Wilson

“The people-first critic stereotypes the Environmentalists”, “The Environmentalist stereotypes people-first critics”; the usage of the word “stereotype” in both the article titles is the first hint that Wilson gives to foreshadow the uselessness of the arguments. The first article stereotypes the environmentalists: “Depending on how angry we are, we call them greens, enviros, environmental extremists, or environmental wackos” while the second article typecasts the people-first critics : “but we know them more accurately as anti-environmentalists and brownlashers”; Wilson cleverly satirizes the argument by stating that in anger and annoyance the two parties accuse each other. Their political issues come into the limelight; while the environment, although seems to be the main argument, is pushed aside. “They want environmental laws and regulatory surveillance to create government supported jobs for their kind of bureaucrats, lawyers, and consultants” said the critics about the environment and “They keep their right-wing political agenda mostly hidden when downgrading climate change and species extinction, but for them economic growth is always the ultimate, and maybe the only, good.” They blame each other of similar corrupt aims and tend to ignore the faults they have in themselves. Wilson mocks the political system and various environmentalist movements, he plays on the statement “actions speak louder than words” and hints that such arguments fail to do so. “and before you know what happened the Endangered Species Act will be used to shut you down”, “At the big conferences of the World Trade Organization and other such gatherings of the rich and powerful, conservation almost never gets so much as a hearing”; despite using political organizations and acts the articles fail to make a valid point to support their argument because of the informal and false implications made by Wilson; sustaining his satire completely. The end of both the articles is, again, an...