“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves." #OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.

https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/

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Ha ha, I love this photo; when revolutionaries could look like your mum! Carson is a towering figure, a true visionary who was early to see the wreckage we wrought in our bid to become more wealthy...

@CarveHerName my mum explained the fuss to me when I was 7, it just seemed right then. Now, approaching my eighth decade, it seems Carson's insight was simply correct, and it's appalling that nothing much has been done about it since then. Some still seem to think she was making a fuss about nothing. Rosebank anyone?
@CarveHerName It is proving to be a long and winding road to convince that we are better off respecting the environment.
@CarveHerName One of many quotes from her 📗 that keep it (sadly) relevant: “We stand now where two roads diverge. But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.”