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World Service,29 Sep 2010,10 mins

Silent Spring

Witness History

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published in 1962, marked the birth of the modern environmental movement. It challenged the widespread use of pesticides, and provoked a new way of looking at the world.

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