The Secret Cornor

"Arctic deer live on islands in Canada's arctic region. They search for food by moving over ice from island to island during the course of a year. Their habitat is limited to areas warm enough to sustain the plants on which they feed, and cold enough, at least some of the year, for the ice to cover the sea separating the islands, allowing the deer to travel over it. Unfortunately, according to reports from local hunters, the deer populations are declining. Since these reports coincide with recent global warming trends that have caused the sea ice to melt, we can conclude that the decline in arctic deer populations is the results of deer being unable to follow their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea."

The editorial in a wildlife journal state one of the reasons which cause the decreasing population of arctic deer, ignoring any other factors may contribute to the same consequence. Arriving at the conclusion that the recent global warming keeps deer from crossing the frozen sea to search for food results in the declining in arctic deer population is not persuasive based on the information given in this argument.

The main flaw in this argument is that the author unwarrantedly relies on questionable assumptions from local hunter reports rather than authentic sources. In fact, the local reports may statistically unreliable to provide a solid evidence that the deer population is indeed diminishing in quantity during the course of a year. Notably, the local hunters in this editorial may not be necessarily representative of the whole population of local hunters. Besides, how the report being presented? Orally or state numerically. Lack of some cogent statistical reports might overlook some critical factors when investigating a case. These reveal some weaknesses of the report from local hunters. Another important point worth to know, perhaps the population of arctic deer decrease simply because they become more keen aware of captors and hunters in arctic region.

Additionally, the author leaps too quickly to the conclusion, indicating that the arctic deer decline in number attribute to the global warming trends preventing their age-old migration patterns across the frozen sea. Even though climate change would be one of the possible factors, it is not the only reason to affect the deer populations. This argument overlooked several possible determinants which may have influence on the declining population in arctic deer. For example, more and more captors hunt deer in arctic region makes the population of arctic deer dramatically fall in years. Their natural habitant was destroyed by human natures. Moreover, not only the increasingly high temperature could melt the ice, resulting in the separation of the island so that the deer could not travel over it to forage for food but some other activities. For instance, industrial boilers during the industrial procedure may cause the temperature grow higher and higher and melt the ice. Thus, the author should better support the conclusion by giving some other convincing causes to strengthen the argument.

Conclusively, the argument relies on a number of dubious assumptions. No convincing assumptions were provided to support the reports by local hunters. In addition, many other factors lead to the decline in arctic deer population was obviously overlooked. Therefore, the conclusion provided by the author is quite untenable and not acceptable in several respects.

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Emily