In “Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson, Carson contends that the majority of humans are contaminated with harmful chemicals because wartime usage. Carson explains“DDT is so universally used that in most minds the product takes on the harmless aspect of the familiar”(20) because “its first use was the wartime dusting of many thousands of soldiers”(21). DDT is so commonly used in war, that the chemical is perceived as harmless soap. In relation to wide contamination, humans contaminate each other by spraying pesticides into the air. Therefore, when soldiers come back from war, the DDT invades the city. Even though “DDT in powder form is not readily dissolved through the skin,” if “dissolved in oil...DDT is definitely toxic”(21). The public does
