Article ID: CBB001251552

Dispelling the “Bitter Fog”: Fighting Chemical Defoliation in the American West (2012)

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Hay, Amy M. (Author)


Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Volume: 36
Issue: 4
Pages: 174-185


Publication Date: 2012
Edition Details: Part of a special issue, “Silent Spring after Fifty Years”
Language: English

Little doubt remains about the influence of Rachel Car-son's Silent Spring in changing the consciousness of not just Americans, but citizens around the world, regarding the relationship between human beings and the natural world. Less has been done about the specific ways Carson's book inspired individual activists to continue challenging pesticide policy within the United States in the decades after the book's publication. The stories of three western women fighting the use of Agent Orange herbicides -- the phenoxy herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T -- illustrate the influence and mixed success of environ-mental activism after Silent Spring.

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Authors & Contributors
Davis, Frederick Rowe
Hecht, David K.
Hay, Amy Marie
Seymour, Nicole
Dockry, Michael J.
Dauvergne, Peter
Concepts
Environmentalism
Political activists and activism
Environmental sciences
Science and politics
Conservation movement
Sustainability
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Americas
Bolivia
Vietnam
Great Britain
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