A Valuation to Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring with Relevance to the Environmental Philosophy under Moral Consideration

Abstract

Silent Spring was an environmental science book, written by Rachel Carson in 1962. This made a huge impact on the world’s recognition of nature and environment with a serious approach to real matters. The book mainly concerned about the environmental conservation, environmental problems that existed and considered to be the foundation for the US environmentalist movement. As a whole, the main idea of ‘Silent Spring’ was to emphasize the impact that human behaviour upon nature. Her main argument was on the effects of pesticides on the environment. The pesticides can affect the ecosystems and she wanted to bring a more advanced biotic approach to safeguard the natural environment. The problem of this study is “how far Rachel Carson’s work can be evaluated to be an environmental and a moral philosophical attempt.” The main objective of the research is to emphasize the importance of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in the field of Environmental Philosophy. This research attempts to explain Silent Spring under moral philosophical considerations that is, how the impact of human behaviour can affect the natural environment as mentioned by Carson.