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Climate Action should focus on communities, not just carbon: Rhetorical Analysis This TED talk titled “Climate Action Should Focus On Communities, Not Just Carbon” given by Jade Begay, discusses the importance of the communities that are being affected by climate change and the value of the knowledge that they hold to further help implement climate actions to eliminate the problem at hand.. Begay will use different stylistic techniques such as Logos, Ethos and organization for successful implementation of her speech.
Jade begay starts out her ted talk by asking the question, “What comes to mind when you think about climate change?”(0:20) Begay then proceeds to bring up carbon and how we as people are reliant on carbon using it to create …show more content…

Begay talked about her experience in communities and explains that one common thing she sees is “Many decades of urging and pleading and demanding that the rest of the world listens to our needs” (2:22) Begay saying this shows the viewer that the communities are hurting and are not being listened to. This makes the viewer feel empathy for these communities. They want to be able to live their lives and continue to embrace their culture and feel like themselves but they cant because of the continued climate disasters Begay brings up in Western Alaska, Puerto Rico, and Pakistan.”All of these impacts are reminding us over and over again that we need to get stronger at centering people”(4:07) the continued disaster and the continued ignoring of these communities are just showing that we don’t have that connection as a whole world but rather as individual companies and communities when in fact we should be consulting the people that experience climate change first hand because of the knowledge and valuable information that they can provide. Both of the quotes provided shows and evokes the emotion response into the viewer to feel empathy for these communities that are on the frontlines of climate change so that we include their knowledge when creating action

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The genre that was created for the final project is the most powerful tool for communication that we have today, the website. Websites can be used for personal, commercial, government, news or educational purposes. One site is usually dedicated to once specific subject or purpose. There are many key elements that can be incorporated into the website like pictures, video, or links to other websites. This format was used for the fact that a website can be set up to provide the exact information that is needed in the presentation.

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Pathos is an appeal to the audience’s emotions. Logos is an appeal to the audience’s logic. Each author uses all three kinds of rhetoric to persuade the audience to believe in their views on sustainability. Let’s take a look at Wendell Berry’s ‘“It All Turns on Affection”: 2012 Jefferson Lecture”’. Berry uses rhetoric to stress the importance that humans need to respect the Earth and take steps to learn and take care of it.

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It is quite remarkable to read this quote especially exactly two decades from when David Suzuki’s novel The Sacred Balance was published. That over two decades there has not been any significant change in the way majority of people acknowledge that one of the major issue humans face is global warming. Even though relatively recently several countries did join the Paris climate agreement to confront climate change but it still does not help there is still a large amount of countries that will not contribute in reducing the effects of climate change. It does feel hopeless at times trying to get people to at least acknowledge climate change and there is not be a chance to change the path of our future right now because it would be too late. Too

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Al Gore Jr. was the forty-fifth vice president of the U.S. and is well-known for his environmental advocacy work and his famous writings on environmental issues (Weisser 101). In his article “Climate of Denial”, he describes how the world is very uneducated on the environmental issues of today. Through his article, he uses ethos, pathos, and logos to make his point. He also clearly expresses his purpose, the conflict, and his audience. Despite these proficient skills, if we unveil the true Al Gore, we will witness a man driven for greed, wealth, and power.

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“The technology and solutions are available to rein in emissions, but the world is rapidly running out of time to deploy, the report notes.” The author uses pathos to show that even though we have enough technology to help reduce climate change we aren't reducing it. The author also used pathos when he said “Changing the way humans work, live and eat in cities and building can have a major impact on reducing emissions, as much as 40 to 70 percents in some of those sectors.'' This shows that he uses persuasive language such as pathos by saying 40 to 70 percent. This also shows that climate change can affect a lot of people and a lot of your daily life activities.

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She says our impacts and nature on the world are causing multiple things to happen. She brings up questions like, will humans ever slow down growth and emissions? Or will humans continue to grow and pollute and try to fix the issues after they have already occurred? She breaks it all down to one statement of the we has a human race have a choice. We can choose to implement policies that limit the amount of pollution released and slow the carbon dioxide effects we see in our oceans.

