rachel carsons book

Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring begins with a short story depicting a made-up town in the “heart of America” where all life once lived in harmony with its surroundings. Carson quickly presents her central issue by quickly describing the disasters this made-up town faces. Because what silenced the made-up town was the inhabitants and their ignorance to the environmental hazards they had imposed as a result of their decisions. Although the town does not exist, …showed first 75 words of 938 total…

…showed last 75 words of 938 total…movement. In her final statement, she declares that mans desire to control nature is philosophy born in the Stone Age among the Neanderthals that has been passed on till now. The irony is this desire for total control could become an “alarming reality,” but unfortunately it would not be man’s true intentions; for all the research and formulated chemicals engineered to control a percentage of a species could be the extinction of many others.