World Impact
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring traveled around the world, but it was only after the 1967 environmental disaster in England that her message resonated with the Europeans.
"Hundreds of thousands who never picked up the book could read Carson’s words on the pages of the popular French magazine Paris-Match...the Italian journal L’Europeo, the Dutch weekly newspaper Elseviers Weekblad, the Swedish magazine Vi...Dozens of reviews appeared in every major Western European nation as well as in communist Hungary and Yugoslavia."
-Silent Spring, an International Best Seller, Environment and Society Portal |
Picture and Quote Source: Silent Spring, an International Best Seller, Environment and Society Portal
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Europe's Reaction
"many of the practices condemned by Miss Carson do not go on in this country...We have nothing like the savage spraying of roadside and railside verges . . . nor anything like the massive eradication campaigns such as those against the gypsy moth and fire ant...Indeed, the pattern of our agriculture...does not lend itself to similar scales"
-Viscount Hailsham, British Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science
-Viscount Hailsham, British Lord President of the Council and Minister for Science
DDT Banned Worldwide
"the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned the use of DDT in 1972. Its prohibition extended to other countries (the first to adopt a ban were Norway and Sweden; the U.S., and in the eighties European countries like the United Kingdom). However, in countries like India its use hasn't been banned."
-History: The Ban of Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT)
-History: The Ban of Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane (DDT)
Worldwide Recognition
"the Government of Australia is...naming a section of the Great Barrier Reef after Rachel Carson...She brought us back to a fundamental idea...the interconnection of human beings and the natural environment..."
-Remarks on the International Coral Reef Initiative in Port Douglas, Australia, November 22, 1996, President Bill Clinton |
"Rachel Carson Center is a joint initiative of LMU Munich and the Deutsches Museum...its goal is to further research and discussion in the field of international environmental studies and to strengthen the role of the humanities in the...debates about the environment."
-Rachel Carson Center in Munich, Germany, The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson |