Satire In Linnea Saukko's How To Poison The Earth

Linnea Saukko wrote the piece “How to Poison the Earth”. The piece is a satire. A satire is the use of humorous, ironic, and exaggerative speech or writing to bring light to politics and other topical issues. Plenty of the nightly shows have adapted to this format. This format allows a speaker/writer to create a persona that mirrors them. This mirror persona is so amplified that the audience comes to the realization “on their own” that they hate this persona. The readers will take this and hate the speaker/writer’s allies. Saukko’s satire contains strong traces of sarcasm, facts, and a form of emotional appeal to create her argument.
Saukko’s persona could be described as Saukko with an extremely sarcastic attitude. On that note, the entire paper is a sarcastic statement. Sarcasm is conveying a concept through mocking and/or irony. Saukko uses both of these methods in her paper. In the paper, Saukko is purposely fake while mimicking or mocking those who actually support the issues discussed in her paper. In the first paragraph, Saukko says “we should generate as much waste as possible”. She does not actually believe that and is mimicking big business as a whole and exaggerating their stance on pollution.
Saukko is also ironic at some points. A great
She mentions “Surface water… will transport the poisons to places that cannot be contaminated directly”. This fact is important because it explains why the prevention of pollution to groundwater is so important. A similar fact on air pollution is “the wind will disperse the toxins while rain washes them from the air”. This amplifies the importance of preventing air pollution because the rain washes the air onto the land into our water. The air pollution comes from combustion and evaporation. Combustion comes too close to our hearts because combustion is why we have cars, energy, heat in our homes, and so many other