Rachel Carson was born in 1907. She became a marine biologist & prolific writer.
Carson questioned the assumption that humans should dominate #nature. She recognized the dangers to natural systems from the misuse of pesticides like DDT. She also accused the chemical industry of spreading lies & politicians of accepting industry claims uncritically.
Her 1962 book, Silent Spring, is widely credited as being the catalyst for the modern environmental movement. #history #science #HistoryRemix
read her book when I was a teen. She started me on a journey that started with environmental awareness and over the years has broadened to working in community with people and the broader ecosystem.
I recommend this book to every single nature lover, environmentalist & lifelong learners. It's one of the books that has been a huge influence in my naturalist & activist lives.
sadly, horribly her warnings, except for the initial shock went mostly unheeded, like the climate change and extinction. The politicians listened to the businesses, not scientists. Nothing significant has been done.
— She was certainly the single most effective catalyst, thanks in no small part to the impressive list of scientists, publishers & politicians who stepped forward to support her when she came under fire. (Half her gift was her networking; no one else could have matched it, & thank heaven she was there to provide it!) But there was a lot of other stuff boiling up too at that time, other things changing the public’s view of “nature” & “scientific progress”. It all worked together.
Rachel Carson is a much better role model for environmental and wildlife activists than Aldo Leopold, the founder of the pseudoscience of game management. Carson regarded Leopold as "a completely brutal man.” https://foranimals.org/blog/2019/04/22/brutality-of-aldo-leopold/
This 1962 CBS documentary on Silent Spring interviews Rachel Carson and her supporters and detractors, Monsanto among them. She died 18 months later and DDT was not banned for another decade. https://youtu.be/kVxMuQgRuzs
A CBS Documentary on the controversy surrounding the publication in 1962 of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. Starting in the late 1950s, prior to the book's p...
Still have a copy of Silent Spring printed in 1970. Chapter 2 titled The Obligation To Endure quoted from Jean Rostand - "The obligation to endure gives us the right to know." Yep
The system is based on the recognition of the complexity of living organisms that shape an ecosystem and deliberately exploiting it. Fukuoka saw farming not just as a means of producing food but as an aesthetic and spiritual approach to life, the ultimate goal of which was "the cultivation and perfection of human beings".
This makes me think of my MLA @josie_osborne who is a Marine Biologist by trade. She is now a successful politician and is Minister of Energy Mines and Low Carbon Innovation and I know that every day she tries to bring her expertise and knowledge of the real impact we have on the environment into her work in government. I also know that the forces arrayed against her, practically and subconsciously, are gigantic.
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Simon Schama's History of Now - Series 1: 3. The Price of Plenty
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It's too bad we didn't make more changes she recommended.
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •She died 18 months later and DDT was not banned for another decade.
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Silent Spring Documentary
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in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The system is based on the recognition of the complexity of living organisms that shape an ecosystem and deliberately exploiting it. Fukuoka saw farming not just as a means of producing food but as an aesthetic and spiritual approach to life, the ultimate goal of which was "the cultivation and perfection of human beings".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
Japanese farmer and philosopher
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