Continues to make us question our decisions about using pesticides by telling us more about how they will ultimately "contaminate the entire environment" and lead to the "threat of disease "and death” (Carson 360). However, he backs up his statement by giving us some facts. He emphasizes that the real problem is overproduction and goes on to state that “our farms, despite measures to remove acreage from production and pay farmers not to produce, have produced such a staggering excess crop that the American taxpayer in 1962 is paying more than a billion dollars a year in the total cost of maintaining the surplus food storage program” (Carson 361). Carson gives us examples of how the product we're using is actually costing us more than we might think, in ways we probably didn't even imagine. His tone becomes more lighthearted as he explains that he doesn't think there is a bug problem, but that we need to find a better way to control it, "all of this is not to say that there isn't a bug problem and that there's no need to control. Rather, I am saying that control must be given to reality, not to mythical situations, and that the methods employed must not destroy us along with the insects." (Carson 361) and biologically potent in the hands of people