At the time, pesticides like DDT were seen as offering a glimpse of a better future, one where humans could control nature. DDT in particular promised to combat insects that carried diseases or ...
The reception of Silent Spring: an introduction / Craig Waddell -- Chemical fallout: Silent Spring, radioactive fallout, and the environmental movement / Ralph H. Lutts -- An inventional archaeology ...
—Rachel Carson, Silent Spring (p. 297) The publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962 is widely regarded as one of the major events that launched the modern environmental movement. Silent ...
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How the atomic bomb reawakened environmentalism
A video essay on the environmentalist's use of nuclear fear to jumpstart a movement. Looking specifically at Nuclear Fallout, ...
The Cronkite article (Nov. 11), “The human toll of Yuma’s vegetable empire,” reminded me of the expression, “the more things change, the more they stay the same.” Farmland of Yuma is being sprayed ...
Rekindle Your Sense of Wonder, Celebrate 50 Years of Action for The Environment on May 2 and 3. The Willi Unsoeld Seminar and Rachel Carson Forum Present A Sense of Wonder: A Play Based on the Life ...
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