Journal articles: 'Silent spring (Carson, Rachel)'

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Kerstetter, N. "The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson." OAH Magazine of History 10, no. 3 (March 1, 1996): 25–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/maghis/10.3.25.

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Beyl, Caula A. "Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Environmental Movement." HortTechnology 2, no. 2 (April 1992): 272–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.21273/horttech.2.2.272.

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Cafaro, Philip. "RACHEL CARSON'S ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS." Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology 6, no. 1 (2002): 58–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156853502760184595.

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AbstractRachel Carson is well known as a founder of the modern environmental movement. This article argues that her life and writings have much to offer contemporary environmental philosophy. I begin by discussing the environmental ethics articulated in Silent Spring. I next examine Carson's earlier natural history writings and the non-anthropocentrism they express. I conclude with some suggestions for how Carson points the way forward for environmental ethics.

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Thorson, Robert. "Rachel Carson: Silent Spring and Other Writings on the Environment. By Rachel Carson. Edited by Sandra Steingraber." Environmental History 24, no. 1 (December 4, 2018): 221–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/envhis/emy119.

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Shah, Kushal S. "Silent Spring and the New York Times: How Rachel Carson Won the Journey." IU Journal of Undergraduate Research 1, no. 1 (June 1, 2015): 18–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14434/iujur.v1i1.13727.

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This paper explores people’s reception of and attitudes toward Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, originally published in 1962. Research was conducted entirely through the lens of The New York Times (NYT) articles ranging from before the book’s publication to the present. The articles vary heavily in perspective, representing a range of views towards Carson’s vilification of both the pesticide industry and general American attitudes regarding environmental conservation. Articles from NYT represent public opinion well because the chosen articles come from views representing a variety of sources (corporations, scientists, book reviewers, historians, etc.) and perspectives ranging from maximum support to open criticism of the book. When observed over time, research into these articles tells the story of the change in acceptance of Silent Spring – how it has reached its current state of reverence and influence. This paper comprehensively examines a variety of articles regarding Silent Spring and America’s environmental efforts, tracking the change of general attitudes over the 50 years since its publication.

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Gallavan, Nancy P. "Notable Trade Book Lesson Plan—Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson." Social Studies Research and Practice 1, no. 3 (November 1, 2006): 398–404. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ssrp-03-2006-b0009.

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Rachel Carson was a notable woman who studied the environment and cared for the planet Earth. Her life was highlighted by several significant events that unfolded to future events culminating with her writing the landmark book Silent Spring. In this NCSS notable trade book lesson plan format, students record 12 significant events in Rachel Carson’s life on a graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is designed as 12 circles like the face of a clock to show chronological order. Using the information provided in the book Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson (Ehrlich, 2003), students record 12 events to illustrate the cycle of life. This practical graphic organizer also can be used for recording important events in other people’s lives read in biographies and autobiographies as well as important events in each student’s life. Reading and sharing from the graphic organizer in chronological order prompts meaningful class conversations and learning experiences.

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Hecht, David K. "Constructing a Scientist: Expert Authority and Public Images of Rachel Carson." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 41, no. 3 (2011): 277–302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2011.41.3.277.

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This article uses the voluminous public discourse around Rachel Carson and her controversial bestseller Silent Spring to explore Americans' views on science and scientists. Carson provides a particularly interesting case study because of intense and public debates over whether she was a scientist at all, and therefore whether her book should be granted legitimacy as science. Her career defied easy classification, as she acted variously as writer, activist, and environmentalist in addition to scientist. Defending her work as legitimate science, which many though not all commentators did, therefore became an act of defining what both science and scientists could and should be. This article traces the variety of nonscientific images and narratives readers and writers assigned to Carson, such as "reluctant crusader" and "scientist-poet." It argues that nonscientific attributes were central to legitimating her as both admirable person and admirable scientist. It explores how debates over Silent Spring can be usefully read as debates over the desirability of putatively nonscientific attributes in the professional work of a scientist. And it examines the nature of Carson's very democratized image for changing notions of science and scientists in 1960s United States politics and culture.

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Maxwell, Lida. "Queer/Love/Bird Extinction: Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a Work of Love." Political Theory 45, no. 5 (May 29, 2017): 682–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0090591717712024.

