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"We are rightly appalled by the genetic effects of radiation; how then, can we be indifferent to the same effect in chemicals that we widely disseminate in our environment?"

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The quotation shown above was said by Rachel Carson. Rachel Carson played a major role in environmentalism’s birth in the 20th century. In “Silent Spring”, Carson said that agents or classified as mutagens that are among herbicides are able to modify the materials of heredity or genes.

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