Al Gore State Of The Planet Summary

The poetry packet handed out has a different way of affecting a persons system then lets say Al Gore’s speech about the environment he gave to the Environmental students at Yale. The poems have a way of pulling your heartstrings with Pathos. Al Gore’s speech was more a mix of Logos sharing with us statistics and facts, Ethos giving us facts about himself and making us like him, building credibility and trust. Al Gore gave us real facts and statistics we could latch onto, the poetry didn’t, but it seeped in without having to explain facts. In Robert Hass’s “State of the Planet” I like the phrase, ”it may explain that this was something we’ve done quite accidentally, which she can understand, not having meant that morning to have spilled the milk” (Hass 49). It was really the only phrase I thought the common person could understand. I think the audience on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory would understand

It made me feel like we have come so far from our original roots as people that lived off and with the land. I understand that most humans do not know how to cut a fawn out of a deer, I surely don’t. I just wish we did. I wish that every human would think of every other human and animal as their sister or brother or child. I believe if we found a woman dead on the side of the road pregnant we would rush her to the hospital and try to save the baby. It did make me think though; it made me wonder even if the unborn baby deer could be saved would it even have a good quality of life? Was this, “survival of the fittest” and if so, all plants and animals are doomed. Humans may not be the fittest to live on and with the land, but unfortunately we are more capable of living and destroying everything living and growing on it. I thought maybe this poem could be about over population or our disassociation with the world around us, or