Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education
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pp. 12-15
Abstract
The author of this letter was a young biologist named Rachel Carson. Carson could not have known, when she penned it, how profound an impact her short letter would have. The Associated Press picked it up for syndication. The Reader's Digest reprinted it. And so her missive found its way onto front porches and breakfast tables, into living rooms and libraries and doctors' office waiting rooms across the nation. At the height of the Cold War, in the midst of an anti-Communist inquisition that had convulsed the federal government, Carson's assertion that "the real wealth of the Nat ion lies in the resources of the earth - soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife" struck a chord with the populace. In this way, she opened up a critical space in the paranoid culture of her time to have a conversation about the environment.
Recommended Citation
Sandra Steingraber
(2005)
"The Obligation to Endure Again,"
Taproot: A Journal of Outdoor Education: Vol. 15:
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1, Article 5.
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