![]() ![]() In 2019 a major study, led by Cornell University ornithologist Kenneth V. ![]() ![]() With some exceptions, we haven’t been very successful, and neither have birds. ![]() But how well have we acted on Carson’s warnings? She wrote with grace, and she made us feel the loss. She asked us to imagine what it would be like to awaken in the morning to a world without these songs. The coming anniversary makes this a good time to consider whether the book achieved one of her major goals: protecting wildlife and, in particular, birds.Ĭarson took a complex technical subject-the damaging effects of persistent pesticides-and expressed it in one simple, poetic image: a spring in which no birds sang. senators from Alaska, said Carson’s writings had “altered the course of history.” It will be 60 years ago this June that the public was introduced to Carson’s arguments, as her book chapters were serialized in the New Yorker magazine. Ernest Gruening, one of the first two U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to ban use of the pesticide DDT. It played a direct role in the 1972 decision by the newly formed U.S. Rachel Carson’s classic best seller about ecological threats, Silent Spring, started a wave of American environmentalism. ![]()
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