if you haven't read rachel carson on the ocean, you must. the o maryland turning it into a park, she started getting information about agency and pesticides number regulated. they were spring chemical, jimmy carter on hospice right now and october 1, 99 everybody family died of pancreatic cancer. his mother, his father, his sister gloria, his sister ruth, his brother billy, he left to go to the navy but where they had gotten from a they were playing that cluster belt of people who died of pancreatic cancer the rachel carson and there's battle because of a woman named marjorie spock member the baby doctor spock? the babyes doctors sister and a big piece of land in long island and the mosquito control and usda were spring all the crops, she was an organic farmer she was wanting organic produce and susan close to my right to be taken with she is sitting loss of the supreme court william douglas rice gets published in reader's digest and douglas to push douglas would call it a wilderness bill of rights of have a god-given right in the u.s. to cl

rachel carson talks about him in "silent spring" as a matter of fact. he didn't understand quite how it was happening. he thought that ddt was simply poisoning the bald eagles. it was getting into the food chain bald eagles-- or fishing raptors and so, we often, you know, talk about how birds are affected by ddt, but fish were, too. and the environments were just ruined in many places by ddt. so ddt got into the fish, got into the food chain of the bald eagles and went up the food chain and bald eagles eating the fish and ddt in their body is met tablizing into dde, getting in the bloodstream on males and females and greater impact on females because the dde was responsible for them laying eggs with very fragile shells, or addled eggs, eggs that would not hatch or with the deformed chicks in the eggs. and of course, we all know the story about rachel carson, many scientists by the late '50s, even before, as i said, were making this connection between the declining wildlife population and ddt and linking it to human health and there are still studies bei

rachel carson about the oceans.herea home in maryland and turng it into a park and maine was her walled, nobody ever regulated them. but they were spraying, crop-spraying the chemicals, for example, jimmy cart whore is on hospice right now and birthday will be october 11 and he will be 99 but everybody in his family died of pancreatic cancer, his mother lilian, his father, his sister gloria, his sister ruth, his brother billy because he left to go to the navy but in that part of county where they had peanuts and cotton they were spraying that so it's a cluster built of people that died from pancreatic cancer. so rachel carson enters this battle because of a woman named marjorie spack, the baby doctor. this is the baby doctor's sister. the suffolk county mosquito control and usda were blanket spraying all the crops. well, she was an organic farmer so she was anti-- ahead of her time. i want organic produce and she sues and goes all the way to supreme court that my right to be an organic farmer is being taken away fro

and yet it took a decade to ban ddt is not until 1972 rachel carson dies of breast cancer and 64 andkennedy of course is dead and 63. but there became this movement is called silent spring revolution in the big turning point in my mind was the birth of environmental law in the 60s. even as late as 1965 and 66 it was called conservation. lyndon johnson's program was a new conservation. environments are kicking into an scientists reason the term environments. and it really kind of took hold and ddt got banded by nixon. and 72. and this is people. we have to speak up. on climate chaos to date these reports are all there. i feel that in my book with the 50s talking about and kennedy administration had a loose document going around about climate change but johnson and 65 tried to give a speech about it. as early as 65. he had medicaid, medicare, vietnam, voting rights act, that kind of got buried in the mediaflo. i print almost verbatim in the book a memo i don't have any of you remember new york sets a brilliant. he writes of nixon's domestic advisor that he had done investigation that s

rachel carson talks about him in in silent spring as matter of fact. now, he didn't quite understand how was happening. he thought ddt was just simply poisoning the bald eagles. it was getting the food chain. bald eagles are fishing raptors. and so we often, you know, talk about how birds were affected, ddt, but fish were to estuarine environments were were just ruined in many places by ddt so ddt got into fish got into the food chain and bald eagles went up the food chain and the bald eagles are eating the fish within their bodies, metabolizing into ddt, getting into the bloodstream of both male and females, having a greater impact on females because the ddt was the response symbol for them laying eggs with with very fragile shells or addled eggs, eggs that would not hatch or with deformed chicks in in in the eggs and and of course, we all know the story about rachel carson many scientists by the late fifties even as i said we're making this connection between the declining wildlife population and ddt but also linking it to human health. and there sti

