A book on the protection of the environment

你知道这本书吗？我认为这房间里几乎所有人都听过这本书，因为它是如此出名。这本书的出版引起了全国范围的农药禁令。另外，最重要的是，这本书的作者是特别的。她是一位科学家，她也是一位全职作家。所以你能猜出我要说的是谁吗？是的，我要告诉你，瑞秋，一个著名的海洋生物学家。

Hello everyone! Thank you for your attention!

There is a book, which is on the list of the 100best non-fiction books of the 20th century. It is silent spring.

Do you know this book? I think almost everyone in this room heard about this book as it is so famous. And the publication of this book caused a nationwide ban of pesticides. Also, most importantly, the writer of this book is special. At first, she is a scientist, then she is a full time writer.

So can you guess who I am going to talk about? Yes, I am going to tell you Rachel Carson, a famous marine biologist. She devoted herself’ into the research about the detrimental effects caused by DDT, a kind of pesticide.

Now let’s first look at how she firstly focused on the use of DDT as well as how she came to write the famous book silent spring.

DDT was developed with the help of military funding starting from World War II. And then, in America, there is a gypsy moth program, which involved the aerial spraying of DDT. The spraying action involved the spraying of private land. However, the research at the Library of Medicine of the national Institutes of Health find that DDT may cause cancer. And then, Carson, with the help of NIH librarian Dorothy Algire, found proof to support the pesticide-cancer connection as well as the evidence about the link between pesticide exposure and the environment damage, hence she wrote the famous book Silent Spring.

As a famous man said, “Silent Spring altered the balance of power in the world. No one since would be able to sell pollution as the necessary underside of progress so easily or uncritically”. Yes, surely it is. The publication of Silent Spring caused a series of environment movements. It was influential for the start of ecofeminism and it started campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States.

That’s all, Thank you!