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Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

Kath Dalmeny explores Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, a book that examines how that fish is today faced with extinction.

'Silent Spring', written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962, is widely credited with having launched the environmental movement. Serialised in The New Yorker, it caused a furore. The first chapter presents a fictionalised portrait of the devastating effects that chemicals could have on a thriving farming community "Some evil spell had settled on the community; mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everywhere was a shadow of death."?
But what has been happening to environmental thinking since Silent Spring?

Here, five key figures in the world of environmentalism deliver essays on Silent Spring and some of the important works that followed it.

In episode four, Policy Director of Sustain, Kath Dalmeny explores 'Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World', a book that examines how the most profitable fish in history is today faced with extinction.

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Thu 20 Sep 2012 22:45

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