Rachel Carson, born in 1907, grew up in Pennsylvania where she spent hours outdoors. When she went to Pennsylvania College for Women, where she changed her assumptions about her predetermined career. She majored in zoology and late went to John Hopkins and received a masters in genetics. In 1941, she published Under the Sea-Wind, her first book. She was a quiet, private person, where she was astounded with the workings of nature from a scientific and aesthetic point of view. Then in 1962, after two other books she wrote Silent Spring.
This book gained great attention and was was pretty much the reason that a stand was taken to make a difference. President John F. Kennedy read Silent Spring and initiated a presidential advisory committee. In 1963, CBS produced a television special featuring Rachel Carson and several opponents of her conclusions. The US Senate opened an investigation of pesticides.Her examination of the second-hand and direct affects of insecticides became essential in the way they were portrayed. Prior to her book Silent Spring, the effects of pollutants in the environment on future and later generations was previously not even taken into consideration. But was not only toxic to us, but to our Carson revealed that these insecticides could effect people's great-great grandchildren was scary and surprising to say the least. Nearly any environmental issue, including global warming, has received benefit from Ms. Carson. Even if the specific area wasn't addressed by her, she served as the catalyst to bring public opinion to bear on these issues. She gave people the ability to combat important issues, she opened the door to investigate the types of potential harms to the environment without even touching on them herself.
