5/13/2023 0 Comments Silent spring published![]() ![]() Rachel Carson devoted her life to the study of the natural world after falling in love with the landscapes surrounding her childhood home of Springdale, Pennsylvania. Cover of the 1962, 1st edition of Silent Spring (right). Rachel Carson as an employee for the U.S. Carson revealed to readers how pesticides, including suspected carcinogens, indiscriminately killed insects and plants, while also accumulating in water, soil, and the bodies of fish, birds, and people. Instead, Carson’s “Fable for Tomorrow”-extrapolated from four years of research-warned how excessive pesticide use ravaged birds, annihilated bees, and sickened the town’s inhabitants. Carson hooked readers by describing a fictional town where spring no longer marked the singing of birds, the buzzing of bees, or the laughter of children. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring shocked the American public when it was published in the summer of 1962. ![]()
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