Australia Persuasive Speech Analysis
More than 97% of climate scientists agree that we, humans, are causing climate change by burning fossil fuels and cutting down trees. Too bad trees don’t provide us with Wi-Fi or money, we’d be planting them like crazy, unfortunately, however, they only provide us with the oxygen that we breathe. There shouldn’t be any debate about whether global warming is real or not, we know its real, there’s numerous evidence to support that, instead it should be what we’re going to do about it.
Coal, the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel, accounts for about 30% of carbon emissions, by continuing to dig up new coalmines, we are fueling climate change. Literally. It appears that the rest of the world understands this, Australia, seemingly, does not.
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The Minerals Council of Australia says ‘high quality Australian coal’ will support the development of more clean and efficient coal fired power stations in Asia. These plants are referred to as high-energy, low-emissions; they are believed to reduce carbon emissions by between 20-50%.
Now this sound good, but it isn’t necessarily new technology. Nations like Germany and Japan having been putting in high-energy, low emissions plants for the past decade or two. In fact the reason this hasn’t been adopted widely is because, according to Tim Buckley from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, “as soon as you spend 50 per cent more, building a 10 per cent more efficient, lower emissions power plant, you increase the cost of electricity.” While at the same time the cost of solar panels is dropping by 10% each year. So it’s much more logical to turn to renewable energy that is low cost and emits no carbon emissions. And even if these coal fired plants do reduce emissions by 20-50% that is still a significant amount of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere, so why have “lower” carbon emissions when you can have nil. Moreover, in order to keep warming well below 2 degrees we need to cut carbon emissions to practically zero, to put simply, “lower” emissions just isn’t good
Coal, the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel, accounts for about 30% of carbon emissions, by continuing to dig up new coalmines, we are fueling climate change. Literally. It appears that the rest of the world understands this, Australia, seemingly, does not.
On December …show more content…
The Minerals Council of Australia says ‘high quality Australian coal’ will support the development of more clean and efficient coal fired power stations in Asia. These plants are referred to as high-energy, low-emissions; they are believed to reduce carbon emissions by between 20-50%.
Now this sound good, but it isn’t necessarily new technology. Nations like Germany and Japan having been putting in high-energy, low emissions plants for the past decade or two. In fact the reason this hasn’t been adopted widely is because, according to Tim Buckley from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, “as soon as you spend 50 per cent more, building a 10 per cent more efficient, lower emissions power plant, you increase the cost of electricity.” While at the same time the cost of solar panels is dropping by 10% each year. So it’s much more logical to turn to renewable energy that is low cost and emits no carbon emissions. And even if these coal fired plants do reduce emissions by 20-50% that is still a significant amount of carbon emissions being released into the atmosphere, so why have “lower” carbon emissions when you can have nil. Moreover, in order to keep warming well below 2 degrees we need to cut carbon emissions to practically zero, to put simply, “lower” emissions just isn’t good