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Silent Spring At 50
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Author : Roger Meiners
language : en
Publisher: Cato Institute
Release Date : 2012-09-18
Silent Spring At 50 written by Roger Meiners and has been published by Cato Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-18 with Political Science categories.
Widely credited with launching the modern environmental movement when published 50 years ago, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had a profound impact on our society. As an iconic work, the book has often been shielded from critical inquiry, but this landmark anniversary provides an excellent opportunity to reassess its legacy and influence. In Silent Spring at 50: The False Crises of Rachel Carson, a team of national experts explores the book’s historical context, the science it was built on, and the policy consequences of its core ideas. Their findings: much of what Carson presented as fact was slanted, and today we know much of it is simply wrong.
Silent Spring
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Author : Rachel Carson
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2020-03-26
Silent Spring written by Rachel Carson and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-26 with Science categories.
Now recognized as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century, Silent Spring exposed the destruction of wildlife through the widespread use of pesticides Rachel Carson's Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the environmental and human dangers of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Despite condemnation in the press and heavy-handed attempts by the chemical industry to ban the book, Carson succeeded in creating a new public awareness of the environment which led to changes in government and inspired the ecological movement. It is thanks to this book, and the help of many environmentalists, that harmful pesticides such as DDT were banned from use in the US and countries around the world. This Penguin Modern Classics edition includes an introduction by Lord Shackleton, a preface by World Wildlife Fund founder Julian Huxley, and an afterword by Carson's biographer Linda Lear.
Since Silent Spring
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Author : Franklin Graham, JR.
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
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Special Issue Silent Spring At 50 Earth Water And Air
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Author : Anthony S. Travis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Special Issue Silent Spring At 50 Earth Water And Air written by Anthony S. Travis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with categories.
Carson S Silent Spring
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Author : Joni Seager
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2014-10-23
Carson S Silent Spring written by Joni Seager and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10-23 with Nature categories.
Silent Spring is a watershed moment in the history of environmentalism, credited with launching the modern environmental movement. In synthesizing a jumble of scientific and medical information into a coherent argument, Carson successfully challenged major chemical industries and the idea that modern societies could and should exert mastery over nature at any cost. Her critique remains salient today. This book provides the first in-depth analysis, contextualisation and overview of Silent Spring, a critical work in the history of environmentalism, surveying its lasting impact on the environmentalist movement in the last fifty years.
Ddt Silent Spring And The Rise Of Environmentalism
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Author : Thomas Dunlap
language : en
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Release Date : 2017-08-24
Ddt Silent Spring And The Rise Of Environmentalism written by Thomas Dunlap and has been published by University of Washington Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with Science categories.
No single event played a greater role in the birth of modern environmentalism than the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and its assault on insecticides. The documents collected by Thomas Dunlap trace shifting attitudes toward DDT and pesticides in general through a variety of sources: excerpts from scientific studies and government reports, advertisements from industry journals, articles from popular magazines, and the famous �Fable for Tomorrow� from Silent Spring. Beginning with attitudes toward nature at the turn of the twentieth century, the book moves through the use and early regulation of pesticides; the introduction and early success of DDT; the discovery of its environmental effects; and the uproar over Silent Spring. It ends with recent debates about DDT as a potential solution to malaria in Africa.
Silent Spring At 50
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Silent Spring At 50 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Insect pests categories.
Silent Spring Revisited
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Author : Conor Mark Jameson
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Silent Spring Revisited written by Conor Mark Jameson and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Nature categories.
Fifty years after the publication of the seminal Silent Spring, Conor Mark Jameson reflects on Rachel Carson's legacy and asks the question - are we still silencing the spring?
Silent Spring At 50
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Author : Roger E. Meiners
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Silent Spring At 50 written by Roger E. Meiners and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with DDT (Insecticide) categories.
Silent Spring Revolution
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Author : Douglas Brinkley
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2022-11-15
Silent Spring Revolution written by Douglas Brinkley and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-11-15 with Nature categories.
New York Times bestselling author and acclaimed presidential historian Douglas Brinkley chronicles the rise of environmental activism during the Long Sixties (1960-1973), telling the story of an indomitable generation that saved the natural world under the leadership of John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. With the detonation of the Trinity explosion in the New Mexico desert in 1945, the United States took control of Earth’s destiny for the first time. After the Truman administration dropped atomic bombs on Japan to end World War II, a grim new epoch had arrived. During the early Cold War years, the federal government routinely detonated nuclear devices in the Nevada desert and the Marshall Islands. Not only was nuclear fallout a public health menace, but entire ecosystems were contaminated with radioactive materials. During the 1950s, an unprecedented postwar economic boom took hold, with America becoming the world’s leading hyperindustrial and military giant. But with this historic prosperity came a heavy cost: oceans began to die, wilderness vanished, the insecticide DDT poisoned ecosystems, wildlife perished, and chronic smog blighted major cities. In Silent Spring Revolution, Douglas Brinkley pays tribute to those who combated the mauling of the natural world in the Long Sixties: Rachel Carson (a marine biologist and author), David Brower (director of the Sierra Club), Barry Commoner (an environmental justice advocate), Coretta Scott King (an antinuclear activist), Stewart Udall (the secretary of the interior), William O. Douglas (Supreme Court justice), Cesar Chavez (a labor organizer), and other crusaders are profiled with verve and insight. Carson’s book Silent Spring, published in 1962, depicted how detrimental DDT was to living creatures. The exposé launched an ecological revolution that inspired such landmark legislation as the Wilderness Act (1964), the Clean Air Acts (1963 and 1970), and the Endangered Species Acts (1966, 1969, and 1973). In intimate detail, Brinkley extrapolates on such epic events as the Donora (Pennsylvania) smog incident, JFK’s Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, Great Lakes preservation, the Santa Barbara oil spill, and the first Earth Day. With the United States grappling with climate change and resource exhaustion, Douglas Brinkley’s meticulously researched and deftly written Silent Spring Revolution reminds us that a new generation of twenty-first-century environmentalists can save the planet from ruin. Silent Spring Revolution features two 8-page color photo inserts.