Rachel Carson had many great reasons for writing the book Silent Spring. The main theme of the book was to prove the effects of the careless spraying and dusting of people, crops, fields, and forests with harmful chemicals in the mid 1900s. This book was published in 1962, so a lot of the “new” advancements and findings are outdated as of 2015, however this book marks the important history of what happened when humans interfered with nature by using chemicals, and how that affected the ecosystem for years to come.
Carson used each chapter to explain in great detail the effects that each chemical used in the mid 1900s had on people, animals, waterways, fields and the environment as a whole. It was proved in the text that the chemicals such as DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, and many others had a permanent impact on the wellbeing of all living organisms. Once the chemicals were sprayed onto trees, and into fields and forests, it was unforeseen that the harsh chemicals would seep into the groundwater and effect virtually every living organism in the area. The chemicals poisoned and killed the …show more content…
People were so caught up in the greatness and effectiveness of this new poison, that no one thought about the long-term effects it would have on anything other than the insects. After the spraying, the birds and fish quickly began to die off because they were poisoned by the waters that they lived in, or because the insects that they had been eating were poisoned. This was an alarming change, but not alarming enough to keep the focus off the immune insects that were returning in the following years. As the DWW explains, the people had a goal of ridding these insects, their solution did not work and therefore the people revised their goals, and did whatever was necessary to complete them. In this case it was inventing stronger
Carson used each chapter to explain in great detail the effects that each chemical used in the mid 1900s had on people, animals, waterways, fields and the environment as a whole. It was proved in the text that the chemicals such as DDT, dieldrin, aldrin, endrin, and many others had a permanent impact on the wellbeing of all living organisms. Once the chemicals were sprayed onto trees, and into fields and forests, it was unforeseen that the harsh chemicals would seep into the groundwater and effect virtually every living organism in the area. The chemicals poisoned and killed the …show more content…
People were so caught up in the greatness and effectiveness of this new poison, that no one thought about the long-term effects it would have on anything other than the insects. After the spraying, the birds and fish quickly began to die off because they were poisoned by the waters that they lived in, or because the insects that they had been eating were poisoned. This was an alarming change, but not alarming enough to keep the focus off the immune insects that were returning in the following years. As the DWW explains, the people had a goal of ridding these insects, their solution did not work and therefore the people revised their goals, and did whatever was necessary to complete them. In this case it was inventing stronger