Using a strong diction and syntax full of logic and statistics, the author, Jeff Odell, speaks on the important issue of one of the world's most populated capitals suffering from a deadly drought. The purpose of this text is to inform readers, mainly students and young adults, of all of the individuals suffering from lack of proper drinking and survival water. The author uses very strong and non-simplistic diction to emphasize his points of ethos, pathos, and logos. Odell uses ethos by giving credibility to multiple sources such as, The Washington Post and researches like Adam Welz. Appealing to pathos by relating to its mildly young audience, using tone that is a mixture of both seriousness and comical wittiness. The author tugs at the heart strings with both picture and text, expressing the stressor of mothers and young children waiting in line for a short supply of water that must be used for many everyday task, bathing, cooking, drinking, etc. Lastly, Odell uses logos more than any other rhetorical device to aid his argument given in this text. "Unless the region is hit with a few big storms in the coming months, on July 9th – a day that has become known in Cape Town as "Day Zero" – the municipal water system will be shut off and man, woman and child in the city will have to wait in line at water distribution points for their daily ration of 6.6 gallons of water. This is the first time a modern city has had to resort to such dramatic measures to deal with drinking water shortages. But thanks to climate change, it surely won't be the last." Consecutively throughout the article, the author is expressing his view points in the danger of climate change and how preparedness is the best thing for everyone, even the most advanced of countries.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-dark-lessons-of-cape-towns-drought-w517356
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