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Silent Spring Chapter 14 Summary

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I think chapter 14 of Silent Spring is the most important because it talks about the dangers of carcinogens. Some people may think Chapter 14 of Silent Spring isn’t important but they are confoundedly wrong. Through the Silent Spring Book, it will be proven that chapter 14 is the most important chapter in Rachael Carson’s book.
This chapter talks about the dangers of carcinogens. If you are expose to much carcinogens you can get cancer. Carcinogens are in our daily lives like alcohol, smokeless tobacco, pesticide bombs and pesticides. Sir Percivall Pott connected scrotal caner to chimney sweeps and the arsenic laden. In the Industrial revolution, mine worker and cooper smelters had arsenic in their body. As factory became presented in that era, Factory chemicals were link to cancerous side effects. In more modern time we are expose to hazardous material all the time and the number of chemicals were are exposed to are grower rapidly in our society. …show more content…

Increasingly amount of people are dying from cancer than any other disease out there because most of our product our lace with these toxic chemicals. Arsenic can build up in mine shafts and can pollute river, lakes, oceans and streams. DDT, IPC and CIPC are very dangerously types of carcinogen there is evidence that they cause tumors. In the book Rachael Carson tell us about series of events which exposure to DDT led to progression of cancer. Housewife sprayed spider with DDT and died because of DDT. A business man used DDT for roaches and had internal bleeding because of DDT. The FDA found out that cranberry growers used DDT and which cause high level of thyroid cancer in the

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