Rachel Carson in her article “The Obligation to Endure” argues the impact that pesticides/insecticides had upon the environment and the human health risks that were caused because of the harmful pesticides/insecticides.
Carson made some interesting points which led me to think about how man is actually destroying the earth, with the help of science because of the harmful chemicals that are being used in pesticides. Society fails to realize that the pesticides being used are actually killing other animals and human species through the contaminations in it, that’s made by man on earth because we humans and the animals eat those crops. The quote, “The central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man’s total with substances …show more content…
In the reading, Carson mentions how insecticides were initially used as a bug repellant and aid to protect the crops becoming a victim to Darwin’s principles. Reasons that insecticides became a victim to Darwin’s principle was because Darwin’s principle mentioned in this reading was survival of the fittest, which man did not seem to do when making these chemical insecticides. Instead, man created a vicious, harmful, chemical that would kill off every crop and soil that was around instead of doing what it was original purpose was, to kill the insects to protect the crops. What good is this insecticide for the crops and soil? How is this harmful chemical being served as protection for the crops and soil against the insects when once sprayed to kill the insects it kills the crops and soil in the process? Man’s whole purpose was to try to eliminate the unwanted insects and weeds by using the insecticide, but in the process its causing more problems by environment pollution, for example, DDT and harming living things. This goes to show how careless man is when it comes to precious living things in the environment. This leads to the point made indirectly by Carson on how because of man’s carelessness it makes it nearly impossible for nature to be
Carson made some interesting points which led me to think about how man is actually destroying the earth, with the help of science because of the harmful chemicals that are being used in pesticides. Society fails to realize that the pesticides being used are actually killing other animals and human species through the contaminations in it, that’s made by man on earth because we humans and the animals eat those crops. The quote, “The central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man’s total with substances …show more content…
In the reading, Carson mentions how insecticides were initially used as a bug repellant and aid to protect the crops becoming a victim to Darwin’s principles. Reasons that insecticides became a victim to Darwin’s principle was because Darwin’s principle mentioned in this reading was survival of the fittest, which man did not seem to do when making these chemical insecticides. Instead, man created a vicious, harmful, chemical that would kill off every crop and soil that was around instead of doing what it was original purpose was, to kill the insects to protect the crops. What good is this insecticide for the crops and soil? How is this harmful chemical being served as protection for the crops and soil against the insects when once sprayed to kill the insects it kills the crops and soil in the process? Man’s whole purpose was to try to eliminate the unwanted insects and weeds by using the insecticide, but in the process its causing more problems by environment pollution, for example, DDT and harming living things. This goes to show how careless man is when it comes to precious living things in the environment. This leads to the point made indirectly by Carson on how because of man’s carelessness it makes it nearly impossible for nature to be