Who Is Rachel Carson's A Fable For Tomorrow?

Rachel Carson’s “A Fable for Tomorrow”, the first chapter in Silent Spring, succeeded in creating a greater awareness of the increasing amount of human-caused disasters involving pesticides around the world by bringing in a large audience, showing the audience realistic, feasible events, and laying the foundation by giving purpose for the entirety of Carson’s book. Carson was a marine biologist, but was more famously known as a conservationist because of her book Silent Spring. She is also credited with the advancement of environmental conservation as a whole. In “A Fable for Tomorrow”, Carson creates an imaginary village which suffered from many different disasters all at once. This village represents the disasters that have affected the world. These disasters as told by Carson, have “crept upon us almost unnoticed” (Essays 68). Rachel Carson was a highly known environmental activist who is well known for her book Silent Spring. With this book, she has created a greater awareness of the environmental disasters that haunt the world.
“A Fable for Tomorrow” brought in a wide variety of people ranging from environmentalists, like herself, to farmers to even the businesses that manufacture pesticides like DDT. As told by Eliza Griswold of the New York Times, Carson’s Silent Spring had unexpectedly changed the environmental
This chapter gives the world a village to think about. The people of this world will realize the damage that they have done to the environment and they will strive to change their ways. The idea of a village like this would be jaw-dropping to anyone who has lived in this century because of the unthinkable conditions, and because of this fear it jump-started the fight for a cleaner