Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Question: According to Rachel Carson, what are the main threats that humans and nature face? Do the solutions she offers seem feasible?
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Student Answer:
Rachael Carson’s legacy marks the history of environmental ethics. In her book, “Silent Spring”, Rachael Carson presents various threats that humans and nature face. She further offers solutions that can be adopted to end this menace.
To begin with, Carson was disturbed by the damage caused by the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides, a practice that endangered human life and damaged the nature. Carson argues that the increased faith by human being on technological advancements was exposing both people and nature to hazards of DDT.
Second, DDT threatens human lives for it causes neurological challenges such as cancer, asthma, leukemia, testicular cancer, and lymphoma. As per Carson, the use of pesticides leads to intense DDT concentration resulting to neurological abnormalities to kids. Breast milk analysis by Carson shown that it contained high DDT concentration that harm babies.
Third, Carson notes that chemical pesticides are toxic to animals; this threatens the nature of endangered species. The excessive use of pesticides by farmers poison water which forms nature and this is a major threat on nature. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring
Nature has been harmed by human activities. Only a small number of people worry about wilderness disappearance at this time period. The threats described in Carson’s “Silent Spring” continue to raise public awareness that such an environmentalist was born. Nature suffers of pollution, over-exploitation, habitat loss, and endangered species.
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In conclusion, chemical firms tried to discredit Carson’s arguments and even mocked her. However, Carson fought back with proven facts. Although the society was fooled by chemical companies, the society was still concerned about people’s wellbeing. Carson’s “Silent Spring” arguments created a major difference, and resulted to ultimate ban of DDT.