This article is Joy William's personal rant about how people have been treating the environment recently. She talks about how people have forgotten and neglected the environment and how they have selfishly traded nature for condos and big supermarkets. She also accuses the readers of knowing how much they're harming the environment yet choosing not do anything about it. She criticizes farmers for disregarding nature and 'poisoning' the crops. She also criticizes the shrimp eaters and the shrimpers, for not only killing enormous amounts of shrimp but turtles and fish and dolphins.Williams says its almost like people hate green area and that people would rather see wildlife get destroyed. She says that nature has become nothing more than a 'mere source of materials' to humankind and we have spent so much time editing it that we are now deleting it. Although Williams uses dark humor, we can tell how worried she is for the condition of the earth.
Throughout the article, Joy uses an ironic tone, almost like the mistreatment of the environment was so absurd that she can't wrap her head around it. Her writing is fast-paced and she sometimes uses choppy sentences to make her point. Williams uses a conversational tone throughout the article and uses more personal pronouns than most articles about the environment would. She uses many rhetorical questions to emphasize her sarcastic tone and ends the article with a very informal "see you later."Joy also carries a accusing tone while describing the damages made in the environment, pointing fingers to all her readers. While at times, being overly sarcastic and even aggressively attacking the readers, Williams brings out the good point that we all need to start making changes and this is emphasized on the last paragraph. She encourages her readers to not only to make a change in our personal consciousness and treat the earth respectively, but to behave and think differently.
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