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 The green movement began in the 1960s. Major institutions rapidly gained mass
 membership, especially among the urban professional middle classes, in many
 Western nations [@sutton-environment, p. 103]. Rachel Carson's _Silent Spring_
-helped to kick green rhetoric up to the highest level of politics in the US and
-other countries \[EVIDENCE\]. Carson made use of well-established forms of
-language which distinguished between 'nature' and 'civilisation', and called on
-her audience to protect pristine nature from the clutches of corrupting
-civilisation \[EVIDENCE\]. This kind of rhetoric proliferated, and in its wake
-followed wave upon wave of legislation \[EVIDENCE\].
+caused a huge public controversy and thus helped to kick green rhetoric up to
+the highest level of politics in the US and other countries [@silent-spring, pp.
+122-124]. Carson made use of well-established forms of language which
+distinguished between 'nature' and 'civilisation', and called on her audience to
+protect pristine nature from the clutches of corrupting civilisation. This kind
+of rhetoric proliferated, and in its wake followed wave upon wave of
+legislation. Just to give a flavour just of US federal legislation in the decade
+following _Silent Spring_:
+
+- Clean Air Act 1963
+- Wilderness Act 1964
+- National Emissions Standards Act 1965
+- National Environmental Policy Act 1969
+- Occupational Safety and Health Act 1970
+- Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act 1972
 
 From the beginning, one of the central issues of the green movement was nuclear
 power. Throughout the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, nuclear power functioned as the
@@ -132,5 +141,3 @@ rhetors, if they are to play their proper part in delivering political change.
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 - Evidence: environmental movement attracted middle-class members in the 1960s
-- Evidence: Silent Spring was significant in bringing about change
-- Evidence: environmental legislation was passed after Silent Spring