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Unit five: Landscape Planning Silent Spring The Obligation to Endure Rachel Carson1907-1964 Before Silent Spring, nearly all Americans believed that science was a force for good. Carsons work exposed the dark side of science. It showed that DDT and other chemicals we were using to enhance agricultural productivity were poisoning our lakes, rivers, oceans, and ourselves. Thanks to her, progress can no longer be measured solely in tons of wheat produced and millions of insects killed. Thanks to her, the destruction of nature can no longer be called progress. BackgroundEnvironmental Movement TimelineA History of the American Environmental Movement 1869 John Muir moved to Yosemite Valley. In1892, John Muir wrote to the editor of Century Magazine, Let us do something to make the mountains glad. So they founded the Sierra Club, the first major organization in the world dedicated to using and preserving wild nature. It is from this act that the modern Ecology Movement was born. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir This classic of nature writing chronicles John Muirs first contact with the Sierra Nevada, in June 1869. Hired as a shepherd, Muir became fascinated by the terrain of foliage, wildlife, rivers, and streams. Forty years later, he made his notes into this book about the place he loved most. Illustrated with Muirs drawings. On Second Bench. Edge of the Main Forest Belt 1872 Congress passed legislation making Yellowstone the worlds first official National Park. 1949 Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold published posthumously. 1962 Silent Spring by Rachel Carson published. The book alerted the general public to the dangers of pesticides, particularly the dangers to humans. Yet she remained in the tradition of Muir, summarizing her main argument, The control of nature is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man. 19