Humans, a Savage Being
Human beings have massively evolved and shifted from a ferocious ape to a superspecies that some believe to be even more savage then its pre-mature primate stage. This evolutionary state has caused the bond homo sapiens share with nature to be disintegrated along with all feels of compassion for contrasting species. Author of “The Sacred Balance”, David Suzuki, has outlined our shattered connection perfectly within his essay, stating our evolution has caused us to separate from nature and create our own artificial nature with many appalling features. Rachel Carson, as well as Suzuki, chooses to show her spin on dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), which caused a monumental amount of collateral damage to the environment in her preface to “Silent Spring” called, “The Obligation to Endure.” Both authors created an extensive search for more facts that would eventually lead us to the truth about our hazardous existence on earth. Humans have plagued the planet by severing ties to the environment and creating anthropogenic pollutants that is shortening the lifespan of our planet. Rachel Carson’s “The Obligation to Endure” sketched theories and historical facts that shaped the everlasting problem of DDT, pesticides, uage on crops that would inevitably cause the crop itself to change, and impair many species that were never intended to be effected. Humans have become negligent and self-centered in their brawl with Mother Nature to gain the most ideal environment for human use, failing to recall the species that surround our daily lives. DDT comes in numbers so vast that even the most flexible of species couldn’t adapt to the immense amount of chemicals added to crops all around the world. Carson believed that these chemicals added weren’t being properly displayed, “To adjust to these chemicals would require… not merely the years of a man’s life but the life of generations – 500 new chemicals to which the bodies of men and animals are required somehow to adapt each year,