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shaun libman

To adjust to these chemicals would require time on the scale that is nature’s; it would require not merely the years of a mans but the life of generations. And even this, were it by some miracle possible, would be futile, for the new chemicals come from our laboratories in an endless stream: almost five hundred annually find their way into actual use in the United states alone, The figure is staggering and its implications are not easily grasped- 500 new chemicals to which the bodies of men and animals are required somehow to adapt each year, chemicals totally outside the limits of biologic experience.

-Silent Spring

 

This paragraph carries the sentiment that we are moving to fast for nature. That as we continue to do our best to control the environment, nature struggles to adapt. Nature is already and extreme force but the act of chemical treatment seems to by narrowing nature’s diversity, forcing it to become even more extreme. Life and death as to apposing forces expand in harrowing numbers and we loose what ever balance used to exist.

 

            It is not possible to know if nature can ever under any time rame or circumstance successfully adapt to our chemicals. We don’t wait to see, instead we move so fast that we should know that nature is being left behind. It still moves at the pace it has and always will moved, and we only seem to move faster and faster.

 
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