"The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials." (Carson 153)
I always found this to quite shocking as well the air,
earth, and rivers are vital to all life forms on earth. Us as humans need the
air to breath, the earth to eat, and the rivers do drink. Take away one of these
functions and our wellbeing as we know it drastically changes. We go to great
lengths to take care of our material positions such as phones and jewelry but
won't take care of those things essential to life. Take someone’s house for
example are you allowed to just walk in contaminate the air, destroy the
furniture and dump sewage all over the place? In most cases can't do this or you’re
looking at a lawsuit, the same should apply to the environment that all of us
have to share. The air, earth, and rivers are essential to all of us and we
need to start having more respect for them before it’s too late.
http://ocean.nationalgeographic.com/ocean/critical-issues-marine-pollution/
"It took hundreds of millions of years to produce the life that now inhabits the earth-eons of time in which that developing and evolving and diversifying life reached a state of adjustment and balance with its surroundings." (Carson 154)
The earth is 4.54 billion years old that is a lot of time.
Every species we see right now has evolved over time until it reached an
equilibrium with its surroundings. The problem now occurs because man is
messing around with the environment and speeding up things up at a speed never
seen before. Plants for example can't keep up with all the sprays, dusts, and
aerosols being applied. It would take generations for plants and the
environment to fully adapt to these changes but at the speed there being
applied everyone is affected.
http://cape.ca/why-canadian-physicians-are-concerned-about-the-policies-regulating-pesticide-use/
"Have we fallen into a mesmerized state that makes us accept as inevitable that which is inferior or detrimental, as though having lost the will or the vision to demand that which is good?" (Carson 159)
This can be said about a lot of people in the world there
okay with just sitting back and letting something happen if it doesn't directly
affect them. You often hear people say things like why should I vote I'm only
one person whoever wins won't be decided by me. That might be a little true but
what if a million people thought the same way that could be enough to change
the election. We all have a sense of what is right and wrong and we need to
come together and do what’s right no more sitting around and just accepting what’s
about to happen you can make a difference.
http://www.jmt.org/jmaward-make-a-difference.asp
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