She “favored a restrained use of pesticides, but not a complete elimination, and did not oppose judicious use of manufactured fertilizers,” writes Harvard University sustainability scholar Robert Paarlberg. These articles from The Conversation’s archive spotlight ongoing questions about pesticides and their effects.Īlthough the chemical industry attacked “Silent Spring” as anti-science and anti-progress, Carson believed that chemicals had their place in agriculture. “Silent Spring” is widely viewed as an inspiration for the modern environmental movement. Carson did not call for banning DDT, the most widely used pesticide at that time, but she argued for using it and similar products much more selectively and paying attention to their effects on nontargeted species. In 1962 environmental scientist Rachel Carson published “ Silent Spring,” a bestselling book that asserted that overuse of pesticides was harming the environment and threatening human health.
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