What is the significance of Silent Spring in the course of Environmental Awareness?

An argument can be made that Carlson's work helped to
actually start the movement towards environmental awareness.  At a time when there was a
fairly wide and expansive embrace about how industrialization and technology almost
above reproach, Carson's work detailed how individuals' and companies'  use of
pesticides were destructive on two levels.  On one hand, the use of artificial means to
eliminate natural elements helps to destroy the intertwined ecosystem upon which all
nature relies.  Additionally, Carson's work points out the need to reject man-made
solutions to complex ecological problems.  Her work details the need to seek to
integrate human endeavors into a natural scope and sequence that respects and almost
reveres the environment as opposed to operating outside of it.  Carson's pleas are not
emotional and rhetorical as much as they are scientific and precise, rooted in the same
type of analysis and thought that gave forces the reader to fully grasp that
technological advancement can come with an intense cost.  Carson's work goes very far in
demanding that government and social elements play a role in protecting the natural
setting and do what must be done to protect the ecological balance and framework within
which all humans are immersed.  It is in this note that the modern movement towards
environmental awareness can be seen.