Environment 9- Rachel Carson's- Silent Spring- chapter one

The way Rachel Carson has written this book is amazing. She delivers her information and thoughts in a way that made me agree with everything she said. Carson put human actions into a different perspective than we hear about on a daily basis; and I think that is what made this book so popular.
There was a quote in her book that perfectly worded thoughts that I've had before. This quote was "Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species- man- acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world." This interested me becuase very rarely do we compare the differences between the wilderness and civilization (mostly because people rarely go into the wilderness). And, when people do see the differences, I wonder if they realize how those differences came about. Or if they realize that if human beings were not part of this planet, all of the roads we travel on, vehicles we travel in, technology we use, buildings we see, would not exist! It's a kind of scary thought to me. Even though a lot of the inventions that exist have helped humans and even some plants and animals (so we think), in many cases the inventions are being used to help something that was destroyed by other inventions. So, I guess that means that all our inventions are just causing a chain of improvement, destruction, improvement, destruction, and so on and so on. So I wonder, if we never invented anything (to attempt) to make our life easier, then wouldn't there would be less destruction of the living things on earth, which would limit the new inventions? Rachel Carson said something that related to this idea of our inventions destructing life. She was talking about how chemical pesticides are like a "war"; and they end up doing more harm than good in the long run. She wrote, "the chemical war is never won, and all life is caught in its violent crossfire." She said this while explaining how when chemical pesticides are sprayed on plants, either humans eat the chemical invested crop, or a plant eats the crop; which will eventually be killed to become food for human beings. I think its pretty gross to think about. But this really shows the true "circle of life" theory, and demonstrates each species' dependency on others in order to survive. While reading this book, it opened my eyes to the reality of many issues and habits that society has formed that harm the entire "circle of life" without even knowing it.