Silent Spring Rough Draft The Earth provides us with life and sustainability, and without keeping the environment clean, this structure could collapse. Humans pollute the air with car use and factory production, trash the land with garbage and uneaten food, spray harmful chemicals onto plants, and poison waters with trash and substances such as oil. In order to be able to be healthy, it is important to keep our environment clean and healthy for ourselves and the wildlife living in it. As stated by the Global Footprint Network site, during the 1960's, the increase for need of factories produced significant, new problems such as air pollution and damaging run offs. One strong environmental activist decided to spark understanding in people with
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She calls the chemical "a universal killer", reiterating its extreme severity and danger. Something this harmful should not be used on everyday foods that humans intend to work with and later even consume. If the farmers wished to make a profit through selling foods but have a string of complains of it harming people who consume the food it has been used on, the use is utterly pointless and will harm their reputation as it only causes damage. Carson further gives an example of where "workers handling foliage that had been treated [with parathion] collapsed and went into shock." This sets a strong image into the audience's head of the extent of this chemical's danger. This sparks a sense of compassion in the readers through her use of emotional appeals-- no one wants to see other innocent humans be tortured through a method that could easily be removed. Using this example further explains her want to ban Parathion entirely. Carson also describes the plants as "vegetation coated with a lethal film." Her word choice will especially draw attention to Parathion's extreme danger. Carson repeatedly states that this agent is harmful to humans in the first place, making it pointless and ignorant to use to fix a problem that can be solved with other methods. Carson uses repetition and emotional appeals to insist that Parathion should not be
She calls the chemical "a universal killer", reiterating its extreme severity and danger. Something this harmful should not be used on everyday foods that humans intend to work with and later even consume. If the farmers wished to make a profit through selling foods but have a string of complains of it harming people who consume the food it has been used on, the use is utterly pointless and will harm their reputation as it only causes damage. Carson further gives an example of where "workers handling foliage that had been treated [with parathion] collapsed and went into shock." This sets a strong image into the audience's head of the extent of this chemical's danger. This sparks a sense of compassion in the readers through her use of emotional appeals-- no one wants to see other innocent humans be tortured through a method that could easily be removed. Using this example further explains her want to ban Parathion entirely. Carson also describes the plants as "vegetation coated with a lethal film." Her word choice will especially draw attention to Parathion's extreme danger. Carson repeatedly states that this agent is harmful to humans in the first place, making it pointless and ignorant to use to fix a problem that can be solved with other methods. Carson uses repetition and emotional appeals to insist that Parathion should not be