White's Argument For Destroying The Environment

White’s argument is that the crisis with our environment issues relies among all of us, even those who consider themselves environmentalists. Society is responsible because we are all part of the capitalism system, that none of us are willing to leave in order to truly save the environment, because that would require for us to resist work and consumption. In order to accept White’s main idea that will help us understand his main claim is that we have to understand that everyone in society is responsible for damaging the environment. Evn those who are part of envirinoment organizations are still responsible for damaging the environment. Until we are all able to stop working and consuming, we all remain part of the system. If we were able to quit working and consuming so much, many of the issues would disappear, but we all live in fear to truly disconnect ourselves from the system. White applies to value

White introduces religion and throws in some quotes to make his claim stronger in regards we should not harm the environment. Part of the solution that White sort of offers is in the use of language on page 247, he mentions how the language allows us to feel comfortable with working for or giving money to environmental organizations. But the real solution would be giving up money and consumption but in reality we are all afraid and most likely are not willing to. It seems that White’s voice is in a tone of sadness and anger because we have found a solution which is giving up the idea that we have to work for money in order to stop consuming so we can save the environment, yet he knows this is difficult to do so because we need money for survival. We can picture the sound of his tone/voice towards the last paragraph of the