Environmental consciousness has grown over the past few decades but Silent Spring is the most significant ripple effect. The environmental icon of the twenty century, Rachel Carson, wrote and published Silent Spring, which was the most influential book to band DDT. The pesticide known as DDT, dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, is great at diminishing harmful insect populations. The extremely harmful effects on humans would be vomiting, tremors, and seizures. Wildlife as well experienced similar harmful effects from pesticides.
Silent Spring was published in the 1960s and during this period, the pesticide industry made well over $300,000,000 to help combat these nuisance species. Carson had received numerous death threats and slander from various chemical companies. The personal costs and risks were worth it. During her four years of writing the book, she was fighting breast cancer, the leading factor to publish the book.
After 100,000 hardcover copies sold and many interviews later, President John F. Kennedy’s Science Advisory Committee investigated her findings. Carson’s book prompted the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act in 1964 to close a loophole and create the first passage of the Toxic Substance Control Act of 1976.
Silent Spring is known in the environmental community as a ‘must read’ book. As a scientistic, I loved reading this book and recommend anyone interested in environmentalism to do the same.
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