Dams and Salmon Recovery Persuasive Editorial Paper

American Environmental Literature

Persuasive Editorial Paper

REDFISH SOCKEYE SALMON RECOVERY

QUESTION: How can we restore the Endangered Redfish Sockeye Salmon to a recovered population,

-meet future energy demands,

-help the transportation sector slash its global-warming emissions and remain economically viable,

-maintain renewable and sustainable energy production levels, and

-create thousands of clean-energy jobs and build vibrant local and regional economies?

Requirements

A successful paper will:

• • QUOTE FROM AT LEAST THREE DIFFERENT TEXTS ( Encounters with the Archdruid, "The Fight for Conservation," "Hetch Hetchy,") texts and authors that we’ve encountered this term, by using and properly citing relevant quotations. See The Writing Guide #36.

  • DEVELOP AT LEAST THREE FACTS FROM RESEARCH:

  • DEVELOP AT LEAST THREE CONCEPTS FROM OUR READINGS. (see below).

  • Develop at least one persuasive argumentation patterns for each controversial point : create counter, concede, converse for each major controversial point. See Writing Guide # 49-51.

This paper will take the form of a blended research and persuasive essay. Our goal in asking you to research, think, and, ultimately, write about this issue is for you to apply the ideas, concepts, and authors that we’ve been studying to take a position on salmon recovery and the removal of the four Lower Snake River dams

Relevant Authors:

1 Ralph Emerson

2 Henry Thoreau

3 John Muir (“Hetch Hetchy!”)

4 Gifford Pinchot (“The Fight for Conservation”)

5 Edward Abbey Desert Solitaire (see "Down the River")

6 David Brower (via John McPhee)

7 Floyd Dominy (via John McPhee)

8 Wallace Stegner (“Wilderness Letter”)

KEY CONCEPTS TO REFERENCE :

1 Anthropocentrism (Emerson, Thoreau, Snyder, Dominy, Pinchot…)

2 Ecocentrism (Thoreau, Berry, Brower…)

3 Human time v Natural time (Thoreau, Berry, Abbey…)

4 Lessons of the Wilderness Experience (The Etiquette of Freedom): Berry and Thoreau

5 Anthropomorphism ( Abbey…)

6 Pantheism (Emerson, Thoreau, Muir…)

7 Deified Transcendence (Emerson, Muir…)

8 Organic Transcendence (Thoreau, Berry…)

9 Opportunity Cost (Thoreau): “amount of life I must give up in the choosing of any endeavor”

10 Industrial Tourism (Abbey and Brower…)

11 Idea of Wilderness (Stegner)

12 Societal Self v Natural Self (Emerson, Thoreau, Abbey, Berry…)

13 “Indemnity (reparation) in the inviolable order for the world” (Emerson, Thoreau,…)

14 Spiritual and Ecological Interconnectivity in nature (Emerson, Thoreau, Berry, Abbey)

15 No nature (Thoreau, Abbey)

16 Need to see our limits transgressed (Thoreau, Abbey, Berry…)

17 Intrinsic Value of Wilderness (Brower, Abbey…)