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Silent Spring

Introduction

The essay is aimed at analyzing the text from the book of Carson's silent spring. The use of recommended sources is brought into play to generate a logical and constructive analysis. The essay views the topic from the rationale behind the content proposed by her in the book, its link with the conformity of the post war world and the nature of her concerns raised in the book.

An effort is made to describe her perspective of ecology and the proposed difference from that time's prevailing famous scientific thinking. The view presented by the critics on the content and the connection that she saw between gender and ecology is also highlighted. At the end, the essay strives to provide the possible influence of her proposed theories on the thinking of environment and the prevailing thought on the subject matter.

Discussion

The Silent spring is considered to be one of the courageous moves taken by any female in the literature to make the chemical industries realize their responsibility towards the nature and the natural environment of the world of humanity. Her book was a great source of identifying the hazards and dangers occurred by the pesticide DDT she raised the question on the humanity faith shifting towards the technological advancements and viewing the animals and other insects as their enemy. Her writing truly became the reason for the movement that took place in the 1960s to protect the environment (Anonymous, p. n.d.).

Carson's Brand of Science

In her book, she made an attempt to describe the ways in which DDT was entering into the food chain and was accumulating in the fatty tissues of animals even including the humanity. She placed emphasis on the hazardous effects of DDT that was causing cancer and genetic damages into the human beings. She tried to bring the focus of scientific thinking on the fact that their invention DDT was not only having irrevocable harm to birds and animals, but it was damaging the food supply of the entire world (Anonymous, p. n.d.).

She believed that nature should be ruled by man because in her view man was the only specie on this planet of earth that possessed the power to bring changes and alteration in the world and its natural environment. She was worried with the changes she assumed were brought in the environment by humanity that might have severe impact on the societies and they might hurt the humanity (Carson, p. 7).

She held her views limited to the anthropocentric that explained the ways that make life worthy and what kind of humanly used chemicals and toxic material can cause damage not only to the environment and nature, but also to the communities and families living in by creating a situation of havoc in the outdoor environment (Allchin, p. n.d.). It might be observed from her book that she was concerned with the quality and quantity of human lives. She was living in the hope of quality life for as many people as possible, and ...