The Future Of Life Wilson Analysis

In Wilson’s book, The Future of Life, he includes two passages with opposing thoughts and outlooks that pertains to environmentalism or the world we live in. One of which are the environmentalists, those who support or advocate the protection of the environment. The other being anti-environmentalists. They are the ones who oppose or “critique” environmental movements. With these two conflicting sides, Edward O. Wilson exposes the unproductive nature of both environmentalists’ and people-first critics’ dispute by using irony, similar structural parallelism, and lenient and direct diction in his satirical passages. Irony is seen within the two passages, the first one states, “How to get power? is what they’re thinking,” when obviously the environmentalists are supposed to be the ones who protect and support the environment. “Their aim is to expand government, especially the federal government,” also explains that the “environmental extremists or environmental wackos” are trying to gain power to help the environment, but in doing so, they don’t get anything done because

In the first sentence of each passage he gives a brief identification of what each of the opposing sides are; the first passage starts with, “Environmentalists or conversationalists is what they usually call themselves,” and the second one states, “‘Critics’ of the environmental movement? That may be what they call themselves.” Parallelism is shown in majority of the lines throughout both passages. The way he wrote the passages starts with the claim of identification, then argument and debate, and lastly the so-called “resolution” or conclusion. The passages show bickering between the two sides, back and forth, lead to nothing, but more unnecessary issues. Nothing is being achieved because of the continuous argument between the different opinions and views. Wilson proves that this is just a nonproductive