from Silent Spring

In this excerpt from Silent Spring, Rachel Carson includes a fable of a beautiful rural town where the plant and animal life as well the people become ill, and many die. Carson tells the reader that the people themselves caused the destruction through crop dusting. Use the Internet to research the answer to the following questions: Is Carson’s concern realistic? Could what she describes in this excerpt happen today? Why or why not? Present your answer in a short report, and be sure to cite your sources.