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The purpose of this analysis is to investigate how communication can convey its messages inorder to convince. Climate change is a multi-faceted problem with unique challenges, onekey challenge being the disconnect of opinions between the public, scientists and the politicalsphere. One part of this challenge is effectively communicating the scientific consensus to thepublic. To better understand how visual rhetoric can be deployed in climate changecommunication this essay analyzes a WWF campaign from 2010, which consists of 6 images.The theoretical basis for this analysis is primarily visual rhetoric but also includes theoriesfrom comics and sequential storytelling due to the nature of the images being analyzed.Through its analysis this essay concludes that visual rhetoric is an important and powerfultool for graphic designers amongst others that can be used to reframe and include the viewerin the meaning making process to persuade them, which is especially important in thequestion of climate change.

This dissertation examines social, political, and cultural dimensions of displacement, resettlement planning, and climate change adaptation policy experimentation along Louisiana’s Gulf Coast. I draw upon four years of ethnographic research alongside Isle de Jean Charles Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribal leaders, during a period just before and after their resettlement plans garnered $48 million in federal financial support. Through participant observation and interviews with Tribal leaders, their allies, media-makers who covered the Tribe’s experiences, and state planners tasked with administering the federal funds, I examined social encounters produced as the Tribe’s resettlement plans were embraced, circulated, and transformed throughout international media and policy. My analysis points to a number of tensions expressed as Tribal community-driven efforts to address historically produced vulnerabilities collided with government efforts to reduce exposure to coastal environmental hazards. I describe how policies, planning practices, and particular constructions of disaster and community encumbered Tribal leaders’ long-standing struggle for recognition, self-determination and sovereignty, land, and cultural survival. Ultimately, I argue that the state’s allocation of federal resettlement funds has reproduced a colonial frontier dynamic whereby redevelopment is rested upon the erasure of Indigenous histories; identities; and ongoing struggles for self- determination, land, and cultural survival. Using ethnography to interrogate the social encounters produced through adaptation may inform policies, planning processes, and activism in solidarity with those already regenerating social and ecological relationships threatened by racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and climate change. / Anthropology