Air Force Base: Women’s History Month 2009 ... taking the lead to save the planet
PATRICK AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. -- This year, we are honoring the women who have led the way in saving our planet. The National Women's History Project has elected to feature Rachel Carson as "the iconic model of the theme." She is but one of many women with a passion to do what it takes, to overcome obstacles in order to preserve what is entrusted to us.
Rachel Carson attempted to define the impact people have had on this beautiful blue planet in her book Silent Spring. She believed "[t]he history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings...Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of this world."
Carson was indeed a woman with a passion and determination to protect that which she loved as a child. She utilized her writing talent to convey the message that we need to do all that we can to preserve the beauty of the only known inhabitable planet in the universe.
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Rachel Carson attempted to define the impact people have had on this beautiful blue planet in her book Silent Spring. She believed "[t]he history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings...Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species - man - acquired significant power to alter the nature of this world."
Carson was indeed a woman with a passion and determination to protect that which she loved as a child. She utilized her writing talent to convey the message that we need to do all that we can to preserve the beauty of the only known inhabitable planet in the universe.