Silent Spring Response
I think anybody can agree that man has a come a long way in it’s journey here on earth. We have grown a lot and have done many amazing things as the human race altogether. We have grown, but we have also grown in negativity. Since World War I, with the production of Mustard Gas, chemistry has been divided into two sides. The good side consisting of medical research and helpful items. The bad side consisting of the nuclear bomb, Zyklon B, and the wrongful use of pesticides.
In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson tells how we humans have produce 200 basic chemicals created for the use in killing insects, weeds, rodents, and other organisms. In Ishmael, the author brings up how we have had the gift as knowledge as the human race. We have the decision to do what we want to do. Just because we know the human race is flawed doesn’t mean it’s an excuse to continue with those mistakes.
We do not realize what we are putting on our vegetation is coming right back to us. Everything we have created to kill off insects and other organisms are being put into our body. We had the gift to take control of nature and use it to our benefit, but in this case we are harming it. Nature has given us the tools to use it probably, but instead we are trying to make things much more easier and lessen the work. We do not let nature do it’s own process, instead we modify it to our own pleasure, when it reality nature doesn’t work that way.
The more we continue to harm nature by using pesticides and other chemicals, the more we are harming ourselves. Nature has it’s own way of developing and evolving, but in this case we are stopping it. It took hundreds of millions of years to produce life on earth, and slowly we are ending it. Although the same way we are changing earth negatively, we can change the earth positively. If we all became much more aware of what things harm our earth, we can all move towards a solution to help the earth. Not only the earth itselfs, but help the human race to continue it’s life here on earth.