Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson

Rachel Carson (Springdale, 27. maj 1907. - Silver Spring, 14. april 1964. godine) je bila američki zoolog i biolog, pokretač modernog pokreta za zaštitu okoline.

Poslije studija se, radi popravka financijskog stanja i pisanja popularnih naučnih knjiga, zaposlila u federalnom Birou za ribolov. Kupila je kuću u Marylandu, gdje se brinula za maloljetnog nećaka. Tamo je shvatila štetnost pesticida za insekte, DDT-a. O tome je napisala detaljnu knjigu Tiho proljeće, te je nakon njene smrti SAD zabranio DDT. Neki to smatraju dobrim potezom, a drugi početkom širenja malarije.

Kao ikonu slave je lezbijke, premda je njezina seksualna orijentacija ostala nepoznata.

Reference

• Hynes, H. Patricia. The Recurring Silent Spring. New York: Pergamon Press, 1989. ISBN 0-08-037117-5
• Lear, Linda. Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. New York: Henry Holt, 1997. ISBN 0-8050-3428-5
• Lytle, Mark Hamilton. The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 ISBN 0-19-517246-9
• Murphy, Priscilla Coit. What a Book Can Do: The Publication and Reception of Silent Spring. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-55849-582-1

Vanjski linkovi

Wikicitat: Rachel Carson

Biografski izvori

• Rachel Carson papers - Yale University Library finding aid for Carson's papers
• New York Times obituary
• RachelCarson.org—website by Carson biographer Linda Lear
• Time magazine's "100 most important people" article on Carson
• Revisiting Rachel Carson—Bill Moyer's Journal, PBS.org, 9-21-2007
• "A Sense of Wonder"—a two-act play about Carson, written and performed by Kaiulani Lee based on the posthumous work of the same name.
  • YouTube Clip of Bill Moyers television on Lee's one woman show

Kriticizam

• Rachel Was Wrong—an anti-Carson website by the Competitive Enterprise Institute
• Silent Spring at 40: Rachel Carson's classic is not aging well. Reason Online, 12 June 2002