Kickass and Silent Spring

Kickass, the doorstop dog, reports that the keeper’s solution to being totally incapable of understanding most of what occurs on planet Earth was a misguided attempt to read Neil DeGrasse Tyson’s “Astrophysics For People in a Hurry,”

From the opening paragraph specifying that 14 billion years ago the entire universe was one-trillionth the size of the period “that ends this sentence” to the evasiveness of “dark matter,” the keeper was in so far over his head that there was a defensive yearning to read something he has a remote chance of conceptualizing, perhaps political commentary on how human greed and ignorance killed the Earth.

Rachel Carson”s “Silent Spring” would seem like a place to start: “There was a strange silence.  The birds, for example–where had they gone?”