The obligation to endure rhetorical analysis

In the essay, Carson points out how humankind has altered with nature’s harmony. Further, she illustrates how the use of insecticides has explicitly harmed the environment in more ways than her audience could ever think of. Later in the essay, Carson goes ahead to explain exactly how the use of pesticides has harmed such a significant portion of the environment even though they were meant to get rid of pests, just a part of nature. Finally, she acknowledges the presence of insects that need to be dealt with and suggests alternative ways of dealing with the pests to her audience. Carson starts her essay by pointing out that the physical state and the habits of the earth’s vegetation and its animals have been shaped by the environment in which they grow and live.

In fact, the chemicals that life has to adjust to presently are synthetic creations of man’s inventive nature behind laboratories (Carson, paragraph 4). She adds that those new chemicals have no counterparts in nature, and hence the imbalance. The carelessness of chemical development is, according to Carson, a sign of man’s arrogance in this new fast-paced society. Man is hurrying the environment up, and the speed at which the changes are taking place is not the deliberate, peaceful pace of nature. To adjust to the new chemicals released by man into the environment, nature would have to take its time which could be the life of generations. Through this explanation, Carson provides a different perspective of dealing with the problem of pesticides, a perspective that is different from what workers in the pest control industry give to citizens.