Abbey: Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks

Abbey's audience is the reader, whoever that may be, anyone who can make a difference. He is outraged and upset at the way things have turned out in the wilderness, and doesn't think that things like Park Service and acts to fix things are really effective enough, nor are they set out to be. Abbey writes to persuade others to take action and fix the problems that our culture and race has done to nature and wildlife. He worries about the way things will be in the future and urges us to fix things while we can, while backing up his points with examples about how things have changed and how what is being done now isn't helping. He has very detailed descriptions which he uses to try to get a rise out of the reader and make them think about what is going on. He wants to call everyone to action for this cause and that is evident in all the choices he has made in this writing.