Rachel Carson's 1962 book documenting the ecological destruction caused by DDT and other synthetic pesticides — the founding text of the modern environmental movement and a paradigm of science writing as civic action.
Made the invisible ecological violence of industrial chemistry visible to democratic publics — overcoming a major industry suppression campaign — directly causing DDT's US ban and the creation of the EPA.
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