Rachel Carson The Obligation To Endure Analysis

Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure” was a successful persuasive approach to opening society's eyes to environmental issues. In “The Obligation to Endure”, Rachel Carson writes about the earth and how it has adapted to environmental changes in the span of millions of years. “Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species-man- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world” (Rachel Carson 267). Carson states that mankind has done some irreversible damage to the earth in a very small amount of time. I find it appalling to see how destructive we have been within a matter of a couple hundred years. The effects of human production of many new chemicals and pesticides and the style that society
Pesticides have now been proven to pose potential risks to living beings. “Certain environmental chemicals, including pesticides termed as endocrine disruptors, are known to elicit their adverse effects by mimicking or antagonising natural hormones in the body and it has been postulated that their long-term, low-dose exposure is increasingly linked to human health effects such as immune suppression, hormone disruption, diminished intelligence, reproductive abnormalities and cancer (Brouwer et al., 1999; Crisp et al., 1998; Hurley et al., 1998)”( Md.Wasim Aktar, Dwaipayan Sengupta, and ashim Chowdhury). Having pesticides around us in agricultural fields, parks, schools, homes and practically everywhere is a really concerning topic. I think that the facts that the use of herbicides, fungicides and insecticides amongst other pesticides have been proven to be lethal through ingestion and simple exposure is enough to make people aware for a change. In recent times it has shown its effects here on the planet and have a factor to the contribution of the potential extinction of bees. Some factors that can be causing this Colony Collapse Disorder are pathogens such as Nosema which is a pathogenic gut fungi, Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus and many unknown. Parasites are also a possibility of the Colony Collapse Disorder as well as
“China’s Dirty Pollution Secret: The Boom Poisoned Its Soil and Crops” was based on the effects of factories and chemical plants in China. For a long time the Chinese government deemed this problem as a “state secret”. It wasn’t until February of 2013 that the Ministry of Environmental Protection admitted that “cancer villages” existed in China. A Fenshui resident once admitted that he could not eat local produce because “There’s too much soil pollution”. I feel like the author of this article failed to mention that China is merely one of the countries that are given the option to consume food that is not clean and healthy for our bodies or the environment. This is a problem that takes places in other countries outside of China too. Granted, some of China’s soil is more toxic than soil in our home, but many people are exposed to cheaper produce, pushing them to purchase it because it is cheaper, but it is full of things like pesticides, which in turn harm the earth’s inhabitants. Later the Ministry of Environmental Protection released a list that included the area around Lake Tai and the villages of Feng Shui and Zhou Tie as being dangerously toxic. They estimated that there are 450 cancer villages in China, and they believe the phenomenon is spreading. “At the end of 2006, Yixing had