Silent Spring

On this day in 1962, Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" at immense personal risk and against immense backlash, as she was dying, catalyzing the modern environmental movement by refusing to keep silent. Her poignant message to posterity—that is, to us: https://t.co/CfaHnkENSm
(https://twitter.com/brainpicker/status/1310237933450989568?s=02)

Phil Oliver

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Your generation must come to terms with the environment...face realities instead of taking refuge in ignorance & evasion of truth...a grave and sobering responsibility, but also a shining opportunity....to prove [humanity's] maturity and its mastery—not of nature, but of itself.

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Brain Pickings

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On this day in 1962, Rachel Carson published "Silent Spring" at immense personal risk and against immense backlash, as she was dying, catalyzing the modern environmental movement by refusing to keep silent. Her poignant message to posterity—that is, to us: https://brainpickings.org/2019/04/12/rachel-carson-scripps-college-commencement/