Summary Of Rachel Carson'ssilent Spring

In the passage ¨Silent Spring¨ by biologist Rachel Carson she argues who has the right to kill these helpless innocent birds trying to get their food. Also who has the right to put workers or even children that walk through the fields lives at risk because of all the poison in it. She believes no one has the right to decide these sort of thing, especially because of ¨the countless legions of people who were not consulted¨ (Carson Lines 57-58). To support her argument she uses examples from real life scenarios. One from southern Indiana in 1959 about a group of farmers who used a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. She explains that the problem could have easily been solved with a change in agriculture so the birds