HIST 460/560, Spring 2004, Week 5
Rachel Carson: Outline and Key Terms
1. The New Environmentalism: Consumption and Its Critics
2. Rachel Louise Carson Biography (1907-1964)
3. Silent Spring (1962)
4. Beyond Toxics: Carson’s Philosophy of Nature and the Emergence
of Ecology
5. What difference did gender make?
Earth Day, 1970
chlorinated hydrocarbons: DDT, for example
agribusiness
“ecology” and “environment”
competing scientific traditions: naturalistic observation and technological
domination
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