Read the excerpt from Greta Thunberg’s speech at the United Nations Climate Action Summit. The claim in this excerpt is that current efforts to reduce CO2 emissions are ineffective. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us—we who have to live with the consequences. To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5 degrees global temperature rise—the best odds given by the [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]—the world had 420 gigatons of CO2 left to emit back on January 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.
Answer
A
It creates logos by using data and evidence on climate change.
B
It creates kairos by including a specific date by which changes must be made in order to be effective.
C
It creates pathos by inciting an emotional response to the low levels of CO2 left to emit.
D
It creates ethos by revealing the speaker’s research on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.