In George Monbiot's "Heat": How to Stop the Planet from Burning mostly deals with the issue of climate change. Monbiot is a believer of global warming and thinks that we have no time to spare, that we must start doing something to stop it now. In "Heat", the main purpose is to explain that the biggest influemce on climate change is the emission of carbon. Monbiot beieves that all countries must decrease output by 90%. He focuses mostly on change in the United Kingdom, considering that's where he grew up. He believes that the citizens of the United Kingdom need to change their ways of living considerably in order for there to be any change in the climate.

Monbiot shows rhetoric in his pice of work by trying to convince the reader to help make a difference. He gives factual information to be more convincing. "Carbon dioxied levels have been rising over the past century faster than at any time over the past 20,000 years." Along with another quote that states, "Both gases let in heat from the sun more readily than they let it out. As their leves in the atmosphere increase, the temperature rises" could possibly make the reader start the think about how bad things actaully might be. That quite possibly all the carbon dioxide being emitted into the earths atmopshere might be doing more harm in a less amount of time than they had once originally thought. Expecially when he starts to talk about the water shortage that humans may be facing in the near futer, should as well, hit home with all readers. The thought that one day we won't be able to turn the fossit on and not have any water left to come out, it a freaky thought.