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Our Friday Kanopy movie pick this week is Rachel Carson: The Woman Who Launched the Modern Environmental Movement. Drawn from Carson's own writings, letters and recent scholarship, this film illuminates both the public and private life of the woman who launched the modern environmental movement and revolutionized how we understand our relationship with the natural world.
About Rachel Carson
Born on May 27,1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania, Rachel Carson grew up with a love of nature, which she shared with her mother. Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham University) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.
After working for the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries writing radio scripts during the Depression, she embarked on a fifteen-year-career as a scientist and editor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, for which she later became Editor-in-Chief. In 1952, she published The Sea Around Us, followed by The Edge of the Sea in 1955. Both books focused on her study of the ocean, helping her rise to fame as a prominent naturalist and science writer.
In 1952, she left her government work to focus on her writing. She wrote various articles about nature and its relationship the the human race, including “Help Your Child to Wonder” in 1956. Her best known work, Silent Spring, was published in 1962 and discussed her concern about the misuse of pesticides since the end of WWII. This brought criticism from the chemical industry, however Carson remained undaunted. In 1963, she testified before Congress with the idea that human beings were just as much at risk as the rest of the ecosystem and called for policies to protect the environment from harmful chemicals. Read her statement to Congress here.
On April 11 1964, Rachel Carson died of breast cancer at the age of 56. Her research is considered the foundation for modern environmental study and she is remembered as a pioneer of eco-activism.
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Earth Day 2020: Recommended Reading
To borrow On A Farther Shore, a biography of Carson by William Souder, click here
April 22nd marks the 50th anniversary of Earth Day! Visit earthday.org to learn about the work being done around the world to keep our planet healthy.
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