Subject: Rachel Carson Response: "Becker, Carson & Me"
(I Cut and Pasted this entry from Laulima)
Rachel Carson was a very inspiring woman. She was a private, but very effective woman. She brought up issues about the environment that no one else had before. In her famous book, Silent Spring, she informed the public about pesticides and other toxins that was poisoning our earth. She talked about such things as 'man trying to get ahead' and also the subject about the toxins killing our natural resources.
The way that Ms. Carson brought attention to the public was in an informative way, a way that did not point fingers at a specific individual. She brought the information out with honesty and in ways that made the people think and understand what was really going on.
Because Carson was such a good writer, she got the information out in the public about her concerns through different radio scripts, different articles, and many different books. She was smart, and she was powerful. After Carson completed her own research, she came up with the book: Silent Spring. The information in the book was alarming enough to get the president's attention and also other very important companies.
Her book caused much controversy and important people wanted her to be quiet. She remained active in despite of wishes for her to stop and continued to take her stand against new technologies coming with destructive side effects.
If I had made a discovery such as Carson did, I would definitely use the internet to get the word out. The internet is fast and it reaches billions of people.
After her passing in 1964, her books and information lives on and continues to educate the uneducated.
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