Rachel Carson: Founder of the Environmental MovementBefore Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, few Americans knew what the word ecology meant or realized that deadly chemicals could threaten life. Carson was a great scientific writer whose pioneering work gave birth to the environmental consciousness we have today. |
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