Conserving The Environment Edward O Wilson

The act of conserving the environment is extremely Hot Topic in contemporary politics and the author Edward O Wilson ,a scientist, proposes two different viewpoints about environmental conservation to help inform the politically involved people around the world. The author conducts his essay through multiple forms of satire in order to portray the useless bantering between conservatives and liberals .
The author broke the structure of this passage up into two different parts that go through a couple of stages which refute the opposing political ideal. The satirical structure begins with the portrayal of the two sides from the eye of an unbiased bystander who mimics the the childish act of name calling that happens every within the ranks of
each political party. The authors seriousness when calling the environmentalist “wackos” and “extremists” shows that even when a group of traditional old men get “angry” they can become immature, and fall back to progress less tactics that do no good but to fuel their hatred. Similarly from the viewpoint of the Liberal the author used the same immature tactic of name calling along with cynicism to display the “critics” in their eyes. Terms like “sagebrush rebels” attack a specific unresolved political movement from the past, which the author uses to show the insecurity and lack of progression the left side has made since the twentieth century.
As the essay progresses the structure of a un bias civilian doesn't change but the use of satire does.
In the second part of the passage the author uses hyperbole to portray elements of lefts “agenda”. The argument from the right is that the wackos only want to expand the government and bureaucracy for their own personal benefits. He even provides an example of how they will make your property rights go “down the tube” just for finding an “endangered red spider” on your property. This generalization is an over statement that is makes the conservatives like the very extremists that they accuses the environmentalist of being. The author uses a direct rebuttal consisting of a statement about conservatives “true purpose” just as he did with the liberals purpose. However the claim made by the liberal side uses cynicism is the key satirical tone. According to liberals anti-eneiromentaists seem to downplay species “extinction and climate change” in order to push their personal agendas of “unrestrained capitalism. The statement of both of these claims show that they are polar opposites in their context. Through doing this the author shows the stand still the both sides have reached and if any progress is to be achieved both sides must give a little bit and find a more centrist argument that does not consist of pure hatred for one another.
While the purpose of this passage may not be clear at the first glance of Everard O. Wilson's book, The Future Of Life, through a close reading of the text a underlying purposes can be found. A purpose in which two totally different viewpoints rival each other with immature name calling and exaggerated claims about the opisition to end up negating each other and leading to a
stalemate.