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1、 We Have Only One Earth Book report of Silent Spring Man is a part of nature and his war against nature is inevitable a war against himself Rachel Carson If we scan those newspapers or books written by 1960s we will find it difficult to find something about environmental protection In other words en
2、vironmental protection was not a meaningful concept in social cognition and was not valued in academic experiments at that time As a matter of fact those slogans such as conquer nature were prevalent in the world which meant that nature was only the object to be controlled not to be protected or to
3、live with in peace The concept may derive from primitive society when people did not have sufficient materials to exist in harsh environment and all of their wishes were to conquer nature and develop the economy regardless of the possible outcomes derived from environmental problems Rachel Carson ma
4、y be the first person to doubt the correctness of the idea which had existed in human society for thousands of years Silent spring is a book which leads to a heated discussion about environmental protection Even those people who disgust Rachel Carson also have to acknowledge that Rachel Carson did c
5、ontribute a lot in environment protection promoting In her book she described a world without birds bees or butterflies because of the use of pesticides It was she a weak woman with mammary cancer woke nearly each person to concern about the future of the earth After that thousands of organizations
6、aim to protect environment were founded The 1st United Nations Conference on the human environment was convened in 1972 on which a declaration was signed to promote environment protection The overriding theme of Silent Spring is the powerful and often negative effect humans have on the natural world
7、 Carson s main argument is that pesticides have detrimental effects on the environment In Silent Spring Carson described a miserable village which was dying under the using of DDT The village used to be prosperous and beautiful In spring white clouds of bloom drifted above the green fields In autumn
8、 oak and maple and birch set up a blaze of color that flamed and flickered across a backdrop of pines Then foxed barked in the hills and deer silently crossed the fields half hidden in the mists of the fall mornings 1 However with the use of pesticides especially DDT the village suffered enormous an
9、d irreversible damage and gradually withered and died The use of DDT in other areas has also had major unanticipated affects since it is persistent and poisonous to many forms of life Pesticides would never be completely useful since targeted pests may develop resistance to pesticides and weakened e
10、cosystems fall prey to unanticipated invasive species On the contrary those more and more poisonous medicines because of the enrichment effect would accumulate in humans body After the discussion of the pesticides she start to discuss the importance of animals especially wildlife Every species have
11、their value to be on this world Then no one knows what would happened if we force them to disappear Only in the state does man have a rational existence There might be several tiny blocks on the bottom which you think is useless and dispensable But what would happen if we take them away Perhaps noth
12、ing happened and perhaps the whole castle ruined 2 we are on the top of the food chain and it is such a perfect and fragile system and we are just a small part of it and we depend on all of the creatures who stay on the lower positions Not One Less will be appropriate in describing the nature If Rac
13、hel Carson had stopped here Silent Spring would only have to be a successful science reading But after that she pointed out that the cause 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 developin
14、g path of human being In the primitive society even though people did not have the awareness to protect the environment their ability to transform the nature was so weak that the nature would recover soon However with the development of science and technology people have much bigger ability to confr
15、ont the nature some people even declared that people have conquered nature But they forget that we are only a small part of nature conquering nature is a way to suicide Nature does not have sufficient ability to recover from the destruction so it will take revenge on humans all of its need is time S
16、o if we do not change we will be never forgiven by next generation In my opinion nature is an integral nature We should promote our knowledge of relation of chemical and ecology Before we use chemicals we should know clearly about their effect on environment it is necessary to bring a healthy caution to the use of chemicals An ignoring of the environment protection has brought harm to people in the past and could cause unprecedented harm in the future After all we have only one earth Protect it
