Eriksen, Marcus. JUNK RAFT: An Ocean Voyage and a Rising Tide of Activism to Fight Plastic
Pollution. Boston: Beacon, 2017. Print.
Marcus Eriksen, a clear water advocate and a co-founder of the 5 gyres institute, wrote Junk Raft in July 2017 as a recollection of his experiences of rafting across the ocean in 2008. Eriksen wrote of his experiences and connected them to real water pollution problems with possible solutions in order to inform his readers of the extreme problem of water pollution. This book provides extensive examples and statistics in order to support the idea of water pollution being incredibly harmful, but the book fails to introduce reasoning for why businesses continue to pollute even while they know the negative impacts. …show more content…
Hauter reflects on her trip to Dubai and the sights of water pollution she witnessed from big businesses in order to persuade her audience to fight against big business pollution through comparing the actions of these businesses to “a doublespeak that George Orwell’s Big Brother would be proud to call his own.” This article brings to light an extensive discussion on the business counter-argument for needing to pollute, but every argument on the side of business is shut down by a reasoning on why that counter-argument is unethical and wrong. The immediate diminishing of the counter-argument is provided through a strong bias of environmentalism from Hauter. Unfortunately, this bias limits the strength of the counter-argument and results in high hostility from the author towards the actions of businesses. As a result, the value of some of her arguments are strongly hindered and may not be as valuable due to the …show more content…
She introduces the idea that water pollution has a greater impact than imaginable and the importance of stopping water pollution is, as a result, incredibly important. This article is important in discussing the overall impact of water pollution, not just just human health; thus, in turn, the discussion opens more directions and arguments I can bring into my paper for the effect of water pollution on the world. Unfortunately, the true impact of the ocean is not directly stated because Watson only covers the struggles of “tiny shrimp-like crustaceans living in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific” which are one of the world’s most remote habitats. While describing the impact of one of the most remote habitats does infer that all habitats are hurt by water pollution, multiple examples are not present, so the amount of evidence to support my research paper are
Pollution. Boston: Beacon, 2017. Print.
Marcus Eriksen, a clear water advocate and a co-founder of the 5 gyres institute, wrote Junk Raft in July 2017 as a recollection of his experiences of rafting across the ocean in 2008. Eriksen wrote of his experiences and connected them to real water pollution problems with possible solutions in order to inform his readers of the extreme problem of water pollution. This book provides extensive examples and statistics in order to support the idea of water pollution being incredibly harmful, but the book fails to introduce reasoning for why businesses continue to pollute even while they know the negative impacts. …show more content…
Hauter reflects on her trip to Dubai and the sights of water pollution she witnessed from big businesses in order to persuade her audience to fight against big business pollution through comparing the actions of these businesses to “a doublespeak that George Orwell’s Big Brother would be proud to call his own.” This article brings to light an extensive discussion on the business counter-argument for needing to pollute, but every argument on the side of business is shut down by a reasoning on why that counter-argument is unethical and wrong. The immediate diminishing of the counter-argument is provided through a strong bias of environmentalism from Hauter. Unfortunately, this bias limits the strength of the counter-argument and results in high hostility from the author towards the actions of businesses. As a result, the value of some of her arguments are strongly hindered and may not be as valuable due to the …show more content…
She introduces the idea that water pollution has a greater impact than imaginable and the importance of stopping water pollution is, as a result, incredibly important. This article is important in discussing the overall impact of water pollution, not just just human health; thus, in turn, the discussion opens more directions and arguments I can bring into my paper for the effect of water pollution on the world. Unfortunately, the true impact of the ocean is not directly stated because Watson only covers the struggles of “tiny shrimp-like crustaceans living in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific” which are one of the world’s most remote habitats. While describing the impact of one of the most remote habitats does infer that all habitats are hurt by water pollution, multiple examples are not present, so the amount of evidence to support my research paper are