I believe the theme of this chapter is human sabotage, because Carson mentions how the ‘small city in the United States” was so beautiful and how it changed, not naturally, but by the humans. It really stood out to me that the author started the chapter with such a strong hook, talking about how beautiful […]
In the late 1950s the use of new farm machinery and agricultural technology drastically began to increase. Many farmers were were now swaying away from their standard agricultural techniques to more relatively fast, cheap, and new alternative techniques. One technology that began to rise dramatically in usage during this time were pesticides, ‘chemical substances used […]
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Get startedIntroduction: ‘Silent Spring” was a book that sparked national debate about the use of pesticides thanks to Rachel Carson. This includes the responsibility of science, and the limits of technological progress. Thanks to her, DDT would eventually be banned, and awareness would be brought to the relationship between humans and the natural world. Rachel Carson […]
In the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, she drew a clear picture of nature and its relationship with the web of life that is destroyed by the excessive use of insecticides which has affected the livelihood of the living things on the surface of the earth. She further tells her readers to use different […]
Rachel Carson in her book Silent Spring talks about approximately 500 or more pesticides/chemicals that were introduced each year and possibly making our planet unfit for all forms of life. Author argues about harmful effects of pesticides/chemicals on the environment. This book is an ideal example for public warning on the dangers of increasingly use […]
In the book Silent Spring, Carson makes a powerful argument about the detrimental effects human beings have had on nature in the present century, contaminating the air, water, and soil with lethal materials. She highlights, in particular, the extensively threatening effects of manmade insecticides, which Carson terms “biocides”, has had on the natural ecosystem. She […]
Postwar America during the 1950’s and 1960’s consisted of many social movements that helped find resolutions to all the occurring problems in society. During this time period, it consisted of the affluent society. The affluent society was the aftermath of the war and started urbanization in cities. The 1960’s specifically consisted of many social movements […]
Rachel Carson published Silent Spring in 1962, and was approached by a roar of protest and approval. The book helped start the first real and effectual environmental movement. Carson concentrates on a commonly used pesticide in the 1960s called DDT. She opposed the spraying of DDT because she realized that it has profound consequences on […]
