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Silent Spring: Abuse Of Pesticides
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Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring brought about an awareness of the abuse of pesticides in the 1960’s. She told the stories of how deadly pesticides could be to the environment, wildlife, and even humans. There were very few regulations on all .... Middle of Term Paper
... with it. With each season, our fields were growing more deadly.
The chemical plants that made the pesticides were also to blame. They though they were dumping harmless chemicals into our water supply. The relatively inert compounds when combined with other forms in the environment formed deadly compounds. In Silent Spring, Rachel talks about one case where the chemicals were caught in a storm drain, when they were flushed out, they mixed together and went into nearby streams, and contaminated the nearby lake and killed all the fish for 8 miles downstream. The government just didn’t have the research to realize that harmless chemic ... |
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