In 1967, Sweden became the first nation to establish a comprehensive environmental regulatory agency, the Environmental Protection Board. Moving quickly, the government responded to both pesticides and mercury. Several important Swedish environmental works followed Carson’s, notably Hans Palmstierna’s Plundring svält förgiftning of 1967. The national media, including Dahlbeck on the radio, gave Silent Spring a great deal of publicity.
Conferences and meetings on pesticides convened even before the release of the Swedish edition in 1963.
Although Carson never mentioned mercury, the issues merged and provoked a huge public outcry. The copyright holder reserves, or holds for their own use, all the rights provided by copyright law, such as distribution, performance, and creation of derivative works.Īlso at this time, environmental activist Nils Dahlbeck was broadcasting reports on his influential radio program “Naturen och vi” about the problem of mercury pollution, an industrial and paper-mill byproduct that poisoned fish, birds, and humans.
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