DDT

bond each prey and predator shares with each other, if one species in the food link is killed off or has gone extinct, this causes the entire food chain to be thrown off completely and possibly never be able to get back on its feet. As she talks about DDT and how it affects the world, Carson also talks about the soil which is known as the basic resource of earth. This means if the soil has lethal chemicals in it then the produce grown there will contain the poison and if too much is eaten or…

These new chemicals were very effective, cost efficient, and very highly popular. DDT was without a doubt the most popular pesticide due to its wide-spectrum activity against insect pests of agriculture and human health, but on December 31, 1972 the EPA had a press release stating that the pesticide DDT would no longer be legal for general use in the United States. 2, 4-D . Pesticides affect human health, waterways (streams, rivers, lakes)…

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring is an environmental science handbook whose concern is the environment and life on earth. The author uses her book to turn in to the harmful effects of pesticides on the environment. Rachel mainly handles DDT and pesticides administered to American environment through aerial spraying in attempts to control insect populations over large areas. This paper seeks to summarize Carson’s Silent Spring and capture its informative nature in a global perspective. The essay…

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In the world, People really do not want to harm others. If farmers realized that deadly pesticides, such as parathion, could hurt people just as easily as the birds and other pests they are trying to put an end to , would they still use them? In this excerpt from Silent Spring, Rachel Carson uses rhetorical devices such as hyperbole, understatement, and rhetorical questions to make the practice of using poisons such as parathion important . Carson starts out by using the symbiotic nature of…

Carson uses many elements from the Rhetorical triangle in Silent Spring, most from the logical and ethical appeals. The arguments Carson gave in Silent Spring were all about the use of synthetic chemicals. She presented that humans are a part of nature and are not meant to control it. Secondly, scientists do not know the long term effects these chemicals can have on the environment. Lastly, she wants to find better ways to control pests without the use of environmentally harmful chemicals. The…

Identification of human carcinogen (DDT) DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane) is a pesticide derived from chlorinated hydrocarbon. DDT‘s history dates back to 1940’s, the use of this pesticide eventually peaked in the 1960’s. However due to its detrimental effects on human health and wildlife, it was banned from the United States market in 1972. DDT like other chlorinated hydrocarbon is a very stable compound and hence, tends to be more persistent in the environment. DDT is also known as a…

All around the world, DDT is creating harmful effects against both humans and the environment. For many years, DDT has been used to control malaria by killing mosquitos in certain countries. However, DDT should not be used to fight malaria because it can damage many ecosystems and harm people in the long run. DDT is not only harmful to the environment, but is harmful to humans and animals. The most important example of DDT hurting an ecosystem is the case of malaria in Borneo. In the 1950s, the…

otherwise know as DDT is the most well know pesticide used around the world. (1) Up until 1972 DDT was the most commonly used insecticide in the United States (2) Initially DDT was used to control, lice, malaria and typhus. It then widened its reign to most crops in the United States. It attacked as a kill button. If you sprayed the crops, the insects would die and the crops would then grow stronger and better. What scientists didn’t know is what would happen when they sprayed the crops. DDT…

Society in the United States has definitely been dominated by the idea of consumption. Many of the goods that we are consuming today are thanks to the resources that we find in our environment. The majority of Americans understand the ecological consequences of hurting our own environment. They think of global warming, animals dying off, or landscapes being transformed. However, this same majority does not understand that destroying the environment causes an increase in personal health risks.…