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Silent Spring

The book I chose to read was Silent Spring by Rachel Carson. This book by Carlson had a huge impact on the environmental movement in the United States. Carlson opens her book by describing a beautiful American town that has been destroyed due chemicals. Carlson informs us that this is an imaginary place but in reality could be any city in the United States. The book Silent Spring exposes the devastating effects of insecticides, weed killers and other types of poison. Carlson claims that by introducing these substances our wild life, bodies of water, and even humans have been harmed. She believes that people and animals are poisoned over a long period of time. These poisons are passed from species to species through the food chain. This passing of poison results in all kinds of problems, such as liver disease, hepatitis, cancer and death. Rachel Carson believes that there is a balance in nature and the use of these chemicals upsets this balance, she says "Where spraying destroys not......


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