Examples of using Silent spring in English and their translations into German
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That our silent spring.
Silent Spring really were.
There was no"silent spring.
In his introduction,US vice president Al Gore compared to Rachel Carsons Silent Spring.
Thus the title"Silent Spring.
Silent Spring in the New Yorker magazine and bought a copy of the book as soon as I could find it in the stores.
With Rachel Carson's"Silent Spring.
Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring had raised fears about pollution and launched the modern environmental movement;
I recently learned that a movie honoring Rachel Carson and Silent Spring is being made for television.
Her propaganda in Silent Spring contributed greatly to the banning of insecticides that were capable of preventing those human deaths.
I recommend anyone interested in the subject of plant protection toread a book first published in 1962-"Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson.
Once Silent Spring was published, the campaign against pesticides became a"cash cow" and a recruiting aid for environmentalists.
More recently, Vice President Al Gore tells in his book Earth in the Balance, how his mother impressed on heryoung are the importance of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.
The reality is that we are living a silent spring, where most of the media prefer not to see the tragedy caused unnecessarily by malaria.
In 1966, leading British scientist pointed out that"If the pressure groups had succeeded, if there had been a DDT,then Rachel Carson and Silent Spring would be killing more people in a single year than Hitler killed in his whole holocaust.
Rachel Carson published Silent Spring, a book that falsely claimed that DDT was causing great harm to humans, beneficial animals, and the environment.
Then, in the 1970s, largely as a result of an environmentalscare promoted by Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, foreign aid agencies and UN organizations stopped promoting DDT, and its usage declined.
With Rachel Carson's"Silent Spring," I think for people like me in the world of the making of things, the canary in the mine wasn't singing.
The president of a leading British scientific organization later observed that," If there had been a DDT, as many sought,then Rachel Carson and her book Silent Spring would be killing more people in every single year than Hitler killed in his whole Holocaust.
One year before publication of Silent Spring, large areas of Pennsylvania were sprayed with DDT, 1 pound per acre, for eradication of the gypsy moth.
Created in 1966, it is named for environmentalist and author Rachel Carson,whose book"Silent Spring" raised public awareness of the effects of DDT on migratory songbirds, and of other environmental issues.
Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, had a powerful impact in 1962 and was a wake-up call for many to become committed to caring for the environment and to nature conservation.
It was Rachel Carson, with her timely and seminal book Silent Spring, who started the Green Movement and made us aware of the damage we can do to the world around us.
The"silence" in Silent Spring would have been broken by the vociferous chattering of black-birds, which increased by 39-fold, and starlings, which increased 11-fold.
I imagine that if I would been born in 1957rather than 1967(or if my father hadn't given me Silent Spring, 1984, and A People's History of the United States to read as a teenager) I would have followed the Program and would be a math professor at a university somewhere today.
Carson's Silent Spring presents an account so dramatically contrary to facts, so eloquently and persuasively, and so permanently influential that its negative impact is difficult to overestimate.
I was soon forced to join the detractors of Silent Spring, and when hearings were held to determine the fate of DDT in various states of this nation, I paid my own way to some of them so that I could testify against the efforts to ban that life-saving insecticide.
I shall not discuss the rest of Silent Spring because this has been done, page by page, in considerable detail by Dr. J. Gordon Edwards in his article"The Lies of Rachel Carson," 21st Century Science& Technology, Summer 1992, pp. 44-51.
Instead of that, and as a consequence of Rachel Carson's book of 1962, Silent Spring, the main environmental groups are concerned by the inexistent problems of pesticide residues in food, when the truth is that pesticide use increases the supply at lower costs of fruits and vegetables that are a guarantee of a better health.