19 Facts About Silent Spring

Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson.

The result of her research was Silent Spring, which brought environmental concerns to the American public.

In 2006, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover magazine.

Impetus for Silent Spring was a letter written in January 1958 by Carson's friend, Olga Owens Huckins, to The Boston Herald, describing the death of birds around her property in Duxbury, Massachusetts, resulting from the aerial spraying of DDT to kill mosquitoes, a copy of which Huckins sent to Carson.

Carson began the four-year project of Silent Spring by gathering examples of environmental damage attributed to DDT.

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Silent Spring's tried to enlist essayist E B White and a number of journalists and scientists to her cause.

Silent Spring's took advantage of her personal connections with many government scientists, who supplied her with confidential information on the subject.

Silent Spring's wondered about the possible "financial inducements behind certain pesticide programs".

Silent Spring's had investigated hundreds of individual incidents of pesticide exposure and the resulting human sickness and ecological damage.

In Silent Spring, Carson relied on evidence from two New York state organic farmers, Marjorie Spock and Mary Richards, and that of biodynamic farming advocate Ehrenfried Pfeiffer in developing her case against DDT.

Overarching theme of Silent Spring is the powerful—and often negative—effect humans have on the natural world.

Silent Spring's said in Silent Spring that even if DDT and other insecticides had no environmental side effects, their indiscriminate overuse was counterproductive because it would create insect resistance to pesticides, making them useless in eliminating the target insect populations:.

Carson and the others involved with publication of Silent Spring expected fierce criticism and were concerned about the possibility of being sued for libel.

Silent Spring's concludes her section on DDT in Silent Spring with advice for spraying as little as possible to limit the development of resistance.

Silent Spring's spoke as much as she could, and appeared on The Today Show and gave speeches at several dinners held in her honor.

Silent Spring became a rallying point for the new social movement in the 1960s.

Silent Spring has been featured in many lists of the best nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

In 2006, Silent Spring was named one of the 25 greatest science books of all time by the editors of Discover Magazine.

Naturalist David Attenborough has stated that Silent Spring was probably the book that had changed the scientific world the most, after the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin.