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Camryn Chandler

Miss Cook

Composition

2 October 2017

The Earth is full: quit feeding it

Imagine moving into a house that is completely full but you need at least 50% more space

for the rest of your stuff to fit; that is our Earths biggest problem right now. Activist Paul

Gildings speaks about how the Earth is overflowing, how economic growth will end in the

future, and how we, as a society, need change and problem solving to occur before it is too late.

In his speech, The Earth is Full, Gilding effectively uses ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade

the audience to take action and help save the Earth before we all die.

Sadly, the Earth is eating itself alive and we are not slowing down the process, but,

actually, society is speeding it up. Economic growth is very important to our society, because it

is the center of our trade resources and other economic importances. However, our economic

growth is just beginning, and we are already damaging our Earth and exceeding the Earths

capacity. Gilding mentions in his Ted talk,

We plan to take this highly-stressed economy and make it twice as big and then make it

four times as big--not in some distant future, but in less than 40 years, in the lifetime of

most of you. China plans to be there in just 20 years. The only problem with this plan is

that its not possible.

Gilding is right with this quote, because our Earth is taking on change that is impossible and

damaging. The reason for this speech is to persuade the audience to make that change so we can

live with abundance of resources instead of creating more materials that will overflow our Earth.
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Paul Gilding uses ethos to show credibility during his speech by stating where he

retrieved the facts about the Earths future problems. He states in his speech, The Earth is full.

Its full of us, its full of our stuff, full of our waste, full of our demand. Gildings claim is

credible, because he also mentions after, This is not just a philosophical statement, this is just

science based in physics, chemistry and biology...we are living beyond our means (Gilding).

This statement draws in the audience's attention to take action and understand that the Earth is

too full and society needs to take action as soon as possible. Another example of ethos in

Gildings speech is,

Scientist like James Hansen tells us we may need to eliminate net CO2 emissions from

the economy in just a few decades...eliminating net CO2 emissions from the economy in

just 20 years is actually pretty cheap, not very cheap, but certainly less than the cost of a

collapsing civilization. (Gilding)

According to Sciencedirect, CO2 is caused by the burning of fossil fuels and it continues to

increase its amount into the atmosphere every year and causing the Earth to warm up (Anderson,

Hawkins, and Jones). Overall, Paul Gilding uses ethos clearly and states how it is credible by

explaining where he found his information through science and scientist and he uses words like

collapsing civilization to get the attention of his audience.

Next, Gilding portrays logos in his speech to appeal to logic and reasoning. Gilding states

in the beginning of the speech, But of course, you cant borrow natural resources, so were

burning through our capital, or stealing from the future. This statement is true and presents

logos, because it is supporting the argument and convincing the audience to understand that the

Earth is running out of natural resources and instead of conserving the resources the Earth has to

offer, people are using the resources that are meant for the future. In addition, when the resources
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are running out, the Earth sends out signals that we need to slow things down or change the

course. For example, climate change, water, soil and food are all changing. Another quote from

Gildings speech that exemplifies logos is, we need to act like the future depends on it. We need

to act like we only have one planet...the Earth can support that (new technology) if we choose the

right path (Gilding). Altogether, Gilding is trying to persuade society to be aware of the trouble

the Earth is having with its resources and how our Earth is so incredible that it can support our

new technology and science if we change societys way of using too much resources in order to

avoid life threatening issues like climate change.

In order to persuade an audience, one needs to be passionate and show emotion towards

ones side of an argument. Paul Gilding is passionate about helping the Earth and taking action.

In his speech he is talking about stopping economic growth and how it will stop our trading

system. In addition, he explains the effects of climate change around the world:

Imagine China, India and Pakistan going to war as climate impacts generate conflict over

food and water. Imagine the Middle East without oil income...imagine our highly-tuned,

just-in-time food industry and our highly-stressed agriculture system failing and

supermarket shelves emptying. Imagine 30 percent unemployment in America as the

global economy is gripped by fear and uncertainty. (Gilding)

Gilding is passionate while getting his point across by being repetitive with the word imagine

and stating the cause and effect of global warming and economic growth around the world.

Another issue with global warming is sea levels rising. According to Independent, the area of

arctic sea ice is melting away. In March 1978 there was 16.5 sq km of sea ice. However, in

March 2015 there is only 14.5 sq km of ice (Goodfellow & Griffin). If we do not take action
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soon, the Earth will be underwater. Lastly, Gilding finishes his speech with an emotional

sentence.

We can choose life over fear. We can do what we need to do, but it will take every

entrepreneur, every artist, every scientist, every communicator, every mother, every

father, every child, every one of us. This could be our finest hour. (Gilding)

Gilding is focusing on grabbing the audiences attention to help save the Earth. To persuade the

people he uses the quote ...this could be our finest hour. That sentence should make the

audience aware and cause them to have an emotional appeal to this topic. All in all, Gilding uses

pathos effectively to persuade his viewers to take action and lean towards his side of the

argument.

In conclusion, Paul Gildings speech uses ethos, logos and pathos effectively to persuade

the audience and viewers to understand what is going on with our Earth and to take action to

save us all. If we do not stop economic growth or global warming we will be underwater from

the rising of sea levels, polluted from new factories and cars, and desperate for resources if we

do not stop over using our Earths natural resources.

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Work Cited

Anderson, Thomas R, Hawkins, Ed, and Jones, Phillips D. Endeavor. Sciencedirect. vol. 40,

no. 3, September 2016, pp. 178-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.endeavour.2016.07.002

Gilding, Paul. The Earth is full. Ted Talk, February 2012.

https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_gilding_the_earth_is_full/transcript.

Goodfellow, Mollie and Griffin, Andrew. 5 charts that show how we are killing our planet.

Independent. April 2016. http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-

change/earth-day-5-charts-that-show-how-much-were-killing-our-planet-10195035.html

Rubric rating submitted on: 10/14/2017, 4:29:01 PM by danielle.cook@redstreaks.org

5 4 3 2 1 0

Introduction 5 = Fully and 4= 3= 2= 1= 0 = No

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paragraph captures the W.2.a W.2.a W.2.a captures the
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knowledge level--no anticipate the anticipate the anticipate the level--no

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Body W.2.b 5 = Fully and 4= 3= 2= 1= 0 = No

Your score: creatively Demonstrated Attempted to Attempted to Attempted to attempt made
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Evidence & 5 = Fully and 4= 3= 2= 1= 0 = No

Elaboration creatively Demonstrated Attempted to Attempted to Attempted to attempt made
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relevant examples and effective, effective, effective, examples and

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Comments:
Total: 25/25 x 4 = 100/100 A

The essay is very well organized and thoroughly responds to the prompt. Each point is clearly
stated and supported with sufficient evidence. You also do a good job explaining how each piece
of evidence demonstrates your point. There were some unneeded words and other small errors,
but nothing major. This is a very interesting speech and topic. Nice work analyzing the
argument, Cam!