Craig Waddell’s Perils of a Modern Cassandra and the Ehrlichs’ The Population Bomb :: Perils of a Modern Cassandra Population Bomb

Rhetorical Strategy in Craig Waddells Perils of a Modern Cassandra and the Ehrlichs The Population pelt In Perils of a Modern Cassandra, Craig Waddell suggests that the Ehrlichs should revisal their palaveral strategy in The Population Bomb because it is ineffective in attracting readers to their argument. Particularly occupationatic are the Ehrlichs alienating attitude towards non-educated non-environmentalists in his audience, a lack of both an inviting ethos, and a lack of compassion for the reader. Since the goal of a book is usually to inform or persuade readers, the Ehrlichs book does non serve its purpose and is therefore ineffective. The same ineffective argument problem can be seen in Betrayal of Science and Reason, since many of the Ehrlichs bring out ideas on environmental problems (along with their contestable use of rhetoric) in The Population Bomb are mirrored in Betrayal of Science and Reason.The following passages were taken from Betrayal of Science and Reas on to demonstrate what Waddell sees as problems in the Ehrlichs rhetoricPaul began to appear on radio and television to condemn the doings of human beings in general. The possible public response worried him less(prenominal) than his colleagues reactions because, as is the case for most scientists, Pauls ego rewards lessen mostly from the approval of his peers (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 8).This passage supports Waddells claim by video display that one of the Ehrlichs is lacking in compassion toward humankind. When denotation this passage, the reader gets a sense of ethos that revolves mostly around Paul Ehrlichs ego, and consequently, the reader feels that the total environmentalist argument of the book was written to satisfy his ego. This is because Paul Ehrlich like the approval of his educated, environmentalist peers, and therefore, he really did not need to pity about others in his audience.Anti-science as promoted by the brownlash is not a droll phenomenon in our society the largely successful efforts of creationists to keep Americans ignorant of growth is another example, which is perhaps not entirely unrelated (Ehrlich and Ehrlich 12).This is a dear example of how the Ehrlichs inadvertently alienate large sections of their actual, not invoked, audience. The Ehrlichs may work invoked an audience full of educated, environmentalist readers, but this is not the audience who is reading Betrayal of Science and Reason. There are also creationists who might authorize to harbor some environmentalist sentiment and who might want to care a stronger environmentalist view given that the Ehrlichs argument is persuasive enough.