What is the author's purpose of this text The Tipping Point

It is midnight on a Wednesday night. I sit, staring complacently at my computer screen, as a pudgy three-dimensional animation of a baby points its finger in the air and wiggles its bottom in a circle. I find myself questioning what mighty coercive power has brought me to this point and I demand to know how it came to possess such power over me. Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point, provides me some solace. This is not my fault. My compulsion is merely a product of the networks of which I am a part and their natural tendency to diffuse information, ideas, products, and, of course, dancing babies.

    In the current Age of Information, each of us is embedded in myriad different networks that connect us to the world around us. The most obvious of these networks is the Internet, with sub-networks such as the World Wide Web, the e-mail system, and the instant messaging network. The telephone and fax systems also comprise communication networks of which we are a part. Less obviously, we are connected through our interpersonal relationships to a large social network of friends and acquaintances.

    The immensity, complexity, and variety of our networks certainly provide interesting areas for creative thought and speculation. Can we learn anything about ourselves and the world in which we live by studying these networks? Today's network theorists argue that we can and they spend time studying these networks to try to understand the natural laws that govern their formation and structure. Malcolm Gladwell is one of these network theorists

2. list two reasons why fossil fuels should no longer be used as a source of energy in america.