“We don’t change our minds usually based on data. We change our minds based on emotion," writer Megan Mayhew Bergman tells me on the
@mongabay.com Newscast this week as we discuss the legacy of Rachel Carson's classic, Silent Spring. Listen here:

Writer Megan Mayhew Bergman on science, emotion, and the lasting power of ‘Silent Spring’
It’s been more than half a century since the publication of Silent Spring by the scientist and creative writer Rachel Carson. The seminal volume caught the attention of U.S. presidents, artists and mu...