HIST 2250 Lecture 10: Week 10 Reading Unit 10
15 Sep 2015
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This unit"s reading by carson is a landmark in environmental history. Carson"s articles and later book emerged in the civil rights era, and you should think about it in terms of other reform movements of the period like the civil rights movements, second wave feminism, the animal rights activism, etc. The modern environmental movement was born in these days, in part, because of investigative journalism documenting pollution for a new generation of people. Other citizens saw the pollution with their own eyes or felt its effects on their health and had fought to clean up pollution in the past. But carson"s articles in the new yorker caught people"s imaginations in new ways. The first earth day took place in 1970, demonstrating how many people were beginning to consider themselves environmentalists. Concepts of the unit: ecological interdependence shifting baseline syndrome environmental justice. Rachel carson, silent spring, the new yorker, june 16, 1962.
