Carson, Rachel Silent Spring

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 1962. Cavendish, Margaret. Poems and Fancies. Printed by William Wilson, London. 1664. 

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. Boston Houghton Mifflin Co., 1962. First described to a popular readership the ecological dangers posed by DDT. 

Carson, Rachel. Silent Spring. 1962. Reprint. New York Houghton Mifflin, 2002. A landmark examination of the impact of pesticides in agriculture, particularly DDT, and on the environment that... 

Lntts, R. H. (1985). Chemical Fallout Rachel Carson s Silent Spring, Radioactive Fallout and the Environmental Movement. Environmental Histoiy Review 9 210—225. 

Hueper and several colleagues at the NCI were instrumental in drawing public attention to the issue of carcinogens in the workplace and the general environment during the two decades following the work on bladder cancer. Hueper s work and opinions were favorably cited many times by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring. Ms. Carson wrote ... 

Environmental alarm about DDT began in 1945, and Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962. DDT accumulates in the fat deposit of animals, and becomes concentrated in the top of the food chain, such as in eagles. DDT was banned by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shortly after it was established in 1971. 

DDT is the celebrated insecticide that was widely used to control mosquitoes and malaria, and denounced by Rachel Carson in Silent Spring. Make the stmcture, and estimate its MW, m.p. and b.p., and check on the accuracy of these properties. 

No single book did more to awaken and alarm the world than Rachel Carson s Silent Spring. It makes no difference that some of the fears she expressed ten years ago have proved groundless or that here and there she may have been wrong in detail. Her case still stands, sometimes with different facts to support it. 

Taking a page from Rachel Carson s Silent Spring, scientist-activists described... 

Effects have also been observed on the environment. Rachel Carson s Silent Spring in the 1960s drew attention to effects on wildlife. Our Stolen Future (Colbom et al. 1996) created an interest in disruption of the endocrine system by chemicals, even in animals. Many cases of effects on natural animal populations can now be inferred from laboratory experiments, although confirmation in the environment is extremely difficult. For instance, organochlorinc concentrations in adult male bottlenose dolphins are approaching the levels associated with adverse effects found in marine mammals (Carballo et al. 2008), and exposures of tadpoles to a mixture of nine pesticides at environmentally occurring levels lead to developmental effects in most frogs, while none were observed when the pesticides were applied one at a time (Hayes et al. 2006). 

The publication of Rachel Carson s Silent Spring in 1962 and her description of pesticide contamination of waterways, land, and wildlife galvanized, for the first time, the American public s concern about the chemical industry. The issue was further fed by the heated response of the chemical industry when Monsanto published and distributed 5000 copies of a brochure parodying Silent Spring, which related the devastation and inconvenience of a world where famine, disease, and insects ran amok because chemical pesticides had been banned. Carson s carefully researched work was only vindicated when many eminent scientists rose to her defense, and President John F. Kennedy ordered the President s Science Advisory Committee to examine the issues the book raised (NRDC, 2004). As a result, DDT came under much closer government supervision and was eventually banned. 

Rachel Carson s Silent Spring warns of the dangers of chemicals in the environment... 

It is historically convenient to date the beginning of popular concern over the environment with the publication of Rachel Carson s Silent Spring in 1962. Although this book made no pretense at a scientific exposure of the potential dangers of pesticides, the date happily coincided with the coming of age of the analytical instrumentation needed to provide a firm scientific foundation for the unease which was expressed. 

The story of environmental cancer in the mid-twentieth century is inextricably linked with the name of Wilhelm Hueper (1894—1979). Hueper was a scientific pioneer in a field that did not fully flower until his career was at an end. Beyond that, his story epitomizes the era s struggles over environmental protection. Hueper s stubborn insistence on the dangers of modern industry made him a bete noire for chemical manufacturers even before the appearance in 1962 of Rachel Carson s Silent Spring, for which he was a principal scientific source. In the history of the industry s often successful efforts to suppress Hueper s research, one sees the sharply etched image of behavior that more often can only be glimpsed through a fog of evasions and excuses. 

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