What Would Rachel Say?

GLOBE EDITORIAL May 27, 2007

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2007/05/27/remembering_rachel_carson/

STUDIOUS AND solitary, the marine biologist Rachel Carson didn't compare well to Carrie Nation, the hatchet-wielding temperance firebrand of the 19th century. But in the early 1960s, American popular culture had a dearth of recognizable models for women who challenged powerful industries. Carson, who crusaded against the use of chemical pesticides in her seminal book "Silent Spring," was dubbed -- and not always favorably -- "the Carrie Nation of ecology." ...