Now Or Never Bill Mckibben Analysis
English 117
14 November 2013
Inside Bill Mckibben’s Persona
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that global warming is slowly but surely leading the human race to an imminent and inevitable extermination. Over the past two decades or so, scientists have been working arduously in search of answers of climatic change and other nature-based phenomenon instead of finding a way to prevent it. Bill Mckibben, an American environmentalist, educated scholar and author of newspaper article “Now or Never”, has worked extensively on the impact and kindled people’s interest in global warming. Mckibben discusses how burning carbon based fossil fuels would lead a gargantuan amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. More importantly, the molecular …show more content…
In this citing, he makes an imperative remark that we cannot keep procrastinating because if we do not take action, there will be nothing left to sustain human life due to intense, dramatic temperatures. He wishes for effective sources of clean, renewable energy that will not pollute Earth. Solar panels, windmills and hydropower are promising but it is still the minority in energy outcome. Mckibben uses allusion to also express deep concern. It is referred as “The public policy from Hell” (p.590) Hell stated as a reference and congruent to global warming.
Another personality trait is eccentric and funny in an unconventional way. For example, he expresses his personal loathing of SUV’s characterizing it as a mere symbol of contribution because it is entirely unnecessary. The sarcastic tone in the next example compensates and makes is amusing. The narrative deals with a very serious situation but in a comical manner.
“Go to the parking lot of the nearest suburban supermarket and look around: the only conclusion you can draw is that to reach the grocery, people must drive through three or four raging rivers and up the side of a trackless canyon.”
14 November 2013
Inside Bill Mckibben’s Persona
It is becoming increasingly difficult to ignore the fact that global warming is slowly but surely leading the human race to an imminent and inevitable extermination. Over the past two decades or so, scientists have been working arduously in search of answers of climatic change and other nature-based phenomenon instead of finding a way to prevent it. Bill Mckibben, an American environmentalist, educated scholar and author of newspaper article “Now or Never”, has worked extensively on the impact and kindled people’s interest in global warming. Mckibben discusses how burning carbon based fossil fuels would lead a gargantuan amount of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere. More importantly, the molecular …show more content…
In this citing, he makes an imperative remark that we cannot keep procrastinating because if we do not take action, there will be nothing left to sustain human life due to intense, dramatic temperatures. He wishes for effective sources of clean, renewable energy that will not pollute Earth. Solar panels, windmills and hydropower are promising but it is still the minority in energy outcome. Mckibben uses allusion to also express deep concern. It is referred as “The public policy from Hell” (p.590) Hell stated as a reference and congruent to global warming.
Another personality trait is eccentric and funny in an unconventional way. For example, he expresses his personal loathing of SUV’s characterizing it as a mere symbol of contribution because it is entirely unnecessary. The sarcastic tone in the next example compensates and makes is amusing. The narrative deals with a very serious situation but in a comical manner.
“Go to the parking lot of the nearest suburban supermarket and look around: the only conclusion you can draw is that to reach the grocery, people must drive through three or four raging rivers and up the side of a trackless canyon.”