I discovered from a Google search that George Monbiot is a British writer who has written multiple best selling books. He also has taught at many universities and has traveled to such places as India and Brazil. He won the United Nations Global 500 award in 1995 for outstanding environmental achievement.
In Monbiot's piece, "Heat", I think he speaks to people's emotions by describing how people in wealthier nations have lesiure time, time to travel and many comforts that others do not have. He makes the point that fossil fuels, like carbon, are critical to allowing humans to live this type of lifestyle. Carbon dioxide gas is a major cause in global warming, therefore he plays on the emotion of blame. The reader feels guilty because he points out what a great part people play in the destruction of our planet.
Monbiot uses logic by giving the reader startling statistics about the state of global warming, such as how U.S. citizens cause twice the amount of carbon gases to be emitted that citizens in the U.K. These statistics give him credibility because it shows that he has proven data and that he has done research on the topic before writing this essay.
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You explain well how humans play such an enormous roll in the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. This appealed to my emotions also.
ReplyDeleteWhen reading the assigned parts of Heat, I felt the emotion you described when Monbiot called out wealthier nations. I felt that it was just easy for him to point the finger at countries like the U.S. but he recovers nicely by stating his credibility. This makes me believe that he probably does have the right to point his finger and that he is not just some ignorant author complaining about everything. Nice job.
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