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However, agriculture is the central issue. While pesticides are being used to keep crops alive, a benefit to farmers, the natural ecosystem is not exactly experiencing the same effect; the ecosystem is being destroyed. An effective way agriculturists can improve on decreasing the amount of pesticides is to use continuous production, where it is reusing the fields, without wasting and hurting them.

She accounts that the pesticides that we use do not single out and destroy only the insects that we want but it also kills things that are around it, which includes the animals that prey on it. And since we are eating that same food that was once sprayed with insecticides, it is also killing us.

Pesticides and preservatives are not only harmful to human beings, but they are also harmful to our environment and ecosystems. Pesticides used in organic farming may run-off and contaminate nearby bodies of water. If enough contaminated run-off from pesticides and artificial fertilizers get into water, it is able to poison animals and fish that live there. According to Raloff, recent studies have demonstrated that exposure to hormones has a substantial effect on the gender and reproductive capacity of fish, throwing off the natural cycle, (1). This is not only harmful to the animals that live there, but if enough fish are dying because of poisoned run-off, the fish industry could suffer and it will affect humans as well. The same chemicals that poison bodies of water could seep into our groundwater and affect the well water we drink and use daily. This does not happen with organic farming, because no chemicals are ever sprayed on the fields and there is much more run off because of tilling practices.

To understand pesticides, we must look at the facts about them. According to the EPA, pesticides are chemicals specifically designed and sold to prevent, destroy, or repel pests from garden, greenhouses, fields, and orchards (Learn About Chemicals Around Your House). Charlotte Gerber’s article, How Do Pesticides Kill Bugs, explained that pesticides targets insects and kills them by attacking the nervous system and then when the muscles are over-stimulated, this will lead to paralysis and death. The effect of the organophosphates that cause that in pesticides was discovered in the 1930's during World War II. They were used in the creation of nerve gas, which was used in chemical warfare. When used in lethal dosages for humans, organophosphates cause extreme excitability, convulsions, paralysis and in most cases, death (Gerber). According to Effects of Pesticides on Human Health, The World Health Organization estimates that there are 3 million cases of pesticide poisoning each year and up to 220,000 deaths, primarily in developing countries (Lah and Glibert 2011). Children, and any other young and developing organisms, are particularly vulnerable to the harmful effects of pesticides. Even very low levels of exposure during development may have adverse health effects. Exposure can even lead to neurological health effects such as memory loss, loss of

By using these chemical pesticides on the plants, it causes dissolved oxygen depletion in the water, phytotoxicity to the plants, and poisons the animals (Environmental Effects of Pesticides). From the greediness of crop cultivation, millions of species of fish will disappear. These pesticides do not only get into the ocean by spraying it, they get into the ocean when small particles fly over from the drift of the wind. This is especially common at beaches where people spray chemicals on the grasses nearby to prevent other people from being bitten by insects. Not only do pesticides affect the oceans, but the plants as well. These pesticides cause phytotoxicity refers to plant injury. By using these chemical pesticides, it damages the plants, especially those genetically similar to weeds. They can progressively result in mutations little by little until eventually there will be a period of time where the plants now will be very different. Even though this is what is happening now, Hawthorne, an author from 200 years ago, also thought that scientists were being evil. In “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” when it states “Dost thou deem it misery to be endowed with marvellous gifts, which no power nor strength could avail an enemy?...Wouldst thou, then, have preferred the

This suggests that the roadsides was once beautiful and bloomed with healthy and lively vegetation; however, they are now destroyed due to the use of pesticides. From these examples, it can be shown that even though pesticide is beneficial, its deadly effects outweigh its benefits; in addition, it is a dangerous substances to the environment, organisms, and even human.

The author offers her view through the use of logos and pathos in detailed, passionate words that are painted throughout the whole piece along with facts and figures. This is a call to action and awareness of the growing problems that can and will arise from all of the chemicals being misused without any regard for the balance of nature or man. Not only does she speak about how the almighty greed and very few regulations from companies will have an effect on us, she expresses how these things will be harmful to us as a species and for future generations .The author also makes a point to talk about how nature can be disrupted from its natural balance and order in that humans will most certainly throw things into chaos.

