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Trade-offs | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
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Exhibition chapter
Epidemics and ecology | Another Silent Spring
In “Another Silent Spring,” historian Donald Worster explains how human relations with other animals, wild and domestic, is at the core of a majority of epidemics.
Perspectives Article
Rachel Carson’s Daughter
Joan Maloof contrasts her father’s defense of DDT with her embrace of Rachel Carson’s message in Silent Spring, highlighting the personal and generational tensions surrounding pesticide use and environmental responsibility.
Perspectives Article
Saint Rachel
Christof Mauch highlights the global and enduring influence of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, emphasizing her prophetic style and lasting impact on worldwide environmental thought and action.
Perspectives Article
Rachel Carson Scholarship—Where Next?
Maril Hazlett calls for a more critical and nuanced reassessment of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, examining both its impact and its limitations in reaching diverse sectors of society.
Multimedia | book excerpt
Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
In this book, Lida Maxwell shows how Silent Springs stands as a monument to a unique, loving relationship between Rachel Carson and Dorothy Freeman, and how such love underpins a new environmental politics.
Exhibition chapter
Letter from Mark Wilson to Rachel Carson | Beyond Doom and Gloom
A chapter of the virtual exhibition “Beyond Doom and Gloom: An Exploration through Letters,” this letter shows apprecation to the hopeful spirit of Rachel Carson. The exhibition is curated by environmental educator Elin Kelsey.
Perspectives Article
Fighting the Deadly Fog
Amy M. Hay examines the history of Agent Orange and its environmental and human consequences—a story that represented a transnational history.
Multimedia | film profile
Wrenched
Wrenched captures the passing of the monkey wrench from the pioneers of eco-activism to the new generation who carries Edward Abbey’s legacy into the 21st century. The fight continues to bring awareness to the need for protection of the last bastion of the American wilderness - the spirit of the West.
Multimedia | journal article
"Wonders with the Sea: Rachel Carson’s Ecological Aesthetic and the Mid-Century Reader"
Hagood looks at Rachel Carson’s earlier popular publications on the natural history of the oceans and their impact on Silent Spring (1962).