Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring exposed the dangers of pesticides like DDT. This groundbreaking work alerted millions ...
At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...
Have you seen the Robins? Rachel Carson's mother and the tradition of women naturalists -- Don't harm the people: Ellen Swallow Richards, Dr. Alice Hamilton, and their heirs take on polluting ...
What: “The Power of One Voice” film is part of the Sustainable Community Film Series When/Where: 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Loaded Joe’s, Avon and again at 6:30 p.m. May 16th at Dusty Boot, Eagle Some know ...
That was well understood by evolutionists early on, but it took a marine biologist and talented writer, Rachel Carson, to bring the pesticide problem to public attention and, incidentally, to launch ...
—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (p. 297) The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 is widely regarded as one of the major events that launched the modern environmental movement. Silent ...
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How the atomic bomb reawakened environmentalism
A video essay on the environmentalist's use of nuclear fear to jumpstart a movement. Looking specifically at Nuclear Fallout, Paul Ehrlich's Population Bomb, and Rachel Carson's Silent Spring. Where a ...
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