Naomi Klein's TED Lecture: Addicted to Risk

Naomi Klein was a very effective speaker. She spoke confidently and she was well educated about her topic. She spoke about how we [humans] are not taking care of the limited supply of natural resources that we have. She gave examples from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and then she gave example that were more close to home for her. She spoke about the tar mines that extract oil from the solid ground in Alberta. She brings in her own emotions to the topic. Her homeland is being destroyed and the people of her country are suffering because of it. This makes her very passionate about this subject. She wants something to be done and she is attempting to make people aware of this situation. I would consider her credible because the first thing she spoke about was how she spent a week at sea on a research vessel in the Gulf of Mexico. She quotes many scientists and has quite a few statistical figures that she refers to. Her visuals were very eye catching. She had a couple of jokes in there that really engaged the audience and lightened the mood of the crowd. However, she did keep it very professional and stayed on topic at all times. What made her speech so effective is how she kept the audience engaged and used the information that she has clearly spent a lot of time researching in a way that was understandable. She didn't make it too much about science. The average person could have come to her seminar and understood completely what she was speaking about. The people in the audience did not have to be scientists to get her message that she was portraying.