On a hot summer day, all anyone wants to do is crank up the AC and enjoy the cool air while sipping on a fresh lemonade. However, that is exactly what Eric Klinenberg states you should not do. In the TIME article, “ViewPoint: Air-Conditioning Will Be the End of Us,” Klinenberg argues that using Air-Conditioning constantly will be doing more harm than good to the environment. Klinenberg provides an ineffective argument in conveying his purpose logically by using fallacies. Throughout the article, Klinenberg lacks support in the ethos portion of his claim, and throughout the entire article Klinenberg fails to address and support his most compelling argument that using the AC at the rate that we do is harming the environment.
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In the instances where Klinenberg attempts to support his claims with logical evidence such as studies or statistics, he does not provide sources to support the truth of that information. For instance, Klinenberg states that the amount of energy used for air-conditioning is reaching a new high but he does not follow up on where this information is coming from. “Today Americans use twice as much energy for air-conditioning as we did 20 years ago, and more than the rest of the world’s nations combined” (p.1 Klinenberg). Another example of this is when Klinenberg states that modernized cities are a major contributor to the wide use of air-conditioning. “Part of the problem is that in recent decades, the fastest-growing U.S. cities-places like Las Vegas, Phoenix and Austin-have effectively been built on air-conditioning. (This is also true in the Middle East and Asia, and as a result, global energy consumption is soaring precisely when it needs to be lowered)” (p.5 Klinenberg). Similar to the previous example, Klinenberg fails to mention any external source which leads the audience to believe that it might be an opinion of Klinenberg rather than the