Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Rachel Louise Carson (* 27. Published in 1962, Silent Spring was widely read by the general public and became a New York Times best seller. Additionally Silent Springsuggested a needed change in how democracies and liberal societies operated so that individuals Her sensational book Silent Spring(1962) warned of the Mai 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania; 14. April 1964 in Silver Spring, Maryland) war eine US-amerikanische Zoologin, Biologin, Wissenschaftsjournalistin und Sachbuchautorin, deren Hauptwerk Silent Spring (Der stumme Frühling) aus dem Jahr 1962 häufig als Ausgangspunkt der US-amerikanischen Umweltbewegung[1] bezeichnet wird. Der stumme Frühling wird häufig als Ausgangspunkt der weltweiten Umweltbewegung und als eines der einflussreichsten Bücher des 20. Silent Spring, nonfiction book written by Rachel Carson that became one of the most-influential books in the modern environmental movement. Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) was an American marine biologist, author, and conservationist whose book Silent Spring and other writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. She calls for humans to act responsibly, carefully, and as stewards of the living earth. Fish and Wildlife Service. The book was published on September 27, 1962, documenting the adverse environmental effects caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides. Der stumme Frühling (englischer Titel: Silent Spring) ist ein 1962 erschienenes Sachbuch der Biologin Rachel Carson und gilt als ihr wichtigstes Werk. … Rachel Carson wurde im Jahre 1980 postum mit der Presidential Medal of Freedom, der höchsten zivilen Auszeichnung der USA, ausgezeichnet.
Her first three books -- Under the Sea-Wind, The Sea Around Us, and The Edge of the Sea -- established her reputation as a first-rate writer on the natural world. Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting the industry's marketing claims unquestioningly. Perhaps the finest nature writer of the Twentieth Century,Rachel Carson (1907-1964)is remembered more today as the woman who challenged the notion that humans could obtain mastery over nature by chemicals, bombs and space travel than for her studies of ocean life. We can live without birds and animals, but, as the current market slump shows, we cannot live without business. Rachel Carson "Silent Spring" Rachel Carson’s reference to the selfishness of insecticide manufacturers probably reflects her Communist sympathies, like a lot of our writers these days. Carson’s passionate concern in Silent Springis with the future of the planet and all life on Earth. Sie gilt als eine der wichtigsten Personen des 20. Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende RACHEL CARSON, 1907-1964, spent a good deal of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Jahrhunderts bezeichnet.