Former U.S President Jimmy Carter intends to urge throughout the passage that the United States
should preserve the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge rather than developing it for industrial and economic
purposes. In order to amplify the importance of his argument, the author relates is statement with his
own personal experience in the Arctic National Wild Life Refuge ; thus, Jimmy Carter emphasizes the
quintessence of the region and his argument.
The writer first starts off his argument with some background and basic information about the Arctic
Wildlife Refuge, but yet still indirectly implies the high value the environment has. For instance, the
author expresses the habitat as ‘America’s last truly great wilderness’ and ‘magnificent
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As it can be inferred from the words such as ‘brilliant’ and ‘timeless’, the writer
indirectly indicates that as an individual that experienced the nature in first-hand the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge contains high values. Moreover, Jimmy Carter states that his experience was
‘unforgettable’ and ‘humbling’ and that the natural phenomenon he saw at the region was ‘once-in- a-
lifetime wildlife spectacle’ and like the ‘Serengeti’. In a nutshell, the writer indicates that the Arctic
National Wildlife Refuge has a lot of natural charming characteristics.
The narrator now shares his lessons that he learned from the involvement and recounts it with the
Officeworks he went through during his presidency. Jimmy carter first expresses his emotions, about if
the wild was industrialized, by urging in a heart breaking way such as the words ‘saddened’ and
‘tragedy’. Furthermore, he states that the developments would ‘destroy’ the wild where numerous
animals ‘depend’ on the ecosystem. The author expresses two simultaneous feelings, anger and anxiety,
by using words as stated previously: ‘Tragedy’ and ‘destroy’. After arranging the lessons he learnt, the
author now correlates it with his term as the president. Jimmy Carter maintains that the