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The Legacy of Rachel Carson

     "Everywhere was a shadow of death. The farmers spoke much of illness among their families...There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example- where had they gone? The few birds seen anywhere were moribund, they trembled violently and could not fly...The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire."

    
    In the acclaimed book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson warns that without quick and drastic changes the crippling uses of DDT would soon result in a world similar to the one she depicted in the passage above. Thankfully, we heeded to Carson's warnings and DDT has since been banned in many places
     
    The Rachel Carson Leadership Award, a biannual award given to women who have shown leadership in preserving the environment, is an example of how Carson
has been honored today. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services have also commemorated their former employee by dedicating a wildlife refuge to her.
Earth Day is also directly related to the work of Rachel Carson. It currently involves over half a billion participants around the globe.

    Linda Lear, a Carson biographer, believes that "the most important thing to Carson was that we understand how we do nothing in isolation and that everything is related to everything else…the least change in the ecosystem has its concomitant change elsewhere. What we do is not in isolation but in community."

    Because of Carson’s inspiration and books, we have
grown more appreciative of our natural surroundings. Globally, 26 countries have since forbidden the use of DDT, and 12 others have strict restrictions on the chemical.
 
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