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Manufacturer of DDT and another toxic defoliant, Agent Orange, hasĮxpanded its global commercial agriculture empire by claiming gene The New Yorker, remains just as relevant today. Originally telecast on the award-winning PBS series The American Experience, this documentary examines how Carson's ecological warnings made enemies and led to her writings being censored by publications that feared losing the advertising dollars of giant corporations earning millions from herbicides and insecticides. The Silent Spring, published initially in Responsibility not to interfere with nature without first consideringĪnd weighing the consequences. Those in a position of influence therefore have Carson's message is that we must appreciate theįragility of life. Manufacturers that were wholly committed to protecting their commercial The public accepted the assurances of scientists and of the pesticide As a result, surviving generations became more resilient,Ĭreating cyclic use of increasingly toxic chemicals. Pesticides led to generations of insects that were immune to the (DDT), a potent insecticide that became widely used before its toxic Her writing spoke to a Cold War generation thatĭealt with nuclear anxiety by using science to master the natural world.Ĭarson witnessed the proliferation of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane Researcher with strong ambition and a passion for the environment, wroteĪbout nature with substance, precision and immediacy.īrilliant, quietly dignified and an extreme introvert, Carson wasĮncouraged in her education and intellectual life by her highly Meet the scientist whose groundbreaking writings revolutionized our relationship to the natural world. PBS's American Experience: Rachel Carsonĭocuments the life of the writer and scientist. Published in 1962, Carson planted the seeds of fear that mankind couldĭestroy that world. Retrieved from Īll four of the books written by marine biologist Rachel CarsonĮxplained the magnificence of natural world, but in The Silent Spring,

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