On September 23rd, world leaders gathered at the United Nation's Climate Summit to discuss the huge issue we face today. Global warming concerned many who attended, including Leonardo DiCaprio, an actor and also the “UN Messenger of Peace”(DiCaprio 2). Most people know Leonardo DiCaprio as an award winning actor, but he has also been a huge advocate for the harming of the environment. At the Climate Summit when Leonardo DiCaprio took the stage, he presented an influential speech. In his speech he avoids stating statistics and instead, includes his own personal experiences, different tones, allusions, logical appeals, and emotional appeals to create a perfect chemistry to move his audience towards his intended direction of making changes and …show more content…
In reference to the beginning of his speech, he does not plan on reaching out to average citizens to take action, but instead people with higher positions who have the power to make a change as he gives “thanks to the distinguished climate leaders assembled [there] who are ready to take action” (2). In addition, he says that “after 21 years of debates and conferences it is time to declare no more talk” (3-4). His use of candid tone touches the viewers logical thinking, informing them that his audience withhold a position where they have given speeches and made comments on global warming but have yet to take action; something most political leaders do. Furthermore to the fact that his audience carries a higher political position, Leonardo DiCaprio’s speech gives the reader an understanding that these world leaders have knowledge about global warming as he states “I do not need to throw statistics at you, you know them better than I do, and more importantly, you know what will happen if this scourge is left unchecked” (2). In this statement, he creates more of a critical tone by using the word “scourge”. Placing …show more content…
In his speech he provides some testimony that brings either an emotional or logical appeal to the audience. He does this when he says that he “[has] seen cities like Beijing choked by industrial pollution” (2). He could have studied and stated facts on the effects that Beijing face, but by simply letting the audience know that he has seen what Beijing goes through brings up a sense of reality to the audience. Also, his use of the word “choked” makes the statement stand out. Pain, suffering, and death are three of the many words that comes to mind for most people. Innocent people of Beijing suffer because of global warming, and he knew placing that in his speech would touch the audience emotions. He then goes on talking about how “in India [he] met farmers whose crops have literally been washed away by historic flooding” (2). this testimony creates a logical appeal because of his use of the word “historic”. By describing the floods as “historic”, the reader then interprets the harsh floodings as being a fact due to Leonardo Dicaprio’s evidence. This crisis plays an effect on every aspect in every location based on what Leonardo DiCaprio says and he wants his audience to know that not through facts but with his first hand experiences. He ends the discussion of what he witnessed with a logical appeal when saying “all that I have seen and
One ordinary man finds himself standing in a colossal room. He looks into the audience, seeing an overwhelming amount of strangers who each share a slightly different opinion on the subject at hand. How can one individual spark a fire in the minds of such an eclectic group? Al Gore, an American politician and environmentalist, encounters this exact situation. He wishes to spread his message on global warming and inspire the audience to take action. Persuading just one person is an arduous task, but effectively confronting an entire audience requires extensive knowledge on persuasive tactics. The speaker must have a playbook containing an array of rhetorical strategies that are dispersed throughout the entire presentation. The playbook needs
A similar message that appears in his book that appeared in the aforementioned speech was the impact of the media speculation. The book addresses this in two examples. One was presented with the news of a lawsuit that an island called Vantu would file against the EPA; yet the lawsuit would never move forward due to it only serving a purpose to launder money and raise awareness to global warming that was never proven to affect the island. The other was shown to be environmental scientist who received their funding from environmental organizations, such as NERF in the book. These scientists would often have to go against their findings and report what the organizations wanted them to, or possibly lose their funding. Additionally, the book profoundly took opposition to the claim of global warming. This is presented in the form of the main character, Peter Evans, who has been manipulated into believing everything that the media has told him about global warming. It isn’t until John Kenner is introduced, that Peter begins got learn the truth about global warming. The author uses specific evidence to back his claims, specifically he uses a wide array of resources to verify his claim that Antarctica is not in fact melting, but getting colder and thickening. Furthermore, another essential concept that that book introduces is environmental extremists, or bioterrorism. These characters in the book would stop at nothing to make sure that everyone believed in global warming, and tried to destroy parts of the world to succeed in their mission. Bioterrorists are best represented as a warning of what could happen if people continue to buy into the media’s lies without having conclusive evidence to back up their
Mr. McKibben provides a strong argument call of action for everyone to take action against global warming. But he doesn 't just want action, Mr. Mckibben is demanding action now, and lots of it. Throughout the passage, Meltdown: Running Our of Time on Global Warming, the reader can examine the many ways that McKibben attempts to persuade others to join his movement. When one examines Bill McKibben 's use of rhetoric appeals, persuasive fallacies, and counter augments, A reader can analyze and understand the real claim that the writer is attempting to address.
