Which book is considered the catalyst of the modern environmental movement?

Rachel Carson's Silent spring is the book that is considered the catalyst of the modern environmental movement.

Silent Spring is a science book written by Rachel Carson. The book records the bad influence of indiscriminate use of pesticides on the environment. Rachel Carson blamed chemical companies for passing wrong information, and the workers for accepting the industry's marketing claims without questions. The information in the book resulted in the general ban on DDT (insecticide) for agricultural uses, and it also led to formation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

any abiotic or biotic factor in an ecosystem that causes a population's size to slow or decrease is a limiting factor.