Question

Rachel Carson's famous book "Silent Spring" is related to
A. Population explosion
B. Ecosystem management.
C. Pesticide pollution
D. Noise pollution.

Answer 1

Hint: Rachel Carson wrote a book called Silent spring, it documents about the determinate effect of indiscriminate use of pesticides and it’s the effect on the environment and this book spurred the authorities and it makes the ban of pesticide and mainly DDT nationwide.

Complete answer:
Carson thought that environmental problems are mainly due to the use of pesticides.
This book helps to create the environmental movement and create an environmental protection act.
The synthetic pesticide of that time was DDT.
By the year 1945, DDT was launched in the united states of America and by that time there was permission to use this in the field of agriculture and also in the household fields.
In the time span of the year like from 1940 to 1970 the Use of DDT was more and it was stated that 40,000 million tons of DDT were used in this span, which means 1.8 million ton used every year globally
This DDT has xylene or petroleum as it’s composition.
And after this silent spring document And this publication mainly said that DDT has the potential to cause cancer and it is mainly dangerous for the wildlife and the birds that feed on the agricultural crops.

So by considering all the hazards caused by the DDT, the US banned it in the year 1972 and it was banned worldwide in the same year.

Note:
Silent spring mainly deals with the Negative effects of humans on the natural world, and she termed these pesticides as biocides because they have rarely targeted insects and they show effect on the whole population.