“You Will Soon Feel the Same Heat We Feel Every Day” is a speech held by the young Ugandan climate activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye (HFN), on Friday the 11th of October 2019, at the C40 Mayors Summit in Copenhagen. In her speech, she puts focus on the huge climate changes that she has experienced in her home country. Through the narrative of her own experiences in life, she tries to create a higher degree of the climate awareness among the world leaders, to get them to take action to prevent further consequences of the climate changes.
To seek support for the messages in her speech, HFN uses her appearance and personality while she technically argues by using methods that can be used to convince, that can be divided into three classic forms of appeals: logos, ethos and pathos.
Logos is, in general, used when a sender in his argumentation refers to numbers, statistics and facts, often used by politicians to support their political visions. Logos are barely used in this speech. HFN barely attempts to appeal to the logical-rational sense of the recipients, since there’s no reference to for example basic facts about the effect of climate change on farmers in Uganda or expert references. She though brings up a logical argument (ll. 23-25) when she explains that the mix of strong rains and constant dryness logically ruins the crops on a farm.
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