Silent Spring Carson

Since the 1962 publication of the book Silent Spring (Carson, 1962), describing health problems in the environment and linking them to the environmental use of chemicals such as pesticides, there have been a growing focus on the long-term effects of the chemicals by which we are surrounded. One outcome of this concern has been the... 

R. L. Carson, Silent Spring, Houghton-Mifflin Co., Boston, Mass., 1962, p. 368. 

Carson, R. (1962). Silent Spring. Boston Fawcett Crest. 

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

Muller s invention launched both the synthetic pesticide industry that exploited his discovery and the environmental movement that opposed its use. Yet Paul Muller, a shy and determined nature lover, shared many of the same reservations about using DDT in the environment that Rachel Carson popularized in her best seller, Silent Spring, 14 years later. In the 1990s, three decades after DDT was banned in most of the industrialized world, international health workers revived the debate over its use. DDT is a cheap and effective insecticide against malaria, which kills nearly three million people annually, most of them young children and pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa. 

Carson R. Silent Spring. Boston Houghton Mifflin, 1962. 368 pp. 

Rachel Carson s book Silent Spring that was published in 1962, was the first popular work to bring the uncontrolled environmental contamination by pesticides to public attention. Well-publicized and well-organized campaigns were mounted in several countries to prohibit the use of DDT and other persistent chlorinated insecticides such as Aldrin and heptachlor. Governments in many developed countries like USA,... 

The publication of Silent Spring (authored by Rachel Carson), which outlined many environmental problems associated with chlorinated pesticides, caused a ban on the use of DDT in 1972. 

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