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I’m working on a history discussion question and need an explanation and answer to help me learn.

We urgently need an end to these false assurances, to the sugar coating of unpalatable facts. It is the public that is being asked to assume the risks that the insect controllers calculate. The public must decide whether it wishes to continue on the present road, and it can do so only when in full possession of the facts.”

— Rachel Carson, Silent Spring 

The following is an excerpt from Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring which helped inspire the environmental movement of the 1970s.  Your task is to identify some books, articles, or people today that inspire the environmental movement.  Why are they encouraging, and how exactly have they inspired this movement?  What is your position on the environmental movement and why?