The story of every environmental movement start with Rachel Carson. Her book silent spring and her many contributions to keep the environment save from chemicals make her the back bond of the environmental movement. The Environmental Protection Agency look to her as a founding inspiration. The EPA's official history site states: "There is no question...that SILENT SPRING promoted 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."
Before there was an environmental movement, there was one brave women and her very brave book. Carson's most direct legacy in the environmental movement was the campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States. Carson's work, and the activism it inspired, are at least partly responsible for the deep ecology movement, and the overall strength of the grassroots environmental movement since the 1960s.
Rachel Carson 100th birthday
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