She continues to make us question our decisions about using pesticides by telling us more about how they will eventually "contaminate the entire environment » and cause the “threat of disease”. and death” (Carson 360). However, she backs up her claims by giving us some facts. She points out that the real problem is overproduction and goes on to say that "our farms, despite measures to take acreage out of production and pay farmers not to produce, have produced such a staggering surplus of crops that the American taxpayer in 1962 was paying this amounts to more than a billion dollars per year for the total cost of the surplus food storage program” (Carson 361). Carson gives us examples of how this product we use is actually costing us more than we think, in ways we probably didn't even imagine. Her tone will be lighter, explaining that she doesn't think there isn't a bug problem, just that we need to find a better way to control it. “All of this is not to say that there are no insect problems and that there is no need to control them. control. I say rather that control must be brought back to realities and not to mythical situations, and that the methods used must be such that they do not destroy us with the insects. (Carson 361). She says: “I argue that we have indiscriminately put toxic and biologically powerful chemicals into the hands of people.