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14 January 2021
Rachel Carson changed the zeitgeist about the way people thought about the environment. She anticipated so much – global warming, plastic pollution, the decimation of the insect population and, tragically, much, much else. A total heroine. (The crucial book is of course Silent Spring, the biography is by Linda Lear.) There is a website dedicated to her memory here.
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