RACHEL CARSON:May 27, 1907- April 14, 1964
Born on May 27, 1907, Carson Grew up in a town in Pennsylvania. She always loved nature and the world around her thanks to her mother who encouraged her to do so. After graduating from Pennsylvania College in 1929 she recieved her Masters in Zoology. After being hired by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries to write scripts during the Depression, She began a career as a scientist and editor. She also became the Editor-in-Chief for everything at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
She published a prize winning book in 1952 called Under the Sea-Wind, then Sea Around Us, and then The Edge of the Sea. After finding out about pesticides that were used in World War II, She began he next book called Silent Spring.
She died of Breast Cancer on APRIL 14, 1964.
Silent Spring was inspired by Rachel Carson after she found out about the pesticides that were being used in World War II. It facilitated the ban of pesticides in the United States in 1972. This book is accredited for launching the Environmental movement. After hitting the New York Times List and the Book of the Month List, this novel became a hit everywhere. The argument of the book is pesticides that were uncontrolled and unexamined were harming the natural areas around us including the animals, and even us. The title is catching because it implys that when spring comes around there will be no noise because everything will not exist. After her book came out, there were so many threats and lawsuit against her. Everyone was pestering her because of how she was voicing her own opinion. Her biggest fear was the pesticide DDT. Critics have attacked her teachings and said that when restrictions were placed on DDT it caused deaths that were needless. Silent Spring got an honorable mention in Human Events magazine for being one of the ten most harmful books of the 19th and 20th centuries.
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