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With disturbing news from the front, Nature Wars sounds the alarm against our dangerous tactics for controlling the pests that are an annoying but integral part of our world.
Thirty-five years after Silent Spring woke us to the devastation wrought by DDT, chemical pesticides are as pervasive as ever, deployed at a rate of 4 pounds a year for every man, woman, and child in this country. This ongoing commitment to pesticides, Mark Winston argues, reflects our sense of place in nature: embattled, beleaguered, driven to aggression.
His book, as sensible as it is wise, seeks to change this mindset, to show how a more measured and discriminating approach to pests, one based on management rather than eradication, might serve us and the natural world far better than our ill-fated all-out war. Winston backs up this approach with a full battery of case studies that take us from lawns and kitchens to farms and orchards, from insects and weeds to rats and coyotes.
A compelling book about ethics and choices, Nature Wars shows us the difference between protecting ourselves from real pests and poisoning ourselves and the planet.
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Environmental aspects of Pesticides, Biological control, Nature, Environmental aspects, Christian life, Effect of human beings on, Pesticides, Insect pests, Pests, control, Human-animal relationships, Human-plant relationships, Pesticides, environmental aspects, Insect pests, biological control, Nature, effect of human beings on, Large type booksShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Nature Wars: People vs. Pests
September 1, 1999, Harvard University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-197) and index.
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