Title: Sustainable Energy
Thesis: Given the widespread global problems that fossil fuel production/consumption has produced, it is imperative that renewable, clean, and sustainable energy technologies are implemented immediately.
Key Support:
1) One day of global oil consumption would represent a line of oil barrels long enough to circle the entire planet.
2) The United States alone uses 20 million barrels of oil every day, and only produces 5 or 6 barrels a day.
3) The invasion of Iraq by the United States was predicated under the assurance that Iraqs' military was harboring "weapons of mass destruction" (against the law of The United Nations the U.S. invaded Iraq) Not one of these weapons was found. The United States immediately seized all oil fields. Iraq has the second largest oil reserves in the world.
4) With the recent advancements in sustainable energy technologies there is no reason for theses implementations to proceed immediately
2 comments:
I think this is a good argument, but the connection with your third assertion needs to be clearer. What is the connection between the need for sustainable energy and the fact that our involvement in Iraq is dubious? Don't leave your audience to make the leap.
Referring to the first key support, natural resources are depleted everyday, but I do not know how to compare a "line of oil ... the entire planet" to how much this planet actually has of global oil in total. I don't know if this planet only has enough global oil for two more lines of oil barrels or if it has ten more lines.
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