USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Rachel Carson’s first book, Under the Sea-Wind, was published in 1941. The Sea Around Us (1951) won a National Book Award, and The Edge of the Sea was published in 1955. Her influential Silent Spring (1962) became a best seller.

Detailed explanation-2: -Silent Spring is an environmental science book by Rachel Carson. Published on September 27, 1962, the book documented the environmental harm caused by the indiscriminate use of pesticides.

Detailed explanation-3: -The most important legacy of Silent Spring, though, was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. Carson had made a radical proposal: that, at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the early 1970s, the use of DDT and other pesticides like it were banned in the United States and Canada. Rachel Carson had created a legacy–she had succeeded in being a catalyst of change to the dangers of using pesticides.

Detailed explanation-5: -The title Silent Spring was in reference to the alarming dwindling population of birds in many American towns in spring (described in chapter “And No Birds Sing”) during the years of peak use of organochloride and organophosphate pesticides.