Professional Entomology and the 44 Noisy Years SinceSilent SpringPart 2: Response toSilent Spring

Abstract

posed the query, "If Silent Spring is not a scientific book, then one may fairly ask of what interest it is to ecologists and why it is being reviewed in Ecology." He continued, When it can be pointed out that economic entomologists, whose proper concern is with insects that affect crops, medical entomologists, whose proper concern is with insects that affect man, and agricultural scientists, whose proper concern is with anything that affects agricultural production, have been making decisions about the treatment with poisonous chemicals of millions of acres of the land on which man depends, it may be properly asked, where were the ecologists, whose proper concern is with the environment in which we live? Ought they not to have a voice in these decisions?