Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” Narrated by Katherine Richardson

Katherine Richardson is a Professor in Biological Oceanography at the University of Copenhagen and active in the development of Earth system science. She leads the Queen Margrethe and Vigdís Finnbogadóttir´s Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Ocean, Climate, and Society and is an architect of the Planetary Boundaries Framework. Richardson tells of marine biologist Rachel Carson, whose 1962 book Silent Spring exposed the dangers of pesticides and sparked the modern environmental movement.

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Notes

Unless otherwise noted, all images used in this video are in the public domain.

DDT is good for me advertisement, Time, June 30, 1947.

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Earth Day, Fifth Avenue and 51st Street, April 22, 1970.

New York Police Department photograph collection. NYC Municipal Archives.

Students gather for a Diag rally during Michigan’s 1970 Teach-In on the Environment.

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University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability, Ann Arbor

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