Environmentalist Authors

Title: Environmentalist Authors
Description: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring published in 1962 became one of the most influential environmental writings. The following year she was a speaker at a Senate Government Operations subcommittee hearing on the hazards of pesticide use. In her remarks, Carson argued that the problem of pesticides and other poisonous chemicals “must be resolved in our time.” Carson warned of the damage chemicals had already done to the environment and to all living things: “Contamination of various kinds has now invaded all of the physical environment that supports us — water, soil, air, and vegetation. It has even penetrated that internal environment within the bodies of animals and of men.” Silent Spring is one work within a body of literature by environmentalist authors, including Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, and others, who have increased public awareness of environmental concerns.
Creator: United Press International Photograph See all items with this value
Date: January 4, 1963 See all items with this value
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Subject: environmental authors and activists See all items with this value
Rights: fair use

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