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When discussing issues of pesticide uses and its impacts on the environment, there are four major contributors involved: Rachel Carson, Robert Van Den Bosch, Sandra Stiengraber, and Theo Colburn et. al. These contributors have covered the issues from trying to control nature with chemical poisons to pesticides causing cancer. Some of these people have lived their entire lives involved in stopping environmental degradation through books, articles, and some have taken part in demonstrations. With combined efforts of these people and others in their field, they have managed to reduce the amount of DDT’s used and ensured that the pesticides used are healthier for the environment. Rachel Carson was the first contributor to pesticide enforcements that we looked at. Carson was working as a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole in Falmouth, Massachusetts when she began writing her books. Some of her books had a large influence on people but none more than that of “Silent Spring.” Carson was working in the U.S Fish and Wildlife when she became concerned about the chemicals and their effects on ecological integrity. The main chemicals that she focused on were DDT’s and other chlorinated pesticides like TEPP. C