A hand-crafted book that seeks to expose corporate and governmental cover-ups of human-caused environmental disasters, while breaking the conventions of traditional book design.
For this book project, I typeset Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a book that is widely credited with exposing the dangers of DDT in the 1960s. The book is associated with the start of the environmental movement.
The publication of Silent Spring was strongly opposed by manufacturers of DDT and other chemicals. Velsicol Chemical Company threatened to take legal action against The New Yorker, Audubon Magazine, and Houghton Mifflin, all of whom were scheduled to feature Silent Springupon its release.
Representatives and lobbyists from chemical industries filed complaints. Carson even attracted the attention of the FBI. Despite this, publication of Silent Spring proceeded and ultimately helped launch an environmental movement which exposed the dangers of DDT, pesticides, and pollution.
Unearthing the truth
Human-caused damage to the environment is often concealed by those who benefit from public dis-acknowledgment. This book seeks to unearth corporate and governmental cover-ups alongside Carson. Details about cover-ups of accidents that have been deliberately concealed are pulled from hiding and revealed throughout the book.
The reader must attempt to look past the advertised messages and find the truths which lie underneath.
