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Silent Spring
Rachel Carson
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Carson showed that chemicals sprayed to kill insects don't stay put — they move through food chains, thin birds' eggshells, and reach us.
The 1962 book that launched the modern environmental movement, documenting how synthetic pesticides — especially DDT — accumulate in ecosystems and harm wildlife and humans.
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