Carson Silent Spring

    

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       In Carson’s first excerpt, she describes a town in America where all life flourished; then, an evil spell came and killed all the beautiful life forms. At the end she states that that this town was not exist but it is similar to what happened all across America. She states that “no witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this world. People had done it themselves” (Carson 151). This was a powerful statement because her whole story was about an evil spell, and we find out that this “evil spell” was actually our own doing. Mankind has destroyed nature and its beauty in many ways. We had the need to control and tame every aspect of it and that it what we have done. However, destroying life is a natural effect that has come out of that. Life in many different species is faltering, plants, animals, and insects alike. Because they cannot survive in this new deadly environment we have created with all our buildings, technologies, chemicals, and pollutants. It is sad how much natural life we have lost in the progress of mankind. The more development, the less natural beauty remains. 

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Mankind has not only destroyed natural life but has polluted both the land and water with dangerous materials. This pollution is essentially irrevocable because “the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible” (Carson 153). The damage that we have done cannot be undone. The destruction can be fixed, but it will never be back to its original, natural state. The development, pollution, and other harmful damage we have done to the environment has either completely eliminated species or fundamentally changed the way they live. Certain ecosystems cannot be brought back naturally, but they can be artificially made. We can change the way we selfishly use and waste earth’s resources but the damage we have done is indeed irrevocable. The earth’s life can and will never be completely restored to the way it was before mankind. 

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The pollution that Carson focuses in on is insect spray and its horrible effects on the environment and the entire living species. She questions how intelligent beings could seek to control a few unwanted species by “a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind” (Carson 156). It is a bit dramatic to make such a strong statement. Human beings are stronger and more adaptive than she is giving credit. Even through all our research, we have not figured out the complexities of the human body, its genes, and the brain. I am not saying that pesticides are not bad to use, but I am saying that I do not think they bring a huge threat of death to our kind. Carson gets too intense with this statement, but her passion for the environment and all living species is clear.  Carson is right, however, in her frustrations with how we need to control everything. Our need for control is excessive and is a huge contributor to all the development and destruction of the environment.

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            Carson, in her dramatic streak, further states that we have subjected a huge amount of the population to contact with these poisons, often without their knowledge (Carson 160). And according to her since the Bill of Rights contains “no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials”, it means our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, did not conceive of any such problem (Carson 160). Our forefathers did not conceive of such a problem because it was a completely different age. No one could predict how technologically advanced we are today. It is not fair for her to state that our forefathers were smart enough to know something like pesticides should never be created. They were creators themselves. She cannot compare their age to now and predict what their views on pesticides would be.

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