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"Canada Wants to Ban Single-Use Plastics"

by Vicky Stein

If the alternative to a piece of plastic cutlery is a piece of biodegradable plastic that costs more fossil fuels to produce and is equally difficult to dispose of, not to mention costs more for the business selling it, it doesn’t solve any of the problems we associate with petroleum-based plastics.

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Use the article excerpt to answer the question.

What kind of reasoning is used in this paragraph?

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Responses

false dichotomy
false dichotomy

appeal to emotion
appeal to emotion

appeal to authority
appeal to authority

ad hominem

Answer 1

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false dichotomy