Rachel Carson Effects On The Environment Essay

On 18 October 1973, presses worldwide at the time carried a headline that ultimately signified the end of a period of growth and prosperity for the US economy post World War II. “Arabs Cuts Oils Exports 5% a Month” according to the New York Times. This was a result of an unsuccessful international relation in the Middle East region with the deep involvement of the United States, and other western nations.

The whole incident sparked after the establishment of Israel. After World War II, the Zionist State, Israel was founded on the land that partly owned by Palestinians. The newly created state served as a home country for the Jewish people. After what had happened under the rule of the Nazis, Jewish people all over the world agreed to reform

Looking at the previous decade in 1960, the Americans and their nation were in a prosperous period after the war. Economy was the focus. Therefore, most of the people were ignorant about their living environment. That seemed to be the last thing in their mind. However, Rachel Carson had changed that. Rachel Carson was known as “the lady who started all this”. The conditions of the environment were started being questioned in her writing, especially about the human position in their effect on the environment. One of the work that was pioneered in this newly field of study was the book Silent Spring, and published in 1962. The book was the first stone in the path of the environmental study. It point out and attacked the effect of using chemicals in agriculture and pest control. “The most alarming of all man’s assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials. This pollution is for the most part irrecoverable; the chain of evil it initiates not only in the world that must support life but in living tissues is for the most part irreversible”. Her book had create an impact not only to the United States, but also to the whole world. It led to a series of changes, policies, laws, and scientifically studies that impacted the growth of the industry. Furthermore, it brought out the question of human responsibility to the