# How environmentalists lost the plot

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Podcast: [The Argument](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-argument-7510944)
Published: 2026-06-11T07:00:00+00:00
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Is modern environmentalism anti-progress? This week, Jerusalem Demsas and Matthew Yglesias read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring – the book that launched the modern environmental movement. Jerusalem and Matt find themselves surprised by what's actually in it. Is it a visionary scientific critique or a romantic backlash against modernity? And did Carson's legacy help or hurt the cause she championed? Plus: new research on whether leaving the workforce accelerates cognitive decline and what that m...

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