![]() ![]() ![]() Under the Sea-Wind told the story of Silverbar, a sanderling that migrated from the Arctic Circle to Argentina Scomber, a mackerel that traveled from New England to the Continental Shelf and Anguilla, an American eel that journeyed to the Sargasso Sea to spawn. Although written for adults, the book had a child-like sense of wonder. 1, 1941, Rachel Carson published her first book, Under the Sea-Wind. Unfortunately, the PBS documentary neglected to mention that in her groundbreaking book, Silent Spring, Carson had made one critical mistake-and it cost millions of people their lives. In the early 1960s, she was the first to warn that a pesticide called DDT could accumulate in the environment, the first to show that it could harm fish, birds, and other wildlife, the first to warn that its overuse would render it ineffective, and the first to predict that more natural means of pest control-like bacteria that killed mosquito larvae-should be used instead. Although the program crossed the line from biography to hagiography, in Carson’s case, the unbridled praise was well deserved-with one exception. 24, 2017, PBS aired a two-hour special on Rachel Carson, the mother of the environmental movement. ![]()
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