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本帖最后由 家家☆yoonjae 于 2009-7-28 18:44 编辑
7.The following appeared in a letter to the editor of the Clearview newspaper.
"In the next mayoral election, residents of Clearview should vote for Ann Green, who is a member of the Good Earth Coalition, rather than for Frank Braun, a member of the Clearview town council, because the current members are not protecting our environment. For example, during the past year the number of factories in Clearview has doubled, air pollution levels have increased, and the local hospital has treated 25 percent more patients with respiratory illnesses. If we elect Ann Green, the environmental problems in Clearview will certainly be solved."
Grounding on Ann Green's specific position title and the enviornmental status quo in Clearview, the author argues that residents should vote for her in the next mayoral election. Although his argument seems reasonable and compelling at first glance, there is still more work needs to be done for the reasoning after profoundly consideration.
On the first step, the author false assumes that Ann Green owns strong capability of handling enviornmental problems and can definitely protects the city's surrounding better. Admittedly, Ann Green, who is a member of the Good Earth Coalition, has more opportunities to osculate environmental problems and may have upper eco-awareness; however, attending such an organization cannot support consumingly her competence of solving difficulties of this kind. It is entirely possible that Ann participates a certain amount of environmental protection events, while, she always take part in the role of assistant or some restricted trifles those mean little to effective green work. The author doesn't offer any cogent evidences to support Ann Green's outstanding headships or illustrious efforts in the environmental area. Moreover, even though the Clearview town council pays lacking attention on the environmental matters, we cannot deduce Frank Braun lacks of capability to handle green target. It is irrational for the author to judge these two candidates' environmental quality simply based on separate organizatons.
In the next place, the author concludes the deterioration of environmental conditions quite hastily. Although during the past year the total amount of factories in Clearview has doubled, we can deduce in reason that if there is an attractive investment policy which newly published by the government then more investors choose Clearview as their factory addresses. The air pollution levels, which the author argues have increased, needs more investigating works; as the author mentions in his arguments, more factories are constructed in this area, if the level compares the increment speed is lower, (which means the number of factories doubled but the air pollution level didn't increase to that extent) we can even say that the control means of air pollution becomes more advanced. As well as the 25 percent more patients with respiratory illnesses, air pollution is not the unique underlying reason which may cause respiratory illnesses, smoking is also threatening people's respiratory health seriously. In short, the author shows several status quos, while he fails to show the connection between such status and the specific surrounding issues.
Last but not the least, even if Ann Green was an excellent environment protector, it is still leading insufficient credit to expect her better performance rather than Frank Braun. The author seems deliberately ignoring the other candidate's information which makes his conclusion quite biased. Furthermore, being an environmentalist is not the sufficient condition of a splendid mayor. For the sake of electing a better mayor, the residents need to consider circumspectly and integrate several different factors.
In sum, the author fails to consider the extra factors of the correct mayoral election exclude environmental problem, meanwhile, he doesn't show the convincing evidences to sustain Ann Green's obvious advantages. He undoubtedly needs to collect more information to support his argues, otherwise, his claims lead less cogent. |
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