Several decades of profoundly flawed policy on an important economic or environmental topic is enough to make most people angry. That doesn't in itself make a w

Several decades of profoundly flawed policy on an important economic or environmental topic is enough to make most people angry. That doesn't in itself make a well written article a rant, nor does the quote you cited make it a rant, though it may well make it an article you disagree with, which is quite different from a rant.