If man were to faithfully follow the teachings of Ms. Dressed in a white lab coat and speaking in a stiff accent, White-Stevens in fact came off as extreme when he made such exaggerated statements as this: “The major claims of Miss Rachel Carson’s book, Silent Spring, are gross distortions of the actual facts, completely unsupported by scientific, experimental evidence, and general practical experience in the field….
On 3 April 1963, CBS Reports broadcast an hour-long investigation, “The Silent Spring of Rachel Carson.” Despite Carson’s concerns that cancer treatments were sapping her strength, she came across as calm and eminently reasonable, particularly in contrast with Robert White-Stevens, spokesman for the agricultural chemical industry. The first program had a very significant impact. Two major American national television networks, the Columbia Broadcasting Service (CBS) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), have broadcast programs about Rachel Carson and Silent Spring. Johnson, “The Price of Progress,” CBS (aired 19 September 2007) Ann Muscat, president of the Catalina Island Conservancy, believes the eagles owe it all to Rachel Carson. But just this month, for the first time in decades, eggs left in nests in the wild hatched on their own. The eagles had all but disappeared after DDT was dumped into local waters, which led egg shells to become so thin that chicks couldn’t survive. But to best understand Carson’s legacy, there’s no better place to look than Catalina Island, just off the coast of southern California-home again to the bald eagle.
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