On the USA Today website, I found a snapshot concerning the acres of wetlands lost over a period of time. One of the interesting things about this is the fact that the snapshot doesn’t give any hard facts or actual points of data; rather, it just gives a single statistic that speaks volumes, and is capable of making several different claims.
For example, one claim could be from an environmentalist viewpoint, to save what little wetlands we have left. A message of preservation and warning, expressed in only a couple of words, yet speaks volumes.
A different viewpoint could be to show how fast the developers are destroying the wetlands to build housing editions and golf courses. It could be spun to put a positive light on the nice, new facilities that are being built at a fast rate, so they will be available to the public soon rather than later.
A final viewpoint could be a message of urgency: urging the public to act and save hundreds of endangered animals’ homes from being demolished and protest the developers destroying their habitat.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/snapshot.htm (I couldn’t get the picture to upload. It is the 20th snapshot under the news heading)
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I had a problem uploading too. It's cool how so much can be taken from just one photo/graph thing. I like how you interpreted it.
Captain Planet was a pimp show. I liked the water girl.
haha...capt planet! nice
the wetlands are definitely overlooked in many areas. ive heard about this, but i dont think much is being done. just by losing wetlands, we're losing a lot with them, and thats pretty sad that they're so overlooked
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