Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

Rapid industrialization has led to the widespread destruction of the natural wilderness around us. In President Jimmy Carter’s foreword to “Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land, A Photographic Journey” by Subhankar Banerjee, he describes the picturesque scenery of the Arctic refuge and with it’s one in a million biodiversity, the need to protect it from development of industries and its negative side effects.
The author starts his discussion by describing ‘America’s Serengeti’, its inhabitants and their surroundings. He personifies the animals with almost human like behavior – connecting with his audience’s emotions and grabbing their attention instantly. While mentioning “polar bears and caribou give birth” and “wolves howling in the midnight sun”, he explains to his readers that human beings are not the only species with emotions. He describes the “migration of tens of

With such a fighting spirit, even the damage of industrialization was no match for it.
After using calming and soothing words to describe the beauty of the Arctic Refuge, the author immediately pulls the readers to the harsh reality and blackness of a “web of roads and pipelines, drilling rigs and industrial facilities’. He describes the effects that it will have on the ecosystem and on America’s only Arctic Refuge.
He emphasizes on his point by giving examples of Presidents who had recognized the value of the Arctic wilderness as well as methods and legislative decisions that they had made to uphold it. While talking about Conservation Acts, he manages to successfully convey to the audience the fact that it was their duty as American citizens to protect, respect and maintain the Alaskan