Paul Gliding’s speech “The Earth is Full” on TEDX is certainly inspiring that seek to raise awareness of the effect of Global warming and over consumptions in the world today. For me, Paul Gliding speech mainly uses metaphors and deeply describes how the world would end up if we continue our destructive behaviors to the environment. Unlike many speeches about Global Warming, Gliding decides to not provide any scientific data or statistical analysis to illustrate his point. Instead, he simply want the audience to imagine the future when our earth begins to die and unable to sustain overwhelming human activities. Despite how he decide to just make the speech fill with flowery, descriptive and philosophical languages, I believe he is just trying to use some emotional appeal to awaken some of the public who, even with so much scientific evidences provided, decides to believe that global warming is not real. I certainly agree with Gliding that this is a serious issue that if we don’t do something about it, nature will come back and destroy us. However, I believe simply talk about the effects is not enough. Gliding fails to make any suggestion of how to solve this urgent issue or at least talk about some of the programs that aware people tried to do to save the environment which are beginning to bring some positive effects in solving the issue. For me, Paul Gliding is inflating his speech with some fancy language and metaphors without solid content that seek to solve the issue at hand.
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