Climate Change Bill Mckibben Summary

Climate Change: Fault in Humanity Bill Mckibben’s essay makes several claims relating to the ongoing climate changes happening. Mckibben emphasizes that society is not doing enough to help stunt the negative change in climate. He targets the educated social class who have an ability to make a change and those who call out others for hypocrisy. Mckibben assembles several claims that hold truth in them using anecdotal and common sense evidences, but lacks to use sufficient numbers, statistics, and documented evidences. In addition, he doesn’t use any expert’s opinion to propel a stronger argument. Mckibben uses anecdotal evidence to emphasize that things can be done by everyone to have less of a detrimental effect on the climate. By making …show more content…
Mckibben acknowledges that once you’ve done everything in your own personal life for the cause, that one has to go beyond that to, “work all-out to change the system” (Mckibben 670). He is right that once people have adapted the lifestyle of helping the climate, that the people should encourage others to help the climate. To raise awareness to hundreds or even thousands of people, would mean a lot more than just doing what one can on an individual basis. Mckibben states that only a fraction of the population would need to step up to raise this awareness, “But if 10 percent of people, once they’ve changed the light bulbs, work all-out to change the system? That’s enough. That’s more than enough “(Mckibben 670). Hypothetically, if ten percent of the world population of seven billion, seven hundred million, stepped up for the betterment of the climate change and attempted to raise awareness to one hundred people each, then there would be a potential outreach of up to seventy billion people. With this amount of exposure, there would be definite changes in the fossil fuel industry and in governments around the