Silent Spring: Pesticides
Beginning of paper
In the book Silent Spring, written by Rachel Carson reminds us of how the effort to control insects in the past has created problems in our ecosystem including animals, plants and human. Rachel Carson explained the effect of pesticides in our environment and how animals, plants food were the victim ....
Middle of paper
.... ideas and measures that are being taken today, it is important to understand how pesticides were being used in the past. Furthermore, one must go a step further to conclude why the past measurements were considered to be inappropriate thus bringing us to the measures being taken today. In the past, we were not quite sure what long-term effects, if any that pesticides might have. When applying pesticides one must take into consideration the amount that actually remains on the plant as compare ....
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Word count: 500
Page count: 2 (approximately 250 words per page)
