Saturday, October 3, 2015

Cultural Analysis of: "Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story"

My article is: "Obama and Climate Change: The Real Story" by Bill Mckibben. The cultural keywords that I identified were: "Climate Change", "Fossil fuel industry", and "Obama Administration". Although these words also have scientific, economic, and political meanings, I think that they're important enough issues as to have cultural meaning and connotations also. I don't think that I need to explain Climate Change. What I will say is that, despite being strongly backed by science, many people still don't believe that it's happening or that it's human-caused. The Fossil Fuel industry is a hugely powerful industry because of all the money that's in it. It is integral to almost everything that we do right now, but also has interests that may conflict with the survival of our species. Obama is the focus of this article. The article was written at the end of 2013, so things have changed a little bit since then.
Mckibben's thesis is basically that Obama has been very unimpressive when it comes to action on critical environmental issues (especially climate change).
Lopez, Josh. ""demonstration" 8/20/2011 via Wikimedia commons. Creative Commons license

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