How To Speak Up About Earth: Tactics

What makes a good speech especially when protesting for something better? What makes an idea click in the audience's mind as you talk about the environment and how urgent action is needed?

Whether you're sending an environmental petition to the government, trying to organize a poem about Earth to encourage others to cooperate for an eco - friendly future or designing an essay about Earth in a magazine or simply writing a speech to let your words be heard about the environment, having good persuasive skills would definitely help you gather people's attention.

These are some skills you might want to use:

1. Be brief. One key tactic every persuasive speaker or writer should use is make their essay/poem/story/speech/letter brief. If you wrote twenty paragraphs on the same topic or droned on and on about the same thing, people would eventually get tired of reading it and just stop, and your message would be more unclear and a bit boring.

2. Keep it positive. If you kept a negative tone the entire way through, people would feel more hopeless and eventually accept our situation as if that's the current reality and there's nothing they could do about it. Soon, they would forget it. Instead, present the audience with key facts they probably never heard about before about the before and after effects on the environment, but squeeze in some positive things too, such as 'if we all work together wholeheartedly for an eco - friendly future, we can divert this situation to the right direction.'

3. Put as many video footage and images in as possible. Sometimes, the person/people you direct your message to might not get the situation as much as you can with just words. Providing camera footage of ice speedily melting, coral dying over the years, wildfires happening and burning down forests and providing images of deteriorating wildlife can give the audience a direct visual of what's really happening. It's one of the things people most take out of an essay, a story, a poem or a speech: the visuals. The quote, 'an image is worth a thousand words' really is true when it comes to this.

4. Speak with purpose and emotion. If you're speaking, speak like you really care about the topic and don't just state the facts. You can easily notice that when you watch people talk, you can feel the emotion and personal empathy the speaker has by their tone. If you're writing, put some emotion into the article/essay/poem/story.

5. Make it personal and relatable. Sharing your past experiences and bonds with nature and overall your connections and personal relationship with it makes whatever you're speaking or writing about more relatable. Not only that, but you can also connect to the audience. Know who's reading your item or hearing it, and design your document based on what they can relate to as well. If you're writing a speech to present to people in California, for instance, don't only talk about your past experiences with nature but talk about current issues such as the California wildfires.

To conclude, there are many ways to spread your message, but if you really want that message to be heard about the Earth and people to be persuaded enough to take some action, these are some highly effective ways to make that possible.

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