"Rachel Carson's book ""Silent Spring"" was partially responsible for the ban of what insecticide?"
Silent Spring the technologically engineered control of nature." In a 2013 interview, Ruckelshaus briefly recounted his decision to ban DDT except for emergency uses, noting that Carson's book featured DDT and for that reason the issue drew considerable public attention. Former Vice President of the United States and environmentalist Al Gore wrote an introduction to the 1992 edition of "Silent Spring". He wrote: ""Silent Spring" had a profound impact ... Indeed, Rachel Carson was one of the reasons that I became so conscious of the environment and so involved with environmental issues ... [she] has had as much or more effect on
Silent Spring (composition) easy to hear what he had in mind in this explosive, shape-shifting 17-minute tone poem." Kozinn further remarked: Silent Spring (composition) Silent Spring is a 2011 symphonic poem for orchestra by the American composer Steven Stucky. The piece was written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the environmental science book "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson and was commissioned by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in collaboration with the Rachel Carson Institute at Chatham University. The work was premiered in Pittsburgh on February 17, 2012, with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra conducted by Manfred Honeck. Though "Silent Spring" is composed in a single