50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial Analysis

How much power does Nature have? In the article, “The Politics of the Natural in the U.S History and Popular Culture” Noel Sturgeon analyzes several points in how nature is being used to make certain aspects “natural” and create a distinction in social identities. He gives a emphasizes in Nature being a tool of power for the reason people create laws or “natural laws” that create a separation

Like mentioned in the reading, “The depiction of nature in advertising disconnects and estranges us from what is valued, and we attempt to reconnect through products, creating a circular consumption.” Moreover, the media is the

In the reading “The Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism”, the author, Karen J. Warren, explains her argument on the inevitable connection between the oppression of women and the oppression of nature. She further suggests that ecofeminism provides a framework to re envision feminism and create an environmental ethic which takes into account the connection between sexism and naturism.

The controversy over the pollution of our planet’s water supply creates a lot of good images, depicting the ideas of either side, in an often creative fashion. In this essay I will be analyzing two of these images, that try and depict to the viewer the evils of water pollution. The first image focuses on how trash that is found throughout the ocean can end up coming back to harm us. The second image then goes on to focus about how large, greedy organizations are willing to ignore that what they are doing to the environment to keep their profits. Both of the images use an effective pathos argument to convey to the viewer the dangers of water pollution.

‘The sheer popularity’ of stimulating nature or using nature as ad space ‘demands that we acknowledge, even respect, their cultural importance,’ suggests Richtel. Culturally important, yes. But the logical extension of synthetic nature is the irrelevance of ‘true’ nature— the certainty that it’s not even worth looking at. (Louv lines 9-19)

This paper will begin with an exposition of the article, “Radical Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World Critique” written by Ramachendra Guha, a sociologist and historian involved in ecological conflict in the East and the West. In this article, he refers to American environmentalism as “deep ecology”, a modern theory founded by Arne Naess. Guha’s argues that based on a comparison of the concepts of deep ecology and other cultural environmentalisms, deep ecology is strictly rooted in American culture and thus, leads to negative social consequences when it is applied to the Third World. This argument will be achieved by first defining deep ecology and its principles.

As The World Burns: 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Stay In Denial, by Derrick Jensen and Stephanie McMillan, is a graphic novel about the state of our environment. They use cartoons and abundant sarcasm to convey the message that the attempts people are making to save the environment are not enough to do any real good. Their message challenges both those of Edward O. Wilson and the University of Connecticut in that Jensen and McMillan’s ideas are much more radical and suggest that the ideas posed by Wilson and UConn, such as the importance of recycling and sustainability efforts, are ineffective at saving the environment. We must resolve the challenges posed by Jensen and McMillan so that all of the ideas put forth in the sources may work together rather than against each other. In order to do this we must accept that some of the ideas given by Jensen and McMillan may be too extreme to do any real good and that the ideas suggested by Wilson and UConn, though slightly ineffective, are nonetheless important steps in saving the environment. Taken alone, none of their ideas will save the environment; instead it is necessary to combine the ideas of Wilson, UConn, and Jensen and McMillan in order to create a more realistic plan to save the planet.

Since the beginning of time, mankind has depended on nature for survival. Although, throughout the years society has learned to manipulate nature for their own selfish advantages. In the passage written by Richard Louv, he utilizes rhetorical questions, repetition, and a tone of nostalgia to stress that sad truth about the separation of mankind and nature.

In this passage, he begins to bring about his idea that businesses are turning the focus off of nature and onto ads, which result in money. He has a tone of passion by subtly condemning the people who “use nature as ad space (lines 14-15).” He uses forceful syntax including “stamp their messages (lines 9-10)” and “simulating nature (line 14).” He later on asks two great rhetorical questions with a tone of confusion toward the parents who say they do not want their children to watch so much TV, yet they provide many opportunities for the children to watch TV.

The conservation movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and the environmental movement which came about after 1950 had symbolic and ideological relationships, but were quite different in their social roots and objectives. A clear point is that especially in the beginning, only the elite, wealthy class, had time left to think and enjoy nature and joined the environmental movement organizations. It was born out a movement of amateurs. The organizations of the environmental movement viewed natural resources such as water, land, and air, as recourses that would improve the quality of life (Sandbach, 1980). The conservation movement grew out of the idea of how to use water, forests, minerals and animals, fearing that they

In the article Social Justice and the City, it explains how the relationship man has with nature is an important one. This article talks about how over the years man has neglected this very important relationship. Today’s society is so much more focused on materialistic things and not so much the beautiful sights of nature. This shows how much has changed from the time urban cities were created. It is almost as if we take nature for granted.

The Western world is the dominant society with specific parameters for modernity, which understands nature-people relationships from a perspective that is grounded on human domination over the environment. Nature is regarded as a provider of resources (e.g. oil, timber, cupper, rubber, etc.) for the profit and greed of a market-based economy that seeks infinite development. Consequently, the human-nature relationships are subject-object, implying

Overall, my strategy will focus on appealing to logos. By using numerous statistics and data to reinforce the reality of our earth’s state to the audience. Presenting reason paired with a well-structured argument will hopefully make the audience gain a new perspective about environmental sustainability. Focusing on logos to argue my purpose helps the audience understand the situation and lead them to better actions. I will also appeal to pathos and ethos to support my main strategy. The facts will create credibility and by appealing to the audience’s emotions will help stress the importance of the issue and help gain the attention of the audience.

In Annie Leonard’s animated video “The Story of Change,” she provides an overview of a new economy to make change in a whole world. Leonard discusses how bad policies and bad business practices are the cause of toxic products in the market. Moreover, she persuade that if the people want to live green; they have to take action to make changes to avoid destroying the environment. Leonard’s carefully crafted pathos appeals effectively persuade her audience of the individual citizens have to unite to work together and share a big idea in an addition to a moderate of logos appeals to convey the fact of the individual citizens can make change happen by taking action.

One of the most heavily discussed topics, in this last decade, is the environmental decay of our planet. Diverse concepts have materialized in order to find solutions for the problem. Ecology and sustainable growth have been confirmed to be the main solutions currently. Innovations for sustainable growth include: creation of hybrid cars, recycling and minor discharge of carbon dioxide in factories among others (Christ 23). Environmental awareness was also introduced to the world of fashion, unfortunately, it wasn’t very successful; lately there has been a change of situation and that is what we are going to attempt to understand.