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Silent spring ddt5/8/2023 The chemical industry’s reaction to Silent Spring was, predictably, explosive. Carson’s conclusions also suggested potential harm to humans. In the book, Carson drew attention to the damage to the environment being caused by pesticides, particularly the toxic effects of dichloro diphenyl trichloroethane (DDT) on the bird population. Selected by the Book of the Month Club and endorsed by Supreme Court Justice William O. Silent Spring was first serialised in The New Yorker in June 1962, and arrived in the bookstores later the same year. The earliest origins of green consciousness can be debated at length, but many point to the publication of naturalist Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as the key event which triggered public awareness and the beginning of environmental activism in its present form.
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