With the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion, Douglas Brinkley’s meticulously researched and deftly written Silent Spring Revolution reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin. Carson began her career as an aquatic biologist in the U.S. In intimate detail, Brinkley extrapolates on such epic events as the Donora (Pennsylvania) smog incident, JFK’s Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Great Lakes preservation, the Santa Barbara oil spill, and the first Earth Day. Rachel Louise Carson ( April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, writer, and conservationist whose influential book Silent Spring (1962) and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. The exposé launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964), the Clean Air Acts (19), and the Endangered Species Acts (1966, 1969, and 1973).

Even though chemical pollutants had been documented before, it is thanks to Silent Spring that they gained widespread recognition.

The author, Rachel Carson, has been credited as the mother of the environmental movement. Carson’s book Silent Spring, published in 1962, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures. Silent Spring, first published in 1962, celebrated fifty years in 2012 with a republishing by Mariner Books. Douglas, a Supreme Court justice Cesar Chavez, a labor organizer and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. On June 4, 1963, less than a year after the controversial environmental classic Silent Spring was published, its author, Rachel Carson, testified before a Senate subcommittee on pesticides. In Silent Spring Revolution, Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson, a marine biologist and author David Brower, director of the Sierra Club Barry Commoner, an environmental justice advocate Coretta Scott King, an anti-nuclear activist Stewart Udall, the secretary of the interior William O.

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