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PBS documentary on Rachel Carson
Highly recommended inspiring and very timely film about the pioneering environmentalist Rachel Carson and her fight to bring awareness and scientific testing to the widespread use of pesticides, especially DDT, in the 1950s.
When
Silent Spring
was published in 1962 it became an instant, and controversial, bestseller and would go on to spark dramatic changes in the way the government regulated pesticides. Drawn from Carson's own writings, letters and recent scholarship, the film illuminates both the public and private life of the soft-spoken, shy scientist who launched the modern environmental movement.
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