QUESTION TEXT: Alex: Shrimp farming results in damage to…
QUESTION TYPE: Point At Issue
ARGUMENTS: Alex says shrimp farmers damage the environment by making quick profits and abandoning farms.
Jolene says most owners try to keep their shrimp farms productive for many years, especially since properly built farms are expensive.
ANALYSIS: Jolene and Alex disagree on how long shrimp farm owners want to keep farming. Jolene thinks farmers need time to profit from shrimp farming.
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- Not quite. Jolene might agree that shrimp farmers eventually abandon farms. She just disagrees they do so quickly.
- CORRECT. Jolene says properly built farms take a long time to build, and that most owners want to keep their farms running for a long time. She disagrees that shrimp farming produces a quick, easy profit.
- Jolene might not go this far. Most economic activities damage the environment to some extent.
- Jolene doesn’t dispute this. She just says that farmers don’t abandon farms all that quickly.
- Jolene agrees that some farms do fail quickly. She might believe those owners were irresponsible in the way they abandoned their farms. But she thinks shrimp farmers in general are responsible.
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