Pesticide application

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

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

quality and nutrition, antibiotic resistance, increased pesticide residues, damage to beneficial insects and soil fertility, creation of GE super weeds and super pests, socio economic hazards, monopolization, scarcity of safety tests, and health aspects (Nayak et al. 114-116). Today common knowledge, for every action, there is an equal, and opposite, reaction, does not spare GM foods. “Pests and weeds will inevitably emerge that are pesticide and herbicide-resistant, which means that stronger, more

food available will not meet the standards of many individuals (Connor et al., 2003; Phipps and Park, 2002). Crop growers are facing challenges in terms of finding productive lands, growing nutritional crops, and finding an alternative to reducing pesticide usage (Phipps and Park, 2002). Scientists and crop growers are looking into GMO technology to help with the ongoing challenges they are currently facing (Phipps and Park, 2002). Introducing this new technology hasn’t really gone well with the public

environmentally friendly system of farming.On the one hand, it could reduce the pollution. Firstly, the use of chemical pesticides will be reduced. As we know, run-off of agricultural wastes from excessive use of pesticides and fertilizers can poison the water supply and cause harm to the environment. Growing GM foods such as B.t. Corn can help eliminate the application of chemical pesticides. Secondly, it does not need to use a lot of herbicides, which is also harmful to the environment. Monsanto has created

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

“Americans love to talk about their freedoms. Most of the time they mean the familiar ones—speech and press and assembly, as well as the other high-minded things our forefathers made sure to include in the national contract. But there are other freedoms too—the freedom to be loud, the freedom to be large, the freedom to have an appetite for anything at all and then set out to satisfy it.” (Kluger et al., 2015). Published by TIME magazine, the authors of this article intended to expose the harmful

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the public of the dangers of pesticides, which causes a shift in views towards pesticides and the harm they do to the environment. DDT is WW II insecticide designed to rid the troops of disease carrying insects such as lice and mosquitoes (Graham 56). Paul Hermann Muller, the chemist who invented DDT, was even awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology Medicine. However no research was done on the environmental impact of the chemicals. DDT soon became the miracle pesticide used everywhere until concerns

The use of pesticides have been dated back to over 4,500 years ago, when the Sumerians used sulphur compounds to protect crops from mites and insects (1). The use of pesticides are abundant in the United States and globally. The United States accounted for over one billion pounds of pesticide use in both 2000 and 2001, with over five billions pounds used worldwide in each year (2). The United States accounted for approximately 23% of the global use of pesticides. Pesticides have long been used