Scott Sanders A Conservationist Manifesto

In his speech, Conservation as a National Duty, Theodore Roosevelt asserts his passion for conservation and preservation onto a group of governors, statesmen, and conservationists. Throughout his message, he details several reasons for the nation to stop wasting natural resources and begin conserving them. He also states that the question of the conservation and use of the great fundamental sources of wealth, of this nation is second only to the question of morality.

Harry Mason Reid, born December 2, 1939 is a U.S. Senator from Nevada and a associate of the Democratic Party. He has remained Senate Majority Leader as of January 2007, and formerly assisted as Minority Leader and Majority and Minority Whip. He is the third of four sons along with his mother Inez Orena, and father Harry Reid. All of Reid's childhood was spent living in a shack without an indoor toilet no hot water or telephone. Searchlight his home town did not have a high school and as a result Reid lived with relatives about 40 miles away in a town called Henderson, Nevada, and went to Basic High School. There he played football, and also participated in boxing. Reid then went to Southern Utah University where he graduated double majoring in political science and history. He also minored in economics from Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. From there he went to George Washington University Law School and earned a J.D. in addition to working as a United States Capitol Police. Formerly, Reid had been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He represents Nevada's 1st congressional district, and worked in Nevada’s state and local government as city attorney. Also, if his term is completed, he would be one of three Senators that have severed eight years as Majority Leader. Reid was born and raised in Searchlight, Nevada.

Sanders sets a welcoming tone is able to build a trustworthy relationship with the reader while gaining credibility Sanders is able to construct a reasonable, logically structured argument when he claims U.S politics’ efforts to “ransack” and loot the wealth of commons for their own personal gain and provides countless examples of such. He mentions the “below-cost timber sales in the national forests, over-grazing of public lands by privately owned live-stock, drilling in wildlife refuges…” (par.

He assails the very group of people he is trying to change the actions of. There is a lack of logos, which weakens his argument and makes it hard to validify as truth. It poses a lot of question that do not get answered. There is a lack of detail surrounding his claims. His argument is effective at shifting blame to one source and straying away from the true topic at hand: Social justice and environmental justice can work cooperatively, but there are certain institutions extending apathy standing in the way. With what he is trying to convey, he relied too heavily on his emotions, leaving his argument

Richard A. Epstein is a frequent contributor to the Hoover Institution, and his piece, “Scott Pruitt And The Environment”, hopes to ease hysteria over President Donald Trump’s selection of Pruitt as the 14th administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt denies the importance of climate change, he is a pro-industry former attorney general of Oklahoma. Epstein dances around rhetoric on both sides of the polarized climate change debate, creating a discourse which seems unbiased to the casual reader. This rhetorical analysis will strive to keep its proverbial ear to the ground and listen to the elephants hustling in the distance. References leading to right-wing contributors, language that evokes a sense of loss, and taking

Stegner wants to conserve the untouched land because he fears a world with no silence. He argues for the preservation of Robbers’ Roost country, as an example, “It is a lovely and terrible wilderness, such as wilderness as Christ and the prophets went out into… Save a piece of country like that intact, and it does not matter in the slightest that only a few people every year will go into it. That is precisely its value (Stegner, Wilderness Letter).” Saving the untouched lands, he contends, is a reminder of how uncontrolled the Earth is and how timeless it remains. Others disagree with this viewpoint, one of those people being American forester, Gifford Pinchot. In his writing “The Fight for Conservation,” Pinchot argues that conservation

Albert Einstein once said, "Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty." Similar to Einstein, the author Rachel Carson believed that human kind should embrace nature's and help preserve its beauty and life . In the passage from the book Silent Spring by Rachel Carson, the author informs and persuades her audience against the dangers and misuse of pesticides. Rachel Carson is a renowned writer, ecologist, and scientist who dedicated her life to the conservation of the environment. Throughout her career as an editor in chief, marine biologist, and environmental activist, Carson continued to educate the public about the

The subject of environmentalists is one that is just asking for a series of childish bickering amongst fully grown adults. No one can ever agree to disagree because everyone wants to be right. Of course, that is impossible, but God forbid that people just come to a reasonable agreement to leave opinions as they are, opinions. Mr. Edward O. Wilson does a very good job illustrating how pointless these political arguments are. How does he do this? He simply writes his own passages, setting himself in the shoes of both of the opposing parties.