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This essay argues for reading Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring as a work of love that calls for an environmental politics of desire rather than self-preservation narrowly construed. I make this argument by reading Silent Spring in conjunction with the extant love letters of Carson and Dorothy Freeman, where they depict their love as a wondrous multispecies achievement constituted through encounters with birds. I argue that their example reveals that love need be neither worldless nor heteronormative, but may be a world-disclosing practice that leads individuals to live, and desire to live, differently. Reading Silent Spring through the lens of these letters, I argue that it calls us to see the threat insecticides pose not only to “mere life” (Honig) but also to pleasurable lives of wonder and love. I build on Silent Spring to argue for an alternative politics of survival in the face of climate change: one that foregrounds the connections between inter-human affects and a vibrant multispecies world, between intimate and public feelings, and calls for preservation of a multispecies world through and on behalf of human pleasure.

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Dyke, Chuck. "The Silent Spring of Bruno Latour, Or Rachel Carson Never Was Modern." Poroi 1, no. 1 (January 1, 2001): 87–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.13008/2151-2957.1007.

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Hynes, H. Patricia. "Since Silent Spring: New Voices, New Analyses, and New Movements." NEW SOLUTIONS: A Journal of Environmental and Occupational Health Policy 12, no. 4 (February 2003): 319–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/p3b2-vt3l-7jdf-424u.

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Forty years ago, in the enormously praised and fiercely criticized book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson demonstrated the dangers of pesticides to humans and ecosystems and called for precaution in their use. Yet, the majority of environmental regulations passed since 1962 have primarily addressed pollutant discharge rather than cleaner products and technologies. The number of active ingredients in pesticides used in the United States has risen from 32 in 1939 to 860 in recent times, while the overall volume of agrochemicals applied has nearly doubled since the publication of Silent Spring. The last 40 years have brought significant changes with respect to environmental policies, agricultural technologies, urbanization, civil rights, women's rights, the roles of non-profit organizations and community development, and increased poverty, hunger, and economic inequality. In recent years, new voices, new analyses, and new movements have emerged offering fresh perspectives on how we can answer Carson's clarion call to protect our planet and ourselves.

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Twidle, Hedley. "Rachel Carson and the Perils of Simplicity: Reading Silent Spring from the Global South." ariel: A Review of International English Literature 44, no. 4 (2013): 49–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ari.2013.0028.

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Wilbur, Helen M. "The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, “Silent Spring,” and the Rise of the Environmental Movement." Peace & Change 35, no. 3 (July 2010): 515–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0130.2010.00647.x.

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Pulido Capurro, Víctor, Augusto Dalmau Bedoya, and Edith Olivera Carhuaz. "Antes que la naturaleza muera: de la primavera silenciosa a Nuestro futuro robado." Revista de Investigaciones de la Universidad Le Cordon Bleu 8, no. 1 (July 11, 2021): 18–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.36955/riulcb.2021v8n1.002.

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Se presenta los aspectos más resaltantes de la publicación de tres libros, la Primavera silenciosa por Rachel Louise Carson, publicado en 1962; Antes que la Naturaleza muera escrito por Jean Dorst, publicado en 1965, y Nuestro futuro robado escrito por Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski y John Peterson Myers, publicado en 1996, los cuales basados en evidencias científicas causaron un gran impacto en la población mundial, debido a que llamaron la atención acerca de la destrucción de la naturaleza, la pérdida de especies de animales y plantas, del uso discriminado de pesticidas como el DDT y de sustancias químicas que se comportan como disruptores que alteran el sistema endocrino de los organismos. Ponen en evidencia la importancia de los temas sociales y ecológicos y reconoce la necesidad de una reflexión desde la bioética y la educación ambiental, que forman parte del mismo discurso que relaciona lo científico y lo humano. Y de cómo estos libros de algún modo han influenciado en una serie de procesos y mecanismos y acuerdos que se han concretado para proteger al planeta, los hábitats y las especies.

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Karvonen, Andy. "The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement (review)." Technology and Culture 49, no. 1 (2007): 242–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tech.2008.0031.

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Wood, Nathan. "Gratitude and Alterity in Environmental Virtue Ethics." Environmental Values 29, no. 4 (August 1, 2020): 481–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096327119x15579936382590.

