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Rachel Carson on environmental exploitation

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Silent Spring

First published by Houghton Mifflin in 1962, Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water.

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Rachel Carson, Linda Lear, Edward O. Wilson
2002
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The Sea Around Us

Originally published in 1951, The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world.

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Rachel Carson, Sylvia Earle
2018
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Malaria and "Silent Spring" | Retro Report

In 1962, Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” highlighted the dangers of widespread use of synthetic pesticides. Decades later, rising malaria rates have led some to question whether the ban on DDT is to blame. .

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Rachel Carson
2017
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Silent Spring—I

If we are living so intimately with chemicals, we had better know something about their power.

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Rachel Carson
2017
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Rachel Carson’s Natural Histories

“The Sea Around Us” and “The Edge of the Sea” might not have the polemical force of “Silent Spring.” They share with it, though, the sense that life on earth is too complicated, and too strange, to be knowable and predictable.

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Joshua Rothman
2012
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How ‘Silent Spring’ Ignited the Environmental Movement

Though she did not set out to do so, Carson influenced the environmental movement as no one had since the 19th century’s most celebrated hermit, Henry David Thoreau, wrote about Walden Pond. “Silent Spring” presents a view of nature compromised by synthetic pesticides, especially DDT...

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Eliza Griswold
2012
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Rachel Carson | American Experience | PBS

Rachel Carson is an intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the natural world.

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Rachel Carson
2017
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Rachel Louise Carson: The One Who Shouted ‘Silent Spring’

“Man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself,” Carson once said.

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Karis Husted
2014
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