Carson, whose famous book "The Silent Spring" ignited the seeds of the green movement around the world and motivated governments to limit the use of pesticides, combined her love of writing and her love for the living world thanks to one good biology teacher
"Although all the new, highly imaginative and creative approaches to the problem of sharing the earth with other creatures is heard over and over again, the awareness that we are dealing with life and living populations and all the pressures and recurring pressures, their prosperity and retreat. Only by taking these life forces into account and by looking for a way to guide them and channel them to our advantage can we hope to achieve a reasonable balance between the insect herds and us."
This sentence was written by Rachel Louise Carson about fifty years before the bees suddenly started disappearing by the millions due to hive collapse syndrome.
The American marine biologist, writer and naturalist Rachel Louise Carson is famous for establishing a global environmental movement thanks to her writing. She is considered one of the most influential people of the 20th century.
Carson was born on May 27, 1907 on a small family farm near Springdale, Pennsylvania. Rachel was the youngest of three children. As a child she liked to spend a lot of time in the woods and streams near her farm, and developed a great love for nature. She became a writer and published her first story at age 11 in St. Nicholas Magazine.
Carson attended elementary school in Springdale and then completed her high school studies in the nearby city of Parnassus, Pennsylvania, and when she graduated in 1925, she was the top of her class of 44 students. In the same year, she entered Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) majoring in English with the goal of becoming a writer, but thanks to a good biology teacher at the college, she transferred her specialization to this science.
After graduating, she took advantage of a scholarship she received to study a summer course at the Marine Biology Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. There she fell in love with the ocean, which later became the subject of several of her bestsellers. She transferred to Johns Hopkins University on a scholarship she received after graduating from Pennsylvania College) and completed her master's degree in marine zoology while serving as a teaching assistant and part-time biology instructor at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland.
Carson's excellence in both writing and biology earned her a part-time job with the U.S. Department of Fisheries in 1935, a temporary job writing radio scripts on marine biology. Her articles were published regularly in the Baltimore Sun and newspapers that were syndication partners with it. Between 1936-1952 she began working full-time at the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), where she held several positions that helped her hone her skills as a writer and editor. Finally, she was appointed editor-in-chief of the information division.
Carson published her first book in 1941: "Underwater Spirit" a picture of ocean life through the eyes of a nature lover. Her second book "The Sea Around Us" was published in 1951 and explored the geological aspects and the origin of the oceans. The book won the National Book Award, after selling over 200 copies.
In 1955 with the completion of the book "The Edge of the Sea" Carson began to focus on the growing concern of the effect of chemicals and pesticides on the environment. Her last and perhaps most famous book "The Silent Spring" was published in 1956. It awakened society to concern for other forms of life.
Carson was concerned about the use of synthetic chemical fertilizers after World War II. It changed its focus in order to warn the public about the long-term effects of pesticide abuse. In the book Haviv Doman, published in 1962, she challenged the practices of agricultural scientists and governments and called for a change in the way the human race sees the natural world.
Carson was attacked by the chemical industry and some government officials as an alarmist (remember something?), but she bravely came out to remind us all that we are the vulnerable part of the natural world and we are just as damaged as the rest of the ecosystem.
In an article for the 50th anniversary of the book "The Silent Spring" Dr. Assaf Rosenthal wrote on the Hidan website: "The author (Rachel Carson) presented a dead environment due to the use of insecticides and herbicides (especially DDT), rivers without fish, forests without butterflies and birds, toxic soils and above all harm to people. Without bias and without fear, Carson explained to the American public and the entire world the environmental damage caused by the toxic pesticides that for many days penetrated all living systems and harmed everyone, including people.
The book that immediately became a bestseller caused a shock among the reading public. Companies that were engaged in the production of toxic pesticides tried to present it as vanity and ignore the necessary conclusions. Politicians who were trying to be popular with their constituents led to a "presidential survey" of the poisons, a survey that immediately resulted in the amendment of about forty regulations that regulate the production and use of insecticides and herbicides.
