When it comes to understanding how pesticides affect the environment and how it could affect them. Pesticides bring forth problems that would not be seen immediately, and when new chemicals that are not naturally produced in an environment spread it can have lasting effects. It causes the environments to undergo changes and the majority of the time it results in death of the environment. When the news was divulged that pesticides could be dangerous it sent waves across America. The pesticides companies reassured the country that they studied the problem with the pesticides and removed the troublesome chemical, which was later identified as dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane—just like that Americans were sold on pesticides (DDT). They let the spraying continue because they were told that pesticides are safer now and the new ingredients are more efficient at just killing the targeted insects. Rachel Carson was one of the pioneers that brought on this change in this dangerous product. If this discovery had not been made by her, then humans would have inevitably destroyed the environment indefinitely. The effect from using this product can be seen today still, but what changes have come from this important wince in the environmental movement? Therefore, the environmental damages outlined by Carson had a positive effect on our modern environment.
After the conformation that pesticides were harmful to the environment. The government banned the used of DDT, the use of insecticide, herbicide, and fungicide rose to an all time high. The rise in use is a strange outcome for a product that has been known to cause problem. Americans responded to pesticide in a strange way. Rachel Carson's goal was not to end the use of pesticide, but she wanted it to be more safe for the environment and the health of the human species. Her book set a trend for the future that society can see today. Reason for rise in insecticide and others is that as companies made it safer the more wide used it became.
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