1. Largely influential environmental texts such asAldo Leopold'sSand County Almanac(1949), often credited with the birth of the modern American environmental movement, andRachel Carson'sSilent Spring(1962), which led to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency, have successfully activated an acute sense of loss and destruction, as well as communicated the broader significance of interspecies peril, by condensing seemingly mute and gradual ecological effects onto the more readily digestible scale of human narrative and consequences for humans.