Silent Spring

Silent Spring, a book by Rachel Carson, is a book that explains the harmful effects that deadly chemical have on humans and the environment. Carson tries to persuade people to change the way they live. Has Carson succeeded in her attempt to change people’s behavior involving environmental issues? There are many ways that Carson has made changes in how people think about the problem of pesticides, insecticides, and herbicides. You may ask, how is Carson successful in her attempt? Carson has…

they can kill fungi, which are called fungicides. There are many more pesticides out there as well, each with a different job. These pesticides are meant to help make human lives better, but do these pesticides really make our lives better? In Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson, pesticides are examined and shown how pesticides cause environmental issues far worse, than the pests humans are trying to kill. This book has taught me a lot about how dangerous pesticides can be if you used in…

After reading Silent Spring, I see even more that humans in years past and today have had a powerful and also negative effect on the natural world that we live in. Rachel Carson mainly argued that pesticides have an adverse effect on our environment. She said that they are properly termed as “biocides” since their effects were hardly limited to targeting the pests. Carson spoke a lot about DDT as a prime example as well as other synthetic pesticides several that are subject to bioaccumulations.…

In this passage from her book, Silent Spring, noted biologist and environmentalist Rachel Carson details the harmful effects of using poisons, specifically parathion, not only on targeted animals, but entire ecosystems. Carson attacks farmers for using pesticides like parathion and argues that agriculturalists must consider the repercussions of ignoring the “universal” killing power of parathion before mindlessly eradicating bothersome animals. To support her central argument, Carson uses the…

She is one of the first people who introduced this controversial topic about our planet. Publish in 1962, “Silent Spring”has became one of the best seller books on the New York Times list. In the book, Carson 's main argument is that pesticides (she like to calls them “biocides”) have detrimental effects on the environment. She said that Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane…

Silent Spring was published shortly after the 1950’s; around this time, women were viewed as submissive to men and little more than homemakers. The women had given up their jobs to the men upon their return from fighting in World War II, and since the United States was still involved in the Cold War, any American with differing views from the norm could be called a communist. As Carson says herself in Silent Spring, “only within the moment of time represented…

combating this environmental problem by suggesting the use of indigenous knowledge and stressing the importance of a change in mindset about humankind’s relationship with the earth. Also tackling the topic of environmental issues, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring seeks to warn the public about the dangers of pesticides being widely administered without discretion for the environment nor consent from the public, and emphasizes the value of knowledge and truth in dealing with said pesticides.…

She pieced together environmental concerns of urban and industrial reforms with the ecological issues that were relevant to that time. In documenting the damaging impact of unregulated pesticide use, and eloquently speaking of the barren trees and silent birds, solidarity was formed under the care and sympathy for the environment. Carson’s audience, like Friedan’s, was largely housewives. This part of society had time available to read the piece, and had personal experience with the issue at…

and future atmosphere. Meteorologists do anything from forecasting the weather to being climatologists. Weather can be predicted by many factors, like temperature, air saturation, orography, and the environment. The environment is a big factor. Silent Spring, a book written by Rachel Carson, explains the effects of pesticides and chemicals on the environment. Rachel Carson ends her book with, “it’s our alarming misfortune that so primitive a science has armed itself with most modern and terrible…

In publishing Silent Spring, Rachel Carson brought awareness to the harmful effects pesticides have on health. She shed light on the fact that we use these toxic pesticides without knowing the consequences they will have on public health. Carson says, “I contend, furthermore, that we have allowed these chemicals to be used with little or no advance investigation of their effect on soil, water, wildlife, and man himself...There is still very limited awareness of the nature of the threat." Toxic…