200,000 to 98,000 citizens within the last 50 years.
Morckel also uses pathos within her article, in a slightly passive-aggressive manner. She blames the Flint water crisis on the city’s government and society itself, putting blame on large groups of people and institutions. This makes the reader feel guilty for the occurrences in Flint, as well as other crises mentioned later in the article, and ultimately angry at those who failed to recognize or prevent the problem beforehand. Although this gets her point across, it is very hostile and relatively unsophisticated.
Morckel also referred to her own paper throughout her paper, which is academically published, saying “As emphasised throughout this paper … This paper has highlighted
