-Causes

====While all the new technology came flooding in there was a great concern about what impacts it would have on the environment. Rachel Carson was one of those people who was taking the environment into consideration. One of the biggest concerns was the use of pesticides. The pesticides were used to keep the insects off of the farmers crops.====

====The problem was that using the pesticides is that they had chemicals like mercury, arsenic, and lead. This is very bad for the birds that would eat the crops from time to time, and for the people that were buying and eating all the chemicals.====