The cultural, social, and economic environment during the years prior to the planning, writing and publication the book of “Silent Spring” was a time of new affluence and intense social conformity. The cold war, with its climate of suspicion and intolerance, was at its zenith. The chemical industry, one of the chief beneficiaries of postwar technology, was also one of the chief authors of the nation’s prosperity. DDT enabled the conquest of insect pests in agriculture and of ancient insect-borne disease just as surely as the atomic bomb destroyed America’s military enemies and dramatically altered the balance of power between humans and nature. The public endowed chemists, at work in their starched white coats in remote laboratories, with almost divine wisdom. The results of their labors were gilded with the presumption of beneficence. The postwar America, science was god, and science was male.

Carson first discovered nature in the company of her mother, a devotee of the nature study movement. However, Carson was confronted with the problem of environmental pollution at a formative period of her life. She witnessed her home town turning into iron and steel capital of the Western world, which the experiment led her to fight her suspicious of promises of “better living through chemistry”. One of Carson’s hypotheses was that science conceived and technology made possible must first be judged for its safety and benefit to the “whole stream of life.” The research was her product of her unrest, deliberately challenged the wisdom of a government that allowed toxic chemical to be put into the environment before knowing the long-term consequence of their use. Even though the issues she raised wouldn’t be solved quickly and easily, her research made a big difference. Carson left us a legacy that not only embraces the future of life but also sustains the human