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AP English Language and Composition 10.7 Passage Drill. According to the author, the main problem with conservation is that is is what?

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and here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by

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conservationism. oddly conservatives aren't always wild about it. acts

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sometimes that we love you conservative we love you liberals we're just in the

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middle here but when we make a joke that's what we do would make a joke

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while we're skimming words skimming skimming. okay here we go .according to

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the author the main problem with conservation is that it is what. and here

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are the potential answers. well our author talks a lot of ethics and ecology [multiple choice options]

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but it's not all hippie graphs and gluten-free granola. he seems to have

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issues with the idea of conservation itself. check paragraph eight. in his

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words conservation is paved with good intentions which proved to be futile or

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even dangerous .well ahem. we all know where a road paved was good intentions

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leads. so what's his problem well he never says conservation doesn't work or that

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it's unethical. generally protecting the environment it's a good thing not an

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evil or ineffective thing. and if we read further down he says that the ethical

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frontier advances from the individual to the community. so clearly he's in support

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of majority consensus. he's got no plans to become a carrot munching eco dictator.

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oh he does write about the economics. but if anything he's against economics [thumbs up]

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driving land use. after all not every single square foot of land has to have a

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best buy on it .but he does say that the good intentions writing conservation are

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devoid of critical understanding. basically he thinks that

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conservationists are ill informed and over emotional. so C is correct. now

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conserve your energy because you've still got more questions to go. maybe

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grab a granola bar for a quick power up. what do you think. gluten-free? [woman frowns]

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