Jimmy Carter: Saving The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Anyone who has spent a prolonged period of time in the wild and has enjoyed the experience of observing the world in it’s natural habitat can see the importance of preserving our wildlife. In Jimmy Carter’s attempt to save the wildlife refuge in Alaska he uses reasoning, evidence, the past, and personal experience in the wild. Carter argues that preserving this extraordinary pure land in it’s “pure, untrammeled state” would be a
“Great triumph for America”.
Jimmy Carter starts by exonerating the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and describing its natural beauty and magnificence. He does this to get the reader to relate and use their own experience in nature to start a sense of credibility towards what he is writing. Instead of immediately bringing …show more content…
He talks about both the Republicans and the Democrats recognizing the value of the Arctic Wildlife
Refuge to begin a political side to the argument of its preservation.
At one point in the passage Carter swaps from speaking with the use of “I”, to the use of “We”. Jimmy Carter does this when he stops talking about what he can do about this problem, to begin talking about what we can all do about the problem of proposals to begin oil drilling in the refuge. The proposals usually fail because of the extreme opposition of the american people and the Gwich’in Athabascan Indians of Alaska and
Canada. His use of “We” goes to show that he is trying to win us over and speak for us as a unified people, not individuals. He provides alternatives to conserving the oil we currently have which would provide us with more oil than drilling in the refuge would.
Carter begins to speak about the percentages that drilling in the refuge would provide and how a better alternative to drilling is just using our resources more wisely, indicating that we constantly waste and overuse our current supply of oil.
In Carter’s conclusion he starts speaking about what this pure and beautiful