When she testified before Congress in 1963, Carson called for new policies aimed at protecting human health and the environment. Carson died in 1964 after a long battle with breast cancer. Her testimony to the beauty and perfection of life continues to inspire new generations of defenders of the living world and all its creatures.
A statue is placed in a national park in Maryland.
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asherpat
Beautiful. not surprising.
What about curing cancer with orange juice?
Miracles,
Of course, every unbeliever is mainly a "fool", an "idiot" or a "tycoon", and the messenger of the Koch brothers, not on us.
your side Miracles, of the losing watermelons, cold reality slaps you in the face and you are in a panic - could it be that all your faith is wrong, made up, as the "dumb" says about "JUNK SCIENCE"? After all, there has been no warming in the last 17 years (not that there has been any noticeable warming in the last 150 years (no, miracles, warming of less than one degree is not warming but thermal - how can you measure warming of less than XNUMX/XNUMX% is not measurable for a serious person) And sorry for you, you are thrown from one ridiculous explanation to another crazy theory - THE MISSING HEAT in the ocean (THE "DOG ATE MY GLOBAL WARMING" THEORY) or, there was and will be no stopping of warming (Who are you gonna believe? Me or your lying eyes!?) Ah, miracles?!
asherpat
And again - what research are you basing your opinion on? And the idiot's delusional book that you are excited about is not research - even the idiot says that!!!
The facts are as I said - and I will repeat them again and again and again until you show me that I am wrong:
1) DDT spraying is not prohibited in the fight against malaria.
2) In places that stopped spraying with DDT, the reason was that the mosquitoes developed a tolerance -DDT, as Mrs. Carson warned!!!
Maybe answer my questions instead of digging further? You stated your position, you clarified that it is based on a book by a known moron.
Do you have anything real to say, other than slandering a wonderful man?
Miracles, once again you are impaling yourself, and more so in the first sentence!
This is what you are asking: "Which of the following do you believe in:"
That's exactly what I said - for you, ENVIRONMENTALISM is a religion, a belief, you "believe" in things, you don't check facts. I don't "believe in", I think.
And because for you it is a religion and not an objective approach, you are unable to accept that the prophets of your religion were wrong, so it is with faith versus pure rationality.
asherpat
Which of the following do you believe:
1) Is there no man-made global warming?
2) Does orange juice cure cancer?
3) Do governments spread all kinds of substances in chemtrails?
4) Did the CIA bring down the Twin Towers?
5) Triple vaccine causes autism?
asherpat
James Delingpool also claims that building wind power plants is tantamount to pedophilia. He is a complete idiot 🙂
He is not a scientist, but writes about a scientist who saved millions, as if she were a murderer.
And again - to correct your sick lie - the use of DDT in the war against malaria was never stopped:
The only remaining legal use of DDT is to control malaria-carrying mosquitoes. A devastating disease, malaria kills more than 800,000 people every year, the majority of deaths among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. Indoor spraying with DDT is one of a number of tools being used to control malaria around the world. Only in rare cases is it the most effective choice.
Successful malaria control programs have been built all over the world using a variety of approaches that are affordable and appropriate to local needs. All include community involvement, appropriate technology and investment in public health capacity and education. These community-based, integrated solutions have proven successful in places as diverse as Mexico, Kenya and Vietnam.
Miracles,
The first sentence in your response is so stupid that any neutral person will understand which of us thinks logically and who is unable to accept any criticism of what is ultimately a religion (RELIGION). I will end with a quote from JAMES DELINGPOLE's article (wrote the great book WATERMELONS – GREEN ON THE OUTSIDE, RED TO THE CORE):
Silent Spring, perhaps more than any other book, was responsible for launching the modern environmental movement.
It also set the tone for the environmentalists' modus operandi: radical, counterproductive action inspired by public hysteria based on junk-science.
Silent Spring predicted a terrifying future in which the birds would stop singing and we'd all die of cancer because of our wanton use of evil pesticides. To reach this conclusion, Carson had completely to misrepresent the expert she'd quoted in support of her argument. James DeWitt of the US Fish And Wildlife Service had shown that pheasants fed high doses of DDT actually hatched more eggs, not fewer.
