Background Knowledge Manufacturing these chemicals had become a huge industr e so effective popular with the public and the government because they w In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson questioned the right of industrial companies to pollute without considering the effects on the environment. She argued that this kind of pollution would result in ever-decreasing populations of birds and other wildlife. She said this would lead to the loss of the wonderful sounds of nature. The chemical poisoning of the environment, she said, would cause a silent spring Rachel Carson did not live to see how her book influenced the government's decision to ban DDT. She died of breast cancer in 1964. She was fifty-six years oldBackground Knowledge ▪ popular with the public and the government because they were so effective. Manufacturing these chemicals had become a huge industry. ▪ In her book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson questioned the right of industrial companies to pollute without considering the effects on the environment. She argued that this kind of pollution would result in ever-decreasing populations of birds and other wildlife. She said this would lead to the loss of the wonderful sounds of nature. The chemical poisoning of the environment, she said, would cause a silent spring. ▪ Rachel Carson did not live to see how her book influenced the government's decision to ban DDT. She died of breast cancer in 1964. She was fifty-six years old