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Article Evalutation: Green Gross Domestic Product

"Evaluating Content"

The article was last edited August 9th 2018 and seems up to date.

"Evaluating Tone"

This article is mostly neutral when explaining what Green GDP is however when it starts to discuss about regular GDP and create comparisons there seems to be an apparent bias towards Green GDP. Starts to get persuasive in the Rationale section where the article claims GDP being a false indicator of a country's well-being and using persuasive transitions such as "therefore" before proposing Green GDP as a better suited substitution. This section was trying to give incite on how Green GDP originated and its purpose however did so in a persuasive manner. At least they cited several sources to back their claims.

"Evaluating Sources"

The content seems to be up to date with the oldest source being from 1972 but generally the sources date in the 2000s. Total of 21 sources for a fairly short article. The last source is questionable since it is an article on an online news page with no author or other information worth citing. The rest of the sources do seem credible however bias is not noted.

"Talk Page"

This article has been rated as Stub-class twice and has a warning that contributors may have personal or professional ties to the subject discussed in the article. Someone pointed out on the talk page that a contributor has cited their own work as a source. Another person disagreed with the articles definition of Green GDP and described where the article was wrong in their own terms (no sources cited). From what we went over in class, this article does agree that GDP growth is a bad way to understand true prosperity of a country holistically which means including the state of the environment and other factors left out.