Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring (1962): Pesticides Are Killing Birds and Mammals

Rachel Carson, Silent Spring. Houghton Mifflin, 27 September 1962. Elizabeth Kolbert: “As much as any book can, “Silent Spring” changed the world by describing it. An immediate best-seller, the book launched the modern environmental movement, which, in turn, led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency, the passage of the Clean Air, the Clean Water, and the Endangered Species Acts, and the banning of a long list of pesticides, including dieldrin.” Silent Spring was first serialized in The New Yorker in June 1962.

Part I of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” in The New Yorker, 16 June 1962, can be read here.

Part II of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” in The New Yorker, 23 June 1962, can be read here.

Part III of Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring” in The New Yorker, 30 June 1962, can be read here.

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