Life of Rachel Carson

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of 1936.

While she was still employed at the bureau of fisheries, which became later known as the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, she was writing at night and on the weekends. She published her first of five pamphlets in Conservation in Action series for USFWS. She also created a series of seven minute radio spots on marine life called “Romance Under the Waters”. She had a breast tumor, but then got it removed. When Rachel’s niece died she adopted her son Roger Christie.

Right before she wrote Silent Springs she underwent radical mastectomy for breast cancer. She published Silent Springs in 1962. It sold more than 190,000 copies in one month. It was the #1 best seller for 31 weeks (Chronology of Rachel Carson’s Life and Work). While Silent Springs was still #1, she went to go see the Atlantic Ocean, for the first time. In 1963 Rachel went up against the US Congress to testify for protection of human health and the environment. The EPA had been working since the 1970’s to work for the protection of human health and the environment, of course Rachel won the battle. One year after her battle with the US Congress she died of a long battle against cancer. She died while she was in Silver Spring, MD, she was only 56 years old (Chronology of Rachel Carson’s Life and Work).

Miss. Carson will always be remembered for 5 books on pollution and wildlife: Silent Springs, Under the sea-wind, The sea around us, The edge of the sea, and The sense of wonder. Also for her amazing work in the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries and protecting the living species. In the 1940’s she founded DDT (Rachel Carson Legacy).

She had changed science by changing the way the humankind viewed the natural world. She showed the world how DDT harmed animals. She has changed the nations pollution history forever. She had a good enough heart to clean the entire environment and all of the animals in it. She will always be remembered in our nations history.