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Rachel Carson begins her revolutionary book Silent Spring with a quote from E.B. White that reads 'we would stand a better chance of survival if we accommodated ourselves to this planet and viewed it appreciatively'. While White's advice can account for an instrumental relationship towards nature, I believe that the more important relationship offered in his recommendation is one of appreciation or gratitude. But how are we to understand gratitude as appreciating Nature non-instrumentally when it has traditionally always been understood as a response to a benefit received? My motivation is to modify our traditional conception of gratitude alongside Simon Hailwood's account of the 'Otherness of Nature' to see how we can truly show gratitude for Nature rather than simply reflecting on how Nature serves human interests.

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Mauch, Christof. "Der Mensch als Gast der Borgias Rachel Carsons Silent Spring aus historischer Sicht." GAIA - Ecological Perspectives for Science and Society 21, no. 3 (October 2, 2012): 230–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.14512/gaia.21.3.15.

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Davis, Frederick Rowe. "Pesticides and the perils of synecdoche in the history of science and environmental history." History of Science 57, no. 4 (June 24, 2019): 469–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0073275319848964.

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When the Environmental Protection Agency banned DDT late in 1972, environmentalists hailed the decision. Indeed, the DDT ban became a symbol of the power of environmental activism in America. Since the ban, several species that were decimated by the effects of DDT have significantly recovered, including bald eagles, peregrines, ospreys, and brown pelicans. Yet a careful reading of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring reveals DDT to be but one of hundreds of chemicals in thousands of formulations. Carson called for a reduction in the use of all chemical insecticides. Carson’s recommendations notwithstanding, policymakers focused on DDT and other chlorinated hydrocarbons, culminating in the DDT ban, passage of the Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act of 1972, and subsequent bans on aldrin and dieldrin. Similarly, the history of pesticides has focused inordinately on DDT, providing a myopic image of the ongoing challenges of pesticides in agricultural practice and ongoing environmental protection efforts in the modern world. “Pesticides and the perils of synecdoche” argues that focusing on DDT oversimplified the environmental risks of chemical insecticides and narrowed the parameters of the debate, and in the process both policy and subsequent histories neglected the highly toxic organophosphate insecticides, which dominated agriculture in the United States and the world after the DDT ban, with unintended consequences for farmworkers and wildlife.

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Inoue, T. "Hormonally active agents and plausible relationships to adverse effects on human health." Pure and Applied Chemistry 75, no. 11-12 (January 1, 2003): 2555–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1351/pac200375112555.

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A hormonally active compound was first identified in the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in 1962, implicating the effect of pesticides such as DDT and the derivatives. Nearly four decades later, the book Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn et al., and other pertinent publications have revisited and broadened the issue regarding a variety of possible chemicals and the area exposed. Translation and publication became available in Japan within the last four years. Since then, Japan joined the member countries involved in the global issue of endocrine disruptors, the "environmental hormone". Although a significant number of chemicals possessing a hormone-like action have been recognized for many years, and the action of their biological plausibility related to the receptor-mediated effects strongly suggests possible human effects comparable to hormonal changes in wildlife, little is known about evidences or adversities in experimental animals and humans. The most essential key to resolving these dilemmas may be to understand the mechanism of actions (i.e., a possible low-dose issue). In other words, the mechanism at the low-dose effect may be resolved simultaneously by the mechanism of three major questions linked to the low-dose issue; namely, threshold, possible oscillation, and additive and/or synergistic action.

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Richmond, Marsha L. "Women as Public Scientists in the Atomic Age." Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 47, no. 3 (June 1, 2017): 349–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2017.47.3.349.

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With the onset of the atomic age in 1945, geneticists increasingly spoke out about how nuclear fallout and radiation impacted heredity and reproduction. The scholarship discussing post–World War II activism focuses almost exclusively on males, with little attention given to women who served as public scientists or the role gender played in gaining public trust and influencing policy makers. This paper examines two women, both trained in genetics, who became activists in the 1950s and 1960s to educate the public about the dangers radiation and wartime chemicals posed to the human germ plasm. In Genetics in the Atomic Age (1956), Charlotte Auerbach (1899–1994) described basic genetic principles to explain why radiation-induced mutations could be harmful. In Silent Spring (1962), Rachel Carson (1907–1964) drew on genetics to warn about the possible mutagenic properties of DDT along with other concerns. Both women fostered scientific literacy to empower an informed citizenry that could influence public policy. They appealed both to men and to the growing cadre of middle-class educated women, encouraging an expanded role for maternal responsibility: not only protecting families but also the well-being of all humankind. This essay is part of a special issue entitled THE BONDS OF HISTORY edited by Anita Guerrini.