Carson may not have personally authorized the ban on DDT. But she was most certainly responsible for the groundless scaremongering which led to its ban in the US, against all expert advice, by the EPA's William Ruckelhaus in 1970 – and which gave activist pressure groups the ammunition they needed to campaign successfully for similar bans all around the world.
How many people died as a result of Carson's scaremongering? We cannot be sure. But in 1965 the National Academy of Sciences estimated that over the two previous decades DDT had "prevented 500 million deaths that would otherwise have been inevitable."
Then again, if you share the view of Rachel Carson - and so many ardent greens - that man is but one species among many, maybe that's not such a problem.
"In truth, man is against the earth," she once wrote to a friend.
So maybe, by unwittingly engineering all those human deaths, Rachel Carson was doing mother earth a favor, right?
http://www.breitbart.com/Breitbart-London/2014/05/27/Google-celebrates-the-20th-century-s-greatest-female-mass-murderer-Rachel-Carson
asherpat
On the other hand, Rachel Carson did not oppose the development of penicillin, thus she is directly responsible (!) for saving the lives of hundreds of millions.
And so that other people reading here are not tempted to believe the garbage you are spreading, I will say again:
1) The bans on the use of DDT, following the book "The Silent Spring", did not include spraying against malaria mosquitoes.
2) Rachel Carson warned against the development of resistance to DDT in the mosquitoes - something that has been proven to be true.
3) The sites you rely on (indirectly, it seems to me you have never read research) also claim that smoking does not cause cancer.
4) When you repeat a lie again and again and again it does not become the truth.
There may have been cases that stopped the war on malaria mosquitoes, while its use was still effective. But - you didn't find any source for that!!! In particular - in many places in the world DDT is still used against malaria, after all there is no prohibition on the use of DDT for this purpose.
But, you will continue to believe the lies - good luck with that. And worst of all, you'll keep spreading them.
Miracles,
So Rachel Carson opposed the use of DDT, her book was unfortunately very influential, and millions of people died because once, maybe, someday, the mosquitoes would develop an allergy to DDT. Have I typed something wrong so far? So Nissim, what "source" do you need to agree that Rachel Carson is indirectly responsible for the death of millions and great suffering mainly in poor and weak countries?
Rachel Carson opposed the uncontrolled use of DDT for agricultural purposes. In relation to malaria - she claimed that excessive use of DDT could create a situation of creating tolerance to this substance in the mosquitoes. This has been proven true.
Again - if you have evidence for something else - give a source.
Miracles, so did Rachel Carson oppose or not oppose the use of DDT? yes or no will do.
asherpat
I will not repeat what I wrote again. Anyone can look up the facts online. And the one who has decided in advance what his conclusions are, and then adjusts the facts to the conclusions - nothing will convince him.
I would appreciate it if you could point me to a source that shows that Rachel Carson opposed the war on malaria. That is your claim.
So Nissim, you claim that Rachel Carson did not object to the use of DDT despite the fact that DDT would have prevented millions of deaths and that in the end she said there were no governments that banned the use of DDT?
asherpat
certainly. Let's look at some facts, facts that organizations like the CEI and TASSC ignore….
1) DDT spraying is not prohibited in the fight against malaria.
2) In places that stopped spraying with DDT, the reason was that the mosquitoes developed a tolerance -DDT, as Mrs. Carson warned!!!
3) One of the bodies fighting "in favor" of increasing DDT spraying, the TASSC organization, is directly funded by the cigarette manufacturers, with their goal being to discredit any science that endangers their income.
Nissim and Assaf,
Besides insults and foaming at the mouth, do you also have something meaningful to contribute?
asherpat
Those who are directly responsible for the death of any person from malaria are that person's parents.
Idiot, right? But less idiotic than your unfortunate statement.
Nice that you added "indirect".
I will spare the more settled readers the adjectives
that rise to your vanity reading.
Rachel Carson is (indirectly) responsible for millions of people dying of malaria because her unscientific book succeeded in stopping the use of DDT. It is unfortunate that her name is mentioned favorably and the effect of the ban on DDT and its results are not mentioned.