Women in Ecology
The field of environmental sciences is relative new, so considering that the career "Engineering in Renewable Natural Resources" was created only 25 years ago, I focused on the area of ecology to choose the person I admire. I had a hard time choosing just one person, so I decided to talk a little about the three women who in different times and perspectives marked history. I start with Rachel Carson, she was a marine biologist born in 1907 who with the publication of her book "Silent Spring" in which she investigated the use of pesticides, popularized contemporary environmentalism in the masses. Although she faced the full wrath of the men of the time, she managed to bring environmental science closer to the common people and thanks to her there is now the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Earth Day, laws in the world against pesticides and the current environmental movement. Then we continued with Wangari Muta Maathai, the so-called "Women Tree", he...
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