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  1. en.wikipedia.org

    Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. [1] Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used by soldiers during World War II. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly.
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  3. e360.yale.edu

    Any time a writer mentions Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring or the subsequent U.S. ban on DDT, the loonies come out of the woodwork. They blame Carson's book for ending the use of DDT as a mosquito-killing pesticide. And because mosquitoes transmit malaria, that supposedly makes her culpable for just about every malaria death of the past half century.
  4. britannica.com

    Dec 27, 2024Although Rachel Carson died in 1964, Silent Spring remained influential far beyond her lifetime. It was persuasive in campaigns against the use of DDT, which was banned in the United States in 1972 and internationally in 2004 except when used for the control of malaria-causing mosquitoes.The book also provided a model of radical environmental activism that questioned prevailing attitudes about ...
  5. Learn how Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, published in 1962, exposed the dangers of pesticides and sparked the modern environmental movement. Explore the legacy of her scientific perspective and writing style in the chemistry community and beyond.
  6. retroreport.org

    RACHEL CARSON: Man is part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. NARRATION: To Carson, that war was exemplified by the growing use of DDT — a potent synthetic insecticide that was so revered for its ability to kill malaria-carrying mosquitoes during World War II, that its discovery led to a Nobel Prize.
  7. wp.silentspring.org

    Rachel Carson was a pioneering scientist, writer, and advocate who changed the way Americans think about the environment and human health. ... control insects, but they also served as exciting evidence of record advancements in science. One such pesticide, DDT, had even protected American troops during World War II by killing malaria-causing ...
  8. sciencehistory.org

    Rachel Carson's publication of Silent Spring set the tone for the 1960s, ... Although DDT was popularly viewed as a miracle of modern technology—especially because it had been successfully used in World War II to kill fleas, mosquitoes, and other insects that can spread deadly diseases like malaria—biologists had begun to compile evidence ...
  9. womenshistory.si.edu

    Silent Spring was, without a doubt, Carson's most controversial of the four books she wrote during her lifetime.Makers and users of pesticides like DDT spoke out against Carson's research. But the Presidential Science Advisory Committee conducted a study in 1963 that supported her findings.

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    Book by Rachel Carson about pesticides harming the environment.

    Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of DDT, a pesticide used by soldiers during World War II. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly. In the late 1950s, Carson began to work on environmental conservation, especially environmental problems that she believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. The result of her research was Silent Spring, which brought environmental concerns to the American public. The book was met with fierce opposition by chemical companies, but it swayed public opinion and led to a reversal in US pesticide policy, a nationwide ban on DDT for agricultural uses, and an environmental movement that led to the creation of the US Environmental Protection Agency. Wikipedia

    AuthorRachel Carson
    SubjectsPesticides, ecology, environmentalism
    PublishedSeptember 27, 1962 (Houghton Mifflin)
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