Naomi Klein's Capitalism Vs. The Climate

The article “Capitalism vs. the Climate” was written by Naomi Klein about climate change and its solutions in relation to the economy as well as the political reactions to such solutions. Her article mainly revolves around the premise that climate change deniers are right about one thing, that in order to fix climate change, drastic changes in the modern economic models are needed. To this end, she makes a good, albeit flawed argument, as although she does provide a plethora of sources for her arguments at times, at others she stops short of providing much evidence for her claims, all the meanwhile going from a neutral tone of language to at times quite obviously biased uses of it.
She starts off the article from the perspective of a fish who’s just swam to unfriendly waters …show more content…
Her language is anything but subtle in describing how she views those gathered there that day as well as where she stands on the topic at hand. This kind of biased language is immediately apparent to any readers as she was, as will be seen later, not shy about her position and stance on the topic. An example of this biased language can be found quickly in just the first sentence of her second paragraph where she describes the conference she’s at as the “premiere” gathering for climate change deniers who deny the overwhelming evidence of the scientific community on the topic. As a sentence in terms of language, it starts off fine and neutral but as it progresses on, it becomes apparent that she wants to emphasize the fact that the vast majority of experts on the topic agree that anthropological climate change is a real deal, as