Dictionary of Environmental Health
The title of a book first published in 1962 and written by Rachel Carson. The book was one of the first of its kind to deal with issues of chemical pollution of the environment by pesticides, herbicides and fertilisers, and was a landmark in the progress of the environmental movement.
The book was greeted with considerable scepticism and opposition at the time it was published, but it was instrumental in identifying and eventually leading to controls on the use of pesticides such as DDT. The title of the book refers to the scenario in which chemicals had destroyed bird life to the extent that spring arrived with no attendant bird song.
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