Alas, only small amounts of these ‘home sprays’ actually hit their target resulting in a mass contamination of soil, air, and food. Rachel Carson, a member of the US Fish and Wildlife service, quit her job as a biologist and devoted her full time to the research for her watershed book, Silent Spring. The book aimed to expose the unknown horrors of pesticides that scientists did not want the public to know about. An immediate New York Times best seller, Carson’s work had a massive impact, resulting into more than 40 bills passed in Congress to take back the environment. Carson maintains a striking message for the modern utilitarian conservation movement stressing the effects of unregulated chemical use and a push for governmental legislation with the central theme of nature existing for all of us.
Her main concern was the government’s use of chemical pesticides such as DDT, a colorless substance used as an insecticide that is toxic to humans and animals when swallowed or absorbed through the skin (Guralnik 1970). She was familiar with the studies of DDT and knew that it was dangerous and its effects on the environment. According to Carson, The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me
It is scientifically proven, that chlorine out of natural sources gets rained out of the lower atmosphere. Still, he keeps arguing on subjects that are no longer deniable – global warming, depletion of the ozone layer, and climate change. He has no clue what he is talking about. And this is only one example of plenty. I find Rush Limbaugh to be very harsh in a lot of his expressions, such as words like: “feminazis” (referring to radical feminists “to whom the most important thing in life is ensuring that as many abortions as possible occur.”) Calling President Obama “Barrack the Magic Negro” already leans towards racism.
Common sense says you shouldn’t discover where the edge is by passing over it, but that’s what we’re doing with deforestation and climate change” (553). Desert is considered hot, and now it’s hotter; it also affects the quality of agricultural land. Nature will be destroyed, and the world economy will be going down. Global warming is one of the most challenging environmental problems in existence today. Our life, animals’ life, and plants’ life are becoming worse because we are destroying the environment.
The waste we flush away flows into streams and beaches that make it difficult for aquatic creatures to sustain life. Until reading this essay, the thought never crossed my mind and I will certainly think about the ecological impact my actions could impose. The second issue Suzuki mentions is our dependency on electricity. It is said that our rivers and fossil fuel deposits supply us with a near limitless amount of energy but we are unaware of the ramifications that come along with hydroelectric dams and greenhouse gases. As I was reading the essay, I noticed the reoccurring theme of information and knowledge.
Carson provides rational examples to show the harm that pollution is causing to the earth and pests. Carson states, “Can any one believe it is possible to lay down such a barrage of poisons on this earth without making it unfit for all life?” (605). Rachel Carson is trying to prove that spraying chemicals is not relevant because it causes harm to nature and anything else that comes in contact with the chemicals itself. Carson uses this scientific observation to prove that the cycle is continuous; all it is doing is causing more harm. As is it perceived, Carson feels passionately toward the environment and wants her audience to feel the same way.
Population Impacts Perspectives Here we have the same juxtaposition we’ve encountered in other readings – the ideologue versus the scientist in Jared Diamond’s Op-Ed piece for the New York Times (2Jan2008) versus David Malakoff in Conservation Magazine’s Oct-Dec 2009 edition. While Diamond begins with an effective device showing the significance of the number 32 as the multiplier between undeveloped and developed consumption rates he wanders off the point and in some cases or just digresses to inflammatory orations that undermine his credibility. Malakoff, in contrast, paints both the history of and current depth of issues surrounding “over” population, “under replacement” rates and their consequences. This author brackets our popular experience with closing elementary schools, closing pre-schools etc., with the scientific assessments and analysis. It’s difficult to ferret out the key synopsis of the diatribe by Diamond – it looks like he is making a case for less wasteful consumption but fail to outline what that would consist of exactly.
In the words of mahondas ghandi “There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.” If we continue to consume bottled water at the rate we are now, 20 years from now we may not have any water left for the need of mankind. Not only is the bottled water business draining our earth's most precious natural resource, but its waste is one of the leading causes in pollution in our society today. I first became interested in bottled water when a friend once told me that dasani is simply NY tap water. Naturally I didn't believe him because I didn't think they would be allowed to do that. Take a municipal's source of public water, pump it, and resell it?
Planet Change Former vice president, Al Gore, in his documentary, “an inconvenient truth” published in 2006, addresses the topic of global warming and argues that global warming is a great danger, and we should take action on the issue. He supports this claim by giving statistics, using persuasion, giving anecdotes from his life that helped him become who he is now and his contribution to society, and also uses pathos, logos and ethos on his project. Then by providing evidence on the issue by showing the audience scientifically proven graphs and finally by making a call for action to all humans and convincing the audience that we need to do something about it. Al Gore’s purpose is to inform and persuade the audience that we need to make a change on our behaviors that are making all these climate changes and catastrophes. Al Gore provides information in order to show us the real truth of the planet’s environmental dangerous changes and prevent the expansion of global warming.
They make it possible for us to live in the earth by warming the earth so we don’t freeze to death at night without the sun or burn without the filter of the atmosphere in the summer. Although the greenhouse effect makes the earth able to have people living on it, if there gets to be too many gases, the earth can get unusually warmer (warming the oceans and causing sea rising) Mainly the plants would not be able to take the heat, consequently dying. Gradually, people, plants, and animals would all die of hunger. It is also destroying many huge forests. The pollution that causes global warming is linked to acid rain.