EN 1700 Lecture Notes - National Audubon Society, Nuclear Fallout, United States Environmental Protection Agency
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Was first seen in the new yorker. Led to government inquiries, court cases, beginning political protests green peace mission". If you read it narrowly, it"s about pesticides and its effect on people and wildlife. It is a radical critique, quite subversive-challenge the status quo. It is critique"s the world"s blind face of technology. Banning of the most dangerous pesticide ddt. The first to take on the corporation and especially corporate greed. Carson is one of the 1st writers to blend science writing and literature. Is not a romantic narrative, or solitude. scientific evidence in an understandable way to ordinary readers. This plea to attention and call to action, 45 years later, that it was not so small and not so obvious after. Pesticide use, nuclear, acid rain, depletion of the ozone layer etc. Its readability lots of research put into simple reading. Kind of strategies helps to explain the impact of this book and its wide appeal.
