[BwanaNdege]

Then “The Limits to Growth” was published while I was in school and it’s never been the same.

And "The Population Bomb", etc.

Earlier generations were terrified by Rachael Carson's "Silent Spring" or humiliated by Michael Harrington's The Other America (1962)

The Other America

Then Ron Sider published "Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger" in 1978. ...

(An interesting, if sometimes controversial, counterpoint is "Productive Christains in an Age of Guilt Manipulators: A Biblical Response to Ronald J. Sider" by David Chilton.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I forgot “Silent Spring.” We read that in High School in ‘68 or ‘69! So even a Missouri high school near St. Louis was starting down the indoctrination path then.

I must confess it is nice having bald eagles back. We saw 400 of them on a Lake Coeur d’Alene Eagle Cruise at Christmas time. I don’t know if there was anything to the DDT scare, but the eagles are definitely back. We have some in our neighborhood by the lake, too.

[kaehurowing]

They used “The Silent Spring” to scare the crap out of us in elementary school. I frankly thought the earth would be destroyed by now. By the 1990s in fact.