Posted on 12/05/2005 4:15:08 AM PST by Ditto
Rachel Carson, a driving force behind the modern environmental movement, grew up in a modest homestead in Springdale Borough near the Allegheny River. For the budding marine biologist, the river's waters were an early inspiration.
Now, more than four decades after Ms. Carson's death, her presence may return to those waters.
Allegheny County Council tomorrow will consider renaming the Ninth Street Bridge in her honor. If the resolution is approved, Ms. Carson would join Roberto Clemente and Andy Warhol as namesakes for the three Downtown "Sister Bridges" that cross the Allegheny.
"This is long overdue," said Esther L. Barazzone, president of Chatham College, Ms. Carson's alma mater and home of the Rachel Carson Institute. "People realize that Rachel Carson is truly world class. We need to strengthen our connection to her."
Ms. Carson's 1962 book, "Silent Spring," criticized the harmful effects of pesticides, sparking a prolonged battle with the chemical industry. In 1970, six years after Ms. Carson's death, the federal government founded the Environmental Protection Agency. Two years later, the government banned the use of the pesticide DDT in the United States.
"Silent Spring" also pushed many people to rethink their connection with the natural world.
"It was wonderful. It inspired me," said Ron Meyers, a former visiting assistant professor with Chatham's environmental studies program. "It showed the courage of environmentalists."
"Silent Spring'' has been translated into almost every known language, according to Fiona Fisher, interim executive director of the Rachel Carson Homestead, a national historical landmark on Marion Avenue in Springdale.
"She used science in a way that ordinary people could understand," Ms. Fisher said. "People began to question what was being done."
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Keep in mind that the driving force in the EPA ban in 1972 was not science or the environment. William Ruckelshouse, the EPA Administrator, completly ignored all the recomendations of his own staff scientists when he banned DDT. It was the "Population Bomb" crap that the radicals were pushing and DDT became public enemy #1 because it was effective in stopping malaria and saving millions of lives in tropical (i.e. non-white) countries.
The Silent Deaths of Millions due to a misguided enviro-whacko Bridge
Cowher does, too........although he has lost his mind.......I expect him to punch a ref before the season's out........
The left is trying to erect a monument, or symbol, for Carson because they know a landmark fight is coming on this front which will threaten to undermine the entire 'environmental movement' and it governmental machinery. If people think she's a 'genuine' cultural hero and even has public monument status, her credibility as a scientist will be beside the point. This is extremly shrewd and effective tactical move by leftists.
A mass murderer bridge? Oh my God.
Carson lied and millions died.
Has the County Council there run out of important work to do?
Peter Principle in action........they are past their level of comptetence.
Ah, the Allegheny Whitefish...
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Our family loves Pittsburgh. Son went to Carnegie Mellon and we loved to visit. He goes back every so often to visit friends.
bttt
ROFL!
Well, yellow for Yellow Journalism is appropriate.
......... maybe when it was known as Carnegie Tech?
LOL........... I think the silly color is all about the sports teams in the city......... and the fact that union painters would find the need to repaint a faded colored bridge such as yellow/gold more often!!!
I say, "Paint it Black!!!"
post from the "DDT saves lives" thread
I'm more than happy to discuss.
When I heard this a month ago, I sent a lot of info to the Republican Council woman, Eileen Watt, who is sponsoring it. She supposedly is conservative. I think that she's pandering for votes. I'm more than disappointed in her. I never heard back from her.
Maybe we can rename it the Death by Malaria Bridge.
Nah, there ain't nuthin across the river from Springdale worth buildin' a bridge across to 'nat.
Them poor jags either gotta go 2 miles upriver on old Freeport Road to West New Kensington to cross the C. L. Schmitt / 9th Street / New Ken Bridge (pending on whatcha wanna callit, I bin there lotsa times, but not too much soze my memry's not too good on at one) to get to New Ken 'nat...
Or they can come 3 miles downriver on old Freeport thru Cheswick and Acmetonia til they get to Harmarville. There they can cross the Hulton Bridge (the pink one) to Oakmont 'nat...
Of course, if they're going to Monroeville 'nat, they can also crossover on the turnpike bridge just before they get to Harmarville. But I'd still take the Hulton Bridge to Oakmont instead and go the back roads to Monroeville. That ways, yinz don't hafta pay the toll 'nat.
Oh, en-airs also a railroad bridge nexto the turnpike bridge, but you can't get to it in yer car, not even a SUV 'nat. Heck, that ones way the hell up in the air. I wouldn't even wanna try to hike it, not even drunk. Sheeeesh, yinz'd hafta be NUTZ ta even think bout pullin a stunt like at. Bone between the ears...
Hmmmm... looks like they named that one after Schmitt sometime in the '80s, so it's a safe bet everybody still calls it the New Ken Bridge or the 9th Street Bridge or something like that. Probably the New Ken Bridge soze not to get it mixed up with the 9th Street Bridge in the 'Burgh. (LOL! as if anybody even cared that New Ken had a 9th Street too!)
But that one might make more sense to name after Carson...it IS a lot closer to Springdale afterall. Besides, it's not as if Schmitt is gonna complain about having to share the bridge with Carson. Cripes, he's dead too!
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