I decided to defend my argument through posters and propaganda-like strategies.

The first of these images is made to look like an ad of some sort. It opens a dialogue about the relationship between America’s gluttonous consumer-nature and the floating mass of garbage that has collected in the middle of the Pacific Ocean – which, ultimately, is a direct result of consumerism in a sense. The fact that Americans are so prone to purchasing means that we end up buying things as replacements for perfectly fine household items and etc. This leads us to create more trash, and with nowhere to put the trash it ends up in our oceans. Other countries are experiencing similar repercussions, so in seeing this image they’ll be notified that the two do correlate, and be more likely to buy in.

The second of the two images is another poster in the same exact style, this time sporting a picture of a factory emitting harmful gases into the atmosphere and a polar bear leaping from one iceberg to the next. The text reads, “NO CORRELATION? THINK AGAIN.” and “CLIMATE CHANGE IS HAPPENING, AND YOU SHOULD BE ALARMED.” This image is supposed to evoke emotion in the viewer, as the picture of the polar bear is sad to see (since the ice caps are melting). Most effective climate change ads feature imagery as such. It also makes the viewer think there is something they don’t know; so other countries will be reeled in through that method.

Both of these ads, while minimalistic and simple, also get across a message: that climate change is happening, and you should be alarmed.