Rachel Carson and the Environment

Rachel Carson's research on the dangers of pesticides opened her eyes to how much damage they were causing to the environment. When she first made this research known, she was greatly criticized due to the fact that she was a woman and that major chemical companies would be losing money and business. 

The excerpt from Silent Spring titled "A Fable for Tomorrow", was very interesting. At first while I read this tale, I could not figure out what was happening to the town, Once I read the line "a white granular powder still showed a few patches..." it made perfect sense. The pesticides were killing the animals and making the people sick. Something that was thought to be helpful was in fact doing more harm. 

Finally, her last paragraph in the tale was very grim. It said that all the disasters had not happened in the same town, "yet everyone of these disasters has actually happened somewhere..." Her book was a huge wake up call to the 1960's and showed us that people were killing the same world they were living in.