Snyder divulges the hidden sufferings of people during the Holocaust and how it mirrors what is happening today, which makes the audience feel compassion. Most people are very understanding of pain because everyone has experienced it at one time or another. This is the big idea that Snyder is trying to convey; the secret suffering and murder of innocent people due to governments ignoring science as a solution to their problems. The killing of humans for profit is a sensitive topic that Snyder tackles forcefully by manipulating the reader's emotions. The United States makes a large contribution to the ecological crisis around the world. They produce maximum pollution; at the same time the majority of US scientists do not believe in global warming. Americans, who are the editorial's primary audience, must feel guilty for only contributing to an ever-widening global issue. Climate change is one of the main reasons why so many African countries suffer from extreme heat. This extreme heat reduces the amount of crops that can be produced, forcing countries like China that depend on other countries for food to find other ways of obtaining food that involve conquering other nations or even killing people for their food. All of these things are factors that will ultimately result in the next one