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CATEGORIES:Exhibits (Museum, Gardens, ...)
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121221
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121222
SUMMARY:Echoes of Silent Spring
DESCRIPTION:
 In the modern, human-dominated world, a wide variety 
 of pests threaten our environment, agriculture, 
 and health, and must be controlled. 
 Part of the strategy for controlling pests is 
 the use of chemicals that kill or reduce the 
 numbers of the pest; and 50 years ago, a publication 
 alerted the people of the world to 
 potential dangers in pesticide use. This was 
 the book Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson 
 and published in 1962.\n
 \n
 The MSU Museum 
 revisits the publication of this landmark book, 
 credited with launching the modern environmental 
 movement. "Echoes of Silent Spring: 50 
 Years of Environmental Awareness" opens in the 
 Heritage Gallery.\n
  \n
 "While pesticides are 
 important agents in pest control, they also 
 can carry significant risks if not used carefully 
 and strategically," notes MSU Museum Director 
 Gary Morgan, the exhibit's curator. "We 
 now know that some pesticides that were once 
 widely used can be extremely dangerous to organisms 
 other than the target pests."\n\n
 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: MSU Museum\n
 Sponsor's Homepage: http://museum.msu.edu\n
 Contact phone: 517-355-2370\n
 Contact email: pr@museum.msu.edu\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://museum.msu.edu\n
LOCATION:MSU Museum - Heritage Gallery
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