In the book Silent Spring, Rachel Carson’s main concern is the widespread use of synthetic pesticides and their impact on the environment. Carson concentrates on a commonly used pesticide in the 1950s called DDT. She opposes the indiscriminate spraying of DDT because it has profound consequences on the environment, humans and animals. Carson collected information about how the DDT can cause cancer in humans, harm animals such as birds and remained in the environment for long periods of time. Subsequently, the chemicals in the pesticides are extremely harmful so she tries to raise awareness and convince others that there are better alternatives.

According to a recent study done by EPA, thirty-three percent Unites States household use toxic chemicals such as pesticides and of thirty commonly used pesticides, nineteen have studies pointing toward carcinogens, thirteen are linked with birth defects, twenty-one with reproductive effect, and fifteen with neurotoxicity, twenty-six with liver or kidney damage. Environmentalist Rachel Carson book Silent Spring discusses the lethality of pesticides, specifically parathion. Rachel Carson hopes to change American’s attitudes toward nature and pesticide use. In this influential passage, Rachel Carson discusses disastrous affect of parathion on nature in order to dissuade the further use of toxic chemicals. Carson begins the column by illustrating

Pesticides not only have an effect on pests, but also humans. The effect is not physical like that of insects, but rather mental which ultimately can lead to depression and suicide. So pesticides are not only killing off what we don’t want but also ourselves, so we have to make a decision: slowly kill ourselves with pesticides or find other methods of keeping pests away. “We are slowly killing off our species without even realizing it -- some realize it, but don’t have the power to change our world and what we have caused. Our actions have

In today’s world, there are still chemicals used to kill off unwanted insects, on the contrary, it causes all types of problems to the environment near the toxic. It is killing off the beneficial insects such as ants that help get rid of chemicals in agriculture. Chapter 4 Visualizing Environmental Science and chapter 2 from Silent Spring both explain that toxics is a catastrophe that is not a win-win situation on both sides.

First of all, pesticides can fatal injuries to a large variety of animals. The infamous toxins can, in the future, kill species off to the point of extension. Some lifeforms at risk include insects and rodents. Birds are also subjected to

But unlike the roads in Robert Frost's familiar poem, they are not equally fair. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster. The other fork of the road — the one less traveled by — offers our last, our only chance to reach a destination that assures the preservation of the earth.” (Cason, P. 276) In the end no one benefits from harsh chemicals being sprayed. The environment suffers, people suffer, and wildlife suffers. If manufacturing companies were honest about what their product does, people would be hesitant to use these products, and they surely would not use them in such close contact. Other more effective ways are out there to rid an area of unwanted species, but currently people are unwilling to adopt those practices. I agree with Rachel Carson’s point of view of the dangers of biocides. I think they do need to be monitored on larger scale. These chemicals may not be killing people in staggering numbers, but there has been a few cases. Also many bird flocks have died off, and this change is extremely noticeable in the communities and seem to have happened over night. The same chemicals endangering the ecosystem are in human the human blood stream. The question is not if it will have negative effects on the human population; it is when and to what extent. Chemical producers as well as consumers need to take a closer look at what they are spraying in their own back yard. Everyone has an out of sight out of mind attitude, but once the affects come into sight it may be too late

Pesticides have been in use for centuries in homes and in agriculture. Poisonous chemicals such as arsenic and cyanide have been used with varying degrees of success in controlling insects and rodents. As time passed, chemistry and the improvement of industrial techniques have created many potent compounds which have useful applications both in agriculture and human health. However, developmental progress comes with risks and unforeseen consequences. The correlation between the introduction of pesticides into our environment, and the subsequent environmental impacts has implicated toxic substances in the damage of ecosystems and health concerns. In

In the book 'Silent spring ' written by Rachael Carson we find a picture of Carson 's deep concept about the connection between nature’s equilibrium and the web of life that has been ruined by the uncontrolled use of insecticides which in turn affected the healthy livelihood of this earth’s creatures. Furthermore, she tells the readers of substitute techniques of achieving the same ends. The title of the book is enough to make us understand that it was a hint of a spring season with no bird songs painting our atmosphere meaning that all birds had vanished due to misuse of pesticides.