Why Klein Used the Words “Ideological” and “Orthodoxy” in her Text?

Guangbo Chen Aria Middleton-Chiodo Expository Writing I 09/12/2019 Why Klein Used the Words “Ideological” and “Orthodoxy” in her Text. In her text, "Hot money: How Free Money Fundamentalism Helped Overheat the Planet", published in 2014, under the journal, The New Humanities Reader, Klein writes that the "pillars of the neoliberal age" are "incompatible with many of the actions we must take" to combat climate change. The author claims that the pillars form standard barriers of ideologies that block meaningful response and curbing of the adverse effects caused by the crisis of climate change. In her work, Klein uses the term "economic orthodoxy" to refer to an additional barrier that prevents humanity from transitioning away from fossil fuels. While Klein’s usage of this term has generated an interesting issue among her readers, the author of this paper believes that the usage of terms such as “ideological” and “orthodoxy” was meant to emphasize the inevitable difficulty of solving climate change, due to the inherent socio-economic, political, psychological, etc. barriers that exist today. Ideology could be generally defined as a collection of ideas that provides a justification for the particular actions of individuals based on the circumstances, interests, and ideals that is created or adapted by him. In most of the environments, ideologies are established and developed on the course of basic assumptions about the reality of the specific nature of an individual or a group of people, other than facts. The term is frequently used in political and economic contexts to describe systems, ideas and ideals which form the theories of the economic or political body. In addition, the causal connotations made in the context of creating beliefs, values and customs depend on the outcomes of a test event and the significance of the variables used. On the other hand, Orthodoxy can be translated into Greek as the “right opinion”. This term is used to refer to the art or act of an individual to comply to the mutually accepted codes of conduct, creed and the correctly dictated ways of life. The term is essentially used in religion as a way of educating people of their obedience to the rules set and applied in the early church, in the case of Christianity. Orthodoxy, in other words, is the collection of doctrines that have been clearly set and accepted for use in the general church or any other religion in the world. An instance to this is in certain English speaking nations where a group of people such as the Jews comply to all the traditions, doctrines and commandments indicated and legislated in the Talmud creed. Klein states that when it comes to preventing negative impacts of climate change and maintaining the currently running international trade, humankind has the option of sitting down and waiting for the apocalypse or taking particular course of actions that will eventually eliminate the phenomenon. However, as much as these decisions aim on ensuring the satisfactory of the habitability of planet earth, there are specific barriers that threaten the capacity of human professionals to respond to the crisis of climate change. Klein states that the barriers are ideological and this is because of the sense that they are evid...