Rachel Carson
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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.
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[uredi] 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
[uredi] Vanjski linkovi
[uredi] 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.
[uredi] 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
