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Friday, October 26, 2007

Book

These days I was reading a book called“Silent Spring”,this book took place in forty years ago when the pesticide was widely used. In the book, Rachel Carson stated that uncontrolled pesticide uses caused the deaths of animals in both short and long term especially birds. One day the over use of pesticide would evoke a silent spring which means no bird songs could be heard because they have all died from pesticides. People suffered from pesticides, too. The pesticides could poison people through fruit, meat, water or even air, but the most terrible thing is that the pesticides damaged the ecological system.

This book could be a breakthrough in the environmental movement. It facilitated the ban of the pesticide DDT in United States and most of the countries, and helped the environmentalism to against materialism and scientism. It increased the public awareness about how the technology affects the nature. In this book, Carson encouraged people to use pesticides carefully and responsibly, and aware the chemical impact on the entire ecological system. Like Al Gore, Carson gave us “an inconvenient truth”. Pesticides may not be a big issue like 70 years ago, but today we are still facing vast problems such as Global Warming, deforestation, and desertification. The only way that we save ourselves is to respect the nature and correct our mistakes.

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