Silent Spring
by 动物怎样繁殖后代Rachel Carson
鲈鱼怎么清蒸“There was a strange stillness. The birds, for example—where had they gone?” “The feeding stations in the backyards were derted. The few birds en anywhere were moribund; they trembled violently and could not fly. It was spring without voices.” “On the farms the hens brooded, but no chicks hatched.” “The roadsides, once so attractive, were now lined with browned and withered vegetation as though swept by fire. The, too, were silent, derted by all living things. Even the streams were now lifeless.” 与法同行作文
广播体操第九套This is a strange scene described by Rachel Carson, who is regarded as “the mother of modern environmental protection movement”. S西西艺术人像摄影ilent Spring 大宝sod蜜广告is her reprentative work which lighted the fire of environmental protection in America and the whole world. Before 1960s, no books or magazines talked about things like environment and ecosystem. Such a phenomenon means that environmental protection had not come to people’s mind and the social consciousness. Indeed, the main opinion in human society from the very past about
nature is to “t war against” or “conquer” it. In fact, many of human’s progress are made on the ba of such opinion. Rachel Carson was the first person who doubted the correctness of the belief and brought the topic under focus.
爱你万年In Silent Spring, Carson described a mirable village which was dying under the using of DDT. The village ud to be prosperous and beautiful. “In spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields. In autumn, oak and maple and birch t up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines. Then foxed barked in the hills and deer silently crosd the fields, half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings.” She thought that with the using of variety kinds of pesticide, especially DDTs, the village suffered enormous and irreversible damage and gradually withered and died. Soon it became just like the one described in the beginning. From her fine and smooth describing, I can even feel the groan of the town. Moreover Carson also sharply pointed out that the deep-ated cau for the environmental problem is the human’s arrogance and ignorance. So she asked people to correct the attitude toward the nature and reconsidered the developing path of human being.
Carson thought that becau of the antibody and differentiation, pesticides would never be completely uful. On the contrary, tho more and more poisonous medicines, becau of the enrichment effect, would accumulate in humans’ body. It’s quite sarcastic that we hurt ourlves much badly while hurting the others. Then she analyzed many poisonous components in pesticides. Tho are all unfamiliar names except DDT, such as chlordane, chloronaphthalene, compound 497, etc.
Tho things really make me feel scared. We are on the top of the food chain, and it is such a perfect and fragile system. We human beings are just part of it and we depend on all of the creatures who stay on the lower positions. It is so hard and ridiculous to try to match the nature. ”Only in the state does man have a rational existence.” Every species have their value to be on this world. Then no one knows what would happened if we force them to disappear. For example, let’s imagine the food chain as a meticulously made castle built by billions of little blocks and we human beings are the top one. There might be veral tiny blocks on the bottom which you think is uless and dispensable. But what would happen if we take them away? Perhaps nothing happened, and perhaps the
whole castle ruined.
Destruction is always much easier than recovery, not counting tho incurable ones. Humans always think that we are much cleverer than the other animals, so we become more and more conceited and firmly believe that we are the king. We didn’t e that the nature is so magical and knows how to revenge. The pay back is much more violent and cruel. We need balance and order. The nature has its own rule. Our aim is to u it and live in harmony with it. The ecosystem is so delicate that even a tiny disturbance could lead an unexpected conquence, just like the butterfly effect.
At the last chapter, some scientists came up with other ways to solve the pest problem----biotic control. There is now a strongly running tide of interest in chemical sterility. Tho sterile incts are relead and mate the normal ones so that they won’t have any larva and get extinct gradually. This “solution” ems to be reasonable and helpful, but thinking about it carefully, you’ll find that it is just another way to ruin the food chain castle. Not only spring, but also summer and autumn would be still and silent in the future.保护视力的手抄报
It is lucky that Rachel still kept her mind clear. She didn’t agree with the way of conquering the nature. At the very end of the book, she wrote, “The ‘control of nature’ is a phra conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was suppod that nature exists for the convenience of man.” This ntence can be regarded as the book’s theme topic which is widely quoted in all kinds of articles about environmental protection.
Carson is a great woman and fighter. When writing the book, she was suffering from huge pain of the operation for mammary cancer. After the book was published, the widely affect brought her not honor and fortune, but fierce attack from the chemical estate. She died only one year after the book’s publishing. On the spring of 1964, the great woman pasd away, but Silent Spring made her voice never silent.
