The breadbasket. Food supplies and water contamination. Rachel Carson, excerpt from Silent Spring.
24 Março 2022, 15:30 • Margarida Vale de Gato
The Breadbasket + Midwest: Pennsylvania, Delaware and Great Plains (see powerpoint in moodle).
Intro to Rachel Carson and Silent Spring's impact against DDT and other massive toxic sprays.
Reading and discussing the intro to Silent Spring (1962), and a part of the chapter "Surface Waters and Underground Seas".