Rachel Carson: Contribution to the Environmental Movement

                                  Rachel Louise Carson

                                            (May 27, 1907- April 14, 1964)

HOW DID SHE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT? 

Carson was a conservationist who believed that synthetic pesticides were contributing to the environmental problems. Her book Silent Spring was a huge success in showing and scaring people about the environmental problems in the nation. In this great book she ultimately challenged the normal practices of agricultural scientists and used the book to request a change in the way humans viewed the natural world. 

Her book was credited as actually launching the Environmental Movement!

Her ultimate success was getting a ban nationwide of DDT and some other pesticides, and her movement also led to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

 

 

 She was awarded the Presidential Medal  of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter