What would you say is genesis event of environmentalism? I'm torn between John Muir's work and Rachel Carson's DDT work. Any others in fray?
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Teddy creating national parks definitely part of the story, I think
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That seems more like a US-centric event, not a global impact event
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The success of 's campaign to have NASA release a picture of the whole earth from space, to create planetary awareness
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I've always heard that Rachel Carson's Silent Spring was it.
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I agree w/ "Carson." Also, global affect of this single picture of mercury pollution poisoning (W. Eugene Smith, 1971) → significant.
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