Throughout Silent Spring‚ Carson describes how DDT entered the food chain and built up inside animals causing cancer and other damage. The Center for Disease Control (2009) states people are most likely exposed to DDT from foods‚ including meat fish‚ and dairy products. Once entered the body‚ the Center for Disease Control (2009) explains‚ DDT is converted into several breakdown products called metabolites‚ including the metabolite dichlorodiphenyldichloroethene
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talking about the details of DDT‚ it was written at a level that everyone could understand and relate too. Easily this could be one of the most important books written in American history‚ where would we be without it and how would our future have turned out. While this book was aimed for the public to be able to understand‚ it also directly attacked the companies who were manufacturing the chemicals that people were using‚ especially DDT. If one were to try to explain how DDT worked at the chemistry
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In the mid-twentieth century‚ there were high uses of toxic pesticides--namely DDT. Overtime these pesticides would have toxic effects on the environment and organisms. An environmentalist named Rachel Carson was greatly bothered by this and wrote the book Silent Spring explaining the toxicity of insecticides and their effects on life. Carson explained the effects that insecticides were having on life at that time‚ and the effects that would happen in the future if insecticide use continued. Silent
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As noted by “The Flight of Rachel Carson” essay’s author‚ Geoffrey Norman‚ “The research and writing took four years. During that time she was seriously ill...Misfortunes did not stop her. Neither did they rush her. Rachel Carson did not live to see DDT banned or to follow the successes and setbacks of the movement her book launched...But since Silent Spring‚ the pelicans and the ospreys have returned.” (244 &
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Spring (1962) became the inspiration for the environmental movement. Its elegant prose expressed passionate outrage at the ravaging of beautiful‚ unspoiled nature by man. Its frightening message was that we are all being injured by deadly poisons (DDT and other pesticides) put out by a callous chemical industry. This message was snapped up by intellectuals‚ and the book sold over a million copies. Many organizations have sprung up to spread Carson’s message. Rachel Carson set the style for environmentalism
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Silent Spring Rachel Carson Online Information For the online version of BookRags’ Silent Spring Premium Study Guide‚ including complete copyright information‚ please visit: http://www.bookrags.com/studyguide-silentspring/ Copyright Information ©2000-2007 BookRags‚ Inc. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. The following sections of this BookRags Premium Study Guide is offprint from Gale’s For Students Series: Presenting Analysis‚ Context‚ and Criticism on Commonly Studied Works: Introduction‚ Author Biography
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its consequences. The book successfully raised public awareness to the detrimental effects of pesticides. It has even caught the attention of President Kennedy‚ who ordered an investigation into Carson’s claims and eventually led to the banning of DDT (a pesticide commonly used in the 1940s and 1950s to curb the spread of malaria) in the US.1 Carson began the book by conjuring a desolate spring scene‚ a “silent spring” as suggested in the title‚ devoid of bird songs or any other sounds of life
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1. David Pimentel #35‚ Is Silent Spring Behind Us? Silent Spring is a book written by Rachel Carson in 1962 that discusses the effects of pesticides‚ specifically DDT‚ and how they have had a negative impact on the environment. During the time between 1945 and 1972‚ chlorinated insecticides had become widely used in efforts to protect crops. As a result‚ these insecticides had seriously reduced the populations of predatory birds‚ fish‚ snakes and other reptilian populations‚ as well as insects and
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Book Title: Silent Spring Author: Rachael Carson Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company in 1962 Background Information: Silent Spring is a book that explains the environmental and human dangers of uncritical use of pesticides‚ leading to new changes in the laws affecting our air‚ land‚ and water. It also looks at the effects of insecticides and pesticides on songbird populations throughout the United States‚ whose declining numbers generated the silence to which her title refers. I began this
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Efforts to save wildlife and the National Park Service founded by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916 were in response to environmentalists. In 1962‚ Houghton Mifflin published Silent Spring by biologist Rachel Carson who raised public concern about DDT and other pesticides that may cause cancer and were a threat to wildlife‚ especially birds. Groups like Greenpeace and Friends of the Earth focused on air pollution‚ oil spills‚ and water contamination. Free market environmentalism
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