Part one of term paper
Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring brought about an awareness of the abuse of pesticides in the 1960’s. She told the stories of how deadly pesticides could be to the environment, wildlife, and even humans. There were very few regulations on all the new chemicals that were widely used after World War II, and not enough time was spent on re ...

Part two of term paper
... to highly toxic levels. Many birds, fish, and humans were killed before this was realized. Farmers were putting this stuff on their fields by the truck loads, and the government had no problem with it. With each season, our fields were growing more deadly. The chemical plants that made the pesticides were also to blame. They though they were dumping harmless chemicals into our water supply. The relatively inert compounds when combined with other forms in the environment formed deadly co ...