Rachel Carson by Meghan Rock

Author:Meghan Rock [Rock, Meghan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC

Marjorie Spock

Marjorie Spock was an articulate and intelligent woman, the younger sister of the renowned pediatrician Benjamin Spock, and a writer, educator, and biodynamic gardener. Spock’s help and contacts were crucial to Carson. She and Carson met because Spock was a plaintiff in a court case involving the spraying of DDT. Spock complained when the local government of Long Island, New York, began widespread spraying with DDT in an effort to end the perceived gypsy moth epidemic. When the spraying did not stop in spite of her complaints, Spock brought a lawsuit against the government along with eleven other plaintiffs. The case was widely followed but ultimately rejected, and all appeals were exhausted (though it did reach the Supreme Court before being dismissed). Though they did not win the case, Spock and the other plaintiffs did win the right for citizens to file an injunction against the government to halt any potentially dangerous or harmful environmental activity until a full scientific review of the proposed action was completed. This case and its legal decision were two of the events that helped develop the burgeoning environmental movement.

Spock and Carson formed a close friendship through regular correspondence, and Spock became an important link to many other scientists looking at the dangers of DDT. She did everything in her power to help Carson write her new book on the dangers of DDT, including introducing Carson to the expert witnesses called in the Long Island case against government DDT spraying. She diligently collected information from any source she could for Carson’s manuscript, including news articles and research from contacts and government reports. She sent her collected sources regularly to Carson for her research and encouraged Carson when the writing was slow or difficult.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.