Part 1 of Essay
Currently, a controversy is swirling over the issues raised by the despoiling of the world's natural environment. Poet Stanley Kunitz in "The War Against the Trees" depicts a man watching his neighbor, "who sold his lawn to standard oil" (Kunitz 122), laugh as bulldozers ruin the natural beauty of the grounds with its "fo ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... despoiled the earth, the rocks, the minerals, all of which they call ‘dead' but which are very much alive; they have even changed the animals, which are a part of us, part of the Great Spirit, changed them in a horrible way, so no one can recognize them" (Erodes 209). On the other hand, conservatives frequently label environmentalists as extremists who despise almost all of capitalism's practices regarding ecology. That is, some extremist defenders of the profit motive name call, terming environmentalists "vanda ....