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Arthi, R., and V. Bhuvaneswari. "Humanities, Science, and Technology: The Nexus." ECS Transactions 107, no. 1 (April 24, 2022): 3313–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1149/10701.3313ecst.

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Science and technology are complex terms as it involves laws, logical array of concepts, and series of practical experiments when compared to literature, which is an art form abounding in expressions. In science and technology, there are only two opinions: something could be only right or wrong. In literature, there are multitudes of opinions since it is viewed with different prisms. Moreover, there is no right or wrong in the humanities. Science concepts could only be understood by the field experts. However literature grants everyone the access to comprehend. When a research article elaborates on how technology would assist in forging a sustainable environment, the readers from non-technical background would find the concepts obscure because of the technical terms, laws, theories, and empirical results. Humanities address lifestyle, culture, philosophy, psychology to science, and technology. When technology infused concepts are furnished with literary narratives, the readers could effortlessly decipher. This style of writing marked its beginning when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. The work addressed the adverse effect of using pesticides, inculcates environment friendly thoughts and insights, and stresses the need in educating the people on malign effects of pesticides. Even before that, writers like Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson shaped their works artistically whilst insisting the readers to aim for a sustainable and harmonious living space. The primary objective of the paper is to unveil how literary chef d'oeuvre educates the readers on sustainable living through literary narrations and the role of humanities in promoting science and technology.

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Luma, Melo. "Women in toxicology in the United States." Toxicology Research 10, no. 4 (July 30, 2021): 902–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/toxres/tfab075.

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Abstract Since the toxicology field was established, women have played a critical role in it. This article is written to celebrate the 20-year anniversary of the Special Interest Group for Women in Toxicology, affiliated with the Society of Toxicology. Six female pioneers in modern Toxicology from different social classes and education backgrounds are featured. Despite these differences, they overcame similar obstacles in gender, politics, and scientific barriers to disseminate their research. This discussion will start with Ellen Swallow Richards, who, besides being the pioneer in sanitary engineering, founded the home economics movement that applied science to the home. The discussion will continue with Alice Hamilton, a contributor to occupational health, a pioneer in the field of industrial toxicology, and an example of generosity to social movements and those in need. Subsequently, the most famous woman we discuss in this paper is Rachel Carson, whose fundamental work in environmental Toxicology is evidenced in her important book Silent Spring. This article also features Elizabeth Miller, a biochemist known for her fundamental research in cancer carcinogenesis, followed by Mary Amdur. Nowadays much of what we know about air pollution comes due to Mary, who paid from her own pocket for her experimental animals to investigate Donora smog pollutants and their health damages. And last but not least Elizabeth Weisburger, a chemist who made significant contributions in carcinogenesis and chemotherapy drugs who worked for 40 years at the National Cancer Institute. Here, we discuss the aforementioned women’s careers and personal struggles that transformed toxicology into the field we know now.

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Hellou, Jocelyne, Michel Lebeuf, and Marilynn Rudi. "Review on DDT and metabolites in birds and mammals of aquatic ecosystems." Environmental Reviews 21, no. 1 (March 2013): 53–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/er-2012-0054.

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Interdisciplinary research regarding the pesticide DDT has been ongoing since its synthesis in 1874, with thousands of publications appearing in the literature. The present review, on the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, examines the state of knowledge regarding the presence and toxicity of DDT in two groups of top predators in the aquatic environment, mammals and birds. The objective is to outline the essential chemical information available on the fate of this most renowned persistent organic pollutant in the context of other lipophilic contaminants, as much in terms of the abiotic environment as for the tissue distribution of DDT derivatives. The facts associated with bioaccumulation and biotransformation as well as linkages to more and less known toxic effects are presented. The discussion highlights the better understanding derived from bird investigations initiated owing to the discovery of avian reproductive effects, in contrast to the challenges faced in research on marine mammals. Eggshell thinning was observed when there were fewer industrial chemicals in use, while in the 21st century the plethora of xenobiotics entering the food web increased exponentially. A discussion of sediment quality guidelines as well as tissue guidelines is presented to explain the derivation of threshold concentrations for toxic effects. Recommendations are made to continue research on environmental contaminants entering the food chain, covering more POP and relevant toxic endpoints. Developments to replace DDT are highlighted alongside the cautionary principle, plus the regulation program launched in Europe in 2002 that will be implemented in 2020 to replace harmful chemicals.

