Research On Rachel Carson's Environmental Protection Thought

Rachel Carson is a marine biologist,zoologist and writer of America. She has an widespread influence and function in the history of American environmental protection movement,and even in the whole world. Rachel Carson is the first American femail biologist who proposes to protect environment,she is called"Mother of the environmental protection movement".The past researches on Rachel Carson have a lot,but there're few specialized researches on Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought.This paper tries to research the main contents of Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought,the profound influence and function of it at that time and later,as well as it brings a series of enlightenment and thinking for the theory and practice in environmental protection.The paper tries to introduce the unique characteristics of Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought in particularly evident.This article both analyzes Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought's profound influence and function in American government,folk and the world,also notices and thinks her thought brings profound enlightenment and thinking for the theory and practice in nowadays environmental protection.The first part of the paper mainly introduces the main contents of Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought. Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought mainly embodys her thought of three sides:non human-centralism conception of nature, reverence for life and ecological holism.The second part mainly expounds Rachel Carson's about environmental protection thought's influence and function.This mainly graspes by three sides to discuss and analyze:its influence and function on American government environmental protection policy,reaction in the folk and world-wide environmental protection movement.The third part describes the enlightenment and thinking under Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought.The greatest enlightenment from Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought is to enforce environmental protection policy it must keep taking the route of sustainable development.Furthermore,we should realize that the problem of environmental protection,especially the problem of ecological environmental protection is a global problem,any country and the people of the world are all partly to it.Therefore,enforcing the ecological environmental protection to preserve global ecological balance's road is shoulders heavy responsibilities.With the research of characteristics of Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought,and the profound influence and function of it. In addition to exploring and analyzing the enlightenment and thinking of Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought for enforcing environmental protection.It makes people to realize the unique characteristics and influence of Rachel Carson's environmental protection thought more clearly.So we could have further understanding of her honorary title of Mother of the environmental protection movement".