Rachel Carson's Silent Spring
Chapter 17: The Other Road
Contents
A. the alternatives
B. effects of pestacides
C. path of good note
D. Sources
[[The Alternatives]]
It is about the other things we can do instead of DDT.
It states that there other alternatives that are already in use and some are in production.
- the other road refers to the non-chemical control of unwanted insects and plants, referring to Rober Frosts' road.
- the human price is concentrating around the effects the pesticides
- Florida tested for insects and pesticides on nearby islands.
- if we take the alternatives to DDT then we will have the ability to save the world.
There was a point in time when they called it the "Control of Nature" when
the "bad guys" are the government and the chemical industry
-most people think that
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[[Effects of Pestacides]]
Pesticides kill the animals that eat it, it then moves down the food chain. An example would be when a robin eats a worm that has had contact with the chemical; the robin then becomes sick and dies.
-The chapter "Other Road" is written in the optimistic view.
-There are other options beside Pesticides.
-The author gives her opinion in this chapter
authors purpose is to show that there are other ways
-there was also hope
-using insects against themselves or a prey insects
-using nature against itself, chemically after so it can't reproduce, use instinct to kill
-secretion of insects forlures
-alternatives-sterilizing
-moquito wing beat to attract males/loving male insects to trap and to kill
-the future will be dark if it does not change
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[[ Path of Good Note]]
it is directly adressing to the human society to go out and to try and make a difference
it provides many details to why and what has happened becasue what they have used to try and make work easier
In our use of ever-increasing levels of dangerous chemicals in our environment, we have been traveling a road that seems easy but will end in disaster. The other road of this chapter's title is the path of non-chemical control of unwanted insects and plants.
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