1、History of Modern American Science and TechnologySession 5,Modern Environmental Movement,Rachel Carson, 1907-1964,Marine biologist (MS from Johns Hopkins) and nature writerCareer in Fish and Wildlife Service, US federal government, 1936-1952Wrote popular books on the ocean, most famously The Sea aro
2、und US (1952)Wrote Silent Spring (1958-1962) which has been called one of the few books that changed world history; it started the modern environmental movement,Silent Spring (1962),Modern problem: “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one speciesmanacquired significant power to alter the nature of his world.” Scale of the problem: “Along with the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of mans total environment with such substances of incredible potentials for harm.”,