Welcome to Emergence Magazine's podcast.

I'm Emanuel Von Lee, executive editor of Emergence Magazine.

Each week, we feature a new interview, narrated essay, or story, exploring the threads connecting ecology, culture, and spirituality.

Thank you. culture, and spirituality. Paul Ellie is the author of the life you save may be your own and reinventing Bob,

and is a frequent contributor to the New Yorker.

As part of our celebration of the 50th anniversary of Earth Day,

we invited Paul to trace the literary history of the environmental movement,

from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to Pope Francis' environmental and cyclical.

In this in-depth piece, he explores how concepts like nature and environment have shifted within our collective understanding

and wonders if we will live up to the promise of unified action on behalf of the Earth.

The June 16, 1962 issue of The New Yorker ran 132 pages and carried the cover price of a quarter.

In it was a short piece on the pleasures of walking in Central Park, a poem by James Dickey,

a piece about baseball by Roger Angel, stories by Peter DeVries and Shirley Hazard.

A review of John Ford's picture of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valens.

And ads for Fleischman's vodka, beef eaters gin, martini and Rossi Vermuth, Taylor Vermuth,

Stoiband Glass, V. Altman & Company, The Bank of New York, Chevrolet, DuPont Chemical,

and the new novels by Isaac Bischewas Singer and William Faulkner.

Running from page 35 to page 99 was a piece by a reporter at large.

The topic was the adverse effects of pesticides in the air and water and on plant, animal,

and avian life.

The headline was Silent Spring, 1, and the reporter, named at the end in small type,

was Rachel Carson.

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