What Would Rachel Say?

GreenCAP presents 

Jill Stein, MD    Monday, March 26, 2007, 7 p.m. at the Newton Free Library

Our health is intimately connected to the quality of our environment, and the quality of our environment is fundamentally dependent on the quality of our democracy. Health and environmental advocate Jill Stein, MD, will talk about steps you can take to reduce environmental threats to healthy development and aging. And she'll explain how together we can create the most important safeguard of all -- a revitalized democracy.  www.greendecade.org

The Rachel Carson Centennial 2007
During 2007, GreenCAP will be celebrating Rachel Carson's Centennial by joining organizations around the world who are promoting Rachel Carson's legacy and her book, Silent Spring, to a new generation.  In 1962, Silent Spring was a call to action from a scientist who catalyzed a wave of such political urgency that it generated a powerful "environmental movement." To a public dazzled by chemical industry marketing and government complicity, Carson exposed the extensive harm caused by the reckless use of synthetic chemicals.    Carson, one of the twentieth century's most important people, is known as a Woman of Courage for her deep reverence for life and the sense of responsibility that compelled her to speak out during a period of widespread pesticide abuse.   Her message was "Prevention is the Imperative."    Within a few years, in spite of a chemical industry's orchestrated campaign to discredit her work, an enlightened public and their elected leaders created the US EPA, the ban on DDT, and environment regulations such as the Clean Water Act and the Clean Air Act.    Because these laws are being systematically undermined today, Silent Spring is more relevant today than ever.

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