《Silent Spring: A shout in the wilderness

Silent spring /【America] by Rachel Carson； Translated by Lu Ruilan and Li Changsheng.——Changchun: Jilin People's Publishing House

Driven by the idea of ​​maximizing profits, the production of modern agriculture and food processing industries is inseparable from pesticides, fertilizers, and herbicides... Their frequent use has inevitably made food toxic and environmentally polluted, and ultimately affected human health... Rachel Carson, an American female writer, scientist and pioneer of the environmental protection movement ( Rachel Carson） When his book "Silent Spring" was published in 1962, it was "like a shout in the wilderness", sending a starting signal for the modern environmental protection movement. The book begins with a fable, depicts the mutation of a beautiful village that once pleasing to the eye. Through full and deep feelings, comprehensive research and eloquent scientific argumentation, it reveals the harms of chemical insecticides to the human environment in all aspects, from land to ocean to the sky, etc., from the world to the ocean to the sky.……

When we are shocked to see the earth and other lives that share nature with us are suffering from painful destruction: the biological chain is already in disorder, and humans suffer from various difficult and complicated diseases such as cancer... We are also deeply aware of how precious the land is, and how closely it is related to the colorful life... We embark on this journey of practicing environmental protection and protecting good karma for life.……（arts /Volunteer)

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When it comes to green, ecological, environmental, and low carbon, people will think of the 1962 book "Silent Spring" published by American biologist Rachel Carson. ……Chinese people pay no less attention to environmental ecology than foreign countries, and even earlier than foreign countries. ……A saying is emerging now, that is, green GDP。 This statement means that the real national wealth should be from the current situation GDP The net wealth value obtained after deducting natural resources degradation, environmental pollution, poor management and other factors in the land is a sustainable and healthy economy. If green GDP If it becomes negative, it will be a failure of the national economy. Pollution is not scary, and nature can repair it. But if nature's repair of pollution also becomes negative, then human destruction will also enter the countdown.

——Chairman of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation: Hu Deping

As early as 1962, it issued the first alarm for humans to use modern technological means to destroy their living environment. However, in the United States that year, it was severely criticized by pesticide-related companies and mocked by some public opinion. I admire Ms. Carson's scientific spirit, vision and courage. History finally proved that although she was a very rare person at the time, the truth was on her side.

Chinese people must learn to find a balance between the two, and must not advance the living environment of our descendants in exchange for the "better life" of contemporary people.

――Famous Chinese environmental activist: Liang Congjie

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If you are interested in reading newspapers or books before the 1960s, you will find that the word "environmental protection" is almost impossible to find. That is to say, environmental protection was not a concept that existed in social consciousness and scientific discussions at that time. Indeed, recall the long-standing slogans that have been popular all over the world - "Declare war on nature" and "Conquer nature". Here, nature is only the object of conquest and control of people, not the object of protection and harmony with it. This human consciousness probably originated in the primitive years and lasted until the 20th century. No one doubts its correctness, because many progress in human civilization is obtained based on this consciousness, and many current plans for human economic and social development are also formulated based on this consciousness. Rachel Carson ( Rachel Carson） The absolute correctness of this human consciousness was questioned for the first time. Does this thin, cancer-affected female scholar know that she is challenging the basic human consciousness and the social traditions that have lasted for thousands of years? Two years after the publication of "Silent Spring", she was exhausted and passed away. As a scholar and writer, Carson suffered unprecedented slander and attacks, but the thoughts she insisted on finally ignited a bright lamp for the enlightenment of human environmental consciousness.

《Silent Spring is a book that has triggered the cause of environmental protection around the world, which describes that humans may face a world without birds, bees and butterflies. The author is American marine biologist Rachel Carson, published in 1962. It is this unusual book that has attracted people's attention to wild animals around the world and aroused people's environmental awareness. This book also aroused the public's attention to environmental issues and prompted the environmental protection issues to be mentioned before governments. Various environmental protection organizations were established, which prompted the United Nations to hold the "Human Environment Conference" in Stockholm on June 12, 1972, and various countries signed the "Human Environment Declaration" to start the cause of environmental protection.

China's environmental protection industry also stopped Shacheng Pesticide Factory DDT Production began, and then it was completely banned DDT production and use.

（source: http://baike.baidu.com/view/44898.htm）

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