Analysis Of Silent Springs By Rachel Carson
The use of pesticides and herbicides for the control of the called “pest” and in order to eradicate the called “bad vegetation” was in full motion during the 1940 and 1960 with the full support of the State and federal government. In those days, the solution for everything was the use of chemicals to eradicate or to reduce the expanding range of these organism without considering the true impact of such indiscriminate application of pesticides or herbicides or as Rachel Carson named as “Biocides” (Carson, 1962). The book written by Rachel Carson “Silent Springs” was very controversial then and now, because the same forces that dominated the use of these dangerous chemicals are present today but under different names and chemicals composition.
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While it will be very difficult to obtain a true assessment of the impact and changes that this book created, one thing is certain I t was able to raise awareness and to create and environmental movement that was capable of banning or reducing drastically the use of such pesticides. Nevertheless, it was a struggle for the author, due to the perception that pesticides were considered harmless and in many case they were label as such. Furthermore, the primary struggle was the campaign of dis-information that was created by the industries responsible for the production and manufacturing of such chemicals and the lack of competency of the states and federal agencies to properly test and research these products before their used. The same practices are being seeing today, almost seven decades after the publication of Silent Springs but with different chemicals that are capable of long term damage and devastating consequences to many organism such as Colony Collapse Disorder and many others. Humans has demonstrated a great capacity for innovation, however our capacity for destruction is greater everyday as our knowledge and capacity exceed our common sense. If Rachel Carson were alive today, she will published the same book with the use of different names for the chemicals and the after word will be a very simple words “Déjà
While it will be very difficult to obtain a true assessment of the impact and changes that this book created, one thing is certain I t was able to raise awareness and to create and environmental movement that was capable of banning or reducing drastically the use of such pesticides. Nevertheless, it was a struggle for the author, due to the perception that pesticides were considered harmless and in many case they were label as such. Furthermore, the primary struggle was the campaign of dis-information that was created by the industries responsible for the production and manufacturing of such chemicals and the lack of competency of the states and federal agencies to properly test and research these products before their used. The same practices are being seeing today, almost seven decades after the publication of Silent Springs but with different chemicals that are capable of long term damage and devastating consequences to many organism such as Colony Collapse Disorder and many others. Humans has demonstrated a great capacity for innovation, however our capacity for destruction is greater everyday as our knowledge and capacity exceed our common sense. If Rachel Carson were alive today, she will published the same book with the use of different names for the chemicals and the after word will be a very simple words “Déjà