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Silent Spring, a classic accounting of the hazards of chemical pesticides, was published in:
1970
1954
1962
1902
Pesticide widely used to control insect-born diseases during World War II but later banned because of its harmful effects on non-target species and persistence in the environment.
2,4D
DDT
malathion
dieldrin
The author of the landmark book Silent Spring was...
Aldo Leopold
Rachel Carson
Dennis Avery
Al Gore
Silent Spring is viewed as a "landmark" publication because...
it was an emotional appeal to the government to establish an agency for environmental protection.
the book was written as the final act of an individual dying of cancer.
it used scientific evidence to establish a link between certain pesticides and several environmental catastrophes
it succeeded in getting DDT banned from American agriculture.