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Malarvizhi, P., and Sangeeta Yadav. "Corporate Environmental Disclosures on the Internet: an Empirical Analysis of Indian Companies." Issues In Social And Environmental Accounting 2, no. 2 (December 31, 2008): 211. http://dx.doi.org/10.22164/isea.v2i2.33.

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The impact of industrialization, on natural resources, human health and environment was not clear till 1960s. Rachel Carson for the first time in 1962 raised important questions about human impact on nature in her book, Silent Spring. With the growing awareness towards sustainable development, industries and corporations have a major role in environmental degradation and protection thereof. In the past, accounting theories emphasized primarily on financial performance. This awareness on sustainable development is visible through varied environmental management mechanisms practiced amongst companies across the world. Environmental concerns are addressed by corporate giants through identification and estimation of environmental costs, benefits, investments, assets and liabilities into main stream accounting and reporting practices, for varied managerial decisions. These focused environmental efforts have sharpened and improved the global reporting standards. In India, the incorporation of environmental costs and benefits into mainstream financial reporting is at its nascent stage at present - but it is certain to grow. Indian companies have not yet developed a holistic approach to environmental reporting, as there is lack of environmental reporting guidelines. On the other hand environmental awareness among Indian stakeholders gets strengthened with advancement in communication technology. High propensity of environmental awareness ensures a more cautious approach among Indian corporations to be environmentally responsible. With the advancement of information and communications technologies, global corporate information disclosures have been on rise through the medium of internet, as confirmed by various recent national and international surveys. This research has observed that Indian companies follow diverse reporting practices on the internet viz., stand alone environmental reporting (satellite accounts) or reporting along with the Annual/Financial Reports, or Sustainability Reporting.

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Savitha. G. P. "Writing on the Wall and our Shortsightedness." Creative Launcher 6, no. 4 (October 30, 2021): 102–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.53032/tcl.2021.6.4.16.

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The Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, which brought the issue of pesticides to the center stage is dedicated to Albert Schweitzer, who said, “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth”. This paper will try to understand and analyse our position with regard to the prediction made by Albert Schweitzer. Are we still moving in the same direction of self-destruction or have we regained our capacity to foresee and forestall? Man’s interaction with nature has altered it in very significant ways which in turn has been affecting the life of man in unpredictable ways. The way forward is from adverse Anthropocene to conscious Anthropocene. Shankar’s 2018 release, Akshay Kumar and Rajnikanth starrer 2.0 warn us about the problems of radiation which will wipe away the birds from Earth before us going the same way. How the overcrowded telephone network towers and the radiation from them will wreak havoc, if not checked right away is the point of discussion in the movie. 2016 release Remo D’ Souza’s A flying Jatt, starring Tiger Shroff also speaks of the impending doom if we do not manage our waste properly. The pollutants which we are releasing generously into the environment are nothing but our own suicide in installments. The writing has been on the wall for long. Poornachandra Tejaswi in his novel Chidambara Rahasya depicts the picture of a society which ignores this writing on the wall for short term gains and this shortsightedness results in the destruction of nature, culture and the life as we know. This paper intends to study the equation between man and nature as depicted in the above mentioned movies and literature.

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Joshi, Rakesh, and Falguni Vyas. "Global Warming and Environmental Imbalance." International Review of Business and Economics 1, no. 3 (2018): 22–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.56902/irbe.2018.1.3.6.

