In the Choices for a Sustainable World section of your textbook Writing Arguments, readVandana Shiva’s The Soil vs. the Sensex and Nicholas Kristof’s Our Gas Guzzlers, Their Lives. Both essays address issues of sustainability and ethical stewardship of natural resources.

• Explain how these issues apply to some aspect of your life.  Do they have implications for your community?
• Choose one essay and locate the author’s claim or thesis statement.  What reasons are offered to support that claim?
• Address the overall persuasiveness of the argument. How does the author appeal to reason, ethics, and emotion?