Reread lines 55-78. Summarize why certain actions are "cons," according to Hohn.

Lines 71-78 ( because I can’t put another picture)

But the author wonders if such solutions, nibbling around the edge, are enough: “I’d like to share Moore’s faith in the arc of progress… but I had a hard time imagining the bright future he saw, in which we Americans would trade conspicuous consumption for cradle to cradle manufacturing practices, disposable plastics for zero ways policies and close ecological loops. I had a hard time because such a feature seemed to me inimical to the American gospel of perpetual economic growth.”

Follow the directions (and example) given to create your own sonnet. william shakespeare's sonnet 130 my mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun, coral is far more red, than her lips red, if snow be white, why then her breasts are dun: if hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head: i have seen roses damasked, red and white, but no such roses see i in her cheeks, and in some perfumes is there more delight, than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. i love to hear her speak, yet well i know, that music hath a far more pleasing sound: i grant i never saw a goddess go, my mistress when she walks treads on the ground. and yet by heaven i think my love as rare, as any she belied with false compare. instructions: write fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. use a sonnet rhyme scheme. use the first eight lines to set up your idea (the octave). use the last six lines to conclude your idea (sestet). (variety may be added by including a substitute foot from time to time such as the two anapests in line 3 above.) work in small groups giving each other feedback. reading the sonnet aloud allows you to hear the words and rhythms of the lines. generate questions that will clarify the use of words and forms. for example: was the idea of the sonnet presented in the first eight lines? how was sound used to enhance the meaning of the sonnet?