Argumentative Environment

Arguementative Environment Currently, a controversy is swirling over the issues raised by the despoiling of the world's natural environment. Poet Stanley Kunitz in "The War Against the Trees" depicts a man watching his neighbor, "who sold his lawn to standard oil" (Kunitz 122), laugh as bulldozers ruin the natural beauty of the grounds with its "forsythia-forays and hydrangea-raids" (Kunitz 123). As industry wages war not just against flowers and shrubbery, but also against the town's pleasant past. …

…who exaggerate and make melodrama over problems in the environment mundane. Wainwright, Hilary. "Hidden History: British Labor Party's Economic Policy." New Statesman and Society 9 (April 19, 1996): 4pp. Infotrac. Online. 10 Nov. 1998. This is an article from the New Statesman and Society magazine. The article states that the approach to environmentalism could have appalling political results. It also states that the traditional progressiveness of labor is needed to help repair the damages we have done to our earth.