Agent Orange Impact On Society

Whilst having aided the growth of society, technological advances have also helped to negatively debase its moral development. Agent Orange was a chemical meant to accelerate the growth rate of soybeans. In the future this technological advance in high quantity became a herbicide and a defoliant, the opposite of its original purpose. During the Vietnam war, 77 million liters of it were used by the U.S. Military as a weapon against the Vietnamese. Over four hundred thousand Vietnamese people were killed as a result of having made contact with Agent Orange, and approximately five hundred thousand had been born with birth-defects caused by it. The man who developed it, Arthur Galston was a bioethicist, and a plant physiologist, who at the end of the war, adversely aided to terminate its further use as a chemical of warfare. …show more content…
Even though society keeps on growing technologically, the conflicts that have come along the way with its growth have not all yet dissipated. Modern day technology has a crucial impact on the world and its advancement, and all aspects of it need to be taken into account before giving it to the hands of the people. Technology of any sort may seem harmless and propitious, but later might turn into something inauspicious that could eventually be harmful when misused. At first Agent Orange was developed to be an agricultural tool, but then became the cause of hundreds of thousands of casualties. This essentially is the danger of technological advancement. If it reaches the wrong hands, the end result could be fatal. It is imperative that mistakes from the past, like Agent Orange have been learned from, to prevent similar situations from happening in the