She was labeled as hysterical and extremist by the chemical industry and certain members of the media. Well people, she was not. In fact, she was dead nuts RIGHT. It is interesting to note that President Kennedy ordered the President’s Science Advisory Committee to conduct an investigation to determine the dangers that these chemicals represent to humans and the environment as well as to consider if it was necessary to enact new legislation regulating the use of chemical pesticides. The Committee found that there were immediate and long-range hazards to man and other animals and that the government had not been protecting against them or learning exactly what they were (Science Digest 1964). Eventually, after the Committees report was issued, several pieces of federal environmental legislation were passed into law by Congress, including the ban on DDT use in the United States, which was due in large part to the issues Miss Carson raised Our current president appoints Monsanto employees into KEY government positions and signs special protection laws specifically FOR the company and is pushing an agenda (the trans pacific trade acts) & trying to fast track them past congress without even releasing the contents of those agreements. Those so called trade acts would empower big corporations to a level never before seen in history, offering them unprecedented legal protections and the right to sue whoever gets in their way for loss of profit, no matter HOW wrong or harmful what they are doing is Our agencies that are SUPPOSED to be protecting us from harmful chemicals have become a joke, controlled by the very people who profit from the use and sales of deadly chemicals. classwebs.spea.indiana.edu/bakerr/v600/rachel_carson_and_silent_spring.htm
Posted on: Thu, 30 Oct 2014 12:04:54 +0000
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