Silent Spring

Silent Spring is an environmental science book written by Rachel Carson and published in 1962.

It is mentioned in the Three Body Problem series. Bai Mulin shows Ye Wenjie the book. Bai explains some higher ups wanted to distribute it to select cadres for internal reference.

Silent Spring influenced Ye's life as it made her realize that pesticides had just the same impact on the environment as the Cultural Revolution.

However, Director Zhang warns Ye that the socialist authorities have evaluated the book as a piece of capitalist propaganda seeking to justify the 'corruption of the capitalist world'.