Lesson 1: Communication Models

 What problems can happen when there are Communication

Breakdowns?

In communicating, it is always inevitable to have communication

breakdowns since we, humans, are capable of interpreting messages based on
our own knowledge given that we all have different perceptions towards
something.
We often focused only for the things that we ought to know for our own
advantage without considering its consequences, the reason why communication
breakdowns were created. One of the major problems that could arose because
of communication breakdown was yielding to a conflict among the individuals
involved in that certain communication for some common reasons such as
misunderstanding, misinterpretation and misconception. Another problem is
having disunity because of inattention. In communication, we are always
responsible for the words or messages that we are about to relay to someone
and it is our goal to make sure that they understand what we are trying to
express. As for example, if you are only thinking about your role as a sender who
will just send a message without further understanding or either a receiver who
will not listen to the sender or speaker of the message you are receiving, then
both of you won’t attain a successful communication towards your goal. And last
problem will be the possibility of having an emotional breakdown. Over thinking,
anxiety and depression are some of the instances where our emotions could lead
to when communication is unhealthy. In communicating we are not only
speaking but also exposing our behaviors towards someone. And our behaviors
matter when we speak because as what I’ve said, we are all different and the
way we think aren’t the same. Thus, in terms of communicating, proper
behaviors must always be observed.
Communication is everywhere but that doesn’t mean we should
communicate in a way we wanted. Remember, it is always important to think
first before you speak. In this manner, we could at least avoid the chance of
communication breakdowns to happen and attain an effective communication
instead.
Get this done:
1. Who is Greta Thunberg?
17-year-old Greta Thunberg is a Swedish Environmental Activist who encouraged
and inspired not just her fellow students but rather millions of people around the world
to call for a stronger action on climate change.

In August 2018, Greta Thunberg started a school strike for the climate outside
the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world and now involves over
100,000 schoolchildren. The movement is now called Fridays for Future (TED Ideas
worth spreading, 2019). At 2019, Greta took off school to attend to continue
campaigning and join climate protests around the world. Around September that same
year, Greta travelled to New York to address a UN Climate conference and she made
her way there by a racing yacht that lasted for two weeks since she refuses to fly for
her belief that this can cause an impact to the environment.

When she arrived, millions of people around the world took part in a climate
strike, underlining the scale of her influence. Addressing the conference, she blasted
politicians for relying on young people for answers to climate change (BBC News,
2020).

2. What is her speech about?

During her speech in the United Nations last September 23, 2019, Greta
Thunberg criticized the world leaders for their inaction on climate change. She
denounces their lack of concrete solutions in saving our world by expressing through
her repeated phrase “How dare you.”

Moreover, she stated some of the today’s environmental problems such as mass
extinctions, collapsing of our ecosystems and rising of the global temperature that was
caused by cutting down of emissions. She attacked the people of the government
saying that they didn’t understand the urgency of how this current situation be solved
and think like as if this could be ended by just having technical solutions and “business
as usual.”

On her last sentence, she quoted, “The world is waking up and change is
coming, whether you like it or not.”
3. What’s the occasion?
2019 UN Climate Action Summit held at the United Nations headquarter in New
York City last September 23 with a theme, “"Climate Action Summit 2019: A Race We
Can Win. A Race We Must Win."

4. How has her speech achieved a particular effect?

Sources:

¹Greta Thunberg: Who is she and what does she want? (2020, February 28). Retrieved
September 29, 2020, from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-49918719

²Sugiura, E. (2019, September 25). 'How dare you': Transcript of Greta Thunberg's UN
climate speech. Retrieved September 29, 2020, from
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Environment/How-dare-you-Transcript-of-Greta-
Thunberg-s-UN-climate-speech

³Thunberg, G. (n.d.). Greta Thunberg. Retrieved September 29, 2020, from

https://www.ted.com/speakers/greta_thunberg