"The neat causality of rational choice ontology, always at odds with quantum physics, was further jumbled by the environmental crisis, exposed by Rachel Carson’

"The neat causality of rational choice ontology, always at odds with quantum physics, was further jumbled by the environmental crisis, exposed by Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “The Silent Spring,” which revealed that the causal effects of human actions were much more complex, and so less predicable, than previously thought." Shades of the great postmodern philosopher Alan Sokal ( http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/ http://www.physics.nyu.edu/sokal/ ).