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The natural resources like earth, wind, water, trees are the basis of human-life. For the bright future of human beings, it is essential to use these resources with a great care. ‘Environment’ means the physical, chemical and biological surroundings in which an organism exists. Thus, environment is the gift of nature. Prior to 20th century, there was no major evidence of human influence on environment. Environmental degradation up to this period was mainly due to natural disasters, like cyclone, earthquake etc. Up to that period; natural resources were not used beyond their regenerative capacities. So, what was used, was regenerated. But, after the population explosion in the world, the situation started changing. Gradually, this led to serious environmental degradation behind which, the need and greed of human kind is responsible. Ever increasing pollution, demolition of forests and bio-diversity, increase in global warming, etc. have alarmed us for awareness of environmental protection. Worldwide environmental awareness was started during the 1960s. The main impetus came from the publication of a book ‘Silent Spring’ by Rachel Carson in 1962. This book revealed the risk of using some pesticides and their bad effects on human life and thereby showed the necessity for the protection of earth. The world summit held at Rio-de-Janeiro in 1992, had focused the attention towards environmental problems. The economists also started looking afresh to the central economic problem of resource scarcity in relation to their possible uses. After 1970, many economists started arguing that development can be made sustainable only with efficient and judicious use of natural resources. In this paper, we have described various factors responsible for environmental hazards and we have also suggested our duties regarding the protection of the earth.

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Matthews, G. A. "The Need for Integrated Pest Management (ipm)." Outlooks on Pest Management 33, no. 5 (October 1, 2022): 174–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1564/v33_oct_01.

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Much attention has been given to the use of chemical insecticides since the development of DDT which proved important for controlling mosquitoes and many other insect pests until Rachel Carson in her book "Silent Spring" pointed out its adverse impact on birds. More recently greater concern has been expressed about other chemical insecticides having a detrimental impact on the natural enemies of pests, bees and moving into rivers and other areas. The EU has now promoted Integrated Pest Management as an alternative system to reduce the use of chemical pesticides. IPM is not a new idea. In the USA, IPM was first mentioned around 1959 when in California, it was proposed that insecticides should only be applied if the number of pests exceeded an economic threshold, thus encouraging scouting to assess the number of pests in a crop. Earlier, in Central and Southern Africa when it was decided to grow cotton, seed of a variety "Cokers Wild" was imported from USA but suffered severe damage caused by jassids. Luckily in South Africa seed had also been obtained from India and soon a variety with hairs on leaves was introduced that survived jassid damage, although bollworms still restricted the yields. Then in 1938, it was decided that there had to be a closed season of two months in which no cotton plants should be present. This action was to reduce bollworms entering a crop as soon as fields were sown with cotton when the rain season began in November. Bollworms, Diparopsis castanea, the red bollworm and Helicoverpa armigera, the 'American bollworm' still caused damage, so when trials began with endrin and then DDT in 1958, it was pointed out that it was important to gain more conjunction with other forms of control. While studies using insecticides continued there were other investigations to determine the possible use of traps with pheromone to reduce bollworm damage. The immediate work was to collaborate with extension staff to train farmers how to scout for bollworm eggs and spray the insecticide recommended for the bollworms detected in the crop.

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Dunlap, Thomas R., and Neil Goodwin. "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." Journal of American History 80, no. 3 (December 1993): 1206. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2080592.

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Lear, Linda J. "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." Environmental History Review 17, no. 2 (1993): 23–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3984849.

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Jeom Suk Yeon. "Rachel Carson’s “Noisy” Silent Spring." Literature and Environment 12, no. 2 (December 2013): 101–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.36063/asle.2013.12.2.005.

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Lawrence Mastroni. "Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (review)." Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies 38, no. 1 (2008): 75–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/flm.0.0025.

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Paull, John. "The Rachel Carson Letters and the Making ofSilent Spring." SAGE Open 3, no. 3 (July 2, 2013): 215824401349486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2158244013494861.

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Ku, JaHyon. "A Rhetorical Criticism of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring." Korean Journal of Rhetoric 35 (September 30, 2019): 5–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.31325/kjr.2019.09.35.05.

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Lars Johanesson, Gary A. Genosko &. "Re-reading Silent Spring & (untitled art)." UnderCurrents: Journal of Critical Environmental Studies 1 (April 1, 1989): 9–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.25071/2292-4736/37635.

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Rachel Carson's historic book Silent Spring, published in 1962, may not have marked the beginning of what we might call modern environmentalism -- although she might have been the mother of such a movement -- but it did make a major contribution to the development of a widespread ecological consciousness and encouraged environmentally sound practices.

