Summary Of Synthetic Pesticides On The Earth By Rachel Carson

The message of the book was bringing awareness to balancing nature with mankind and understanding the harmful effects of using synthetic pesticides on the earth. Rachel Carson weaves this message throughout the book by utilizing powerful diction, for example, “Although modern man seldom remembers the fact, he could not exist without the plants that harness the sun’s energy and manufacture the basic foodstuffs he depends upon for life” (63). Carson empowers society by explaining the need for coexistence with plants because without plants there would be no Earth.
An incident from the book that made an impact on me was the neglection from the chemist and uneducated society to think that DDT was not influential in their life, and would not affect other living things. Carson emphasizes, “The plain truth is that this is a critically important subject of the ecology of the soil has been largely neglected even by scientist and almost completely ignored by control men” (56). She highlights the true impact humans have on the environment, and the education that needs to be acknowledge to make society more aware of how to make the world live more sustainable.
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Secondly, the knowledge of using pesticides, Carson explains, “One of the most sinister features of DDT and related chemicals is the way they are passed on from one organism to another through all the links of the food chain” (22). She educates the dangerous impact DDT has on the environment, which at the time was something new to society because most people nd Earth are acknowledged through the course and book. They both educate the effects that each example has on the environment. It took me around a month to read the