m E.B. White who seems to give some hope by considering that the race still has the choice to adopt a line of action less destructive: "We would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively instead of skeptically and dictatorially." The text itself cannot be assessed only in the context of its publication in the early 1960s. Otherwise, one might argue that the book did its job because DDT, the major focus of the book, was exposed by Carson and largely if not entirely eliminated as a source of environmental toxin affecting the entire food chain. The problem with pollution and destruction of the environment is that it keeps changing faces and methods of attack. What was once believed safe and beneficial--such as DD
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