Shippo Fox33
22 October 2007, 11:45 PM
Anyone read or heard of this book, it was first published in 1962. Silent Spring alerted a large audience to the envormental and human dangers of indiscriminate use of pesticides, spurring revolutionary changes in the laws affecting our air, land, and water. Its thanks to this book and the help of many environmentalists that the pesticide DDT and many other harmful ones were banned from use in the US. Though pesticides were thought to cause no harmand kill anoying insects they actually bioaccumulated in any organisms that came in contact with it and eventually these organisms would die of pesticide poisoning or become sterile, which means unable to reproduce (this includes animals and plants). I will get more into the details if you are interested, and you might of heard of this book in your biology class (if you have taken Biology that is)