Identify any fallacies in the following passage either by naming them or, where they seem not to conform to any of the patterns described in the text, by giving a brief explanation of why the fallacious reasoning is irrelevant to the point at issue."The second group that has latched on to the environmentalist movement... wants to preserve the earth at all costs, even if it means that much of the Third World will be forever condemned to poverty. Rather than elevate the Third World, they want to move us closer to Third World conditions. That's somehow cleaner, purer. It's the way things were before Western white people came along and terrorized the earth by inventing things. They want to roll us back, maybe not to the Stone Age, but at least to the horse-and-buggy era."-Rush Limbaugh
What will be an ideal response?
Straw man/ad hominem (depending on what you focus on).
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A. report B. conditional statement C. argument D. explanation E. unsupported assertion
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a. Coatlicue b. Tlazolteotl c. Xochiquetzal d. Tlaloc
The debate over climate change focuses on consequentialist reasoning,
balancing.
Indicate whether the statement is true or false.