Why people need to be frightened

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Note the use of recent events to open with a BANG! The recent infamous ones are the arctic vortext in Chicago, casuing temp to plunge to -48 degrees celsius, while the opposite occurred in Australia where the mercury spiked to 49 degree celsius! Note also the use of rhetorical qn in the closing BANG!

note the idea of how fear is necessary to jolt us from complacency and denial into action...recall the lesson from the parable of the boiled frog -- being cold-blooded, it didnt even realise the water's temperature (which it is being immersed in to cook it) is rising rapidly until it is too late!

Note the limitations of the individual in saving Mother Nature, but how collectively, individuals can make a difference (potential rebuttal pair):

but the effects of individual lifestyle choices are ultimately trivial compared with what politics can achieve....Buying an electric car is a drop in the bucket compared with raising fuel-efficiency standards sharply. Conscientiously flying less is a lot easier if there's more high-speed rail around. And if I eat fewer hamburgers a year, so what? But if cattle farmers were required to feed their cattle seaweed, which might reduce methane emissions by nearly 60 per cent according to one study, that would make an enormous difference.....That is what is meant when politics is called a "moral multiplier". That is the purpose of politics: That we can be and do better together than we might manage as individuals.

Qns:
1. Consider the value of fear.
2. What we need to do is to get the common man on board, otherwise the environment is doomed. Do you agree? (TPJC Prelim 2011)