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In a letter to a friend, Carson explains how she felt after handing over the Silent Spring manuscript to her editor and receiving a call from him congratulating her on her work: “I think last summer you were able to clearly understand how I feel when I told you that I couldn't hear a thrush singing again if I didn't do everything I could. And last night I thought about all the birds and other living creatures, and all the beauty that is in nature, and I was filled with a feeling of happiness so deep that now I know that I have done everything I could do: I have managed to finish the book now has a life of its own! ».
Decades after the inspiring example of Rachel Carson, the environmental movement is still more necessary than ever. In fact, a few months ago an international team of researchers proposed to start a new geological era, the Anthropocene, the age of humans, an era characterized by the extraordinary and rapid impact of contemporary man on the planet: more new generation pesticides and more deadly capacity, massive discharges of plastics into the sea, global warming, radioactive particles released from nuclear tests ... We need more than ever to continue using our capacity to transform the world for the better.
"That pale blue spot in space is our home, it's us. Lock everything you want, everything you know, and it reminds us of the responsibility we have, above all else, to treat each other better and to preserve and love the Earth, the only home we have ever had."
Carl Sagan