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Silent Spring (1962) is the most enduring work of nonfiction by Rachel Carson (1907–1964), the noted American marine biologist and groundbreaking environmentalist. In this book, Carson made a passionate argument for protecting the environment from manmade pesticides. Written with grace as well as passion, it’s an indictment of the pesticide industry that arose in the late 1950s. It lays out a disturbing view of the damage these chemicals can cause to birds, bees, wildlife, and plant life. Rachel Carson’s official website recognizes how prescient she was: “ Silent Springinspired the modern environmental movement, which began in earnest a decade later. It is recognized as the environmental text that changed the world.” From this site’s biography of Rachel Carson: “The public’s growing awareness of the dangers of chemicals created a natural readership for Silent Spring, serialized in The New Yorkerbeginning June 16, 1962, and published as a book on September 27, 1962. Silent Springsold more than 100,000 copies in the first week and was on the bestseller list by Christmas. By now it has sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than twenty languages.” . . . . . . . . Learn more about Rachel Carson . . . . . . . . Carson was subject to backlash and attacks from the pesticide industry, which conspired to discredit her.A 2012 article in Yale Environment 360 titled “Fifty Years After Silent Spring, Attacks on Science Continue” observed: “When Silent Sprin...

In Silent Spring, a book that is often viewed as a landmark work of environmental writing, Rachel Carson turns her attentions to the potentially harmful effects of pesticides on the environment – particularly those pesticides, including DDT, that were being administered via aerial spraying in an attempt to control insect populations on a massive scale. In many ways, Silent Spring served as a public warning, gathering expert opinion on the dangers of this increasingly destructive practice. In addition to the actual accounts of contamination that she describes, Carson’s book also contains an overarching argument about the proper relationship between man and nature that contributed to the growth of the “deep ecology” movement regarding the interconnectedness of all living things and systems. After a parable that begins the book by envisioning a future in which silence reigns over the world after pesticides have wrought their ultimate destruction on the environment, Carson lays out her basic thesis. In an interconnected world, she argues, man’s newfound power to change his environment needs to be wielded with extreme caution if we are to avoid destroying the very systems that support us. To begin her project of public education, Carson outlines the major families of pesticides in use, referring to them as “biocides” since their effects are actually not specific to insects. Having laid out her basic conceptual framework and identified the chemicals in question, Carson breaks do...

'No informed person now would seriously advocate deploying pesticides or ­herbicides or any other chemical agent in the wholesale manner of the 1940s and 50s.' Photograph: Andy Sacks/Getty Images 'No informed person now would seriously advocate deploying pesticides or ­herbicides or any other chemical agent in the wholesale manner of the 1940s and 50s.' Photograph: Andy Sacks/Getty Images In my 2009 novel, The Year of the Flood – set in that always-available patch of real estate, the Near Future – Of course many people think she's a saint anyway, but in this book it's official. The God's Gardeners – members of a fictional cult that reveres both nature and scripture – needed some saints. The Gardeners would choose them for their devotion to the divine natural world, and their saintly deeds could range from the writing of creature-friendly poetry – like that of Saint Robert Burns of Mice – to the saving of a species, like the efforts of Saint Diane Fosse of the mountain gorillas. But my first choice was Rachel Carson. She fully deserved beatification, and now she has it: in the God's Gardeners hagiography, she is Saint Rachel of All ❦ This year marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's momentous book, Silent Spring, considered by many Silent Spring – which she already knew would be her last tilt at the windmill – she polished all her rhetorical weapons, and synthesised a wide range of research. She was able to combine a simple and dramatic presentation...

