In her article, Joy Williams discusses how the interest of people are affecting the environment nowadays. She criticizes people saying they only cared about their own interests and that they have forgotten what nature actually is and it's uniqueness. She discusses several of the aspects that are harming the environment today, all of which are being caused by us. She describes how the shrimp industry is causing the depletion of turtle and that tourism business adapt and modify the environment to please the audience they receive. She also talks about how the construction of roads and building affect the wilderness as it has to be removed to make way for these concrete structures. The last examples she gives is the Everglades Project. The project, which is said to help the environment and protect it, is actually mostly artificial nature, and the cost to maintain it will be ridiculously high. She goes on to argue how people fall easily for the idea of a controlled nature and go on to believe it is the way to go. People enjoy the benefits provided by nature, but when it comes to maintaining and expanding it they don't fancy doing anything. Williams concludes by warning us about the crisis we will go through if we don't change our mindset and take care of what is truly important.
Some may consider this article offensive, but those would be the ones who don't share the same mindset as Williams does. Throughout her article, she describes what humans are doing today and how it is being extremely bad for the environment. She uses personal pronouns such as "you" and "I" which really do have an impact of the audience. She states the problems directly and also blames the people for causing them. She has a satirical and somewhat ironic tone throughout the essay which served to make the audience rethink the issues she described. Her word choice is strong yet coherent and the article itself is very fluid. The essay is strong and compelling; it brings awareness and impacts the readers in such a way that would cause them to revamp the way they see and treat the environment.
https://disassemblingwalle.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/savethewhales1.pdf
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