Rachel Carson's Silent Spring

With her book Silent Spring, US-American marine biologist and writer Rachel Carson (1907–1964) raised public consciousness about the harmful health and environmental effects of pesticides such as DDT, which had been applied indiscriminately over wide areas, including some residential areas. Carson’s principles of environmental ethics and her critique of unexamined trust in economic growth and technological “progress” sparked public debate and provided the impetus for political processes in the United States and throughout the world. Today she is regarded as a catalyst of the modern global environmental movement.