Thanks for posting this. Carson's The Sea Around Us is some of the most grounded and powerful writing I've ever encountered.

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.

It was good to see Simon Schama's homage to Rachel Carson in the concluding episode of his short "History of Now" series. His conversation with Margaret Atwood about Carson should (IMHO) be disseminated far and wide.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0d5wfy6/simon-schamas-history-of-now-series-1-3-the-price-of-plenty

50 years ago and look where we are now...

Some still haven't got the message. At all.

https://twitter.com/LukePollard/status/1635902400169926656

Rachel Carson was an amazing lady.

I'm so glad we stopped using DDT.

It's too bad we didn't make more changes she recommended.

#RachelCarson
#WomenToKnow

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.

"Silent Spring" is very much a book still worth reading.

— 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.

@LillyHerself She’s big in Japan, interestingly, e.g. the elementary school English textbook I taught from there had a prominent section on her.

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/

we have to re-matriate our society for the planet's and our own common good.

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

one of my heroes her writing was as beautiful as it was important. The Edge Of The Sea is a wonderful book

@saiphcita pittsburgh proud! i've spent some time on the the rachel carson trail -- https://www.rachelcarsontrails.org/trails/rachel-carson-trail

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

#naturalFarming

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

She would probably be appalled at the state of the planet and the short-sighted decisions being made.

Her #book ‘Silent Spring’ inspired a social movement.
@Sheril oh thank you for sharing this!! She is one of my #hero’s!! #Hero #greatwomen #Science #climate #pittsburgh #book

My grandmother loved her, and was deeply influenced by her book. They organic gardened, before it was cool.

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.

My hero!