Analyse af Greta Thunbergs klimatale

Speaker: The speaker is Greta Thunberg, a young climate activist from Sweden

Audience: Greta is talking to the whole world at the 2019 UN climate action summit.

Topic: Climate/climate action

Language: Greta is using mostly common and basic English words to make sure majority of the world understand what she has to say. She is using both logos and pathos appeal to convince the audience that this is a huge problem. “you have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words” here Greta is using pathos to persuade the audience by appealing to her emotions.

"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius]”

"Fifty percent may be acceptable to you. But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. They also rely on my generation sucking hundreds of billions of tons of your CO2 out of the air with technologies that barely exist”

"To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise – the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] – the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on Jan. 1st, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons”