In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson surmised that cancers of the reproductive system could be related to hormones.
Silent Spring, Carson became something of an icon for the environmental movement that followed, especially for women activists.
The disease killed Carson in 1964, two years after Silent Spring came out.
Pianist and composer Marian McPartland has, for years, hailed the work of Carson, in particular her seminal Silent Spring.
Silent Spring elicited a public outcry for direct action followed by a brutal backlash from the chemical industry, often tainted with sexism.
Silent Spring quickly became a best-seller world-wide, and the debate spread from specialized forums to the pages of the New York Times.
The other study, led by scientists at Silent Spring Institute, shows why the presence of such chemicals in household items is a problem.
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"My motivation was the message from Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring, " recalls Jan-Gustav Strandenaes, one of the 10, 000 or so making up the Peoples' Forum.
Contrary to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, there's no evidence that DDT causes cancer in humans--you are exposed to more carcinogens in a cup of coffee than from long-term exposure to DDT.
It started with Rachel Carson's popular 1962 book on the dangers of pesticides, "Silent Spring, " and the eye on the planet increased with a photo of the Earth taken from Apollo 8 as it orbited near the moon in 1968.
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