Bill Mckibben's Analysis

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Global warming is one of the most serious challenges facing us today. To protect the health and economic well-being of current and future generations, we must reduce our emissions of heat-trapping gases by using the technology, know-how, and practical solutions already at our disposal.The author Bill McKibben begins the paragraph with a pitch attitude of concern, because people have not taken seriously as global warming. McKibben says that people are mainly concerned with violence on TV or other things but do not worry about global warming. Sometimes we wonder why both climate change and the response has always been in our faces. As humans we do not realize that we are killing nature. McKibben thinks it likely that people are confused between time and…show more content…
2): We are unaware of how our fast-paced lives can affect the Earth, which we see as “an essentially stable background” (para. 2); and we think we are too small to impact the Earth, even though each of us is able “to produce our own cloud of carbon dioxide” (para. 2). After contemplating our misreading of the situation, McKibben tells the scientific story of global warming and explains how the term global warming can be misleading. Despite the scientific consensus around the world on global warming, little has happened in the way of change, particularly in the United States. Even though the technology exists to make necessary changes, “the United States has made it utterly clear that nothing will change soon” (para. 5). According to McKibben, the problem is not just a political failure. There has been no public outcry, “no movement loud or sustained enough to command political attention” (para. 6) and systemic change. That silence he attributes to greed and to “a failure of imagination” (para 7), the inability of writers and artists and filmmakers to move the public to fear, anger, or even shame, and so
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