“Man's attitude
toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired
a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and
his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself “Rachel Carson. These
wise words are enough to realize the majesty of a woman who devoted her life
fighting for humanity’s common good.
At a time where
technological development dominated the world and nobody was cared about nature
even if it was threatened, Rachel Carson by her book Silent Spring(was
published in 1962) fired up the beginning for the environmental movements. She
analyzed the damage that DDT insectide can produce to the whole nature, how it
is transmitted and in what ways can affect our life.
In addition, the
evidences that she present for DDT’S responsibility for human deaths, sensitize
even the U.S president John F. Kennedy who ordered to examine the issues the
book raised. After a closer supervision of the topic by the Government, DDT was
eventually banned improving that Rachel was right.
Silent Spring emerged
the need to regulate the industry in order to protect Nature. Environmentalism
was born as this book awakening the human conscience, reminding us that by
destroying environment is like we destroy our first home.
N.G
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