Heinrichs and Carson Readings

I guess I can see her using rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos and logos throughout the article, especially at the end of article when she talks about the use of chemical insecticides. She started her arguments by asking questions like “who would want to live in a world which is just not quite fatal?” and provided evidences by quoting other people’s studies; here she used the Connecticut entomologist Neely Turner’s work. Then, she used pathos to get an emotional response out of her audience by saying how “future generations” are not going to forgive our lack of prudent concern for the integrity of the nature world. Also, she employed some pathos in the first chapter by telling a story of “a town where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings,” but then “everything in town started to change because of mysterious maladies and death.” He made up this story of a town that does not actually exist in order to bring up people’s emotion and concerns about the reality issue that this might be easily happening to our current society.