Polemic: Industrial Tourism and The National Parks by Edward Abbey

This short story is an excerpt from Desert Solitaire, written in 1968 by Edward Abbey. It is written in a "call to arms" kind of style because it mainly focuses on why industrial tourism is ruining our parks and why we need to stop it. His main audience are those who agree with him. The chapter is structured in a way that is able to persuade someone to take action. It opens with a story of how he is visited by the government and told about a road they are building through the national park, but before we hear what happens, he goes on to talk about why we need nature and why it isn't necessary to have highways or automobiles running through the parks. At the end, he give us some good ideas as to what we can do to save nature without letting automobiles in, which set up debate for those who both agree and disagree with him.