Question

Listen to the NPR news piece about Rachel Carson, the author of A Fable for Tomorrow. You will note that the radio article mentions a few attacks against Carson. What are the attacks, and why are they missguided?

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Explanation:

Rachel Carson received numerous attacks by agricultural and chemical industries due to the book she wrote called -Silent Spring', where she explained the repercussions to the atmosphere and that of human health in the using pesticides.

She has been tagged as a radical and unqualified scientist whose knowledge about science is limited. She was also accused of wanting to protect the lives of all the insects that spread diseases in humans and plants.

However, if we read concerning whom Rachel Carson was and what she stood for, we’ll notice that the arguments in various quarters are completely misguided.

She was an exceptional scientist and a writer on science topics, she investigated and cautioned on how the chemicals that government spread in the farms to kill pathogens insects, are also dangerous to all living things including humans.

Some of the chemical industry representatives even in this present time still do not concur with her; they are only concerned how to produce and sell more chemicals and they don’t even worry about their environmental consequences and damage. This is reason they prefer to berate her work and researches.