Natural Resources

What is our personal responsibility toward the natural world, toward what we term our natural resources? What power do we have to influence event? Of course, the word resource implies something to be used, yet how far do we go? Read about the conflicts between jobs and the environment that have been prominent in this country. Does the need to preserve age-old redwood forests outweigh logger’s needs paycheck in California? Are fish in the Gulf of Mexico more important than jobs for the commercial fisherman living along on the coast? Are offshore and deep water drilling for oil more important than either the commercial fisheries industry or coastal tourism? Conflicts such as these are often settled in the courts. Create a list of emotionally charged diction used by both sides.