Silent Spring facts

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About Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring (1962). The book accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation on the harmful effects of pesticides. The book is credited with inspiring the environmental movement, leading to the formation of the U.S Environmental Protection Agency

In 2012 Silent Spring was named a National Historic Chemical Landmark by the American Chemical Society.

In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 11 of the best facts about Silent Spring I managed to collect.

1. The "DDT is good for me-e-e!" advertisement from 1947, recommending the use of DDT on people, pets, produce, and animals. DDT was later banned in 1972 after Rachel Carlson exposed the chemical companies and DDT's health affects with the book "Silent Spring".

2. In 1962 Houghton Mifflin published her most successful book, Silent Spring, which documented the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment.

3. Himalayan snowcocks produce loud whistles and shrill, piping calls during the spring. They are silent during the winter.

4. The birth of the environmental movement and the EPA is largely credited to Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book "Silent Spring" described the havoc DDT was wreaking on birds.

5. An inventor built a silent water spring trench mortar for use in WW1, the military dismissed it due to the compression of water being "impossible". Not to be deterred he went on to design a system to shoot through the blades of fighter blade helping the allies gain air supremacy.

6. Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was first published in the Newyorker

7. DDT is banned thanks to a single book: Silent Spring by Rachel Carson (1962). She wrote about the harmful effects of pesticides, and the chemical companies who hid the truth. The book is credited with starting the environmental movement, and led directly to the formation of the EPA.

8. Rachel Carson has indirectly caused more deaths than Hitler, Stalin, and Mao Zedong combined. She was the writer of Silent Spring, which was written to warn of the dangers that DDT allegedly posed to all manner of plant, animal, and human life. When introduced, DDT destroyed malaria death rates.