Rachel Carson&#;s Ecological Critique
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- John Bellamy Foster
- Brett Clark
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Rachel Carson was born just over years ago in Her most famous book Silent Spring, published in , is often seen as marking the birth of the modern environmental movement. Although an immense amount has been written about Carson and her work, the fact that she was objectively a "woman of the left" has often been downplayed. Today the rapidly accelerating planetary ecological crisis, which she more than anyone else alerted us to, calls for an exploration of the full critical nature of her thought and its relation to the larger revolt within science with which she was associated.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.
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Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love
Lida Maxwell
Stanford University Press (Jan 28, )
Hardcover$ (pp)
Lida Maxwell’s enthusiastic academic study reappraises scientist Rachel Carson’s motivations in light of ecological crisis and queer studies.
Although Carson grew up in Pennsylvania, her affinity for the ocean became paramount. On Southport Island, Maine, she met two enthusiastic readers, Stan and Dorothy Freeman. An instant connection sprang up between Carson and Dorothy. Maxwell contends that Carson’s experience of unconsummated romantic love prompted her awakening to wonder and connection, fueling Silent Spring.
“The Lost Woods” separated the women’s houses; letters, words of affection, and a kiss united them. Their correspondence is a major resource. There are also several black-and-white photographs of them together. Their fondness for a species of thrush becomes a sweet metaphor: the veery is “the voice of their love.”
Moving beyond biographical documentation, the book posits a link between queerness and conservationism. If heteronormativity implies that people should be concerned about climate change because of their children’s futures, Maxwell offers “
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Who Was Rachel Carson?
Biologist Rachel Carson alerted the world to the environmental impact of fertilizers and pesticides. Her best-known book, Silent Spring, led to a presidential commission that largely endorsed her findings and helped to shape a growing environmental consciousness. Carson died of cancer in and is remembered as an early activist who worked to preserve the world for future generations.
Early Life and Education
Marine biologist, environmentalist and writer Rachel Carson was born on May 27, , in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Carson first alerted the world about the environmental impact of fertilizers and pesticides. She grew up on a Pennsylvania farm, which gave her a lot of first-hand knowledge of nature and wildlife. She graduated from the Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in , and went on to further studies at Johns Hopkins University.
Environmental Activism
Carson taught at the University of Maryland for five years before joining the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind (), described marine life in clear, elegant and non-technical prose. She retained her government job through the
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World. Laurie Lawlor. Illustrated by Laura Beingessner. Subject Headings: Grades / Ages | |
excerpt:
As a biologist for fifteen years,
she went places where few women ventured.
She did work performed by few women:
counting deep-sea fish in foggy, dangerous currents south of Nova Scotia;
observing reef animals in a special suit
with an eighty-four-pound diving helmet off the coast of Florida;
tracking alligators atop a rumbling "glades buggy"
in the swampy Florida Everglades.
Rachel Carson and Her Book That Changed the World is about Rachel Carson's life journey as a marine biologist and an environmentalist. Rachel Carson was born on the outskirts of Springdale, PA, in Living on 65 acres of wo
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