Silent Spring: Landscape after sixty years

Abstract

The Silent Spring is now the zero-kilometer stone of environmental movements related to plant protection, a fundamental piece of work that projects visions for us in literary English. Compared to Carson’s era, the number of pesticides that can be used has increased by sixfold. It grew from 50 pesticide active ingredients in the 1960s to over 350 in 2001-2002 and stabilized at around 250 compounds in 2008 because of the EU’s re-registration activities. Based on the findings of the Rapid Alert System of Food and Feed of the EU, more than 400 actions per year were required between 2012 and 2015 on the EU import food market due to pesticide residues. We live in the Plastic Age, and we made the planet so much lame. A catch-22 if all this is projected on overpopulation. The balance between resources and consumers is fatally damaged, pollution has caused global warming, as well as a shortage in energy and raw materials.