Silent Spring Summary Essays - Counterculture Of The 1960s

Silent Spring Summary Silent Spring In the very beginning of the book Rachel Carson had talked about the mre than 500 pesticides used each year to get rid of insects and pesticides. All of these pesticides where making the United States an unhealthy place to live. They where killing of animals that were part of a food chain. A food chain that could later affect us. Not only was it hurting animals but humans too. It was giving them illnesses that were unheard of and unreckognized. Carson had stated tht chemicals to treat soil was leading to destruction of species that could later be studied. Thus leaving us at an unadvantage to advance our knowledge. Using DDT and letting it come into contact with humans leads to mental damage and cancer. Also tumors and leukimias were brought on be DDT. Rachel Carson had in her conclusion that the desire, by us, of total control of nature was sought out to be a really stupid thing. Bibliography Rachel Carson, Silent Spring Science Essays