Group One investigated how sustainable development can positively impact human welfare while Group Two argued how it negatively impacts human welfare. Both groups researched scholarly articles from eight different lenses and then collaborated their findings and constructed three main arguments from the most relevant articles to combat the opposing group’s arguments. Group One’s three main arguments took the perspectives of futuristic and environmental, ethical, and social.
Our first argument expressed that to be sustainable in the future, we must look at how humans are affecting the environment and how that will impact the environment in the future. The environment is a huge part of the discussion on sustainability, and the futuristic lense …show more content…
We chose to use this lense because one of the easiest methods to convince the public to make a change is to use the pathos and logos forms of persuasion. We used facts from the ethical lense to make the audience realize how illogical and immoral our unsustainable actions are. We used evidence from the article to show how global warming and depletion of resources will ultimately degrade on human welfare, therefore we need to take responsibility to preserve it. Another reason we used this lense was because it is a call to action, stating humans need to start to make a change. The article we used for this argument was (Ignacio Ayestaran (2010).”Knowledge, responsibility and ethics of sustainability in view of the global change.”. Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 1.1 (2010): 183. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 Sept. 2015.) The author wrote a book on sustainability, so he is experienced in the field. The article was published just five years ago, therefore it is recent and is from the Gale Academic OneFile Database, a reliable source. The author seems to have no bias on the topic, yet is well informed on the issue. The article has many reputable sources cited, and the author seems neutral on the issue, therefore the source is reliable. Group One used this article to show that we need to take responsibility for our actions and attempt to combat global warming and resource depletion in order to support human
Our first argument expressed that to be sustainable in the future, we must look at how humans are affecting the environment and how that will impact the environment in the future. The environment is a huge part of the discussion on sustainability, and the futuristic lense …show more content…
We chose to use this lense because one of the easiest methods to convince the public to make a change is to use the pathos and logos forms of persuasion. We used facts from the ethical lense to make the audience realize how illogical and immoral our unsustainable actions are. We used evidence from the article to show how global warming and depletion of resources will ultimately degrade on human welfare, therefore we need to take responsibility to preserve it. Another reason we used this lense was because it is a call to action, stating humans need to start to make a change. The article we used for this argument was (Ignacio Ayestaran (2010).”Knowledge, responsibility and ethics of sustainability in view of the global change.”. Ramon Llull Journal of Applied Ethics 1.1 (2010): 183. Academic OneFile. Web. 14 Sept. 2015.) The author wrote a book on sustainability, so he is experienced in the field. The article was published just five years ago, therefore it is recent and is from the Gale Academic OneFile Database, a reliable source. The author seems to have no bias on the topic, yet is well informed on the issue. The article has many reputable sources cited, and the author seems neutral on the issue, therefore the source is reliable. Group One used this article to show that we need to take responsibility for our actions and attempt to combat global warming and resource depletion in order to support human