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Introduction: Think about your situation/Kairos
My overall purpose is to persuade the audience of the benefits of following the Pope's call to action. Therefore I have to introduce the Pope's encyclical, speeches, and overall situation to make sure the audience is aware of the extent of the context. The Pope works as both the catalyst of inspiring conversation in both my essay and across the major governments of the world. My genre requires that the first section be written in a very storytelling voice and amount of description.
Major Supporting Arguments:
- Climate change effects the lower classes the most dramatically all across the world. Changing the human waste culture is one of the cheapest and most effective ways to save lives and the planet.
- Changing waste habits can be done on the individual and commercial scale; simply monitoring and trying to reduce waste on any scale is a positive.
- It is a motion of charity, goodwill, and responsibility to help the entire population of the present and the future by trying to minimize the negative human effect on the climate.
- The many political parties could actually become united on an issue, which may eliminate some tensions and productive policy making.
Major Rebuttal Arguments:
- The Pope is a religious figure who should not be involved in such a political subject, which makes his argument invalid.
- The Catholic church and the world has other more pressing issues to deal with first.
- Climate change is happening at a catastrophic scale now, so humans don't have that big of an impact.
- The divide between the political parties is too great and nothing will ever get done.
- Climate change is too big to deal with.
Main sections:
I. The Pope
- Descriptive storytelling: The Pope's speeches and journey as the super pope.
- Explain why the Pope is such an unexpected advantage to environmental activism
II. How the public currently deals with climate change
- The national governments: why the political split is such a devastating blow to productivity and the lives of the lower class especially.
- The general public: why the public opinion and search of the environment has dwindled and why climate change is important to all ages, religions, political parties, demographics, etc.
III. How the public can and should help reduce waste
- What can/needs to be reduced
- How and why it can/needs to be reduced
- The importance of trying to help future generations and the potential to save millions of lives.
Evidence: (Starting point)
- Forbes data of news on climate change
- UN sustainable goals - Paris conference
- Crux: Catholic perspective on the Pope
Conclusion: Positive Consequences
The overall point of the project is to inspire people to look beyond the divisive state of religion and politics and realize that reducing the human negative impact on the planet will save lives. Reducing waste is the most cost-effective and simply effective way to minimize dramatic climate changes in the future. Although an individual might not see climate change effecting them in their daily lives, there are areas all across the world facing very real dilemmas. I will be detailing these notes and other positive consequences in my conclusion.
REFLECTION:
I commented on Chelsea and Laurence's Project 3 outlines. Chelsea included quite a few arguments and rebuttals in her outline, while Laurence's was a bit more short and sweet. However both of them did have a very concise outline. This shorter outline with the general process determined by the D2L assignment seems to have worked well for them. I had been messing with the format to try to cater it more to my genre, to minimal success. It was turning into a mush of planning and a lot of pre-writing before the actual project. It has since been shortened, but after reading some other examples. Hopefully I will now have much more time to spend on my actual draft.
Hi Mira! I enjoyed reading over your Project 3 Outline and your Considering Visual Elements posts. It seems like you know exactly where you're going with your argument and you know what you want to incorporate, as well, like images and essential information. Good job!!
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