“Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil”

Nicholas D. Kristof’s editorial entitled “Casting a Cold Eye on Arctic Oil” provides a credible personification in itself. Written as a first hand account, the author clearly takes a stand regarding the debate about whether or not to drill in the Arctic Wildlife refuge. His main idea asserts that by excavating the land for drilling we would deprive our children of our national inheritance (Kristof A25). Also, the topic is identified as general and theoretical.
The first stage of his argument, conjecture, is that there is an argument to be considered. “The argument I find most compelling is that this primordial wilderness, a part of our national inheritance that is roughly the same as a thousand years ago, would be irretrievably lost if we drilled,” states Kristof (Kristof A25). He acknowledges that both the environmentalists and oil industry have differing opinions on how to use the land in the Arctic wilderness, of which he agrees with the preservation of the land.
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