1) It's clear that this is a topic that matters to Katherine Spriggs. Has she convinced you that this matters- and if so, how? How does Spriggs establish the importance of her topic?
I think that her topic is important. At first I wasn't aware of how much we can do to change decrease global warming and one of those are by buying local.
2) What counterarguments or positions other than her own does Spriggs consider- and how does she respond in each case? She says that the third world my be affected by this and replies by saying "exploiting manual labor in the third world would only be temporary solution because we will be industrializing.
3) Choose a section of Spriggs' essay that you find especially effective or ineffective. Referring to the genre features discussed on p.66, describe what makes this part of her argument persuasive- or not.
One part that she used to persuade me was "the United States is especially guilty of contributing to the problem, producing about a quarter of all global green house gas emissions, ans playing a large part in pollution and shrinking world oil supplies as well."
4) Spriggs include several photos in her essay. How do they contribute to her argument?
She has photos of farming, crops and truck transportation which are some of the things she talks about in her essay.She says trucking is expensive financially and farming is eco friendly. Sort of like saying this vs. that. Trucking vs. farming.
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