Government Experiments Are Deadly

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Erika Gaspar

D. Dumars

English 28

7/15/14

Mankind has made poor decisions over the years and has continued to do so. We have brought environmental disaster upon us. Government experiments, nuclear testing, and the use of pesticides have all been a great part of diseases, illnesses, deaths loss of crops and animals.

Rachel Carson used the use of pesticides as main cause in the essay, "The Fable for Tomorrow". A fable is a short story: typically with animals as characters, conveying a moral. She starts off by describing, "a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings…Even in winter roadsides were places of beauty, where countless birds came to feed on the berries and on the seed heads of the dried weeds rising above the snow."(116)What a wonderful place right? After the evil spell it was no longer ideal. "Then a strange blight crept over the area and everything began to change.

Some evil spell had settled on the community: mysterious maladies swept the flocks of chickens; the cattle and sheep sickened and died. Everything was a shadow of death," in my opinion the evil spell is mankind. The reason for the cattle and sheep sickening and dying was the poison that we planted. For instance, "in the gutters under the eaves and between the shingles of the roofs, a white granular powder still showed a few patches." A white granular powder is a poison against pests. We are told that it will protect our plants, but we are not aware of the negative outcomes. At the end Carson quotes, "No witchcraft, no enemy action had silenced the rebirth of new life in this stricken world. The people had done it themselves."(117) Carson was trying to warn us of the danger...