The earth is experiencing ecological and environmental issues caused by global warming. The earth is changing drastically and it is up to the American people to get up and do something about it. Why Bother? written by Michael Pollan opens the reader's eyes in a compelling way to global warming and other related environmental issues. Pollan uses rhetorical strategies such as the use of current and past events, pathos, and ethos to persuade his readers “to bother” (312) and start thinking more about the environmental issues that involves everyone. Pollan tries to persuade his reader by looking at these global issues from many different standpoints.…
According to Michael Pollan in his article “Why Bother?,” (2008), he declares that we as human beings needs action in order to alleviate climate change crisis we are facing today. Pollan says that no one is concerned about the simple ways to reduce carbon footprints on earth, for instance, planting a garden, biking to work and using a hybrid vehicles which will inevitably help to lessen the climate change. Scientists’ prediction about severe climate change has been rising rapidly in the Artic by changing white ice to blue water, giving off more carbon into the air. Everyone is responsible for maintaining the level of carbon footprints on this planet; however, environmental crisis seems to be the less significant subject to numerous individuals.…
Imagine our beloved nation, that we fought tirelessly to defend from the tyrant king of England. Just to be split like an axe dividing a piece of wood. The conflict between the larger and southern states will grow into much more than just a debate. The Virginia plan and the New Jersey plan will not work and be productive. The Great Compromise will let the nation thrive because it critiques both plans and let’s the north and south work together. Let me explain why James Madison’s plan will not work.…
I was born and raised in Aspen, Colorado so this book was a very interesting read for me. It was a definite page-turner and I could easily bust out 100 pages without having to look at the clock. I recognized all of the local spots around town he mentioned and made the message hit harder than it would have if I hadn’t known Aspen so well. It is amazing to think about how serious this climate change problem and how quickly it could reach critical mass. To think of the ski mountains I was raised on being obsolete by the time I reach my dad’s age is unbelievable. What really hit me is that Auden believes being “eco-friendly” on the individual level will barely do anything at all to combat this problem. We need to look at the bigger picture to start fighting this climate change battle.…
In the documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth,” Al Gore offers a rallying cry to his audience in an attempt to gather support to help fight the Earth’s climate crisis. In order to do this, he presents his audience with a variety of facts on the issue of global warming and provides stories on his background experiences as an environmentalist. He details his experiences studying global warming, his involvement with environmental Senate hearings that led nowhere, and he lays out solid facts about the Earth’s atmospheric issues to ascertain his credibility as an environmentalist. For example, he references the failure of the Kyoto Treaty to appeal to Congress and how it may have helped significantly reduce carbon emissions…
Former vice-president Albert Gore, the world’s leading environmental reform advocate, is prime example of one incapable of change. The author of An Inconvenient Truth urges civilians to think about the environment, warning that the human race is on the brink of an inevitable environmental disaster. With his beliefs, Gore should also follow a green lifestyle. Gore is simply a hypocrite, however, as his own practices are nothing like his beliefs. Residing in a twenty room mansion, Gore and his family consume twice the annual energy usage of a typical household in the United States. He…
Michael Pollan's article Why Bother, has risen the awareness of the controversial issues of Global Warming. He starts his article off by bringing in the shocking feeling he got after watching Al Gores, "An Inconvenient Truth" His biggest issue with the document was when Gore asks the viewers to change their lightbulbs during the closing credits. After watching how threatening Global Warming is to the earth, he was expecting a bigger request from Gore considering how important the issue is. Knowing that it would be such a struggle for people to change their lives to go green, he asks himself "why bother", meaning why change his life to a extreme extent to go green when the majority of people aren't going to. Would his decision going green even…
McKibben explains global warming as the “single greatest challenge human civilization has ever faced” (McKibben 2007). Global warming has caused dangerous…
He argues that every common man should do their part to slow the advancement of climate change. Pollan's cites “crisis of lifestyle” and “specialization” as two reasons no real effort has been made by a majority to stop global warming. He writes about how one man changing his ways and shrinking his…
By reading the front and back cover of the book, it could be concluded that No Impact Man would be a fairly boring and drug out book. To most, including myself, a novel about a random, guilty liberal who decided he should stop making an impact on the environment while dragging his family down into this endeavor sounds very unappealing. Despite this, I did have high hopes that it would turn out to be a good novel; the environment is indeed in danger and is in need of help, the project sounded unique and original, and the idea of such a project raises questions of just how it would be done properly. I had high hopes for the book, but expected very little of it.…
But when I got there, no one could talk about anything but climate and energy. So I started taking classes and the more I learned, the more I thought to myself, “This is the biggest problem we have—bigger than global poverty. Why am I not working on it?” From there, the question was, how do I get myself into a position to work on the problem?” (Brainard 2012)…
Many people questioned Al Gore’s motives for making the documentary An Inconvenient Truth. They wondered whether he created it because he truly cared about the effects global warming would have on the earth or if he just wanted to make himself seem like a better presidential candidate than his opponents. Throughout the documentary Gore presented many facts and statistics that supported his concern, which created the logos for his argument. He also treated the documentary as more of a lecture or presentation for his audience which gave him the credibility that he needed to create the ethos throughout the film. Finally, he used his own personal experiences to appeal to the audience’s feelings and emotions, creating the pathos. In An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore wants to reach a large audience, particularly nonscientists, to stress the urgency in responding to global warming.…
Last winter, it was so warm. It was the time when I could feel that global warming is coming to the world. My friends and other people had a big curiosity that winter was not so cold as usual temperature because the rivers in Korea were not freezing well last year and there were lack of days when we could see the snowy weather. I started to feel that the earth is getting warmer and warmer and have a concern about our earth’s problem as a student who is majoring sustainability studies. With this existing condition, much news about global warming came out let people know about why the earth is getting warm and how to prevent this situation. However, both scholars and people have a different view of whether global warming is still exist or not.…
Can you become a happier person by becoming an environmental person? What better way to show the Americans than a normal American becoming an environmental person will make you more happy, healthier and saving the environment. His quest was to show the world that you can make a difference as an individual, and you don’t have to own a big company or have a lot of money to save the environment. He didn’t take…
Scientists know more than ever before about how the Earth’s climate is changing and what that will mean for people, habitats and wildlife across the planet (National Geographic, 2012). Glaciers are melting, sea levels are rising, cloud forests are drying, and wildlife is scrambling to keep pace (National Geographic, 2012). This climate change is affecting our health as well as our economy. Lately, the earth has been showing many signs of climate change. It is not cooling down at all causing the presence of global warming. Global warming can be defined as “an increase in the earth 's atmospheric and oceanic temperatures widely predicted to occur due to an increase in the greenhouse effect resulting especially from pollution” (Merriam-Webster, 2012). This paper will explain why human activity is a substantial cause of global warming and discuss what can be done by the human race to stop global warming.…