The Serviceberry: Native American Ecology and the End of Carbon Capitalism

The Serviceberry: Native American Ecology and the End of Carbon Capitalism

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – No one wrote more powerfully about humans’ poisoning the Earth and its consequences than biologist Rachel Carson–with a focus on one contaminant, the pesticide DDT.  She traced its toxicity through the food chain of nature and the loss of beneficial insects and birds, and then warned of the ultimate destruction of the natural world.  Other environmental writers of the time were perplexed…