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Good Counter Argumentative Essay

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One of the main points that our team made was that humans caused the extinction of many of the giant animals in North America. The opposing team brought up a good point that there wasn’t enough evidence to support this claim and that climate change is the most likely circumstance because there is more evidence to support that claim. However, our team brought up a good point that humans at the time did not know how harmful over-hunting could be or the negative effects of extinction. Additionally, humans not only hunted Mammoths for their nutritional value, they were hunted for the ivory too. Often times humans did not use up all of the Mammoth and a lot of it would go to waste. Another good counter argument that the other team brought up was how biased …show more content…

Another good counter argument that the opposing team made was that the Martu have always practiced controlled burning which have prevented lighting fires from growing thickly. Additionally, the controlled burns have allowed for more diverse species of plants to grow in its place. Our counter-argument to that was weak because it was not fact based, it was just a speculation - we stated that their controlled burnings is rooted in their need to survive, not to care for the environment. A better counter-argument to the opposing team would’ve been to state that the Martu do not just burn for food, they also burn to display their ownership of their countries - those burns are not for the environment. In Paper 2 I will mostly argue that hunter-gatherers are better at caring for the environment because it’s something that I personally believe. I will most likely argue that most hunter-gatherers are better at caring for the environment but I do not believe that the ice-age hunters

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