Disco Case

Definitions:

Term 1: Environmental Preservation: Is preserving our surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives in.

Term 2: Economical Gain: A growth of national income.

Value: Environment

Comparative analysis and impacts.

Contention 1: Global Warming

C- Man made resources are in high production which is creating greenhouse gasses that are killing the ozone speeding up global warming.

G- "CO2 a greenhouse gas is the main pollutant that is global warming." As said on Natgeo.com

W- We as a society need to cut back/restrict greenhouse gasses to slow down global warming.

Link back to value- Greenhouse gasses are incredibly bad for the environment and increasingly hurting us as a society in the long run.

I- If we are more conscientious about what we use this could greatly cut back on our green house gasses for example driving.

Contention 2: Natural Beauty

C- Since we are cutting into the forests to create farming land this is killing the natural beauty of the areas effected and pushing animals out of the natural habitat causing animals to become extinct.

G- "Clearcutting is an extreme form of logging that replaces natural forests with tree plantations. It threatens our drinking water, clean air, and wildlife habitat, and it increases the risk of fire to our communities." As said on sierraclub.org

W- We need to stop this clearcutting, we are already having troubles with our ozone/drought of water and we need to start thinking about our environmental future.

Link back to value- This clearing of the trees is hurting the environment everyday.

I- If we think more about our future for the environment and less about our quick economic gain.

Contention 3: Oil Drilling

C- When it comes to drilling for oil I see no real long term benefit for us.

G- During the BP oil spill " 200 million gallons of crude oil was pumped into the gulf of