The Devastating Cause Of Birds In Silent Spring By Rachel Carson

In 1975, seemingly absurd predictions made in Rachel’s Carlson Silent Spring (1962) on human health and ecosystem hazards caused by DDT materialized in our James River, Virginia. Irresponsible chemical disposure from Life Science Products made workers ill from neurotoxin exposure, suffering from symptoms of nosebleeds, headaches, chest pains, and dizziness from neurotoxin exposure (Goldfarb, William). Ecosystem was destroyed animals leaving the area with 200,000 pounds of Kepone found on almost all land surfaces, and parts of the river (Wilson, Sarah).

Rachel Carson is a noted biologist who studies biology, a branch of science addressing living organisms, yet she has written a book called Silent Spring to speak about the harmful effects of pesticides on nature. Carson doesn’t write about birds’ genetic and physical makeup, the role of them in the animal food chain, or even how to identify their unbelievable bird songs, yet strongly attests the fight for a well developed environment containing birds, humans, and insects is just and necessary. To Carson, the war for a natural environment is instantly essential for holding on to her true love for the study of biology. Thus Carson claims that whether it be a direct hit towards birds or an indirect hit towards humans and wildlife, farmers need to understand the effects and abandon the usage of pesticides in order to save the environment by appealing to officials, farmers, and Americans in her 1962 book, Silent Spring. She positions her defense by using rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questioning to establish logos, juxtaposing ideas, and using connotative and denotative diction.

Rachel Carson is considered one of America's finest science and nature writers. She is best known for her 1962 book, Silent Spring, which is often credited with beginning the environmental movement in the United States. The book focussed on the uncontrolled and often indiscriminate use of pesticides, especially dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (commonly known as DDT), and the irreparable environmental damage caused by these chemicals. The public outcry Carson generated by the book motivated the U.S. Senate to form a committee to

In the mid-20th century, farmers used a toxic insecticide named parathion in an attempt to control pests detrimental to their crops. Rachel Carson was a biologist who wrote pamphlets (Lear) on conservation and natural resources designed to inform people on the beauty of the living world. In an excerpt from her 1962 work Silent Spring, Carson calls upon the public to take action against the use of parathion by highlighting its catastrophic nature and vilifying the agricultural community for their negligence.

The following involves the second chapter of Carson’s book, Silent Spring that was written in 1962. In this chapter Carson argues persuasively the adverse impacts of pesticides upon the environment and the risks on human health and the environment associated with these “genetic invaders” (Carson, 1962). Many of the extremely diverse people from Carson’s audience targeted were under the impression that chemicals like DDT, at that time in history, were safe for their health. Carson reconciles and attempts to persuade the public to consider the idea that DDT, which in the 1950s and 60s was one of the many chemical pesticides being manufactured and sold to

In 1962, renowned biologist Rachel Carson published the book Silent Spring. The book sought to show Americans how their wish to “eradicate” animals that inconvenience could have unintentional and adverse affects on nature. While describing man’s unfavorable effects on nature, Carson also employs many rhetorical strategies to construct her brilliant argument.

Carson’s other books, Under the Sea Wind, The Sea Around Us (which stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for 86 weeks), and The Edge of The Sea all focus on nature’s strength and the inter-connectedness of nature and all living things. But DDT exposed the vulnerability of nature and I think this influenced the writing of Silent Spring. DDT was the most powerful pesticide in the world at the time of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. Unlike most pesticides, whose effectiveness is limited to destroying one or two types of insects, DDT was capable of killing hundreds of different kinds at once. Developed in 1939, it first distinguished itself during World War II, clearing South Pacific islands of malaria-causing insects for U.S. troops, while in Europe being used as an effective de-lousing powder. Its inventor was awarded the Nobel Prize.

Silent Spring- Written in 1962 by Rachel Carson. Tackled conservation issues that Rachel Carson believed were caused by synthetic pesticides. Led to a nationwide ban on DDT and reversed the national pesticide policy.

As many public issues began to arise over the use of pesticides, Rachel Carson published Silent Spring. Ira Baldwin reviewed the book revealing that it is one sided and only tells the negative side of using pesticides. She did significant research on the issues that go along with the use of pesticides but left out the entirety of the benefits and contributions of their use. It does nothing to indicate all of the positive ways that pesticides benefit the lives of humans daily. In his article, Ira says, “I can understand that the author felt it necessary to

“No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people have done it themselves.” In the descriptive nonfiction, anchor text, “from a Silent Spring” by Rachel Carson she explains the effects of the chemical used by humans called Pesticides. This man made chemical is designed to kill crop eating insects, but they can be toxic to many including humans. Pesticides cause vegetation to wither and streams to become contaminated.

This book was focused on the concern of pesticides that industries, along with us as individuals, have been dumping (both knowingly and unknowingly) into water. Carson was concerned that the chemicals which the farmers spread on their fields, and even the chemicals we use in our homes (among others), in the end, might come back around and harm us. The beginning of the book tells a story of a place, that was once so beautiful, turned dead and ugly due to a “strange blight that crept over the area” and destroyed everything. Later in the book, she goes on to explain that chemicals, particularly one known as DDT, are the major cause of environmental damage and the near extinction of

Many companies were developing new synthetic pesticides that were being used in high amounts throughout the United States in order to fight unwanted insects and plants, this use was recommended by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. She was inspired to begin her new book, Silent Spring, because of a letter written by Olga Owens Huckins, a former writer for the Boston Post. She and her husband owned property in Duxbury, Massachusetts and they had made into a private bird sanctuary. Disregarding the fact that the use of these harmful pesticides on wildlife and especially the birds of this sanctuary, the state still sprayed the entire area from the air for mosquito control; this made the insect life be wiped out, and many birds were

“A grim specter has crept upon us almost unnoticed, and this imagined tragedy may easily become a stark reality we shall all know. What has already silenced the voice of spring in countless towns? ” (Carson 3) In reading this sentence it is inferred that bird population is rapidly when in truth at the time Carson wrote the book the bird population was on the rise, she continued to mention that DDT was causing the numbers of countless species of bird to fall to extinction.

In the book Silent Spring the author brings to our attention the damaging affects that insecticides and pesticides in which we use on a daily basis can have on us. No, not just us humans, but everything that surrounds us. The plant life; the animals; the bacteria, insects, and other types of organisms that live in the soil which sustain the plant life, which in turn feed the animals who feed us, and so on. It has come to the attention of many that the chemicals used in pesticides don’t only cause harm to those living things above the ground, they bring harm to every living thing, and could eventually wipe out earth as we know it.

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.