Environmental Protection Must Be Our Top Priority :: Environment Earth Nature, pesticides, pollution

A few old age ago, Time magazine produce a special issue entitled The Centurys Greatest Minds. It was the fourth in a Time series on the 100 most important people of the century, this particular issue focusing on Scientists and Thinkers. On the cover, Albert sensation is pictured on a psychiatrists couch, hands crossed over his chest, a depressed look cloaking his face. Dr. Sigmund Freud, seated in a chair turn up the couch, pen and pad in hand, is leaning in toward Einstein, excitedly waiting to perform some bit of psychoanalysis on the saddened scientist. A enclose picture of Jonas Salk rests on the side table a portrait of prat Maynard Keynes hangs from a nail in the wall. In the background, resting atop a bookshelf, is a stone bust of Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring. She finds herself in quite comminuted company not only on the cover, but in the inner of the magazine as well. Carson was the only environmentalist and the only woman have in the entire issue. Evidently, her impact in the world of scientists and thinkers was a nasty one, and, as mentioned in Matthiessens Time article, her book, Silent Spring, is nearly 40 years later . . . still regarded as the cornerstone of the new environmentalism.1 Matthiessen goes on to write that one shudders to imagine how much more impoverished our habitat would be had Silent Spring not sounded the alarm.2 This is indeed a worthy claim by Mr. Matthiessen, but he correctly uncovers a bigger and more alarming truth when he says, the damage universe done by poison chemicals today is far worse than it was when she wrote the book.3 In fact, since 1962, pesticide use in the US has doubled.4 As an environmentalist (or a radical environmentalist, as I am often labeled by members of the mainstream environmental movement), I feel it is my duty as a shielder of the Earths well-being to write this editorial as a means of bringing into the American consciousness a variety of frightening environmental iss ues. though some of you may be aware of these problems, I know some are not, and thus may be shocked to learn astir(predicate) the degradation of our Earth and the people living in it. Indeed, I truly believe that since the dawn of the industrial age, America has behaved like an alcoholic with a good jobprospering despite a lifestyle that jeopardizes the next and ruins much of what is good with irresponsible behavior.