Scientist Edward O Wilson Analysis

Often times, an individual can be defined as an environmentalist or a people-first critic. Saving the environment is the environmentalist's ultimate goal, while the people-first critics look more to the human aspect of everything. Scientist Edward O. Wilson satirizes the language of the two groups, and how unproductive their discussions are, through the use of hyperboles, insulting and stereotypical diction, and a created sense of situational irony. Wilson’s hyperboles exemplify how little is achieved during discussions between the environmentalists and the people-first critics. When the critics are criticizing the environmentalists, they tell an elaborate and disproportioned tale of how an environmentalist will “find an endangered red spider…[that] will be used to shut you down” (lines 20-23). Although this provides a superficial example of unproductiveness, it is also showing that neither side looks at the big picture. The environmentalist is concerned solely about that spider--the critic solely about business. A compromise is never talked about or thought of, meaning both sides simply want to stop the other. Nothing gets done in cases such as this, and Wilson shows this so that a juvenile
In lines 42 through 44 the environmentalists claim that by the people-first critics claiming to care about the environment, they are the “worst bunch of hypocrites you’ll ever not want to find” in life. Both sides exchange this sort of harsh banter with each other, but there is no coherent and substantiated evidence of either side working to solve their indifferences and work together. Abraham Lincoln once stated that “a house divided shall not stand,” as is the case here. Neither party accomplishes anything, but both can easily lose respect if they don’t work