Silent Spring: Rachel Carson moves toward Exploration, Encounter, and Exchange
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Carson looks towards the sky

          Carson exchanged her ideas about the imposing threat to our environment by DDT through her revolutionary novel: Silent Spring. Her exchange of ideas concluded in a new class of people environmentally conscious about their responsibilities to our environment; their moral obligation to assist in a world safe to all organisms. Along with a sense of positive feedback from her novel came a surge of opposition to her viewpoints. Like many things, her exchange of knowledge brought the good in with the bad. The scientific community took a while to acknowledge Carson's work. Many of the leading businessman, in order to prevent the fall of their industries, criticized Carson as a crazy lady with no PhD and a sea-lover. Carson's exchange of ideas sparked a sense of hope for our environment. Although many people remain without a sense of moral concern for our environment, Carson will be forever remembered as a leader in the environmental revolution. Her determination to provide the world with knowledge about the environment changed the way we view life. It also led to the overall exchange of viewpoints from people besides Carson. Many environmentalists stepped up after reading Silent Spring and exchanged their views with the world as well. A surge of ideas spread throughout the world and it was because of Silent Spring's informative and emotional effect. Rachel Carson new that her book would accomplish a greater understanding of the environment, but she never survived to see the full impact of her novel, as she died in 1964 due to breast cancer. Edward O. Wilson unveils the fact that the war between the environment and exploiters "has only subsided since 1962 to a more muted equilibrium...Of the 1,254 species protected under the Endangered Species Act at the end of 1991, four times as many are declining as are gaining in population...[we have yet to understand] the devestating effects everywhere of still-rocketing population growth combined with consumption of natural resources, the thinning of the ozone layer, global warming, the collapse of marine fisheries...and the decimation of tropical forests  and mass extinction of species" (Afterword). Rachel Carson's ideology remains an institution in the fight for environmental awareness.

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Carson exchanges views at a conference

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this radio segment covers a bird recovery program

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exchanging ideas of the use of pesticides in agriculture