Chemical Pollution

Jason Scorse

Chapter Chapter 11 in What Environmentalists Need to Know About Economics, 2010, pp 137-143 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract One of the defining moments in the environmental movement was the 1962 publication of Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, which awakened the United States (and the world) to the potential hazard that toxic chemicals could wreak on the environment. Carson’s work led to a major public outcry, which gave rise to many of the organizations that comprise the modern environmental movement. In 1972 the United States banned the chemical DDT, which Carson had linked to reductions in bird populations, including the nation’s symbol—the bald eagle—and the peregrine falcon.1

Keywords: Persistent Organic Pollutant; Toxic Chemical; Chemical Pollution; Environmental Movement; Bald Eagle (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230114043_12

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