处国语金院 Author SCHOOLOF FOREIGN LANGUAGES We still talk in terms of conquest.We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe.Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature,and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself.The rains have become an instrument to bring down from the atmosphere the deadly products of atomic explosions.Water,which is probably our most important natural resource,is now used and re-used with incredible recklessness. (Quotes from Rachel Carson)
外国语学院教学工作汇报 Author Background We still talk in terms of conquest. We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe. Man's attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself. The rains have become an instrument to bring down from the atmosphere the deadly products of atomic explosions. Water, which is probably our most important natural resource, is now used and re-used with incredible recklessness. (Quotes from Rachel Carson)
处国像名院 Author SCHOOLOF FOREIGN LANGUAGES She was once bitterly attacked: "an anti-humanitarian crank,a priestess of nature,and a hysterical woman” But she courageously went on fighting until her idea caught on and more and more people joined in. >the mother of modern environmental movement
外国语学院教学工作汇报 She was once bitterly attacked: “an anti-humanitarian crank, a priestess of nature, and a hysterical woman” But she courageously went on fighting until her idea caught on and more and more people joined in. →the mother of modern environmental movement Author Background
处.国停名院 Author SCHOOLOF FOREIGN LANGUAGES 1.When was it published? 2.Who was the author? SILENT 3.What is it about? What is its central argument? SPRING 4.How was it received? 5.How significant is it now? RACH SILENT 6.Does it still make sense now? SPRING OLLUTION THAT I PERILING ALL FE ON EARTH RACHEL CARSON
外国语学院教学工作汇报 1. When was it published? 2. Who was the author? 3. What is it about? What is its central argument? 4. How was it received? 5. How significant is it now? 6. Does it still make sense now? Author Background
处.珂停名院 画tf院Silent Spring SILENT SPRING Summary of the book RACHEL CARSON The book starts with a fable of a lovely rural town that suddenly suffers blight,sickness,and death.Its people finally realize they had poisoned themselves.She presented scientific evidence that this was happening all over the country.She explained in plain terms how the strongest bugs survive,making stronger pesticides necessary,and that DDT,though scarce in the water,becomes concentrated as it works its way up the food chain. She advocated integrated management:using a minimum of chemicals combined with biological and cultural controls
外国语学院教学工作汇报 Silent Spring Summary of the book The book starts with a fable of a lovely rural town that suddenly suffers blight, sickness, and death. Its people finally realize they had poisoned themselves. She presented scientific evidence that this was happening all over the country. She explained in plain terms how the strongest bugs survive, making stronger pesticides necessary, and that DDT, though scarce in the water, becomes concentrated as it works its way up the food chain. She advocated integrated management: using a minimum of chemicals combined with biological and cultural controls. Background
处.国停名院 ctf陈Silent Spring SILENT SPRING Significance of the book RACHEL CARSON It roused a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention.She proposed that,at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed.Conservation had never raised much broad public interest,for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness.But the threats she had outlined-the contamination of the food chain, cancer,genetic damage,the deaths of entire species-were too frightening to ignore.For the first time,the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted,and environmentalism was born
外国语学院教学工作汇报 Silent Spring Significance of the book It roused a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. She proposed that, at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. But the threats she had outlined—the contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of entire species—were too frightening to ignore. For the first time, the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born. Background