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Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections; Social Justice
History
  • Nancy Unger, Santa Clara University
Document Type
Editorial
Publication Date
9-11-2012
Publisher
History Departments at The Ohio State University and Miami University
Abstract

Mitt Romney wants to open up more federal lands and waters to drilling for oil and natural gas. His party is pushing, in the name of freedom and economic opportunity, to roll back a variety of environmental protections. Republicans, including U.S. Senator Pat Roberts of Kansas, are seeking to ease pesticide regulations; some are even questioning the Environmental Protection Agency’s ban on DDT, reopening a controversy that stretches back half a century. Fifty years ago this month, Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring.” This critique of the America’s dependence on chemical pesticides is widely hailed as one of the most influential books of the twentieth century.

Citation Information
Unger, N. (2012). Fifty Years After “Silent Spring,” Let’s Not Roll Back Environmental Protections. History News Service. Syndication: History News Network and 5 newspapers. https://origins.osu.edu/history-news/fifty-years-after-silent-spring-let-s-not-roll-back-environmental-protections