Experiments conducted during World War II gave rise to the chemical pesticide industries. As a result of the widespread use of these pesticides, widespread destruction has been wreaked upon the earth, the atmosphere, the water, and all the inhabitants thereof, including man. Rachel Louise Carson’s Silent Spring is the story of that destruction. Carson, a trained biologist and a member of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries (now the Fish and Wildlife Service) from 1936 to 1952, was well equipped to write the story that she knew had to be told. She had been concerned about the use of pesticides since the 1940’s, at which time she tried to interest the editors of a magazine in an article on the effects of DDT. She was aware of the intense dissatisfaction and controversy over the Department of Agriculture’s program to eradicate the fire ant in the South. She had followed with interest court cases in which citizens struggled to protect their environment—for example, the Long Island case in which the plaintiffs sued to prevent the spraying of their lands with DDT to control the gypsy moth. In the decade prior to the publication of Silent Spring, Carson had realized that an undercurrent of distrust regarding federal and state pest-eradication programs was gaining momentum. Finally, Carson received a letter from a close friend, Olga Huckins, who was outraged that spray airplanes had destroyed a private bird sanctuary on her property in Duxbury, Massachusetts. At that point, Carson became...

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Her main point of emphasis is that pesticides are not limited to the intended use—they are indiscriminate in their deleterious effects and can harm a wide array of species. The main purpose is to elucidate the idea that humans can be negatively impacted by the use of such pesticides—even potentially lethally, in addition to the harm the present to the environment. Rachel Carson's main idea in Silent Spring is that pesticides sprayed on crops work their way up the food chain to ultimately have a negative effect on human beings. This seems like a commonplace idea now, but in the early 1960s, when the book appeared, it was a radical concept, supported by state-of-the-art scientific studies. Carson argued that pesticides impact the entire food chain: birds eat insects that have ingested pesticides, and eventually this could result in the silent spring of the title, in which no birds sing because they have all been killed off by pesticides. To make her argument more powerful, Carson likened pesticides to radiation: at this time the longterm effects of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were being studied. Carson noted that both radiation and pesticide poisoning are invisible and that in both cases the results would show for many years. Carson's book was effective in launching environmental awareness in the U.S. Rachel Louise Carson (1907 – 1964) was a marine biologist who early in her scientific career demonstrated a flair for writing and, especially for showing in c...

It is very fitting that this particular question is asked during the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this Thursday. Carson's work helped to initiate the environmental awareness movement that has been an integral part of America for the last forty years. Carson was ahead of her time in her assertion that there is a natural link between ecosystems and that there is a balance in which different organisms play roles in this web of interdependence. Human beings cannot presume any sort of separate condition or role outside of this context, but rather must seek to find solutions within it and ones that help to enhance the delicate balance of llfe. Carson's work is a landmark of the American environmental movement and a way of thought that is highlighted in the modern setting, but one that acquires greater meaning and significance this week. I would add to the answers above that because Carson's work eventually led to an almost complete global banof DDT's use, we are still effected by it today. While brought attention to environmental issues, it also demonstrates how powerful environmental agencies can become. For example, because DDT is banned, the U.S. which sends a tremendous amount of aid to African each year to try to prevent malaria cannot encourage or provide funding for the use of DDT sprays which are far more effective at preventing malaria than the flimsy nets that we offer impoverished Africans instead. Since Carson's book was first published, several studies have shown t...

There seems to be a lot of emphasis on writing reviews for books that are newly released, or about to be released. That is not my goal here. My goal is to tell you about books that hold importance in our lives, whether it is health related, or other important information that we should all know, regardless of when the book was written. In this case, the book Sadly, I had never heard of Rachel Carson until one day, while I was arguing (ahem, having a discussion) with a county employee about my right to know about their public herbicide spraying, and their right to collect a paycheck for spraying my road with herbicides (long story for another time). It was when he made a joke about me and how I’m “going to be the next Rachel Carson” that stopped me in my tracks. Why didn’t I know who this Rachel Carson was that he was referring to, and why was it funny to him to compare me to her? (Keep in mind I took a conservation biology course in college, and still I had never heard of Rachel Carson. Pathetic.) I went on a rampage, and after reading her book It is not funny to recognize an issue in our society, culture, and attitudes, that will ultimately lead us down the road of potential cancer, infertility, and collective suicide. Not funny at all. We all have to die of something you say? I say I disagree. I can choose to avoid dying a horrible and physically painful death, while my family suffers emotionally. I can choose to extend my life via the scientific knowledge that is alread...