical attention." (paragraph 3)

Bird Count data for 1941 (before DDT) to that of 1960 (the height of DDT, shortly before the publication of Silent Spring).¨ (6 table & 7)

"DDT was so harmful to birds that someday America's springs would be silent, as all the birds that might enliven them with song would be dead." (5)

populations during the DDT years. For example, a bird sanctuary that has

been counting birds over Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania since the 1930s

reported an increase in sightings of ospreys from less than 200 in 1945 to

over 600 by 1970, and an increase in sightings of migrating raptors from

9,291 in 1946 to 29,765 in 1968.¨ (9)

"In 1969, Paul Ehlrich, otherwise famous as the author of the antihumanist bible The Population Bomb, set alarm bells ringing everywhere with a screed entitled "Eco-Catastrophe" (14)

"—Winston Churchill, September 24, 1990"

(B)

seawater is only 1.2 ppb, nowhere near 500 ppb, so the scenario Wurster reported was physically impossible.¨ (13)