Insurers are now poised to show the way in climate-related risk mitigation. (ALM Media archives)
March is Women's History Month, so it seems appropriate to honor Rachel Carson and other women who helped frame the climate change conversation.
Carson worked as a marine scientist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, primarily as a writer and editor. She is generally credited as the person who began calling attention to the issue of global warming and climate change. In 1941, she published "Under the Sea-Wind" about the interactions of a sea bird, a fish and an eel in the open seas. Then came Carson's popular book, "The Sea Around Us," published in 1951. Carson also wrote "The Edge of the Sea" in 1955.
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