Rachael Carson Would you want to know if the pesticides that were being sprayed on and around your homes would, in later years, cause cancer? That was Rachael Carson’s intended purpose: to make the general public aware of the harmful pesticides used in and around their neighborhoods. Carson stated that chemical treatment of soils led to the destruction of beneficial biological species, and that such destruction resulted in imbalance to the ecosystem. In human …showed first 75 words of 387 total…

…showed last 75 words of 387 total…simply putting out the information for the people’s benefit. “We are subjecting whole populations to exposure to chemicals which animal experiments have proved to be extremely poisonous and in many cases cumulative in their effects. These exposures now begin at or before birth and –unless we change our methods- will continue through the lifetime of those now living.” These important words of the renowned Racheal Carson will be heard ringing in our ears forever.