1. The Silent Spring Rachel Carson

2. Rachel Louise Carson (May 27, 1907 – April 14, 1964) An American marine biologist and conservationist whose writings are credited with advancing the global environmental movement. marine biologist 海洋生物學家

3. Rachel Carson Carson began her career as a biologist in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and became a full-time nature writer in the 1950s. Her widely praised 1951 bestseller The Sea Around Us won her financial security and recognition as a gifted writer.

4. Rachel Carson Her sea trilogy ( The Sea Around Us, The Edge of the Sea and Under the Sea Wind ) explores the whole of ocean life, from the shores to the surface to the deep sea. trilogy 三部曲

5. Rachel Carson Carson turned her attention to conservation and the environmental problems caused by synthetic pesticides in the late 1950s. The result was THE SILENT SPRING. synthetic pesticide 合成農藥

6. Rachel Carson Weakened from breast cancer and her treatment regimen, Carson became ill with a respiratory virus in January 1964. Her condition worsened, and doctors found that she had severe anemia from her radiation treatments and discovered that the cancer had reached her liver. She died of a heart attack on April 14, 1964. regimen 方案 respiratory virus 呼吸道病毒 anemia 貧血

7. The Silent Spring A book written by Rachel Carson and published on 27, September, 1962. Widely credited with helping launch the environmental movement. Started serializing on The New Yorker in June, 1962 serialize 連載

8. The Silent Spring When the book was published, Rachel Carson was already a well- known writer on natural history, but had not previously been a social critic. The book brought environmental concerns to an unprecedented portion of the American public. unprecedented 空前的

9. The Silent Spring Argued that uncontrolled and unexamined pesticide use was harming and even killing not only animals and birds, but also humans. The title was meant to evoke a spring season in which no bird songs could be heard, because they had all vanished as a result of pesticide abuse.

10. The Silent Spring While met with fierce denial from chemical companies, the book spurred a reversal in national pesticide policy—leading to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides—and the grassroots environmental movement the book inspired led to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency. spur 帶動 grassroots 基層

11. The Silent Spring The book has been featured in many lists of the best nonfiction books of the twentieth century.

12. DDT Dichloro-dipheyl-trichloroethanum One of the most well-known synthetic pesticides First synthesized in 1874, however, the insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939. 1,1,1- 三氯 -2,2- 對 - 氯苯基乙烷 insecticidal 殺蟲的

13. DDT Was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. Was made available for use as an agricultural insecticide after the war, and soon its production and use skyrocketed. malaria 瘧疾 typhus 斑疹傷寒

14. DDT The Silent Spring suggested that DDT and other pesticides may cause cancer and that their agricultural use was a threat to wildlife, particularly birds. Was banned in the US 1972.

15. DDT Was subsequently banned for agricultural use worldwide under the Stockholm Convention, but its limited use in disease vector control continues to this day and remains controversial.