TED Talk Response #4

Rose George talks about sanitation problems in her TED talk. She talks about how serious of an issue it is, and how she thinks that the solution to it is to talk about it. She said that diarrhea is the number one cause of child mortality, and we don't widely know that because we don't talk about toilets and defecating. Rose's speaking technique is sort of a half beg half protest. She states facts boldly. Then she asks the audience to do something about it, in this case talk about toilets more often. Her presentation style uses pictures to enhance what she was talking about. She told her audience that people in third world countries often didn't have a toilet to use. That didn't sound harsh enough so she put up a picture of a child crapping next to a freeway in India. This is actually an extremely important subject. Poop is a major cause of death in many places in the world. Even though a lot of money is being put into clean sanitized water, almost none is put into installing toilets, which can be as simple as a hole in the ground.