Introduction
The development of environmental ethics was inspired by the widespread perception of an “environmental crisis” in the 1960s. Rachel Carson’s landmark book Silent Spring (1962), which documented the accumulation of dangerous pesticides and chemical toxins throughout planetary food webs, played a vitally important role in raising awareness of this crisis. Never before and since has a book been so successful in providing impetus for action against a common threat to so diverse a body of people.
Silent Springwas published 1 month before the Cuba missile crisis and owed its worldwide success at least in part to Carson’s comparison between the effects of atomic radiation and those of synthetic chemical pesticides. By framing pesticides as another form of fallout, Carson’s book made a powerful impression on a generation that grew up under the shadow of nuclear destruction. It brought about the transformation of the earlier conservation movement into a worldwide environmental...
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Keulartz, J., Korthals, M. (2014). Environmental Ethics. In: Thompson, P.B., Kaplan, D.M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0929-4_260
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