Are We All Green Consumers By Jacquelyn Ottman
Dennis Hall-App
Professor Maki
WRI 102
23 September, 2012
Are we all “Green” consumers? What is green? Well, it is a secondary color made from the yellow and blue and can be presented in different tints and shades. Green is also the color of the grass and the leaves on the trees you see every day when you go for a walk in the park. However, in today’s society green has a whole new meaning than just a color. “Going Green” means do whatever that can be done to help the earth become a cleaner and healthier planet for both humans and animals to live on. Because of this Jacquelyn Ottman wrote an article called “We are all green consumers”, anyhow, I do not believe she wrote a valid article. In the article the author used untrustworthy …show more content…
Examples of these groups are the Naturalites, Resource Conservers, and Animal Lovers. By doing this the author is saying that each group has “their [own] involvement in green values, activities, and purchas[es]” (Ottman 23). This means that every group only focuses on that area of going green and that is it. However, Ottman does not even mention the possibility of a person in one group wanted to help out in other group in any way shape of form. The author does not know that the Animal Lover might “love the outdoors…camping, skiing, or hiking” (Ottman 31). By not mentioning this it shows that she does not think about both sides of her argument which a good author does. This shows that it is not the best idea to say that we all fall in to one of these specific groups that Ottman has made …show more content…
If Ottman want to persuade her reading into believing that “We are all green consumers” she is going to need to use an extensive cross section of subjects. The author says all her statistics are “based on interviews with over 4,000 U.S. adults” (Ottman 22). This is a very small sample group to be working with; a good sample group would be more like 500,000 to 5 million people, not 4,000. The US population today alone is over 300 million people as of July 2011. Therefore, Ottman only interviewed less than a hundred thousandth of a percent of the US population. Her readers might think that a big enough sample group but it really is not, nowhere close. Then with the thousandth of a percent she made outrageous statistics say that “a whopping 83% of the US population – can be classified as a shade of green…and estimated 17% however unconcerned” (Ottman 22). Just because 680 people say they do not help out in going green does not mean the author can that 17% of the US population is unconcerned or that 3,320 people equals 83%. What the author should have done is sent out pallets asking what people do to help go green in areas all over the US not in a selected area. Then all of here data would have been more accurate and she could have then make better avulsions and percentages in each of her groups that’s she made up. This then would have been better to use to help support her argument and made
Professor Maki
WRI 102
23 September, 2012
Are we all “Green” consumers? What is green? Well, it is a secondary color made from the yellow and blue and can be presented in different tints and shades. Green is also the color of the grass and the leaves on the trees you see every day when you go for a walk in the park. However, in today’s society green has a whole new meaning than just a color. “Going Green” means do whatever that can be done to help the earth become a cleaner and healthier planet for both humans and animals to live on. Because of this Jacquelyn Ottman wrote an article called “We are all green consumers”, anyhow, I do not believe she wrote a valid article. In the article the author used untrustworthy …show more content…
Examples of these groups are the Naturalites, Resource Conservers, and Animal Lovers. By doing this the author is saying that each group has “their [own] involvement in green values, activities, and purchas[es]” (Ottman 23). This means that every group only focuses on that area of going green and that is it. However, Ottman does not even mention the possibility of a person in one group wanted to help out in other group in any way shape of form. The author does not know that the Animal Lover might “love the outdoors…camping, skiing, or hiking” (Ottman 31). By not mentioning this it shows that she does not think about both sides of her argument which a good author does. This shows that it is not the best idea to say that we all fall in to one of these specific groups that Ottman has made …show more content…
If Ottman want to persuade her reading into believing that “We are all green consumers” she is going to need to use an extensive cross section of subjects. The author says all her statistics are “based on interviews with over 4,000 U.S. adults” (Ottman 22). This is a very small sample group to be working with; a good sample group would be more like 500,000 to 5 million people, not 4,000. The US population today alone is over 300 million people as of July 2011. Therefore, Ottman only interviewed less than a hundred thousandth of a percent of the US population. Her readers might think that a big enough sample group but it really is not, nowhere close. Then with the thousandth of a percent she made outrageous statistics say that “a whopping 83% of the US population – can be classified as a shade of green…and estimated 17% however unconcerned” (Ottman 22). Just because 680 people say they do not help out in going green does not mean the author can that 17% of the US population is unconcerned or that 3,320 people equals 83%. What the author should have done is sent out pallets asking what people do to help go green in areas all over the US not in a selected area. Then all of here data would have been more accurate and she could have then make better avulsions and percentages in each of her groups that’s she made up. This then would have been better to use to help support her argument and made