The Destruction Of Pesticides And Pesticides

     Pesticides are chemicals designed to kill, control, or repel insects, plant diseases, weeds, rodents, and germs. (Most pesticides are used in agriculture production, to killing pests found on hundreds of different crops including fruits, vegetables, nuts, and cereal grains.) All these foods form a good majority of North America’s diet, and the majority of these foods consumed contain pesticide residues. Pesticides are also used to get rid of unwanted pests in homes, schools, and parks. All of these chemicals are especially harmful to children because they can routinely come in contact with various pesticides through their distinctive diet and play activities. Water and apple juice are proven to

In her essay Rachel Carson targets anyone who will listen as her audience. She wants to inform human beings of the effects chemicals have on the environment. Rachel Carson’s audience had little knowledge of the effects radiation and pesticides might have on nature or to themselves. She successfully enlightened her audience to the harm man was causing to the environment not only presently, she also wrote of future ramifications. She predicts “Future historians may well be amazed by our distorted sense of proportion. How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by methods that contaminated the entire environment…?” (Carson 615). This statement might make her audience scrutinize their actions through the eyes of future generations.

“Along with the possibility of the extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man’s total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends” (Carson, 1962).

The development of the atomic bomb and chemical warfare forever changed the way people saw the world. It was a landmark in time for which there was no turning back. The constant balancing of the nuclear super powers kept the whole of humankind on the brink of atomic Armageddon. Fear of nuclear winter and the uncertainty of radiation created its own form of a cultural epidemic in the United States. During these tense times in human history officials made controversial decisions such as the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dangerous biological experiments and bombs tests were carried out in the name of the greater good and national defense. Some historians and scientists argue that the decisions and acts carried out by the U.S.

For example, “Silent spring” documented the detrimental effects on the environment including many animals and bird species. In Rachel Carson’s book, she tries to scare the living daylight out of us, which she succeeds in. The tables turn very quickly as she describes an average day on a farm turn into the end of the world aka doomsday. Along the same line lies “If i forget thee, oh earth” by Arthur C. Clarke which was a short story describing the expedition of Marvin, a ten year old in the story, and his father to see the earth from the moon. When Marvin views his first earthrise, he refers to the atomic quality of the destruction. As the narrator says, ‘‘the glow of dying atoms was still visible, a reminder of its ruinous past”, you realize that many man made weapons destroyed the earth such as atomic bombs or even worse, a nuclear war. When you realize that Marvin will never be able to visit Earth ever again, watching the earth from afar, never being able to experience it in person, it is

The chemicals found in water can be dangerous toward our health. We live near the Great Lakes which supplies 20% of the World’s fresh water. It also has chemicals that threaten the life evolving around the fresh water. There are medical drugs that are being introduced to the fresh water lakes. Stuff like antibiotics and steroids. These pharmaceuticals are posing danger for the environment. This could affect the lake life,s growth.

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

Within the text, Saukko uses directive process analysis to specify the calamitous actions done by people. Saukko writes a satire rather than an informative/didactic piece in order to truly emphasize how the earth is being poisoned. She wants to inform the public of the ‘not so talked about chemicals and power plants’ in hopes of influencing society to save and take action in order to save earth from mass destruction. The author satirically demonstrating what needs to be completed in order to poison the earth literally. Saukko states, “First, [we] must develop many different ways of putting the waste from these nuclear and chemical substances in, on, and around the earth.” And extends the process by stating “With deep-well injection [we] can

Since the bombing of Pearl Harbor and Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, scientists question whether modern technology, such as the atomic bomb, will initiate the beginning or the ending of an era of humankind. Seeing as hundreds of thousands of lives have been affected by nuclear warfare, the development and use of nuclear weapons have become a controversial dispute in the past decades and still remain a prominent issue in our world today. Prior to their execution in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear bombs detonate for the purpose of testing and demonstration over thousands of times, causing radiation and threatening environmental damage. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story “The Birthmark” emphasizes the dangers of unregulated science, as

The radioactivity that was caused by the atomic bomb, during World War II, caused severe damage to the nation of Japan. The negative particles that were produced by the radioactive isotopes caused the citizens of Japan to face many diseases that were detrimental to their health. The particles, which were caused by the radioactivity, turned the rain black which was unnatural. In the text, it states, “…iron ignited when it mixed with the oxygen in the air to cause these supplementary explosions (404)”. The cause of the rain to turn black is because of the particles that came from the bombing mixed in with the currents and the heat of that time. Whenever the black rain touched an individual’s clothes or skin, the deadly particles from the after-effects of the Atomic Bomb would stain them. By breathing or eating, the Japanese were negatively affected by the black rain also. The damage that the radioactivity caused

In an era where innovations have advanced and have become a greater part in our society, many Americans were negligent to the consequences of them. These innovations were presented to improve the lives of Americans as a whole. A prime example of these enriching innovations is pesticides, more specifically DDT. Although pesticides help crop output, there were numerous dangers that came with the utilization of them and many people were unaware them. Rachel Carson, a marine biologist, wrote Silent Spring to critique the use of pesticides.

One of the biggest and longest lasting environmental impacts of the detonation of the atomic bomb is the radiation contaminations that are left over. These contaminations spread into water, air, animals, soil and into the atmosphere. What’s worse is that these contaminations have materials that have very long half-life meaning that their radiation effects do not decay quickly. “Many of the substances

The growth of consumerism benefited those white Americans who focused on the immediate future. However, some people began to realize that the Earth will not always have the same resources it would have if they continued to treat the planet carelessly. In 1962, Rachel Carson published “Silent Spring” to address the harsh and consistent use of chemical pesticides like DDT: “We are accustomed to look for the gross and immediate effects and to ignore all else. Unless this appears promptly and in such obvious form that it cannot be ignored, we deny the existence of hazard. Even research men suffer from the handicap of inadequate methods of detecting the beginnings of injury. The lack of sufficiently delicate methods to detect injury before symptoms appear is one of the great unsolved problems in medicine.” This book caused a lot of controversy because of the lack of perceived science and knowledge of the general public, therefore, further research continued and sparked the beginning of the modern environmental movement. In addition, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb created concern about the projection of the planet’s resources due to overpopulation. Whites were disconnected from the possibility of a negative and toxic environment because their neighborhoods and livelihood were never directly affected, however, the threat of a possible

In her novel Silent Spring, conservationist Rachel Carson writes, “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.” This demonstrates Carson’s ability to express the beauty and incredulity of nature. As a scientist, she knew that nature has the strength to restore itself. In Silent Spring, she wants readers to consider the serious dangers that pesticides could have on the environment. The use of these artificial chemicals to control insect populations release harmful substances into the air, water, and soil, and have the potential to poison animals. Carson describes chemicals as the “sinister and little-recognized partners of radiation” (Carson 15). Carson later explains how poisons

The stories and events that unfold in John Hersey’s, Hiroshima, have certainly been eye-openers for me. As a child in middle school and high school I, we have all heard of the atomic bomb and of course of Hiroshima, but never in as much detail or on such a personal level as these stories. Not even in chemistry or physics class, where I learned some of the specifics as to how the bomb works, had I known of the destructive force of the bomb or it’s gruesome effects on human beings. As I mentioned before, this book was quite an eye-opener for me because it has taught me just how deadly nuclear weapons can be not only on material properties, but on human beings, and why nuclear weapons must never again be used is such a way.