We have an early edition of Silent Spring by Rachel Carson in our Dystopian Fiction Cabinet.
Initially the publication of this book met with much resistance from companies manufacturing pesticides. It is now viewed as one of the most important books of the twentieth century. It explored the destruction of wildlife from the use of chemicals, and it is included in our Dystopian Fiction Collection as it begins with an imagining of a future where nature has been significantly diminished.
This book influenced environmental campaigners and eventually chemicals such DDT were banned around the world.