For environmentally critical times, Courage for the Earth is a
centennial appreciation of Rachel Carson's brave life and
transformative writing
Rachel Carson's lyrical, popular books about the sea, including her
best-selling The Sea Around Us, set a standard for nature writing.
By the late 1950s, Carson was the most respected science writer in
America.
She completed Silent Spring (1962) against formidable personal
odds, and with it shaped a powerful social movement that has
altered the course of history. In Silent Spring, Carson asserted
that "the right of the citizen to be secure in his own home against
the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons" must surely be a
basic human right. She was the first to challenge the moral vacuity
of a government that refused to take responsibility for or to
acknowledge evidence of environmental damage.
In this volume, today's foremost scientists and writers give
compelling evidence that Carson's transformative insights -- her
courage for the earth -- are giving a new generation of activists
the inspiration they need to move consumers, industry, and
government to action.
Contributors include John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House,
Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber,
Terry Tempest Williams, and E. O. Wilson
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