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GREEN

PLANET

GROUPS
BENJAMIN CRISTOBAL

MEMBERS: GAJARDO MUÑOZ

AGUSTIN
TEACHER: SIMON PONCE

MOLINA
MISS MELISA

 Are pesticides good

THE for you or bad for GREEN
MALARIA you?
PLANET

These cuestion worried a scientist

called Rachel Carson. Rachel was
born in 1907 in a
quiet town by a
river in Pennsylvania, in the EE.UU. As In the early 1950s and 1960s, people
IN Borneo in the 1950s, mosquitoes a young child she was interested in began to use a lot of pesticides on
were giving people a disease called living things, and when she got older plants and trees. Pesticides kill
malaria. When people are ill with she became a scientist. For a long insects that eat vegetables and
malaria, they feel hot, then cold, and time she worked for the american fruits, and you can make more
very tired; sometimes they even die. goverment. She wrote a book called money from them.
So the government use a lot of " the sea around Us", and lost of

pesticides called DDT to kill people read it and enjoyed it.

mosquitoes. Soon there less

malaria- and that was a good thing.

But them the grass roof of people's

But her work taugth her that

houses started to fall because the
everything people (animals, birds, Even today, the pesticides business
caterpillars lived in the roof and ate
trees, rivers the sea) is part of life; if makes three kilos of pesticides a
the grass. Before wasps ate the
we something to one part, it may year for every man, woman and
caterpillars, but the DDT was killing
change another part. she write a child on Earth. These pesticides go
the wasp, too. Now there was
book in 1962 his book called ''Silent into the rivers, the sea, the air, the
nothing to stop the caterpillars, and
spring''. In this book she explained birds, the animals and insects and
so the roof started to fall down.
why she was worried about some of them go into your food.
pesticides, especially when people

use them over a long time. Millions

of people read the book and began

to think and talk about these ideas,
too.