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Silent Spring

Silent Spring

Rachel Carson
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Carson's 1962 account of pesticide contamination is the founding text of environmental science writing. It matters here not only as history but as methodology: a demonstration that making an invisible industrial threat visible and specific can, in fact, change policy. Every climate communicator is still working in her shadow.

Environment and Energy

Where it sits in the reference 1

Energy Transition and Decarbonisation
Secular themes

Who recommended it 1

Stewart Brandreported
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“Rachel Carson's 1962 indictment of pesticide use is the book that made ecology a political issue. Brand came of age with it; his environmentalism has always been shaped by her empirical approach — show the data, name the mechanism, then let the implication land.”

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