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Silent Spring Thesis

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Silent Spring by Rachel Carson demonstrates the underlying environmental crisis that humans have created despite knowing how much we are harming nature, animals and our bodies. The ignorance of the human population is a largely identified topic in this book and Carson uses many examples of how we knowingly put poisons and toxins into our environment because its convenient for us and works right away. The use of pesticides, insecticides and herbicides are discussed a great deal because they are artificial chemicals that we have no problem spraying over our lawns, in the water and especially in other animal’s homes. Throughout the course of the book we see how these chemicals travel from the ground, to the water, to the fish, to the birds, and finally back into our bodies. These harsh chemicals cycle through the environment and eventually come right back to the people that put them there. The title of this book, Silent Spring, is quite appropriate as it portrays a literal quiet blossoming season do to the harmful chemicals we put …show more content…

The last sentence in chapter seven really makes you think about why we do what we do and what we can do to change that. “By acquiescing in an act that can cause such suffering to a living creature, who among us is not diminished as a human being?” The word acquiesce perfectly represents a recurring theme in this book. That is that the ignorance of the human population is represented by the fact that we knowingly put poison into the environment because it is a quick fix and is incredibly convenient. We do this, yet it is not a long term fix and we have to repeat to process many times. Humans are so impatient that we choose not to use an all natural, long term fix because it may take a little bit longer to work. God forbid we have a few beetles in our garden while we wait for milky disease to kick

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