It was sparked by a letter from Boston Post journalist Olga Owens Huckins who was concerned birds dying and was backed by 55 pages of notes and a list of authorities who approved the text.
It was originally serialized by The New Yorker and was parodied in the pamphlet "The Desolate Year" by the Monsanto Corporation. It was sparked by a letter from Boston Post journalist Olga Owens Huckins who was concerned birds dying and was backed by 55 pages of notes and a list of authorities who approved the text. Its most famous passage is the opening "A Fable for Tomorrow," in which the author tells of an a fictional American village where "a strange blight crept over." FTP identify this 1962 attack on chemical pesticides, especially DDT, written by Rachel Carson.
It was originally serialized by The New Yorker and was parodied in the pamphlet "The Desolate Year" by the Monsanto Corporation.
{Silent Spring}.