The Pesticide control act was first applied in 1970, before significant revisions in 1972 that expanded the EPA’s present authority to oversee the sales and use of pesticides with emphasis on the preservation of human health and protection of the environment. This revision would implement the regulatory framework that it was lacking before, along with strengthening registration process by seeking proof from chemical manufactures of what they were using.
By exposing the hazards of the chemical pesticides, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. However, the threats Carson had outlined such as the contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of entire species, were too frightening to ignore. For the first time, the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born again. Also relating to hazardous chemicals, in 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) was passed. …show more content…
In the chapter Rocks, explains this migration of settlers due to mining. Abbey indicates the negative consequences mining in the region was doing to the environment and how the majority of people who came to settle there for it. Valuable metals such as lead, zinc, silver and uranium were being found within these regions and many became infatuated with the idea of their own personal story of striking it rich. This idea of striking it rich would not be the case for most settlers and would have little opportunities to do anything else, similarly to the settlers lives, it was destroying the environment too and effecting its
By exposing the hazards of the chemical pesticides, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. However, the threats Carson had outlined such as the contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of entire species, were too frightening to ignore. For the first time, the need to regulate industry in order to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born again. Also relating to hazardous chemicals, in 1980, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) was passed. …show more content…
In the chapter Rocks, explains this migration of settlers due to mining. Abbey indicates the negative consequences mining in the region was doing to the environment and how the majority of people who came to settle there for it. Valuable metals such as lead, zinc, silver and uranium were being found within these regions and many became infatuated with the idea of their own personal story of striking it rich. This idea of striking it rich would not be the case for most settlers and would have little opportunities to do anything else, similarly to the settlers lives, it was destroying the environment too and effecting its