Sandra Steingraber Des Despair Not Summary

There are so many bad things in this world and the environment is one of them bad things. Our environment will never just go away but it’s definitely needs to change. It’s causing damage to our friends and family, it’s taking away all of our animals, and it’s hurting the world we know around us. If we don’t do something about it, will the world’s population go down because of a great amount of people dying? Will the animals become extinct and no one ever talk about them again? Will the oceans be able to hold their ground and keep producing the oxygen it’s giving us? Throughout this essay, Sandra Steingraber does a great job using ethos, pathos, and logos while talking about the environment and the issues it is causing to the people and the
Steingraber explains to us, “In the absence of federal policies that protect child development and the ecology of the planet on which out children’s lives depend, we parents have to serve as our own regulatory agencies and departments of interior.” (747) There are diseases flying around in the air outside.
Steingraber discovered, “One in eight U.S children is born prematurely. Preterm birth is the leading cause of the death in the first months of life and the leading cause of disability. Its price tag is $26 billion per year in medical costs, special services, and lost productivity. Preterm birth has demonstrated links to air pollution, especially maternal exposure to fine particles and combustion byproducts of the type released from coal-burning power plants” (746)
The coal from the power plants are releasing bad particles and getting to the wombs inside the women, which is causing the babies to have problems when they are born. It’s not even just premature birthing. It’s also having asthma, having a learning disability, and autism. These are all very costly things that not many people can afford without some