What Is The Theme Of The Future Of Life By Edward O Wilson

In the book, Future Of Life (2002), Edward O. Wilson, satirizes and jokes about how childish and unsophisticated arguments are such as those between the People-First Critics and Environmentalist. The results of this book is to showcase how these arguments lead to nowhere and Wilson presents this information by satirically mocking both sides of the argument with exaggeration, sarcasm and hyperboles.

In the book The Future of Life, author Edward O. Wilson highlights the ineffective nature of the debates between the two side of environmentalism. He achieves this by pointing out parallels and similarities of the language between two sides in the satirical piece.

Compare and contrast A Raisin in the Sun with Death of a Salesman and give examples.

Edward O. Wilson’s The Future of Life uses satire to show the two opinions of two different sides of the idea of environmentalism. On one side, the “People First Critic” accuses the environmentalists as being out of control in their efforts to make the world a better place by helping the environment. However, the “Environmentalist” criticises the opposing critic as not caring enough about the environment and that supposedly makes him wrong. These are both two different sides to the same argument and both are out to prove a point.

In today’s world, hardly any species of wildlife become extinct from natural causes. Europeans hunt animals to such an extent that we classify it as overhunting. We destroy their habitat, and introduce other animals that are a threat to endangered animals or are competition for resources and food. Habitat destruction is the greatest threat to both animals and plants.

In The Future of Life by Edward O. Wilson, Wilson, a contemporary scientist, illustrates the unproductive nature of environmentalists and the people-firsts or anti-environmentalists. Wilson also identifies the parallels of each group and their unexpected similarities. He satirizes the language that each group would typically use against the other. It is concluded that people in today’s world are all too literal. When everything said is taken to heart, it is difficult for the real issues to ever be resolved.

Species extinction is a familiar topic. I started understanding about species extinction even before I joined school. I learned there used to be hung animals such dinosaurs and mammoths, which had ceases to exist many millions of years ago. There were toys and films depicting such extinct animals. I used to wonder why they decided to become extinct. As I grew up and with a desire to expand my knowledge, I came to learn that different species adapt to deferent environmental conditions. For instance, urbanization, desertification, depletion of ozone layer and climate change are some of the major global issues that contribute to species extinction. In order to address the concerns of species extinction, the global community has come up with the Convention on Biological Diversity whose main aim is to reduce the loss of species.

Edward O. Wilson in his book The Future of Life (2002) writes two bi oppositional passages that illustrate two extreme sides of an argument on environmentalism. Wilson writes both passages with the same rhetorical patterning and reasoning to show how these arguments are not productive, because all they are doing throughout these passages are attacking the other side through pointing out their wrongdoings. In both passages, there is a question of illegitimacy and skepticism brought into light. “The [environmental] wackos have a broad and mostly hidden agenda that always comes from the left … Their aim is to expand the government[.]” (7-10)

Contemporary scientist Edward O. Wilson captures the opposing viewpoints of environmentalism based discourses through satirical language. In Wilson’s literary work The Future of Life, the author, by use of candid tone, frequent hyperbole and an appeal to pathos, is able to satirize the unproductiveness of such discussions.

Forests have been cut, crops planted, pastures seeded, and urban areas paved. One of the most troubling consequences of human modification of ecosystems is an ongoing loss of species and therefore a loss of biodiversity around the world. The current extinctions have a human cause: habitat loss (such as clearing of tropical rainforests); the introduction of invasive species; unregulated hunting and fishing; and pollution of water, air, and

Too many acres of biodiversity has been damaged. For example, NASA made an article that

MiMi was very open to sharing her childhood and cultural experiences. She informed me that there were many things that affected her throughout her childhood, and she never really had a chance to share it with anyone outside of her experience, or culture. MiMi’s grandmother Lin was more restricted in her conversation. Lin was very quite at first, but warmed up towards the middle of the conversation. Many of Lin’s answers were one-worded answers, and she sat with her arms folded the entire time. MiMi was excited to sit down and talk, and smiled often when talking about her visits to China, and her family functions. I think that MiMi is proud of her culture, and was happy that someone else was interested in her culture. Lin was protective of MiMi, and I feel that she wanted to make sure I was not there to Mock MiMi’s

As we lose more and more habitats, it could create a domino effect causing many other complications in the world's ecosystem.

In the fable Animal Farm, George Orwell expresses a clear representation of the Russian Revolution in the form of animals on a farm rebelling against the leaders, pigs. Napoleon’s treatment of the animals is dependent on the way Napoleon perceives the animal’s dedication. If they accept his leadership they receive their basic needs; whereas, if they rebel against him, their basic needs are not met. This results in all the animals accepting Napoleon’s leadership in order to receive their fundamental needs. This is only possible if Napoleon has followers that will aggressively support him or even die in order for Napoleon to succeed. Through Old Benjamin, the hens and the pigs’ viewpoints on Napoleon’s tyranny, it is easily identified which animal supports Napoleon’s way of ruling the farm, which oppose him and which animal simply has no opinion.

The health of the earth degrades with the destructive activity of human beings. A recent study by a group of scientists looked at twenty four different services that the earth’s ecosystems provide for humans, ecosystem services, and found that fifteen of them are in need of desperate help (Gazette 31 March 2005). These services are vital to the survival of both human and nonhuman life and include filtering water and providing nutrient rich soils and ocean waters. Many of the members of these various ecosystems are also decreasing in numbers. In a British survey of bird populations found that in the 200 birds of Britain tracked there was about a 54% population decrease between the 1968-1971 tacking period and the 1988-1991 tacking period. In two other surveys of 254 native plant species from the same area there was a decrease of about 28% during the past 40 years. Humans are pushing the sixth mass extinction (Gazette March 19, 2004).