Douglas Brinkley: Our planet needs another "Rachel Carson moment"

After a week which saw Hurricane Nicole batter the Florida coast, and President Joe Biden at the annual global climate conference in Egypt, historian Douglas Brinkley (whose latest book deals with the dawn of the environmental movement) reminds us: attention must be paid. rachelcarson.org

While writing a history of Rachel Carson and the environmental movement of the 1960s and '70s, I was bombarded daily with contemporary news flashes about human-caused climate change disasters.