that have linked alzheimer's to ddt generations earlier and anyway thanks this time charles and rachel carson and charles had died of a heart attack and he they were trained to put out a brushfire but in 1972 the first epa administrator appointed byk richard nixon and they told him not to do this and be on the cell in the united states with the restoration of many bird populations and the bald eagle and falcons and others. >> in your book about mark you did not have a plethora of original sources or letters that mark left behind you do a splendid job of researching around that period of time and early charleston but talk about the struggle and how you overcame it and bringing your subject to life and the book and walking us through his life until his death at the age of 66. >> sure, before i do that i want to say jack does this pretty well but the first play in the national history of carolina was the bald eagle and the relationships he portrays the bald eagle having persuaded in offspring to gift the eagle eye fish that the offspring had caught so you had the offspring looking, i'm not sure

of these as industrial agriculture took hold in the fifties, sixties, and, really, this is what rachel carson talked about in "silent spring." using all these insecticides was really leading to what she felt was a collapse of biodiversity. we were killing the underpinning of, uh, of the food chain. >> by the 1970s, regulators were rushing to get these organochlorine pesticides off the market because of their persistence in the environment and their possible link with birth defects, cancers, eggshell thinning in birds, and other problems. >> along in the late eighties and early nineties, really people started to think, well, we need something that is more targeted. we need chemicals that are not so broadly toxic to everything. and that's really where neonicotinoids came from. the idea was that these chemicals, although highly toxic to insects, are less acutely toxic to mammals, they're less acutely toxic to fish. they also thought, what if we can target them inside the plant? if we can target them inside the plant, this is going to be better, because the animals outside the plant are not going

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there are studies being done linked to alzheimer's to ddt generations earlier but by this time rachel carson had died and apparently a heart attack. trying to put out a brushfire but in 1972 the first epa administrator points out richard nixon with every move and ddt and the united states. the restoration of bird population and bald eagle and falcons and others. >> in your book about mark, you didn't have a plethora of original sources or letters left behind. you do a splendid job earesearching and putting contet in and around that period of time. talk about that struggle and how you overcame it bring the b subject to lighten the book and walking us through. >> i want to say the first place in carolina was illegal and he portrayed being persuaded to get the fish so you have them looking -- i'm not sure what that expression is but anyway, that's natural history. >> i love that image but just, we have no image, no letters before he reaches 39 so i took it as anai opportunity to no dot it is being done so many british men and women at the time, isaac newton when he landed so you could read all

born like federalist society and cato institute and heritage foundation whose goal it was to undo rachel carson. ou can watch this and all of douglas brinkley's nearly 60 appearances on book tv on our website at booktv.org. just type douglas brinkley into the search bar at the top of the page. [applause] >> a national book festival is and has been one of the most inspirational free events in the nation's capitol. and only possible because of you, our sponsors but does take a village to put on a festival like this. i want to acknowledge the more than a 1000 volunteers. most especially junior league of washington. [cheering] [applause] 2003 with over 40000 hours the equivalent to $.4 million of time, thank you. and hundreds of volunteers the general public. and of course the hard-working library of congress staff who are key and vital to the festival success. so please thank you. >> i'm honored to walk up the chair of the library james mattis counsel and the f cochair of the 2023 national book festivalib. mr. david m rubinstein. [applause] >> so, thank you all for coming. thank you carla for the

pilot salsa is survived by his wife, rachel, sons, conor and carson, father, ed, and mother, sharon. these men were husbands, sons, fathers who now leave behind loving and caring families. their bravery, courage and devotion to duty will always be remembered. i ask everyone present on the house floor to join me, rise in a moment of silence for cal fire members assistant chief bishop, fire captain tim rodriguez and pilot tony salsa. thank you. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. van orden. mr. van orden: thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to do a little truth telling. i rise today as a proud member of the silent majority of united states citizens and of the silent majority of the supermajority of the republican party. of this august house. i'll be the motion to vacate the speakership is a pool's error. i can think of no great leader in that effort than my colleague from the state of florida. the american people are concerned about crime. one of our colleagues was carjacked at gun point a mile and a half from