A propos to the below - a question. Is any remotely technical term
rhetorically neutral?
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> >At 12:10 PM 4/4/00 -0500, Jim wrote:
> >>Hi Chris, John,
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> >>". . . I am dubious about the utility of 'ecosystem health' as
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> >>term. This expression may have something to recommend it as part of a
> >>rhetorical strategy, but even here I am suspicious.
> Environmentalists have
> >>all too often been trapped by their own rhetoric, and the movement as a
> >>whole has suffered from its use of misleading metaphors (e.g.
> 'greenhouse
> >>effect,'
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> >What is misleading about the term 'greenhouse effect'?
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> this is getting out of my area, but here's an article on the web
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> http://www.usatoday.com/weather/wnatgrn.htm
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> I'm guessing Jamieson had something like this in mind . . . .
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> Jim T.
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> >Chris
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> >Chris Hope, Judge Institute of Management Studies,
> >University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK.
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