Ships in the Desert is an excerpt taken from Earth in the Balance,a book written by former US Vice President Al Gore who focuses on constant researching on the underlying causes of the environmental crisis for years.The author illustrates how serious the global environmental crisis was and the problems that human being was facing,which need human beings to adopt urgent and effective measures to solve.He is accurate in word selection and clear in structural arrangement. Ships in the Desert is an excerpt taken from Earth in the Balance, a book written by former US Vice President Al Gore who focuses on constant researching on the underlying causes of the environmental crisis for years. The author see how serious the global environmental crisis was and the problems that human being was facing, which need human beings to adopt urgent and effective measures to solve. He is accurate in word selection and clear in structural arrangement.