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Young activist, Greta Thunberg, presents a twelve-minute speech on the climate change crisis. At only 12 years old, Thunberg gives an informative Ted Talk to a packed audience. The audience filled the room with a total of two laughters and three applauses. She speaks on why climate change is detrimental, using ethos, pathos, and logos to convince the audience. Thunberg successfully persuades the audience that they must act on climate change by establishing ethos with the help of her young age and unusual intellect, evoking pathos by first setting herself apart from the audience by telling them about her hardships and then reassociating herself with them again by using the inclusive pronoun “we”, and appealing to logos through presenting statistics that bring the audience to the conclusion that climate change is a severe problem and needs immediate attention. Thunberg’s passion for climate change and young image evoke ethos and gain the audience's trust. Thunberg being the young age of twelve years …show more content…

Thumberg presents herself as well-educated and prepared, by using memorization she approaches the audience with a lot of confidence and information: “Rich countries like Sweden need to start reducing emissions by at least 15% every year, that is so we can stay below a two- degree warming target.” Thunberg appeals to the audience's sense of logic and reason by informing them with real statistics. She makes clear, and logical connections between her idea’s and includes the use of facts and statistcs to convince the audience. “We already have an extra level of warming perhaps as high as 0.5-1.1 degrees celsius.” By using reliable sources and statistics she proves to the audience that Climate Change is a very real crisis and that she isn't lying or being biased. Thumnerg memorizes facts and statistics to evoke logos and appear educated and trustworthy to the

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From the forerunners of world renown business to Nobel Prize winners and influential peacekeepers, the Ted stage has been home to millions of successful individuals. For famous faces and transformative youth alike, the Ted stage has created a powerful way to spread global messages. Taking the stage, 12-year-old Adora Svitak has ambitions to change the world. Invention as stated as by Laurie L. Haleta is the speaker’s resources and ability to influence the audience (pg. 148). Using ethical and emotional proof, the young Ted Talk presenter was able to convey an important and lasting message to millions of adults.

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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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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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The Temperatures are rising, carbon emissions are increasing, ice caps are melting at a faster rate than most scientists expected, and planet earth is experiencing ecological and environmental issues due to global warming. Earth as we know it might change drastically in the next couple of decades, and it is our responsibility to preserve the environment and preserve earth. Michael Pollan's Why Bother? opens the reader's eyes in a powerful way to global warming and related environmental crises. Pollan uses rhetorical strategies such as current and past events, logos and pathos to persuade the reader "to bother"(218) and start thinking of the environment as an issue that involves all the people. Pollan approaches the reader from different standing

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In persuasive speaking, using rhetorical strategies such as ethos, pathos, and logos is essential to connect with the audience and persuade them. In this essay, we will focus on the use of these strategies in Jeffrey Sachs's "The End of Poverty" and Dan Gilbert's "The Surprising Science of Happiness" Ted Talks. By comparing the use of rhetorical strategies in Sachs's and Gilbert's talks, we can understand how different approaches to persuasion can affect the effectiveness of the speaker's argument. Both speakers use personal anecdotes to establish ethos and connect with the audience. In the first piece of writing, Sachs uses his experience and longevity in the field of poverty reduction to establish his credibility and authority on the subject.

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For example, the first passage only mentions when climate changed began “plodding along” with no mention of what it is, what it looks like, or how it is impacting the world (Ball, 2008). The author assumes that the audience knows what it is and that it is not good for the Earth (Ball, 2008). The author of the second passage, however, makes it clear that they believe climate change is one of the biggest challenges humans, specifically Americans, are going to face in this lifetime (Club, 2008). Additionally, the author provides ways legislation and the implementation of certain policies can help mitigate the harm (Club, 2008). Appeals to pathos are used to further illustrate the authors point as well.

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