In his piece on climate change, Richard Lindzen addresses his stance on the heated debate of global warming. He claims that there is, in fact, no ongoing catastrophic temperature increase. Lindzen, a Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a recipient of the Jule Charney award from the American Meteorological Society (Richard Lindzen), believes that the earth goes through natural phases of warming and cooling. In this piece, he examines why he believes people have a false conception of Earth’s climate shifts.
Even though Gore in the film says about the global warning that “this is really not a political issue, so much as a moral issue,” I believe that it is as much a political issue as it is a moral issue. The truth about the global warming is inconvenient to many economically developed countries.
Bill McKibben's "The Environmental Issue from Hell" argues that climate change is a real and dire concern for humanity. His essay deals with the methods and persuasive arguments needed to spur American citizens and the government on to change to more eco-friendly choices. The arguments he proposes are based largely upon emotional appeals calling for empathy and shame, and examples of what in our daily lives is adding to the changes we're seeing in the climate.
President Obama’s Inaugural Speech: Rhetorical Analysis. Barrack Obama’s inauguration speech successfully accomplished his goal by using rhetoric to ensure our nation that we will be in safe hands. The speech is similar to ideas obtained from the founding documents and Martin Luther King’s speech to establish ‘our’ goal to get together and take some action on the problems our country is now facing. As President Barack Obama starts his speech, he keeps himself from using ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’ and replacing it with ‘we’, ‘us’, and ‘together’ to achieve his ethos.
Another element that is crucial to understand the photo of the Cabañas family is focal point. The amount of food that is presented for one week might not look like it’s enough to feed eight individuals, five of them being grown adults, for that period of time. Some of the other pictures presented throughout the “Hungry Planet”, has just as much if not more food than the Cabañas family, but is only having to feed 4-5 people. This does not mean that their family is doing something wrong, but it is evident that the economy and opportunity throughout the world is diverse one from another, and that each family is only striving to simply support their family in each unique way they find fit. D’aluisio says, “Inside the Cabañas’ home, although a giant
The popular trend known as The Ice Bucket Challenge undeniably became successful in raising awareness of Lou Gehrig’s disease, but did it actually help ALS research? Associate Special Projects Editor, Amanda Gutterman believes that there is a “big problem” with the challenge. By her use of argumentative strategies, Gutterman’s essay effectively conveys her stance as she explains how the popular trend lead to insincerity from politicians and relating scientific research.
In the circulating article from New York Magazine, “The Uninhabitable Earth”, David Wallace-Wells presents nine of many chilling results of climate change in a rare style of writing. He does so by using quantitative evidence in nearly every paragraph and quickly shuffling through facts to aggressively express Earth’s impending doom. This article has been praised and criticized by many because of his extremely pessimistic and debatably over-dramatic predictions of the end of life on Earth. His writing prospers in areas like pathos, but lacks in cogency and ethos, which is his downfall for some readers. Although his writing technique is unique, it is unquestionably thought provoking and pulls at your heartstrings.
President Obama’s Address to the nation was presented on January 5, 2016. His speech was shown on all of the major network stations. The main goal of his speech was to get the point across to the nation about the increasing problem of gun use. His speech really focused on the issue of gun control and if it would benefit the country. Overall, the biggest idea of his Address was that gun control is a large issue in the United States. The way to prevent deaths caused by firearms can be prevented in other ways than taking peoples guns away. The examples brought up in this Address really stood out to me. The use of personal, national, and global examples really made his speech stronger on the topic of effectiveness.
These are conflict, poverty, instability, migration, unrest, collapse, capacity, and dependency. This film serves as a wakeup call to the audience because climate change is a very critical problem that people should address as soon as possible. It also explicitly shows that climate change is in fact in our midst and is not just a myth or a theory as some would say.
This persuasive speech was given in Rio de Janeiro, and was a plea to the individuals in attendance at the United Nations Earth Summit to recognize how they are contaminating the environment with hopes that these audience members will revise their future proposals.
The audience can be persuaded through their emotion (Cockcroft and Cockcroft, 2005). High pathos makes the audience more likely to be persuaded (Dlugan, 2007b). On the one hand, in this speech, Leonardo invoked the fear of audience by quoting the scientific community’s prognosis, ‘If we do not act together, we will surely perish’. Later in the speech, he listed the specific actions and asked the leaders for action. He also cited the statement of the chief of the US navy, ‘climate change is our single greatest security threat’, which also trigger the fear of the audience. On the other hand, Dicaprio said solving this crisis is not a question of politics, but our moral obligation, which can inspire a strong sense of responsibility and mission. Through triggering audience emotion, Dicaprio can make his audience act together and face the crisis of climate
Subpoint A: Not long ago, a documentary film called “An Inconvenient truth” came out in 2006. This film raised international public awareness of climate change and reenergizing the environmental movement. A former U.S Vice president Al Gore campaigned to educate citizens about global warming through a simp...