American marine biologist and nature writer whose Silent Spring documented the environmental damage of pesticides, triggered the environmental movement, and became a paradigm case of individual scientific courage against industry pressure.
Documented with rigorous science and literary force the ecological destruction caused by DDT — overcoming a well-funded chemical industry campaign to suppress her work — establishing that a single scientist's moral courage can alter industrial policy.
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