Silent Spring

good. There is no mention of whether or not there is importance of how people achieved that happiness, so that in itself brings up great concern. This concern is immediately brought up by Rachel Carson in her groundbreaking environmental book Silent Spring. Carson places her evidence of great environmental destruction of “biocides” caused by utilitarianism. Biocides is a term Carson coined in her book to include insecticides, pesticides, etc.,…

highlights the impact of the use of insecticides as used by several government agencies and individuals in killing and eradicating pests. In the first chapter, Carson explains the fable of tomorrow in which she describes the use of chemicals has affected a silent world that was undisturbed. With chemicals such as Strontium 90 to kill insects, these chemicals have got into the food chains. They are consumed by humans and are causing considerable harm to the users. On the other hand, the insects…

massive populations of birds and wildlife and proved to be harmful to humans as well. Appalled by the rapid deterioration of nature, Rachel Caron, a marine biologist and conservationist, wrote the book Silent Spring, urging for a ban on DDT. The title of her book is an ominous evocation of a silent, lifeless future stripped of the beautiful music…

Triumph Against Adversity Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in the early 1960’s as a response to the massive amounts of DDT being spread throughout the United States. DDT had first been introduced in the wake of World War II as a “wonder pesticide” that could eliminate all pests. The real problems began rising when farmers starting using much more of the pesticide than were necessary. Farmers were using as much as two pounds of DDT per acre on their crops, and not long after the effects were…

Rachel Carson, a biologist, wrote a book discussing the destructive effects of pesticides, as a means to inform the public and urge them to act against the use of them, yet the book created much controversy. In the excerpt from Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Carson states that the use of spraying pesticides is not worth the damage done to the natural world by describing the poison's widespread…

Silent Spring written by Rachael Carson is considered to be the landmark on environment. The book showed the real picture of the damaging effects of pesticides on the environment especially birds. Published in 1962, the book became the turning point in the history of America which led President John F. Kennedy to form a special team to confirm the facts of the book which ultimately led to the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and finally banning of DDT. The book had a huge…

implement the regulatory framework that it was lacking before, along with strengthening registration process by seeking proof from chemical manufactures of what they were using. By exposing the hazards of the chemical pesticides, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was a new public awareness that nature was vulnerable to human intervention. Conservation had never raised much broad public interest, for few people really worried about the disappearance of wilderness. However, the threats Carson had…

In Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, published 1962, the author brings forth the idea that we are poisoning ourselves and the environment through the common misuse of chemical pesticides during that time (Introduction). She believes that citizens must have the right to “be secure in his own home against the intrusion of poisons applied by other persons” (p xv under Introduction). In the face of obvious toxic effects of DDT and other chemicals, she reports that at the time, new chemicals were being…

scientist without a Ph.D. and as a courageous individual who had the strength to push back against what was accepted as truth. The controversy surrounding her was and is largely because of the assertions she made in her most widely read book, Silent Spring. It proposed the -then radical- idea that pesticides, especially the commonly used DDT, had profound effects on our environment and should be used with reserve. It cautions that many pesticide’s abilities to reduce populations are not…

KEY EVENTS Environmentalism began as a movement in the United States in the 1960s and 1970s after early awareness of threats to the environment, the publishing of the book Silent Spring, the first Earth Day, and the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). However, humanity's relationship and dependence on the earth for survival has existed since the beginning of time. Ancient civilizations, such as Rome, Babylon, and Greece, dealt with the problem of air pollution. “Excessive…