Why Are Noxious Weeds Bad

Through discussing possible solutions using a critical and cynical tone, Carson identifies the common mistakes and effects that humanity has been creating. The article starts by explaining how common poisoning as a way to control pesky animals has become. Rachel Carson demonstrates, “In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottomland with parathion. The area was a favored roosting site for thousands of blackbirds that were feeding in nearby cornfields. The problem could have been solved easily by a slight change in agricultural practice,” (12-19.) By presenting an example in which poision seems to be the answer and then presenting an uncomplicated solution which would benefit the ecosystem and the farmers, she is emphasizing how simple it is to destroy the Earth. To add on, when the author utilizes the words “easily” and “slight” she brings the audience’s attention to her critical tone by accenting the transparent fix. As the audience is exposed to how mindless their actions were with the the parathion, they understands the author’s discontent of the dangerous manipulation of the farmland.

There are not many workers to cut acres full weeds to make the farm look organized. So to fix the solution, farmers use chemicals to kill the weeds. This solution makes it easier for the farmers to use because the process is fast. Another problem is that there are pest such as rats, birds, and other creatures that ruins farmers product. Pest tends to enter the farm and eat the products and will come back for more. Pest can also enter the farm and ruin the farm. Killing or removing the pest is the only way to fix the solution. But removing one by one is difficult. Using chemical to remove all the pest is the best way. Same method goes to removing all the insects and bugs. Insects and bugs are feeding on vegetables and fruits. Insect and bugs can ruin vegetable and fruits because when they are feeding on the product they tend to ruin the quality of the product. No one is going to buy a lettuce that is eaten by insects or fruits that has black spots. This causes the increases of all the products from being

Every garden has their own purposes that make gardeners devote a great amount of time to take care of them. Gardeners are coming up with their own unique ways of taking care of their gardens, especially when they make profits out of it. In his book, The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan claims the best gardeners of his generation have devoted themselves to growing cannabis, popularly known as marijuana. Intrigued with Pollan’s argument, I completely agree with him. Marijuana growers are the best gardeners because they perfected the plant in growing them indoors, they make good business out of it, and the plant itself fills the need of humans for transcendent altered states of consciousness.

Although people are well intentioned in their use of pesticides, people are ignorant of the harmful effects of them. Carson uses appeal of to pathos and logos to convey his point. Carson describes in the passage that while people are trying to kill weeds and insects, as a consequence of that we are in return hurting our ecosystem. She states, “ to still the song of the bird and the leaping of fish in the stream, to coat the leaves with a deadly film, and to linger on in soil all this intended target may be only a few weeds or insects”. This quote in the passage is used to appeal to the reader’s sense of emotion by making the reader feel a sense of responsibility. Although people easily kill bugs and weeds, they would never think that it would

Georigia Invasive Species Task Force. (2005, March). Invasive Weeds in Georgia. Retrieved from Georigia Invasive Species Task Force:

An example of an invasive plant includes the Canada thistle. The Canada thistle harms the environment because it, “crowds out and replaces native plants, changes the structure and species composition of natural plant communities and reduces plant and animal diversity… prevents the coexistence of other plant species through shading, competition for soil resources… through the release of chemical toxins poisonous to other plants” (Canada). The Canada thistle’s only special way of harming the surrounding environment consists of poisoning the plants that surround it. Otherwise the Canada thistle does not have any special ways that it harms the environment. People brought the Canada thistle to the United States in the 1600’s. By the year 1954, Canada and the United States of America declare the Canada thistle as a “noxious weed.” However now many consider the Canada thistle as an invasive plant (Canada). The Canada thistle has many ways that you can control it. You can cut it by hand, pull the plant out, burn them, or use chemicals to kill these plants. The best way to get rid of the Canada thistle encompasses using chemicals. If you do not have any chemicals to do this job you can always cut the plant down to the ground, and when it regrows do this again until the roots become exhausted

One topic that Crosby discusses is the survival and spread of "weeds." I found it interesting that pretty much no matter where you go in the world; one common factor is weeds. I believe this is because as Crosby points out, "weeds" is not a scientific term. (Crosby, 2004, p.28) I believe that if we took the trouble to classify the different types of weeds, that we would find some indigenous to certain areas; but since we have not, weeds are a universal

Noxious weeds can be very harmful to all aspect of rangeland. They can outcompete native grasses and forbs causing a loss of forage to livestock and wildlife. A large number of noxious weeds have been purposely introduced to the United States for purposes such as food, forage, fiber and decorative ground cover. Programs have been created to help with the invasion of weeds. It’s taken lots of time and resources to get programs started up to be able to combat the effect of noxious weeds.

Then in the early 1970’s, a large seed reservoir was present and effectively cultivated a crop of spotted knapweed where the soil had once been disturbed (SCWD, n.d.). This infestation had remained unattended to until 1983, when the Stillwater Mining Company began operations. The Stillwater Mining Company began aggressive measures to control the spotted knapweed, but the weed had established itself and began spreading to adjoining private and public properties. Since then, the efforts of the Stillwater Mining Company, local land owners, Untied States Forest Service (USFS), the Stillwater Valley Watershed Council, and Stillwater County have effectively controlled the spotted knapweed in all areas except for along the river corridor (SCWD.

Competition is a fundamental ecological process that is observed and studied in numerous species. Individuals can compete within their own species (intraspecific competition) or they can compete against other species (interspecific competition) (Molles and Cahill 2011). Resource limitation and space are commonly competed for among individuals, which in turn, changes the structure and biodiversity of communities (Craine and Dybzinski 2013). One of the most notable cases of interspecific competition occurs between invasive weeds and non-invasive species, such as, agricultural crops (Ashraf et al. 2012). Weeds are usually undesirable native or non-native plants that are able to adapt to poor environments, and thrive in various conditions (Ashraf

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.

Companies and researchers alternate the genetic structure of crops to withstand pesticides, non-GM weeds and insects can gradually develop a resistance to the chemicals. At this point farmers actually have to increase their use of pesticides. These practice causes weed populations to adapt to the herbicide and eventually become resistant to it. Once these superweeds emerge farmers must find a new herbicides and more potent products.

called “weeds” and why they should not be destroyed by chemicals. Carson tells of a way that

our crops to be infected with diseases and infestations such as pests and weeds. By

Genetically Modified insect resistant crops produce the toxic substances as a results it effect non-target organism and entire ecosystem. Biodiversity has significant role to balance environment as biodiversity decreases interaction between species decrease and ecosystem and food chain affect adversely. Some weeds are source of food for