Question

Read the following excerpt from E. O. Wilson’s “The Environmental Ethic.” It is also easy to overlook the services that ecosystems provide humanity. They enrich the soil and create the very air we breathe. Without these amenities, the remaining tenure of the human race would be nasty and brief. The life-sustaining matrix is built of green plants with legions of microorganisms and mostly small, obscure animals—in other words, weeds and bugs. Such organisms support the world with efficiency because they are so diverse, allowing them to divide labor and swarm over every square meter of the earth’s surface. They run the world precisely as we would wish it to be run, because humanity evolved within living communities and our bodily functions are finely adjusted to the idiosyncratic environment already created. The author tries to persuade the reader to agree with his claim about the importance of ecosystems by
providing facts.
presenting statistics.
restating his claim.
using deductive reasoning.

Answer 1

The author tries to persuade the reader to agree with his claim about the importance of ecosystems by providing facts.
He states why ecosystems are important by saying what they do for us and the world that surrounds us. He is also describing the world of small, obscure animals such as weeds and bugs and showing us what the human world could look like if we were more united.

Answer 2

The author tries to persuade the reader to agree with his claim about the importance of ecosystems by providing facts.  

We can see a lot of facts examples through the reading, nature realities that science has proved many times for several years, so the author is trying to convince the reader by the use of undeniable truths.

The other techniques are incorrect because statistics are based in numbers coming out from research, and the author is not using that approach, he isn't either restating his claim since he never presents it in a different way to be more compelling, and he is not trying to make people get to a logical conclusion or result which is the objective of deductive reasoning.