Please read and answer the below questions as per the guideline As I sit down to

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Please read and answer the below questions as per the guideline

As I sit down to write this column, one thing keeps coming to me over and over: “Now is the time; now is the time.” In the New Testament the word used for this type of time is kairos. It means “right or opportune moment.” It is contrasted with chronos, or chronological time as measured in seconds, days, months, or years. In the New Testament kairos is usually associated with decisive action that brings about deliverance or salvation. The reason the phrase, “Now is the time” kept coming to me over and over is that I was thinking of how to describe our current climate change moment. The world has been plodding along in chronological time on the problem of climate change since around 1988. No more. Simply put: the problem of climate change has entered kairos time; its kairos moment has arrived. How long will it endure? Until the time of decisive action to bring about deliverance comes—or, more ominously, until the time when the opportunity for decisive action has passed us by. Which will we choose? Because we do have a choice. —Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D., “It’s Kairos Time for Climate Change: Time to Act,” Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly (Summer 2008), 28.

Emotional appeals made to the reader

•Does the argument rely on appeals to emotion? Or is it more brainy and logical?

•Does the argument manipulate or inform through the use of emotion?

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“It’s Kairos Time for Climate Change: Time to Act,”

The article given above discuss the right time to act against the climate change. The writer of the above article has used a term called KAIROS which means right time or right moment. The article says that now is the right time to tackle the climate change otherwise it will be late. If we don’t begin to address climate change in a substantive way soon, then the opportunity for decisive action will be passed.

Does the argument rely on appeals to emotion? Or is it more brainy and logical?

“Now is the time; now is the time.” In the New Testament the word used for this type of time is kairos. It means “right or opportune moment.”

The article definitely relies upon appeals to emotion as the writer has described his emotional appeal for the environment through the phrase used ‘now is the time’. Different person has different emotional appeal towards the environment but the writer has attached his emotional environmental concern which makes a person more concerned towards the climate change. The writer also says that the world has been plodding along in chronological time on the problem of climate change since around 1988, but still no substantive solution has come out.

Does the argument manipulate or inform through the use of emotion?

The argument tries to inform through the emotion of the writer.

No more. Simply put: the problem of climate change has entered kairos time; its kairos moment has arrived. How long will it endure? Until the time of decisive action to bring about deliverance comes—or, more ominously, until the time when the opportunity for decisive action has passed us by. Which will we choose?

By looking at the text of article we can say that the writer tries to make an informative argument that the right time has come, now is the time to act against climate change of environment. The efforts of the writer show that time will pass and situation will become more worst. He tries to inform us through his emotions that Kairos moment has arrived. Therefore, it’s in our hand whether we act on right time or will act when this opportunity will be passed.

References:

Rev. Jim Ball, Ph.D., “It’s Kairos Time for Climate Change: Time to Act,” Creation Care: A Christian Environmental Quarterly (Summer 2008), 28.

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