On this day 58 yrs ago, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring while dying of breast cancer.
@LibraryAmerica welcomed her into their pantheon with a definitive edition that also collects her letters and speeches—all revealing her extraordinary courage. I’m proud to be its editor.
There is a lot of confusion about carbon budgets and how quickly emissions need to fall to zero to meet various warming targets. To cut through some of this morass, we can use some very simple emission pathways to explore what various targets would entail. 1/11