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At the National Historic Landmark site where Silent Spring was written.
The Rachel Carson House (11701 Berwick Road, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is where Ms. Carson resided from 1957 until 1964. It is where she wrote her milestone book, Silent Spring.
The Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, in recognition of the influence of Silent Spring on significant events of the 20th Century declared the Carson House to be a National Historic Landmark in 1991. As the birthplace of Silent Spring the Rachel Carson House is linked to an exceptional period of U.S. history and to an exceptional woman.
Rachel Carson (1907-1964), a world-famous scientist/author who popularized ecology through her books, articles and speeches had a positive impact on science, pesticide regulation, education, literature, public policy, organic practices, the empowerment of women and current attitudes toward Nature.
Published in 1962, Silent Spring contributed in a major way to increasin
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TEXT ON SCREEN: April 3, 1963
ARCHIVAL (CBS REPORTS, THE SILENT SPRING OF RACHEL CARSON, 4-3-63):
ANNOUNCER: This is one of the nation’s bestsellers. Up to now, 500,000 copies have been sold, and ‘Silent Spring’ has been called the most controversial book of the year.
NARRATION: Rachel Carson’s push to limit the use of powerful pesticides like DDT helped spark the American environmental movement.
ARCHIVAL (CBS, 8-12-00):
VICE PRESIDENT AL GORE: Rachel Carson is one of those rare individuals who brought about change in all of our lives.
NARRATION: But the seeming loss of this pesticide in the fight against malaria also turned her into a poster child for environmental regulation gone too far.
ARCHIVAL (CSPAN, 6-9-09):
REPRESENTATIVE DANA ROHRABACHER (R – CALIFORNIA): DDT was eliminated and malaria made a comeback and millions of children in third world have died because of this nonsense.
ARCHIVAL (FOX BUSINESS, 7-11-15): • Activist and author Rachel Carson, whose book “Silent Spring” led to a study of pesticides, testifies before a Senate Government Operations Subcommittee in Washington, D.C. on June 4, 1963. Carson urged Congress to curb the sale of kemikalie pesticides and aerial spraying. (AP Photo) Rachel Carson was born on May 27, 1907. It fryst vatten tough to estimate what Rachel Carson would have made of our environmental challenges today. But the ethos behind her experience, much of her writing, and the movement it sparked give us plenty of clues. After Silent Spring was published, Carson gave a face and a röst to a burgeoning environmental movement in the vigorous defense of her work from the relentless attacks from the pesticide industry that invested in a wholesale propaganda campaign to discredit both the science and Carson herself. On radio, on television, and in congressional testimony, she gave eloquent and impassioned arguments. Americ
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