Problem
Read the following paragraph.
What is the writer trying to say, what does it mean? What are some challenges the writer posits?
What are some rhetorical devices used? How do these devices further the meaning of this reading?
"But fear is growing in us (like a gas after too rich a meal) that we have passed some threshold - that we may be rendering earth derelict, a disaster ending not just giant pandas but ourselves. A fear we're blocking earth's escape valves and bio-sinks. Many will dismiss the question - they say it's just a touch of indigestion, we'll be fine. Besides, they say, it isn't us - one good fart of forest-fire exhaust dwarfs all the output of our vehicles. Still, doubt's sour odour lingers in our nostrils like effluvia wafting from our garbage dunes. Our conurbations spread their plumes of carbon far beyond the city limits, and our roaring engineering mimics volcanic-level belches every day."