Fable for Tomorrow - Rachel Carson

In Rachel Carson’s work Fable for Tomorrow she describes a small town in America. She talks about how lovely, wealthy, prosperous, and healthy this town is and pretty much makes it sound like the perfect place to live. I imagine it being out of a fairytale where everything is perfect and happy; a place where true love exists. Later on in her story, for no apparent reason a scourge crosses over the land. Everything dies: cattle, plants, crops, people, animals, the beauty, and the wonderful feeling the town brought about. Everyone that lived in the town thought an evil spell had been cast upon it but it turned out that everything died because of the people’s actions or the lack thereof.

           This fable made me extremely sad and feel hopeless. It made me realize how amazing our world could be if we treated it right, and how bad it is or potentially could get with the way we are treating it. I think we definitely take nature for granted and don’t give it anything back in return. Her argument/point is completely right. Our world as we know it could just disappear one day. Nature needs to be cherished and used to its full potential.