RACHEL CARSON, who became famous for just part of her body of work, a book called Silent Spring, which came out in 1962, was a woman who tried to make the wake up call that pesticides were poisoning the environment. This marine biologist worked long and hard at her avocation, without making much money or becoming rich. Though her research followed scientific methods in her time, today no doubt she'd be a PHD.
Her focus was a bit more on the ocean environment first, what was happening under the water to animals like fish, but she couldn't deep sea dive, and eventually focused on the sea life that was closer to shore in tide pools.
This film shows you how DDT was marketed - almost as if it were good for the environment and our health!
This film also reveals that Carson was an intensely private woman, you could say a bit of a loner, who enjoyed research and having a rich studious life more so than being social. She also had a battle with breast cancer.
I wonder if Carson ever linked her breast cancer with pollution, in particular pesticides!
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