The Woman Who Sparked Concern for the Environment

Rachel Carson was a Marine Biologist in a time where many women could only even dream of going to college. She started her career part time working with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries, and she urged people, from the beginning of her career, to be aware of the destructions that human placed onto the environment. She then was given a full time position by the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and became one of two women employed at the time professionally by the bureau. She continued to do work for the government dealing with the oceans. Her first book, Under the Sea-Wind, showed that she could take all the scientific lingo and jargon and simplify it for "normal" audiences. Her work did not need a college degree in biology to understand, which could be the reason that her work was so pivotal for the environmental movement. She went on to be an aquatic biologist, assistant editor and later, chief editor for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. After she retired from the Fish and Wildlife Service to focus on her writing after her second book, The Sea Around Us, was published. Not only did this book give the U.S. reasons that it should start to take concern about the environment, but also the world because it was translated into 32 different languages. While she worked for the Fish and Wildlife Service she became interested in how pesticides affected the environment. She wrote Silent Springs to educate people on the use of pesticides and the negative affects they have on our environment. Her book sparked Congress to review its pesticide laws and ban DDT. Carson was a women, who in a time in which women did not have much power, who was able to start a movement that could help the human race in the future from destroying our planet. We would not want to end up in a destroyed and unlivable world like the one you see in the animated film Wall-E; therefore it is important that we try to stop destroying our environment and Rachel Carson was the mother of this movement to keep our planet safe from our own hands.

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