As a teenager, the future vice president and his sister read and talked about Silent Spring. A happy and vivid memory, Al Gore recalled. Rachel Carson's picture hangs in his office and her example inspired Gore to write Earth in the Balance.{2} It is one of the most extraordinary books by any democratic politician seeking high elective office, for it constitutes an attack on Western civilisation and a fundamental rejection of two of its greatest accomplishments – the Industrial and Scientific Revolutions.
( Rupert Darwall )
[ The Age of Global Warming: A ]
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