You know how much damage pesticides can do to the environment. In the short story “Silent Spring” Rachel Carsons explains in the beginning how beautiful the landscape is. More into the story she explains how pesticides can be dangerous to some wildlife. That is what the short story explains and what the pesticides can do. Pesticides can harm animals and kill certain plants and one thing it can do to help the environment is to keep the pesticides.
The website says www.beyondpesticides.org it states, “Pesticide exposure can be linked to cancer, endocrine disruption, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, kidney and liver damage, birth defects, and developmental changes in a wide range of species. Exposure to pesticides can also alter an organism’s behavior, impacting its ability to survive.” This shows how pesticides can be bad for humans by damaging their kidneys and liver. Pesticides have also been known to birth problems by disrupting the systems in both humans and animals.That is how pesticides can cause problems to both humans and animals in many ways.
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Scientists have stated that there are more than 3 million cases of pesticide poisoning between different species that happens every year. The poisonings include over 200,000 deaths but poisonings occur that it can cause severe symptoms like blisters, difficulty breathing even and blindness. Children are at a high risk of pesticide poisoning as they are still growing, pesticides are shown to even affect babies growing in the womb, which is why these pesticides are detrimental to