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Silent Spring

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was once first published in three serialized excerpts in the New Yorker in June of 1962. The book gave the impression in September of that year and the outcry that followed its publication forced the banning of DDT and spurred revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Carson’s passionate concern for the way forward for our planet reverberated powerfully right through the world, and her eloquent book was once instrumental in launching the environmental movement. It is without question one of the crucial landmark books of the twentieth century.  

Silent Spring, released in 1962, offered the first shattering have a look at widespread ecological degradation and touched off an environmental awareness that still exists. Rachel Carson’s book focused on the poisons from insecticides, weed killers, and other common products in addition to using sprays in agriculture, a practice that led to dangerous chemicals to the food source. Carson argued that those chemicals were more dangerous than radiation and that for the first time in history, humans were exposed to chemicals that stayed in their systems from birth to death. Presented with thorough documentation, the book opened quite a lot of eyes about the dangers of the up to date world and stands today as a landmark work.

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