The+Green+Movement


 * [[image:silent.jpg width="221" height="313" align="right"]]Writing**: The Green Movement has its roots in the writing produced about the subject. During the sixties, many books came out in the forms of fiction and non-fiction discussing the dangers of our actions upon the environment.

The first, and most significant, piece of writing produced during this period was Rachel Carson's //Silent Spring//, a novel which discussed the dangers of DDT, a commenly used pesticides upon organisms, birds in particular. The book caused a sensation and eventually led to the banning of DDT in the US in 1972. However, its influence spread beyond just pesticide awareness, and really made people concerned about the environment as a whole, bringing about awareness to other pressing environmental issues.

Another influential book of this   movement was //The Population Bomb,// by Paul R. Erlich, written in 1968. This book predicted the problems that woudl result from the population trend that was occuring in the post-war period. In the book he said that overpopulation would lead to worldwide famines by the 1980s, and that there was nothing we could do about it but take radical action.


 * Film:** With the green movement came a whole new sub-genre of disaster films: the eco-apocolyptic genre.

While many films were made during this period pertaining to environmental catastrophes, the most famous (and quotable) is //Soylent Green (//1973), which stars Charlton Heston. The movie takes place in 2022 and all infrastructure has collapsed and people depend on little green wafers for   food. Little do they know, SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!!

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohLaBIB61Ic

The Line: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Sp-VFBbjpE

Music: The Green Movement also inspired songs in an array of musical genres. From the Beatles to Joni Mitchell, many artists of the time would try to bring awareness to environmental issues through their music.

One famous example:

"Piggies"- The Beatles

Have you seen the little piggies Crawling in the dirt And for all the little piggies Life is getting worse Always having dirt to play around in.

Have you seen the bigger piggies In their starched white shirts You will find the bigger piggies Stirring up the dirt Always have clean shirts to play around in.

In their styes with all their backing They don't care around In their eyes there's something lacking What they need's a damn good whacking.

Everywhere there's lots of piggies Living piggy lives You can see them out for dinner With their piggy wives Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.