Al Gore WeDay speech review

 

Al Gore was an environmentalist and was a proud former vice president of the United States. Al Gore gave a speech at the Winnipeg 2012 WeDay about his focus on climate change. In my opinion, Al was trying to send a message to explain that there needs to be change in our society and maybe even our laws. Al's main focus was to show everybody just how much damage we have done to the Earth already and that it was not too late to change our ways.

 

In my own opinion, the best way to start of a speech was to connect with the audience and get them exited and full of energy. The reason for this was that it would attract Al's audience and would keep his audience from the barrier of thinking his speech was uninteresting. Al kicked of his speech by connecting with his audience with sports, and Al talked about different teams to get the crowds fuelled with energy that would last throughout his whole entire speech. To top of all that, Al got the crowd even more excited when he talked about his experience with Kreg Keilburger, Al said that every single person in the crowd was making a difference in our world.

 

After Al got everybody ecstatic to listen to his speech,  he told his message to the audience that everybody could make a difference in our world, and they just have to reach out furthermore speak out to transform our world into a better place for all living organisms. Al constantly repeated this message to the audience for the idea to sink in and make the crowd truly understand that our generation was the change and we must make our voices heard. As an environmentalist, Al focused on one of the biggest problems in our world, climate change. Al wanted to put an emphasis on the idea that this problem had to be solved now, and to make that emphasis Al used several very shocking facts about the damage we have done to the Earth in the last few years. A few of Als facts were, 90 million tons of pollution go into our Earth’s atmosphere every single year. This year, floods in Pakistan drove 20 million people out of their homes. In Thailand, one third of the land is underwater. In Columbia, there is 5 times more rain this year than the average year. When Al tells all of these facts, it made his speech leave an impact in everyone’s mind.

 

Al once again repeats that our generation could make a change. Al told us, if we want to change our Earth into a better place we need to speak out, and make our voices heard. He said that if we were going to help out our planet, we were going to put a price on carbon and switch to renewable energy and use more solar, wind, geothermal and hydro energy. I personally believe, we the children have a very big role in this action. As Al said, we may have to change our laws and what better way to do it than making our generations voices heard and to try to make a change.

 

Al's speech had made me realize that there had to be change and the change had to start now. For everyone that is reading this, I hope you to have understood Al's message and would carry it out to everyone you know. I encourage Al to keep on changing our world as an environmentalist, and continue to inspire young and pure minds such as myself.  Keep up the amazing work Al Gore, and furthermore good luck to all of you out there who are trying to make a difference.