Rachel Carson Project

History project - a brief overview of Rachel Carson's life.

[10th grade history project]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Rachel
• Carson
• environment
• environmental
• movement
• pesticides

[nuvikee]

She started a movement of working with nature, not against it.

Many people (particularly people with connections to chemical companies who were making huge profits from the use of pesticides) tried to claim that Silent Springs was a gross exaggeration, full of lies, and that she was a communist menace. It is easy to see why people would get this perception when she is only talking about the bad side of pesticides.

[nuvikee]

Many important species that provide redundancy functions in our ecosystems are dying out faster than we can study them and it is very, very important for our future that we take certain measure against this happening. Man could not survive without many species that in turn depend on many other species.

[Earthlinked]

@ashweee123 The source was Rachel Carson before she died - the stats are from the CDC. Also it is a VERY WELL KNOWN FACT - that her book has killed more people than most wars!!!!!!! THere was NOT ONE MINUTE of research - and Carson admitted that before her death!!!!!!!!!!

[ashweee123]

@Earthlinked If you would do one second of research you would see that in no way has she contributed to 50 mil deaths. For your information, DDT has not been banned in Africa or South America, and is still used to this day. Her work contributed to the banning of it for AGRICULTURAL USE which in tern slowed the process of the mosquitos building resistance, and hence is still effective to this day. By this she SAVED LIVES. Oh, and where did you get your stats by the way...I didn't see a source

[daltonagre]

DDT saved at least 80,000,000 lives. I'm an agronomist and I live in Brazil. Rachel Carson was an eugenist. Ecology is just a another name for eugenics.

[yammyspeed13]

Bring back DDT!!!

[BlueHerself]

@gaguy1967 Agreed.

[vazjam]

Quiz was a bit naff...

But mockery is no substitute for enlightenment....

Thanks for sharing...Made me think....yet again....

Not much point in preaching to the converted and the others probably won't listen anyway...So...I negate responsibility and put the future within the arms of Gaia...She'll sort us out......



[danathefly]

like everyone says, if you have nothing nice to say, don't say it at all. obviously, your no better!

[gaguy1967]

@nuvikee DDT is cheaper than other pesticides and that matters in places like Africa. I hope this woman is burning in hell. She deserves it for her hysteria that lead to the deaths of millions of Africans

[Earthlinked]

Rachel Carson's Book SIlent Spring - has killed over 50,000,000 people since the ban on DDT went into effect. DDT was VERY effective against mosquitoes and DID NOT cause thin egg shells in birds - resulting in less live births in the birds!! It was later found to be lead weights used in fishing, and lead pelets in buck shot - eaten by fish and then birds ate the fish! It was basically lead poisioning!!

And Carson had NO STUDIES to prove her point - she simply guessed and guessed WRONG!!!!