Thunberg Climate Change Ethos Pathos Logos

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

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