Chemical industry spokesmen framed Carson as a threat that would regress civilization.

Evidence

Robert White-Stevens, a former spokesman for the chemical industry, depicted Carson as a crusader who would lead the world backward: “If man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects and diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth” (McLaughlin, n.d.). The National Pest Control Association waxed poetic in their disparagement (Cafaro, 2011): “Hunger, hunger, are you listening, To the words from Rachel’s pen? Words which taken at face value, Place lives of birds ’bove those of men.” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2614

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the chapter’s moral disengagement theme: the industry depicting a critic as an enemy of progress is a legitimizing/advantageous-comparison tactic against a moral challenger. — connects to: Vilification and marginality powered Carson and Maathai’s original environmental visions — Rob Nixon, Slow Violence and the Environmentalism…, 405
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2614