EARTH DAY

The rapid population growth, urbanization, and industrialization of the 20th century expanded human transit, polluted our waters, and created unhealthy air. Rachel Carson’s New York Times bestseller, Silent Spring, published in 1962, sold more than 500,000 copies. Rachel’s writings raised public awareness and concern for life on Earth, living organisms, the environment, and the interconnection of unhealthy air, unhealthy water, and our planets first started in 1970.