Question

Read the excerpt from E.O. Wilson’s “The Environmental Ethic.”

Answer 1

D.Wilson refers to empirical statistics to relate the importance of his message

Answer 2

The correct answer is B) Wilson uses metaphors that appeal to a wide range of the reader’s senses.

The techniques that Wilson uses in this excerpt to convey important information to his readers is that Wilson uses metaphors that appeal to a wide range of the reader’s senses.

That is why the author writes: "Still undeveloped medicines, crops, pharmaceuticals, timber, fibers, pulp, soil-restoring vegetation, petroleum substitutes, and other products and amenities will never come to light. It is fashionable in some quarters to wave aside the small and obscure, the bugs and weeds, forgetting that an obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pastureland from overgrowth by cactus..."

E.O. Wilson is a Professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is an expert in animal behavior, evolutionary psychology, environmental ethics, and biodiversity. Two of his books had won Pulitzer prizes: "On Human Nature," (1978) and "The Ants" (1990).