Why is it great? Fresh from celebrating Earth Day, we’re focusing on the environment and climate change this week at Storyboard. What better than a quote from Carson, who opened many people’s eyes to the pollution of the seas decades ago. She argues that its desecration was at heart a masochist act; after all, the oceans will endure, but we, on the other hand, may not.
“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.”
—Pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson
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