In what ways do you think it was significant that Carson was female - Essay Example

Carsons "Silent Spring" also had a great impact on the later twentieth century American society that it led to a sweeping environmental movement all over the world against the using of science and technology  to dominate the Mother Nature.         The book "Silent Spring" is a product of inspiration, which was instilled in the mind of Carson by a friend who was concerned about the dying population of birds in her hometown, after the spraying of DDT by the government authorities, to control mosquitoes.

Since Carson had an acquaintance with the research on pesticides when she was a science writer for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, she surveyed the disastrous outcomes due to the application of pesticides, in the case of both humans and wildlife. "The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important" (Carson para. 8). Since the work criticizes the government as well as the chemical manufacturers for their convenient negligence on the matter of pesticides the work has distanced from the genres of natural history and ecology and entered in to the realm of social criticism and ecofeminism.

       Carson, in the beginning of "Silent Spring" provides the fable of "a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings" (Carson para. 1). Carson states that the beauty of the place and the voices of the spring attracted the first settlers who "raised their houses, sank their wells and built their barns" (Carson para. 2). But then the shadow of death and illness crept over the town and it "silenced the rebirth of new life" (Carson) and the whole town came to a "strange stillness" (Carson).

 After depicting this story, Carson continues that this town is imaginary but its