Silent Spring
1962 · 378 pages
Carson opens on a town where the birds have stopped singing, then lays out what pesticides do to water, soil, and human bodies. The chemical industry attacked her and the law changed.
★ 7.9
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The Lorax
1971 · 70 pages
Seuss's Once-ler chops down the Truffula trees to knit Thneeds nobody needs, and a mustachioed creature rises to speak for the trees. Loggers hated it enough to commission a rebuttal picture book.
★ 4.7