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Carson Environmental Issues

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Rachel Carson was an influential woman in the 1960s ;she was famous for her book Silent Springs. After she wrote her book it brought up some controversy about the environment. Thus, beginning EPA and the start of the national holiday Earth Day. The book is based off of the harmful effects that chemicals have on the Earth like DDT. According to Proquest ,2001 it mentions in Rachel Carson that, “ One of the most dramatic results of her environmental activism was the U.S. government's order to stop spraying the pesticide DDT in 1964” ( p.1). Because of the government orders; the chemical was stop being sprayed, which led to a dramatic change in the environmental movement. From the government banning the use of DDT led scientist to realize the …show more content…

The four main waste they deal with are toxic waste,reactive waste,ignitable waste and corrosive waste. Toxic Waste damages the health of humans and other known living organism. Reactive Waste can causes an explosion though it is not explosive itself alone. Ignitable Waste can catch fire easily which can lead to even more problems like forest fires. The last one,corrosive waste will eat through metal and other like substance as well. All these different types of chemical waste are very harmful to environment. Because; of all these harmful effects that these chemical were having on the environment and humans it became an even bigger problem how that it would affect thus say the human population. Once found out how harmful the hazardous waste was no one wanted to be near the dump sites so, communities would fight back and stand up for themselves. Thus, bringing up the NIMBY syndrome. Though this helped some people it did not help all. Since, people were saying not near them or even in their backyard brought up a serious question who’s backyard should they have the dumps sites in. Because of the rising question most of the dumps sites were in poor communities of the whites. Because of said “poor” they did not really have a say so on rather or not it was okay for the dump sites to be

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