Its 2050 And This Is How We Stopped Climate Change

Heard on Morning Edition

            As we know it global warming is a serious on-going issue which only seems to be getting worse today, and this is greatly due to the effect of greenhouse gases, that us humans are creating. “Its 2050 and This is How We Stopped Climate Change” is an article that consists of several interviews conducted by NPR representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on people that are making a change to bring global warming to a halt. The author provides the audience with the ideas and changes of what could possibly be done, and the results of it in a very efficient manner. The authors presentation was thoroughly thought out, the structure of this article is well done as they separate each interview into sections, the word choice, the people chosen for their interviews, and the visuals provided.

The author is definitely is providing us with a valid argumentation of how we the people can stop climate change, without directly arguing. This article was evidently created for people interested in climate change, and those who would like to make the change, as that is what the title attracts. The interviews serve as an example as to how if one person can do it and have vision the people who are reading should follow or try to make the change as well.

This article provides us with three different interviews, meaning three different people, in different locations in the world making a change in 2019, and figuring out what the world would be like in 2050, if the change spreads. The structure of this article was creative, they separated the interviews into three sections, and within each section it was broken into sections, the first being a “reflection upon the present and the second imagining the world of 2050.” This makes it easier for the reader to follow along as it has subheadings, each describing a different change for example “The Urbanization of Everything”, “Mass Electrification”, and “Farmers Cut Down on Greenhouse Emissions”. These are all complex topics yet are described relatively easy thanks to the word choice of the author. By doing this the author is making this article more accessible to other people instead of narrowing to just a certain group.

One of the people chosen for an interview is a women name Sila Kiliccote, an engineer, who once worked at Stanford University, but decided to launch a start-up company named eIQ Mobility. Being that Stanford is a well-known University, this adds to the credibility of this article, also for the fact that this woman is an engineer. Kiliccote describes the idea of removing carbon from our air by the usage of, electricity that comes from mainly the sun and wind. One of the main sources that is familiar in the world to create electricity is solar panels, and the author provides us with this visual. The visuals show a vast number of solar panels filling up a plain field, in France. The addition of this visual attracts the reader, as we see what they are envisioning.

This article describes a topic that is very relevant today, that is affecting our everyday lives. The author effectively presents how we can be better as a whole, with these changes, that are drastic but are do-able, with their different techniques, of attracting an audience.                           https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/03/11/688876374/its-2050-and-this-is-how-we-stopped-climate-change