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Dillon, Justin. "Happy Birthday Silent Spring: Towards Reconceptualising Science and the Environment." Australian Journal of Environmental Education 18 (January 2002): 15–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0814062600001075.

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AbstractRachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, an exposé of the perils of aenal spraying of pesticides in the post-war years, was first published forty years ago, in 1962. Views about the book and its impact vary considerably. This paper takes a critical look at some of the claims made by her supporters, in her name, about the role and value of science. Carson is highly critical of some aspects of science and of some scientists, however, I argue that Carson did not argue against the value of science as a way of knowing. Her message that it is the misuse of science, sustained by individual greed and market forces, that is the problem, has been lost, deliberately or accidentally.

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Bush, Elizabeth. "Spring after Spring: How Rachel Carson Inspired the Environmental Movement by Stephanie Roth Sisson." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 71, no. 11 (2018): 486. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2018.0524.

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Pimentel, David. "Silent Spring, the 50th anniversary of Rachel Carson’s book." BMC Ecology 12, no. 1 (2012): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6785-12-20.

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Gatto, Nicole M. "Environmental Carcinogens and Cancer Risk." Cancers 13, no. 4 (February 4, 2021): 622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/cancers13040622.

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Sedehi, Kamelia Talebian. "Grieving over the Degradation of Nature in Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring." Journal of Language Teaching and Research 8, no. 5 (September 1, 2017): 965. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/jltr.0805.18.

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring focuses on the loss of species as a result of toxic contamination and pesticides. The loss of nature and environment affected people and led them to grieve. The term environmental melancholia which is used by Renee Lertzman deals with the grief and mourning over the loss of nature. Therefore, the current paper intends to shed light on Silent Spring by applying Lertzman’s environmental melancholia. As people face the degradation of the nature and they are unable to take any action, they will lead to melancholia. Therefore, this paper will indicate the ways people contribute in nature saving or its improvement based on Silent Spring. Besides the article will explain how to take care of the environment and nature.

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Price, Catherine. "Reimagining Just Futures with Rachel Carson's Silent Spring." Environment and History 28, no. 4 (November 1, 2022): 539–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.3197/096734022x16627150607989.

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Smith, Michael B. ""Silence, Miss Carson!" Science, Gender, and the Reception of "Silent Spring"." Feminist Studies 27, no. 3 (2001): 733. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3178817.

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Parks, Perry. "Silent Spring, Loud Legacy: How Elite Media Helped Establish an Environmentalist Icon." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 94, no. 4 (March 23, 2017): 1215–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077699017696882.

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Rachel Carson’s 1962 book, Silent Spring, is widely credited with altering Americans’ environmental consciousness and changing people’s relationship with nature, science, and government. One means by which the book, which chronicled the dangers of pesticides, has attained and reinforced its symbolic status in collective memory is through newspaper coverage, which remained persistent through its first five decades. This study of 50 years of Silent Spring in two elite newspapers traces how news media can help elevate a situated artifact into an enduring icon with contemporary power—not just through thoughtful, well-researched journalism but also through numerous instrumental decisions by copy editors, agate clerks, and calendar compilers.

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Lutts, R. H. "Chemical Fallout: Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Radioactive Fallout, and the Environmental Movement." Environmental History Review 9, no. 3 (September 1, 1985): 210–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3984231.

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Barrow, Mark V. "Carson in cartoon: a new window onto the noisy reception to Silent Spring." Endeavour 36, no. 4 (December 2012): 156–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2012.09.005.

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Meyer, Craig A. "Taking Lessons from Silent Spring: Using Environmental Literature for Climate Change." Literature 1, no. 1 (July 29, 2021): 2. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/literature1010002.

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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962) created a new genre termed “science nonfiction literature.” This genre blended environmental science and narrative while ushering in a new era of awareness and interest for both. With the contemporary climate crisis becoming more dire, this article returns to Carson’s work for insight into ways to engage deniers of climate change and methods to propel action. Further, it investigates and evaluates the writing within Silent Spring by considering its past in our present. Using the corporate reception of Carson’s book as reference, this article also examines ways climate change opponents create misunderstandings and inappropriately deceive and misdirect the public. Through this analysis, connections are made that connect literature, science, and public engagement, which can engender a broader, more comprehensive awareness of the importance of environmental literature as a medium for climate awareness progress.

