Climate Change Rhetorical Analysis

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Marshall talks about several different biases that have to do with climate change. He also talks about how people don’t really seem to care about what’s going on in the world around them and even if they do care people wont change things that are in their everyday life because it’s not convenient for them. Marshall uses the word “cherry-pick” as a way to describe how humans decide if they want to believe in climate change or if they don’t want to believe the evidence that supports it. He is saying that people will go either way. They will believe in climate change or they wont even though the evidence is given to them that would be described as availability bias. Marshall explained that people who believe in climate change will say that it

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