Political Science · Political Theory
UGC NET June 2019 Political Science
Who authored the book 'Silent Spring'?
AFrank Thone
BRaymond L. Bryant
CRachel Carson ✓ Correct
DRoy Rappaport
Correct answer: (C) Rachel Carson — Silent Spring was written by Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, and published on 27 September 1962.
Explanation
★Silent Spring was written by Rachel Carson, an American marine biologist, and published on 27 September 1962.
★The book documented how the indiscriminate use of pesticides, above all DDT, was poisoning food chains, killing birds and threatening human health; the title imagines a spring silenced because the birds are dead.
★Carson faced fierce opposition from chemical companies, but the book triggered a US pesticide policy overhaul, contributed to the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 and to the 1972 US ban on agricultural DDT.
★Silent Spring is widely treated as the founding text of the modern environmental movement, which is why NET keeps returning to it.
★Carson had earlier won fame with The Sea Around Us (1951); she died in 1964, only two years after Silent Spring appeared.
★Among the distractors, Raymond L. Bryant is a scholar of Third World political ecology, and Roy Rappaport was an ecological anthropologist known for Pigs for the Ancestors (1968); Frank Thone was an American botanist and science writer.
★Related book-author pairs NET tests in this topic: Small is Beautiful – E.F. Schumacher (1973), The Death of Nature – Carolyn Merchant (1980), and the Gaia hypothesis – James Lovelock.
★Spotting cue: pesticides, DDT or 'birds falling silent' in the stem always points to Rachel Carson and 1962.
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