How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring inspired the first Earth Day — and how hard the powers that be fought to stop it via nparts
The red imported fire ant is an invasive, baneful little pest of the family formicidae, native to South America and introduced to the U.S., it’s believed, by cargo shipped from Argentina to Mobile, Alabama. Understandably fed up with the fire ant and the havoc it wreaks, the U.S.
Carson never lived to celebrate an Earth Day: she passed away in early 1964, a year and a half after the publication of Silent Spring, of complications related to the treatment of her breast cancer. But she lived long enough to see the beginnings of her book’s extraordinary success — and to defend, with literally the last of her strength, the facts she knew were true against the powers that wanted desperately to disprove them.
Silent Spring is the kind of book that makes you wince in disgust several times per page. It’s impossible to read, even 50 years later, without getting upset; it makes you loathe the hubris, the monumental greed and stupidity, that made pesticide use common. “For the first time in the history of the world,” she writes, “every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.
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