How Did Arnold Shwarzenegger Improve The Status Of Climate Change

Former governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, in his address about global climate change (September 24, 2007), coaxes his audience to improve the status of climate change. He effectively projects his encouragements by using different repeating strategies, self-inclusive pronouns and questioning the audience. Schwarzenegger’s purpose was to gain the approval from the other United Nations leaders to join California in changing the way they reduce global climate change. He establishes an influential tone for the United Nations leaders for their support. Schwarzenegger includes many repeating words and repeating sounds within his speech. Simply in his opening he slips in an anaphora, “something revolutionary, something historic and transformative.” The audience hears these repeating words and can understand them clearly. When Schwarzenegger uses this type of strategy, the listener is …show more content…
He consistently uses self-inclusive pronouns within the entire speech. He uses ‘We’ to give the crowd the image of not just California is improving but he too is included within this movement. ‘We’ also gives a sense of power and unitedness such as when he says, “We generate one of every four U.S. patents, and we attract almost half of all U.S. venture capital.” Reading and hearing we just makes everything feel connected and flowing. Throughout his speech he supports his claim by including what California is doing as a whole, including him, to improve things. He lists ways California is improving and trying to include other countries within this movement, “Now we’re not doing this alone. While California is leading the U.S., we are building on the work of the European countries who have led the way up until now and have done extraordinary work.” He uses two ‘we’s’ in just that one sentence, these personal pronouns are now making the statement seem personal to him and it should be personal to the audience