From the very beginning, Sanders has faced many challenges, one being having a sustainable job. He went job to job attempting to gain some money. When Sanders was in his 60s, he was on the verge of quitting when he decided to put whatever he had left to sell fried chicken. From that one action, it would lead him to own a million dollar business and became a millionaire. Even at his darkest, Sanders never gave up. He kept pushing forward despite his roadblock and at the end, it paid off. He died a jubilant and rich man with a background of economic

Though Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump are on opposing ends of the political spectrum they both are channeling populist rhetoric to get their point across. The bottom line is that there has always been and continues to be citizen unrest in how the government is run. There is a general consensus that citizens feel that the officials they elect to office lack loyalty to constituents because private interests are funding their campaigns and wielding influence on policy. While both candidates are calling attention to the establishment politics within the beltway each have their own unique objectives: Sander’s focus is on calling attention to gross inequality and

Conservation was the most important reform, from this time period, since it worked towards protecting the United State’s physical environment which leads to obtaining the essential resources of nature, preserving the naturality of the planet, and living a higher quality of life.

“A land ethic is a moral code of conduct that grows out of these interconnected caring relationships (TALF).” Currently humans are using more fossil fuels then we ever had which is leading to the destruction of habitats but also the extinction of thousands of species. Certain organizations are being to fight the commercialization of America. Fossil Fuel companies are wiping out thousands of ecosystems and species because of the increase of industry. There are three major land ethic organizations like the Sierra Club, Bureau of Land Management and Ducks Unlimited which use specific land ethics to represent their specific ideals.

A minor point I would like to touch upon is that of the class system. It is not as prominent as it used to be but I think it still exist. Even though it is not a very big point in the essay, it is however a point that is relevant to me. There is the upper class and the lower class. The author recalls coming to this reality after seeing convicts in the field laboring long and hard in the harsh weather as their supervisors stood around and did nothing. From what I know, life is the way Sanders saw it at that time. There is “the brute toiling animal and the boss” (330). In every occupation, there is a person who does a lot of the dirty work while there is someone in a higher role doing less work. Though it might not be as bad as he has put it (“brute toiling animal”) (330) it is reality. You either work for yourself or you work for someone else and in most cases majority of people are working as employees. Growing up, most of the men he knew were blue collar workers and so they worked for others. If the men were as lucky as him, they would not have worn out bodies, they would shorter lives. Sanders became a successful writer and basically worked for himself. He never suffered what these men went

The Progressive Era was a period of social activism and political reform that grew from the 1890s to the 1920s. Social reformers and journalists, like Jane Addams, Jacob Riis, and Ida Tarbell were some of the powerful voices for progressivism. “They concentrated on exposing the evils of corporate greed, combating fear of immigrants, and urging Americans to think hard about what democracy meant.” Many progressive reformers wanted to end corruption in the government, regulate business practices, address health hazards, and improve working conditions. It was also an era of conservationists. Conservationists are people who protect and preserve the environment and wildlife. Throughout the Progressive Era, there were many conservationists who wrote and described nature, but the most well-known figure in conservation was John Muir. John Muir worked to protect Earth’s beauty by traveling and exploring nature, co-founding the Sierra Club, and by influencing others through his writings and by showing some of the most important people how the wildlife was magnificent.

Nature has played an enormous part in our lives. From the childhoods of unwanted or loved trips to the country to the issue of climate change, we have all had our part to play in the matter. And yet it affects us as well. Without the presence of nature, we would not be able to survive. Both Rachel Carson and Henry David Thoreau understand the necessity of nature and humanity's lack of love for it. However, they are not without any dissimilarity. Carson's "A Fable for Tomorrow" and Thoreau's Walden are both serious, persuasive pieces that consider the current habits of the American people to be harmful and use pathos as one of their methods to convey this message. However, the differences in time periods, messages, rhetorical effects, and approaches reveal a clear rift between the two works.