Jhocson, Dominique Beatrice D.

201789288

INFORMATIVE SPEECH PLAN

Title: Aliens Living among us

Specific Speech Purpose: A call for collective action on global warming. How being uninformed
can isolate us from the reality of the decline of our planet.

Statement: There are more ways to be environmentally friendly than buying “sustainable”
produce.

INTRODUCTION

I. Attention Step:
A. Aliens are real. They live among us. Not the kind with big googly eyes, green
skin, 10-foot kind. Just the kind where you look at them and do not know who
they are, where they’re from, or what kind of lives they’re living.
II. Clarification Step:
A. We have all become aliens to each other. We live isolated lives where our work
routines are romanticized. The effect of our highly consumerist society causes us
to not realize that our privilege blinds us from reality.

BODY

I. The truth is that humanity is interdependent and so are the wheels of capitalism.
A. We need to realize that the larger responsibility lies on the shoulders of larger
corporations who endlessly abuse both humans and the environment for their
benefit.
1. Capitalists have no ceiling of profit and will continue to accumulate excess
wealth.
B. To the surprise of many, the largest and one of the most powerful industries that
affect the environment is the animal agriculture industry.
C. One can ask the question, “what have we done?” and “what can we do?”. As the
dominant species on this planet, it is our responsibility to see not only survival but
the rehabilitation of our environment.
II. Throughout history, we have taken the initiative to push our society’s response to the
climate crisis. The rise of sustainable agriculture has given us a glimpse of hope. But
how far can sustainability bring us?
A. The popularity of “Sustainable'' produce has made its way into the market.
Although Capitalism has hijacked the so-called sustainable market.
B. Many farm-to-table concessionaires are readily available with the click of a
button.
 1. The harsh truth is that if large commercial corporations continue to
underpay and overprice local produce, farmers will have no choice but to
raise their prices.
2. In the efforts to become a global economy, we see our government favor
foreign suppliers for our nations’ basic needs. These large international
corporations are able to drive their prices even lower than our local
farmers. This makes it difficult to compete against foreign suppliers.
3. In recent news, we saw how local onion farmers struggled to sell their
produce after local markets were dominated by imported onions.
C. Many but not all corporations have eliminated plastic bags when checking out of
the grocery store. This effort has a smaller impact on the environment than we
think. The amount of plastic produced is still exponentially higher than the
amount of plastic that is lessened.
III. Many of you will roll your eyes at the idea of eliminating animal byproducts from your
lives but it’s more than just not eating meat. It is easy to underestimate the power of
becoming plant-based.
A. As mentioned before, the animal agriculture industry is the largest producer of
greenhouse gases in the whole world. They produce more of these harmful
gasses than the whole world’s transportation industry.
B. You can reduce your carbon footprint by up to 61% just by eliminating meat from
your diet. We are quite literally living in the future when it comes to meat
substitutes.
1. The main concern of those considering a plant-based lifestyle is the cost.
Anything in excess will hurt your budget. Local markets price their
vegetables better than supermarkets. Knowing your vegetables and their
nutritional value can help you build your diet to fit you and your needs.
C. The animal agriculture industry is not just responsible for the pollution of our
atmosphere, but for the sea as well. Majority of the waste produced by these
entities are dumped into the ocean causing the destruction of marine habitats as
well as the proliferation of toxic algae.
D. What does it mean to save our oceans? We have the phytoplanktons to thank for
the majority of the oxygen we breathe in. According to a study conducted by
Scientists featured in the article written by EarthSky.org, “these phytoplanktons
produce 50-85 percent of the oxygen in our atmosphere.”
E. Your decision to go plant-based
IV. We need to recognize that there is an invisible power at play in our society. As our
economy declines, we are now “one sickness away from poverty” (Gbadegesin, 2018)
while they swim in their riches.
A. Capitalism has caused us to think that the way out of poverty is through endless
hard work. A quote by Mark Fisher sends chills down my spine, “It’s easier to
imagine the end of the world than the end of the Capitalist system” (Fisher,
2009).
B. While our government and the 1% work day and night to find a different planet to
inhabit, it feels as though they have given up on the rest of us. It’s disturbing how
 much more we explored space than our oceans. The majority of the world’s funds
are in the hands of the 1%.
1. We watch billionaires like Bezos and Musk pour their riches into the
commercialization of space travel while they leave their employees
starving and underpaid.
C. They call Climate Change activists fearmongers. Demonizing their call for action
instead of putting their funds where it matters most.
Summary Step:
Many of us don’t know the power we hold as consumers and future laborers. We
imagine that one day an Alien invasion will come and wipe us off the face of the earth ending
our misery. Pop culture has shown us endless versions of this story. Not only are we being
wiped off but our history as well. We don’t need to fear the alien invasion because sadly, the
aliens live among us.

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