Compromise, Hell!

Berry brings up the discussion about how Americans have lost the motivation to maintain our land because we have increased pollution by using so many fuels. We don't take control of how our food is produced and some don't even care to know how it's produced. He uses rhetorical devices such as red-herrings to get his point across. He states "towns and cities have been gutted by the likes of Wal-Mart, which have had the permitted luxury of destroying locally
owned small businesses by means of volume discounts" but he fails to mention how these discounts greatly help people who don't have much to spend. Berry also uses pathos to appeal to the reader by saying, "The governmental obligation to protect these economic resources, inseparably human and natural, is the same as the obligation to protect us from hunger or from foreign invaders. In result, there is no difference between a domestic threat to the sources of our life and a foreign one." That is a very big exaggeration. There is an enormous difference between foreign invaders and not using resources properly in America. I see that how we use or resources but being compared to foreign invaders is a little dramatic.