Today for #WomensHistoryMonth I want to highlight Rachel Louise Carson, a well-known environmental a

Today for #WomensHistoryMonth I want to highlight Rachel Louise Carson, a well-known environmental activist (she’s from Silver Spring MD!) that brought ill-managed DDT contamination under national attention with her 1960s ground-breaking book, Silent Spring. Carson helped crystallize the beginnings of an American environmental movement, and was a catalyst for changing national pesticide policies. Her work provided formative inspiration for the deep ecology and eco-feminist movements, in addition to laying the groundwork for organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). If only she were alive today to knock some sense into Scott Pruitt and the rest of the devil’s spawn cabinet crew. *leSigh*. #HerStory #EnvironmentalMovement #SilentSpring #savethebees -- source link
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