Carson claims that all the use of these chemicals and the rapid rate which man is producing synthetic chemicals are slowly and inadvertently poisoning the earth, our food and our bodies. ... She states that we are hurting ourselves more than we benefit ourselves from the spraying of harmful chemicals, and that we endanger our environment with these chemicals. ... Carson states, "Single- crop farming does not take advantage of the principle by which nature works; it is agriculture as an engineer might conceive it to be. ... There has been a trend that insects will become more resilient to a che...

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