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Obligation To Endure Essay

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The history of life on this earth has been a chain of interaction between living things and their surroundings. Change can be good but in this case change is bad. We as humans have been destroying our planet by air, earth, rivers, and sea with the most dangerous materials. Polluting our most precious and limited resources we have been our greatest enemy. We have created these irrecoverable effects that now everyone living on the planet is being affected but also the tissues of the living of everything is now being changed. Chemicals are sinister and a partner to radiation and here is some background information as stated in “The Obligation to Endure” by Rachel Carson pg. 466 where it lists a chain reaction of the chemical to our environment …show more content…

Obviously then, an insect that lives on wheat can build up its population to much higher levels on a farm devoted to wheat than on one in which wheat is intermingled with other crops to which the insect is not adapted”. We as humans would rather risk killing ourselves in the process with all these chemicals which makes these insects stronger which in return we would have to create even more powerful poison/chemicals, so it is basically a never-ending war but in the end, we as humans will always come to the point of lose. As we create more chemicals, these bugs become more resistant just how like in todays current time, the more we treat everything with antibiotics the more the disease becomes resistant to the point that we can’t kill off the disease we just have to allow nature to take its course as there is nothing we can do at that point. We already see this happening around the world, yet we keep on treating everything with drugs instead of using natural products that nature provided us with. Through researching this topic, there was a quote that spoke to me. It was by Bill Whittle who stated, “We are the Architects of our own demise”, this statement could be felt like echoes across the world as it is a true statement. It is because of foolish thirst for money and power that we are destroying our precious resources at the cost of dominating the earth instead of protecting and

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