Essay Prompt: The United Nations Environmental Program has learned that you have been studying this topic and has invited you to speak at the next United Nations General Assembly, September, 2024. You will be introduced by the Secretary General as a ‘speaker from the future’. You have been scheduled for a prime speaking slot in the afternoon on day 2 (September 11th, 2024), immediately after the Ambassador from China and before the Ambassador from the United States. Your lifetime will witness our collective success or failure in addressing climate change. You have been asked to give a speech that is based in the known science and policies of climate change from the perspective of someone who will be 70 in 2075. The adults in front of you will be crafting your future.
You have been given a 10 minute speaking slot. At the average speaking rate of 130 words per minute you need a roughy 1,500 word speech.
Your goal for your speech is to compel the assembled countries, but specifically China and the U.S., to begin a global process to address climate change seriously in the next 15 years.
Write this speech.