"Useless Creatures" by Richard Conniff But usefulness is precisely the argument other people put forward to justify destroying or displacing wildlife, and they generally bring a larger and more persuasive kind of green to the argument. Nothing you can say about 100 acres in the New Jersey Meadowlands will ever add up for a politician who thinks a new shopping mall will mean more jobs for local voters (and contributions to his campaign war chest). Nothing you can say about the value of rhinos for ecotourism in South Africa will ever matter to a wildlife trafficker who can sell their horns for $30,000 a pound in Vietnam. Use the passage to answer the question. What type of argument does the author use in this speech? (1 point) Responses logos logos pathos pathos syntax syntax ad hominem

Answer 1

The author uses a logos argument in this passage. The emphasis is on providing logical reasoning about the value of wildlife and environments versus the economic arguments made by politicians and traffickers.