Silent Spring - Chinmoku no Haru

Japanese: 沈黙の春 - ちんもくのはる

A book published in 1962 by American biologist Rachel H. Carson. Carson was the first to warn that the large-scale aerial spraying of organochlorine pesticides such as DDT, which was carried out in various parts of the United States at the time, not only caused serious damage to wild birds and fish and shellfish, but also that the sprayed pesticides could remain in crops and fish and shellfish and be ingested by humans, causing adverse effects on human health. Within six months of its release, one million copies had been sold, and some countries decided to regulate organochlorine pesticides based on this book. In the United States, the federal Congress revised the Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Control Act in 1964, and since 1970, 30 related laws have been enacted to protect human health and the environment from chemicals, including the Toxic Substances Control Act, the Safe Water Supply Act, and the amendment to the Pesticide Control Act.

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Japanese:

米国の生物学者レーチェル・H.カーソンが1962年に刊行した著作。カーソンは，当時米国の各地で行われていたDDTなど有機塩素系農薬の大量空中散布によって，野鳥や魚介類などが大きな被害を受けるだけでなく，散布された農薬が農作物や魚介類に残留して人体に取り込まれ，人の健康に悪影響を及ぼす危険性があることを，この本で初めて警告した。発売後半年で100万部も読まれ，これをもとに有機塩素系農薬の法的規制に踏み切った国もある。米国でも1964年に連邦議会が殺虫・殺菌・殺鼠剤規制法を改正，1970年以降は化学物質から人間の健康と環境を守るために毒物規制法や水道安全法，農薬規制法の改正法など30もの関連法の制定が続いた。

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