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The work is dedicated "to Albert Schweitzer, who said 'Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall.'" The central metaphor is that of "a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings...Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change."  It goes on to discuss the "age of resistance" that we are now in and uses the metaphor of a chemical treadmill that can not be stopped.  The main culprits are shown to be aminotriazoles, carbamates, and DDT.  FTP, name this seminal work of environmentalism written by Rachel Carson.
The work is dedicated "to Albert Schweitzer, who said 'Man has lost the capacity to foresee and forestall.'
Silent Spring