Rachel Carson (1907 - 1964), a biologist and nature writer, published Silent Spring in 1962. This groundbreaking, well-documented book revealed that widespread environmental devastation was being caused by unchecked use of chemical pesticides (Carson called them "biocides") in post-WWII United States. The furor and controversy over the issues raised by Silent Spring triggered federal inquiries into the impact of pesticide use. It also gave birth to the environmental movement.
Rachel Carson's work stressed the importance of remembering that all living things are part of the same web of life. What effects one part of that web will also impact the whole. Forty-six years after the publication of Silent Spring, this is still one of the main themes of current environmental thinking.
Rachel Carson Tribute website - http://www.rachelcarson.org/
Rachel Carson in Time Magazine's Time 100: The Most Important People of the Century
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