She died of a heart attack two years after its publication, in 1964. The process of writing the book was slowed by family issues, and then by sickness when Carson was diagnosed with breast cancer. She began work on Silent Spring, her most lasting legacy, in 1958, gathering research and soliciting contributions from major experts. With their success, she was able to quit her job and focus on writing full time, and her interests began to shift more toward conservation. Silent Spring (1962) is the best-known work by Rachel Carson (1907 1964), noted American marine biologist and environmental trailblazer. The first books that earned her fame were written on the topic of marine biology.
While there, she began writing and published articles in newspapers and magazines. Bureau of Fisheries, later known as the Fish and Wildlife Service. When her father’s sudden death left her without the time or funds necessary to continue on to a doctorate, Carson found a job with the U.S. She grew up on a farm in Pennsylvania, and then earned a master’s in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932, while working in research labs to earn money for tuition. “¿Quién ha tomado la decisión que pone en movimiento esa cadena de envenenamientos, esa ola creciente de muerte que se va extendiendo como las ondas que se forman cuando se lanza una piedra sobre un estanque tranquilo? ¿Quién ha puesto en un platillo de la balanza las hojas que podrían haberse comido los escarabajos y en el otro los lastimosos montones de plumas de diversos colores que forman los restos sin vida de las aves que cayeron bajo el golpe generalizado de los venenos insecticidas? ¿Quién ha decidido (quién tiene derecho a decidir) en nombre de legiones sin cuento de personas que no fueron consultadas, que el valor supremo corresponde a un mundo sin insectos, aunque tenga que ser también un mundo estéril, privado de la gracia de una bandada de aves en vuelo? Esa decisión es la del autoritario revestido temporalmente de poder ha sido tomada durante un momento de distracción de millones de personas para las que la belleza y el mundo ordenado de la naturaleza tienen todavía un significado que es profundo y perentorio.Rachel Carson was an important figure in modern American environmentalism, whose work is sometimes credited with creating the grassroots movement that led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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