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Carson was often described as an early activist who
worked to preserve the world for future generations. According to PBS the EPA
looked to her as a founding inspiration and the fish and wildlife service as a
source of agency pride. Rachel Carson was a well known Marine Biologist, environmental activist and writer who got her “name”
from her outstanding works of art about the underwater world.
With the encouragement
of friends and family she took on a bigger issue the environment and the
effects that pesticide (DDT) had on it. Through her finding DDT was eventually
banned by the federal government. With
the publication of Silent Spring, Carson is credited with launching the
contemporary environmental movement and awakening concern by thinking Americans
about the environment (FWA).
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/profile.html
There is no question...that SILENT SPRING prompted the Federal
Government to take action against water and air pollution — as well as against
the misuse of pesticides — several years before it otherwise might have moved (EPA).
http://www.fws.gov/refuge/Rachel_Carson/about/rachelcarson.htmlhttp://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/09212007/profile.html
