Rhetorical Analysis: Fairy Tales Of The Fossil Fuel Industry
Addy Rodabaugh
Mrs. Kovar
CCP English 1101
17 March 2023
Lies of the Fossil Fuel Industry Many people’s opinions differ concerning the fossil fuel industry. Luisa Neubauer, in her TED Talk, looks to remove one common misconception: the climate change results from each average human. She argues that it results from the industry itself rather than the people. To support her point, in “Fairy Tales of the Fossil Fuel Industry – and a Better Climate Story,” Luisa Neubauer utilizes ethos to establish credibility with her audience, pathos to connect to readers about the severity of the climate, and logos to support how people need to stop funding the fossil fuel industry. Neubauer reinforces her ideas by using ethos to show her audience that she
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One way she engages the audience through emotion emerges by mentioning recent natural disasters. Because of the misleading done by the fossil fuel industry, she claims “it’s already too late. The droughts, the fires and floods are all happening already in 2022. No place is safe anymore.” Millions of people suffer because of natural disasters, and knowing this, Neubauer uses it to evoke feelings of sadness and anger. The fossil fuel industry helped create these disasters that cause pain to so many people. Another instance of utilizing people’s emotions occurs by Neubauer recognizing Ukraine. “Fossil fuels don’t only take lives and livelihoods and destroy our climate. They empower autocrats everywhere to start wars, to threaten democracies, and to threaten energy systems in places like Germany and across the globe onto their knees.” Fossil fuels enable Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Since people love democracy, they will feel anger over the fact that the fossil fuel industry allows autocrats to eradicate freedom. While the appeals to credibility and emotion so far prove useful in swaying the audience, nobody would believe her without any factual evidence to support
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