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Walker, Kenny. "“Without Evidence, there is No Answer”: Uncertainty and Scientific Ethos in theSilent Spring[s] of Rachel Carson." Environmental Humanities 2, no. 1 (2013): 101–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-3610369.

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Clark, J. F. M. "Pesticides, pollution and the UK's silent spring, 1963–1964: Poison in the Garden of England." Notes and Records: the Royal Society Journal of the History of Science 71, no. 3 (February 15, 2017): 297–327. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsnr.2016.0040.

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Despite being characterized as ‘one of the worst agricultural accidents in Britain in the 1960s’, the ‘Smarden incident’ has never been subjected to a complete historical analysis. In 1963, a toxic waste spill in Kent coincided with the publication of the British edition of Rachel Carson's Silent spring . This essay argues that these events combined to ‘galvanize’ nascent toxic and environmental consciousness. A seemingly parochial toxic waste incident became part of a national phenomenon. The Smarden incident was considered to be indicative of the toxic hazards that were born of technocracy. It highlighted the inadequacies of existent concepts and practices for dealing with such hazards. As such, it was part of the fracturing of the consensus of progress: it made disagreements in expertise publicly visible. By the completion of the episode, 10 different governmental ministries were involved. Douglas Good, a local veterinary surgeon, helped to effect the ‘reception’ of Silent spring in the UK by telling the ‘Smarden story’ through local and national media and through the publications of anti-statist organizations.

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Phipps, Tim T. "Commercial Agriculture and the Environment: An Evolutionary Perspective." Northeastern Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 20, no. 2 (October 1991): 143–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0899367x00002968.

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The decade of the 1980s saw a resurgence of concern over the environmental and health effects of agricultural production that exceeded even the concern in the sixties generated by the publication of Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring. Consumers worried about the health effects of pesticide residues on foods; conversion of wetlands to crop production was blamed for the decreased population of migratory waterfowl; rural residents worried about the effects of nitrates and pesticides found in their groundwater supplies; and sediment, nutrients, and pesticides in surface waters were blamed for the decline of estuaries such as the Chesapeake Bay and contributed to problems in freshwater and coastal fisheries.

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Graham, Otis L. "Introduction: A Long Way from Earth Day." Journal of Policy History 12, no. 1 (January 2000): 1–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jph.2000.0004.

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The third Conservation movement was summoned to life between Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring (1962) and the Santa Barbara Oil Spill at the end of the movement-spawning Sixties, and would be called by a more nature-evoking term—environmentalism. Looking back from there, those of us with some historical memory were struck by how far we had come from the first Conservation crusade led by John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot, or the second led by FDR in the 1930s. In those early days they thought the problem was loss of forests, soil erosion, water and air pollution, and that the solutions were National Parks and National Forests watched over by civil servants in their gray or tan-brown uniforms, along with a Soil Conservation Service for farmers.

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Doro, Elijah, and Sandra Swart. "A silenced spring? Exploring Africa’s ‘Rachel Carson moment’: A socio-environmental history of the pesticides in tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia, 1945–80." International Review of Environmental History 5, no. 2 (November 13, 2019): 5–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/ireh.05.02.2019.01.

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Dories, Jeff. "Decentring Anthropocentric Narcissism: The Novum and the EcoGothic in Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem and Ball Lightning." Southeast Asian Review of English 59, no. 1 (July 25, 2022): 110–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.22452/sare.vol59no1.8.

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Abstract: This article examines Cixin Liu’s The Three-Body Problem and Ball Lightning using the framework of Liu’s essay “Beyond Narcissism: What Science Fiction Can Offer Literature,” as well as the idea of the ecogothic, as outlined by William Hughes, Andrew Smith, David Del Principe, and Emily Carr. Liu discusses the idea that literature primarily focuses on human relationships. He then explains that the universe is vast, and in the 13.2 billion years of history, humans have only been present for a small percentage of that time. Because of this, he calls for literature to experiment with challenging anthropocentric thought. This article focuses on how Liu uses ecological horror, feelings of dislocation, disorientation, fragmentation, and the uncanny to challenge anthropocentric ideology. It relies on close reading and an examination of intertextuality, especially focusing on Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and Peter Singer’s Animal Liberation.

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