ESPIRITU, Angelica Nicole S.

February 26, 2021

Speech Communication GED0109 Section 25

1. To anyone who continues to deny the reality that is climate change, I dare you to get off
your ivory tower and away from the comfort of your armchair. I dare you to go to the
island of the Pacific, the islands of the Caribbean and the islands of the Indian Ocean and
see the impacts of rising sea levels; to the mountainous regions of the Himalayas and the
Andes to see the communities confronting glacial floods, to the arctic where communities
grapple with the fast dwindling polar ice caps, to the large deltas of the Mekong, the
Ganges, the Amazon, and the Nile where lives and livelihoods are drowned, to the hills of
Central America that confronts similar monstrous hurricanes, to the vast savannas of
Africa where climate change has likewise become a matter of life and death as food and
water becomes scarce. Not to forget the massive hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico and the
eastern seaboard of North America. And if that is not enough, you may want to pay a
visit to the Philippines right now.

Aristotelian Rhetorical Element: Ethos

Explanation: On this paragraph, it is clear that the speaker wanted to call of action and
attention of everyone making them see how destructive climate change can be. The
speaker even used testimonies that regardless of anything that holds the world and
between life and death, climate change is inevitable. It is also to educate everyone that
wherever we go, under deep blue seas or from the highest peak of mountains climate
change is what we are experiencing throughout the history and right now we even get to
be worried for the rest of the future.

2. “In solidarity with my countrymen who are struggling to find food back home and with
my brother who has not had food for the last three days, in all due respect Mr. President,
and I mean no disrespect for your kind hospitality, I will now commence a voluntary
fasting for the climate. This means I will voluntarily refrain from eating food during this
COP until a meaningful outcome is in sight.”

Aristotelian Rhetorical Element: Pathos

Explanation: The speaker was able to understand the feeling of pain and loss, Mr. Sano
was able to connect to his countrymen who were deeply affected by the typhoon and
devastated struggle from this happenings. He evokes emotions of suffering and disrupt
and it is being expected that there is a sacrifice, refraining from eating food until there is
an outcome. Personal stories were present with the story of his brother who has not had
food for the last three days.
3. It was barely 11 months ago in Doha when my delegation appealed to the world… to
open our eyes to the stark reality that we face… as then we confronted a catastrophic
storm that resulted in the costliest disaster in Philippine history. Less than a year hence,
we cannot imagine that a disaster much bigger would come. With an apparent cruel twist
of fate, my country is being tested by this hell storm called Super Typhoon Haiyan,
which has been described by expert as the strongest typhoon that has ever made landfall
in the course of recorded human history. It was so strong that if there was a Category 6, it
would have fallen squarely in that box. Up to this hour, we remain uncertain as to the full
extent of the devastation, as information trickles in an agonizingly slow manner because
electricity lines and communication lines have been cut off and may take a while before
these are restored. The initial assessment show that Haiyan left a wake of massive
devastation that is unprecedented, unthinkable and horrific, affecting 2/3 of the
Philippines, with about half a million people now rendered homeless, and with scenes
reminiscent of the aftermath of a tsunami, with a vast wasteland of mud and debris and
dead bodies. According to satellite estimates, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration also estimated that Hiayan achieved a minimum pressure between around
860 mbar (hPa; 25.34 inHg) and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center estimated Haiyan to
have attained one-minute sustained winds of 315 km/h (195 mph) and gust up to 378
km/h (235 mph) making it the strongest typhoon in modern recorded history. Despite the
massive efforts that my country had exerted in preparing for the onslaught of this monster
of a storm, it was just a force too powerful and even as a nation familiar with storms,
Super Typhoon Haiyan was nothing we have experienced before or perhaps nothing that
any country has ever experienced before.

Aristotelian Rhetorical Element: Logos

Explanation: The information made by the speaker was in accordance with the statistics
and evidences that were presented. An observation of the US National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration were able to supply the audience with enough information
about climate change and how strong is Typhoon Haiyan to be the strongest recorded
typhoon in the history.

4. The science has given us a picture that has become much more in focus. The IPCC report
on climate change and extreme events underscored the risk associated with changes in the
patterns as well as frequency of extreme weather events. Science tells us that simply,
climate change will mean more intense tropical storms. As the earth warms up, that
would include the oceans. The energy that is stored in the waters off the Philippines will
increase the intensity of typhoons and the trend we now see is that more destructive
storms will be the new norm.

Aristotelian Rhetorical Element: Logos

Explanation: With the credible sources and true report of the IPCC on climate change,
there are already evidences as to why people are experiencing extreme changes of
weather patterns as well as all its frequencies that resulted to climate changes and horrific
bad weather conditions. The reasoning that we were deeply affected by the typhoon, as
there are abundant water minerals to be found in the Philippine archipelago.
5. Disasters are never natural. They are the intersection of factors other than physical. They
are the accumulation of the constant breach of economic, social and environmental
thresholds. Most of the time disasters is a result of inequity and the poorest people of the
world are at greatest risk because of their vulnerability and decades of mal-development,
which I must assert is connected to the kind of pursuit of economic growth that
dominates the world; the same kind of pursuit of so-called economic growth and
unsustainable consumption that has altered the climate system.

Aristotelian Rhetorical Element: Logos

Explanation: It is true that disasters are never natural from the beginning of life, from the
past years people all over the globe can experience such different disaster that holds the
life of many people to be at risk. Economic growth, social developments and even
environmental factors were all affected from this deliberate destruction; it is truly an
observation that the poor people were most of the time at the greatest risk when disasters
came in a country. People who lived in a low society and with unsustainable consumption
of food and water have been scarce, this leads to a wider view that climate change were
altered by this dispute state.