In Silent Spring, Rachel Carson uses the apocalypse trope, logos, and ethos to grab the general public’s attention and to inspire the necessity for changing the way the environment is treated by mankind. The apocalypse trope is implored right from the beginning before Carson even starts writing. She dedicates the book to Albert Schweitzer who said, “Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the earth.” This quote gets the reader thinking before they have even turned to page one. In Ecocriticism, Thompson writes that in the apocalypse trope “violent and grotesque images are juxtaposed with glimpses of a world transformed” (Garrard 86).
Phil 305 Bayer Case Study The case study that I previously wrote was about pharmaceutical company Bayer headed in Baytown, Texas. The case was particularly talking about company’s negligence towards safety issues that were constantly showing up. There were several dangerous events occurring in their factory where sizable number of people was injured or even died. The other issue was improper production of TDI plastic and especially it’s recycling what caused environmental issues like wastewater and air pollution. In the other hand Bayer Company in proud of their ethos, and they are presenting it through word LIFE.
These paintings evolved into an activist project that gathered a lot international attention and eventually honoured Iri and Toshi with the prestigious Nobel peace prize. Maruki Toshi explains why they have created such a devastatingly beautiful series by saying “We do paint dark, cruel, painful scene, but the question is, how should we portray people who face such realities? We want to paint them beautifully”. They criticized America’s nuclear practice and victimized Japan. During the 1970’s, the Maurkis exhibited their work in the U.S. for the first time and this had affected their future murals greatly.
Though I did like the story I do not believe I could ever possibly enjoy golf as much as I did the book. It is simply a sport that could possibly bore me to death. Overall I think it was a great book and would definitely read it again in my spare time. What I enjoyed most about the book is the way the author put in many different lessons god tried to teach through historical text. For example: Love your neighbor as thy self is seen as, ”Love your opponents.
He uses examples of places that have already been devoided from humans and how nature has taken over. The DMZ in Korea was populated for five thousand years by rice farmers who carved the land into paddies. The area hasn’t been occupied in over 50 years, the paddies have become barley discernible and transformed into pockets of marsh. Weisman reveals Earth's tremendous capacity for self-healing and believes the earth will most likely revert to how it was before human existence. He uses New York City as an example to explain how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without maintenance, “Just days after humans disappear,
Lipoczi 1 Richard Lipoczi EMLS-112 Marely Cervantes 08. 01. 2011 Myth of the Mammoth’s Extinction Scientists explored the reasons of the extinctions to get to know more about natural forces and factors that could have an effect on species’ vanishing. For the sake of this purpose they analyzed animals that had been disappeared a long time ago because at that time less human impact could just be on their fade-out. They counted in the possible causes the change of the Earth’s temperature, and they noted down the alteration of flora and landscape beside the new animal species’ appearance; in addition, they rated inside the scores the overhunting by humans, and they also kept important point the diseases by the parasites that had been carried the most frequently by the early people and their domestic animals.
When I hear the word war, the things that first come out in my mind were destructions, deaths, famine, guns and terrors. If we are going to look back in our history, a lot of wars had happened. One of those was “the bombing of Pearl Harbor drew ire of the people of the United States. The bombing was regarded as treacherous, and it was just a matter of time that the Americans would declare war against Japan.” (Muhi and Maguigad 169) The US – Japan war was one of the most known destructive wars. It greatly affects the life of the Japanese and the other nationalist because the missile that was launched emits radiation which affects lots of people.
However, the citizens wanted to make their own rules to follow, sensible and understandable rules. Further on Paine explains “the sun will never shine on a cause of greater worth?” I think that Paine is saying that it is such an issue that we should look to reform it in any way so that it is more fair to all citizens. The struggle of having a King or a Monarchy for the people at that time was difficult. The community wanted a more fair and equal government, while the king was not giving that to them. Let’s take for instance when Paine refers to the past writings of another author, Mr. Pelham “they will last my time.” The name of ancestors will be remembered for their great deeds by future generations with destinies of their own.
There have been those who have tried to push back with the idea that humans have not been destroying the environment, and the changes that have been taking place in the environment, notably, climate change, are the result of natural causes. However, the reality that there has been an enormous amount of climate change and that this has been taking place in more recent years since the rise of industrialization has led some to be converted to the idea that human action is leading to environmental disaster. A mood of pessimism has therefore been embraced by many in the environmental movement. A ray of hope entered the picture when the issue of sustainable development was put forward, and it was thought that the idea of protecting the environment was being promoted. However, what appears to have happened was that the idea of sustainable development was co-opted by those outside the environmentalist movement who saw the opportunity to continue their exploitation of the environment, but claim to be looking after the environment.
Both of the images of Time magazine cover titled “How to Wine the War on Global Warming”(Hochstein) and “polar bear clinging to a shrinking ice floe”(Wood 9) make it a point to express the importance of global warming and the issues that we will be faced with due to it. The image on the cover of Time Magazine by Arthur Hochstein, shows a replica of the World War II photograph of the Rising the Flag on Iwo Jima taken by Joe Rosenthal. The photograph on the cover of Time magazine depicts the same concept but instead of the soldiers holding the flag they are holding a tree, suggesting, “the steady deterioration of the very climate of our very planet is becoming a war of the first order”(Walsh). This image appeared on the cover of Time magazine volume 171, number 17. Time magazine usually has a red, white, and blue cover; interestingly enough this particular cover was in green, indicating the importance of global warming in the United States.