ENVIRONMENTALISTS FOR THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING

LUPE ANGUIANO (b. 1929) is an educator who has always worked for the equality of all people. She is a passionate environment volunteer, helping to protect "Mother Earth" from global warming and other destructive environmental hazards.  Anguiano was also a United Farm Workers’ Volunteer, working directly under the direction of Cesar Chavez in Delano, California. She led the successful grape boycott in the entire State of Michigan in 1965.

SUSAN SOLOMON (1956) is a professor of atmospheric chemistry and climate science at MIT.   Her groundbreaking research on chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) as the cause of the Antarctic ozone hole was part of the basis of the international treaty that has effectively regulated damaging chemicals.   She is also a leader in climate science, and is best known for seminal work showing that climate changes due to human increases in carbon dioxide will last for more than a thousand years.

QUIZ: Who wrote the book “Silent Spring” which brought the world’s attention to the toxic effects of pesticides?

 

ANSWER: RACHAEL CARSON 

 

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