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== Rachel Carson Answers her Critics - 1963 == | == Rachel Carson Answers her Critics - 1963 == | ||
I found this article to be fairly strange since I always associated the controversy regarding DDT and other insecticides with the environmental issues and campaigns of the 1980's. Is that true or am I misremembering that? --Justin Mattos | I found this article to be fairly strange since I always associated the controversy regarding DDT and other insecticides with the environmental issues and campaigns of the 1980's. Is that true or am I misremembering that? --Justin Mattos | ||
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| + | I think Rachel Carson was really ahead of her time in terms of environmentalism. It seems like in postwar America, everyone was ready to use the new technology and new chemicals without thinking about the effects it had on nature. Carson was willing to step up against what everyone believed was progress and ask Americans to take a real look at the way they were affecting the world around them. -Kendall Haring | ||
== Louisa Randall Church - "Parents, Architects of Peace" 1946 == | == Louisa Randall Church - "Parents, Architects of Peace" 1946 == | ||