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The author wants the reader to have hope though, she wants the reader to have faith that we can do this, together. The author highlights the successes of climate activists already and in doing so entrenches the movement. Klein is very clear in her deliberation: no more fossil fuels, protect our water, and humans are the cause for all of this. By taking a direct approach she creates finality in her argument. Like when you’d ask your parent why they said no, only to hear the most unbeatable logic ever in return, “because I said”.

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For example, in the months before the EPA announced its repeal of the Obama administration’s central carbon pollution-reduction policy in October 2017, references to climate change were wiped from many of its websites and climate scientists were reassigned to new departments (Water, 2018).” Much like in Fahrenheit 451, society is censored from information in this case global warming. Climate change activists are plagued

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Logos is represented as any logical appeal like facts, stats, numbers that can convince the audience any issue that can be solved. In the article, D’Adderio, Porcu, and Tokay described the following, “IFloodS consist on hundreds of professionals and expanding, involving not just creating artificial clouds, but knowing that the amount of rain that’s falling every year throughout the world is getting larger due to the facts of climate change” (D’Adderio, Porcu, and Tokay). All three consisted that the facts that climate change is affecting the world and IFloodS is consisting ways to reduce the amount of rain and they’re involving a big group to know more facts about how climate change is changing weather from the average weather. “Stats have shown that from

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Clean Power Plant Announcement Obama establishes prominent logos, ethos, and pathos when voicing his speech about the Clean Power Plant Announcement. Of course being President of the United States helps him establish his ethos, while his text and content establish his logos and pathos. In the following speech Obama tries to persuade his audience into making our world a better place to live for the sake and health of our current and future generations. Out of all the current issues happening in today’s world Obama states that no challenge poses a greater threat to our future and future generations than a changing climate which is the rhetorical situation for giving this speech.

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In 1962, Rachel Carson, author of the book, “Silent Spring” paints the image of a disgusting world filled with contamination that is not too far away for the citizens of America in 1962. A world filled with waste and chemicals due to the lack of knowledge that humankind has about the environment would hurt the air, Earth, rivers, and seas, causing both the environment and the human race to be in danger. Carson idealizes change in the environment through use of an abundance of rhetorical devices. Carson utilizes devices such as, imagery, logos, pathos through childhood, compare contrast organization, and shifts in persona. By using rhetorical devices, Carson reveals the truth about the contamination and waste in the environment.

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The automotive industry uses advertisements and hundreds of types of persuasive techniques to sell you their vehicles. In the Ford advertisement that I chose, a large red truck is driving down the road during a rain storm. The words “It’s simple. BURN LESS FUEL. Burn less cash.”

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In the Documentary Before the Flood, Leonardo Dicaprio travels around the world to meet with scientists, activists, and world leaders who inform us about climate change and how it affects our environment. Rhetorical devices are used throughout the documentary such as pathos, logos, and ethos which all are effective and help make claims that are efficiently supported and understood. The rhetorical device of ethos is widely supported throughout the documentary due to the use of scientists, politicians, government companies, and activists who all have credibility and a title that is highly looked up to. Gregory Mankiw is a professor at Harvard and teaches economics.

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Name: Khalid Albaiji Section: SC135 TOPIC: Global Warming GENERAL PURPOSE: To Persuade SPECIFIC PURPOSE: To persuade my audience to aware them about the harmful effects of Global Warming and encourage the audience to help make a difference to stop global warming.

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Climate Change is one of the most unsettling problems mankind faces today. It leaves an impact on every single living thing, on every continent, no matter the privilege. Long term investment must be used to change the world. People must do more than just change out their light bulbs for eco-friendly ones, or drive fuel efficient cars. A choice as simple as changing our diets could reduce a human’s carbon footprint by fifty percent.

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