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[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10052022/rachel-carson-pennsylvania-plastics-plant/ by Kiley Bense 10/5/22 Inside Climate News] | [https://insideclimatenews.org/news/10052022/rachel-carson-pennsylvania-plastics-plant/ by Kiley Bense 10/5/22 Inside Climate News] | ||
SPRINGDALE, Pa.—If you stand in the sloping yard of the Rachel Carson Homestead and look southwest, down toward the Allegheny River, you can see the towers of the Cheswick Generating Station. Through the bare trees and thick green bramble that surround the house, the smokestacks emerge in the distance, twin pillars striped against a steel-silver sky. | SPRINGDALE, Pa.—If you stand in the sloping yard of the Rachel Carson Homestead and look southwest, down toward the Allegheny River, you can see the towers of the Cheswick Generating Station. Through the bare trees and thick green bramble that surround the house, the smokestacks emerge in the distance, twin pillars striped against a steel-silver sky. | ||
=====Rachel's War===== | |||
[https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/2016-2-march-april/green-life/rachels-war by David Gessner 15/3/16 Sierra] | |||
In the spring of 1962, the New Yorker published Rachel Carson’s anti-pesticide manifesto, Silent Spring, in three installments. Carson’s message quickly transcended the magazine’s readership, eliciting a national response that would eventually lead to a federal ban on DDT for agricultural use and the creation of the EPA. In honor of Carson’s legacy and Women’s History Month, cartoonist David Gessner illustrates the pioneering writer’s final years as she fought for the environment and for her life. (Based on Linda Lear’s biography, Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature.) | |||
