Episode 2 - After the Leaders Event

Tom and Michael discuss speeches given by the UK's Boris Johnson and Antigua & Barbuda's Gaston Brown. We see how they use personal pronouns to present very different 'leader' personas and how we can see contrasting conceptions of climate change through their use of metaphor. Sound bite of the day comes from Alexandria Villaseñor's tweet on limits to access experienced by civil society delegates at the COP.

Gaston Brown Speech

Boris Johnson Speech

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