<P> It was translated to Swedish and published in 1963, titled Tyst vår . </P> <P> Carson's work had a powerful impact on the environmental movement . Silent Spring became a rallying point for the new social movement in the 1960s . According to environmental engineer and Carson scholar H. Patricia Hynes, "Silent Spring altered the balance of power in the world . No one since would be able to sell pollution as the necessary underside of progress so easily or uncritically ." Carson's work and the activism it inspired are partly responsible for the deep ecology movement and the strength of the grassroots environmental movement since the 1960s . It was also influential on the rise of ecofeminism and on many feminist scientists . Carson's most direct legacy in the environmental movement was the campaign to ban the use of DDT in the United States, and related efforts to ban or limit its use throughout the world . The 1967 formation of the Environmental Defense Fund was the first major milestone in the campaign against DDT . The organization brought lawsuits against the government to "establish a citizen's right to a clean environment", and the arguments against DDT largely mirrored Carson's . By 1972, the Environmental Defense Fund and other activist groups had succeeded in securing a phase - out of DDT use in the United States, except in emergency cases . </P> <P> The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Nixon Administration in 1970 addressed another concern that Carson had written about . Until then, the USDA was responsible both for regulating pesticides and promoting the concerns of the agriculture industry; Carson saw this as a conflict of interest, since the agency was not responsible for effects on wildlife or other environmental concerns beyond farm policy . Fifteen years after its creation, one journalist described the EPA as "the extended shadow of Silent Spring". Much of the agency's early work, such as enforcement of the 1972 Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, was directly related to Carson's work . Contrary to the position of the pesticide industry, the DDT phase - out action taken by the EPA (led by William Ruckelshaus) implied that there was no way to adequately regulate DDT use . Ruckelshaus' conclusion was that DDT could not be used safely . History professor Gary Kroll wrote, "Rachel Carson's Silent Spring played a large role in articulating ecology as a' subversive subject'--as a perspective that cuts against the grain of materialism, scientism, and the technologically engineered control of nature ." </P> <P> In a 2013 interview, Ruckelshaus briefly recounted his decision to ban DDT except for emergency uses, noting that Carson's book featured DDT and for that reason the issue drew considerable public attention . </P>

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