With a passion for nature instilled in her at an early age, writer and biologist Rachel Carson became a fearless champion for the environment. Carson's great love of the natural world drove her to write an expose of the chemical industry, specifically its unregulated use of DDT. Defying her failing health and risking her reputation, Carson published her controversial work, "Silent Spring," in 1962. She was viciously attacked, called "an ignorant and...
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