Through out the passage the author has a very strong viewpoint of how people, animals, and eco systems should be treated properly giving a very ecofriendly view to the passage which can be appealing to human emotions. The passage starts with "The diamond mining industry directly affects an estimated 10 million people around the world" having a direct statement at the …show more content…
To show relevance the author states "Water is used to extract diamonds, but water is a scarce resource in Africa where many of the world's diamond mines are located." Bringing in the relevance of countries today and how it'll affect them creates more of a sense of ergency and demand for change. The author continues with " Companies have drained twenty lakes, causeing massive changes to the environment and disrupting the natural habitats of many species." Water is a scarce resource today as there are many droughts happening in current events. The pasage shows that even while we're short on water people are draining lakes and wasting it on diamond mining. Relevant examples give readers a feel for change as they see that everything happening if going to effect them and future generations so they need to change it creating a stronger influence from the