argument essay for lzy

Yang 2

Longzhe Yang

Professor LouAnn Muhm

English 103

8/4/2020

Claim: Human beings must pay attention to land ethics and strengthen ecological protection.

Reason(s): Due to the contradiction between land ethics and development driven by economic interests, all economic activities that harm the ecology must be stopped.

Kinds of evidence: Agricultural expansion and land ethics conflict: land structure change and fertilizer use change the original ecological structure of the land.The illegal logging trade in the Amazon has severely affected the global forest area and severely damaged local biodiversity systems, leading to drought.

Counterargument: Economic activity is an important item of human development. Returning land to forest limits economic development.Agricultural development is to adapt to population development and limit agricultural production to accelerate population hunger.

Response to Counterargument: Returning farmland to forests is not about limiting social development, it's about global sustainability.The immediate economic benefit is not conducive to ecological sustainability.Human beings cannot simply satisfy the needs of the population to destroy more limited resources.