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Does the World Need Nuclear Energy?


The debate I watched was a Ted Talk about nuclear energy. It was a debate between 3 different people. The debate started by taking a vote to see how much of the audience supported nuclear energy and how much of the audience despised it. One of the speakers has a use of ethos, by telling about his background to make him seem much more smart and credible. They also used pathos to effect the audience's emotion by telling of all of the negative side effects of nuclear energy. They used a lot of data charts to show that what they were talking about which helped a lot. I personally think that we should try to be more eco-friendly with our energy. Nuclear energy is extremely harmful to the environment. I think that we should switch to wind energy, or even solar energy. Wind energy may take up a lot of space, and solar energy may be expensive but they would both be so much better for the environment. At the end of the video they asked people to raise their hands if they changed their minds about how they feel about nuclear energy and not many did.
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  1. AnonymousMay 2, 2017 at 4:44 PM

    I see your analysis of the talk is valid. However, your knowledge on the subject appears to be a little lackluster.

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  2. AnonymousMay 10, 2017 at 5:42 PM

    Nuclear energy is a very good topic to debate. I am not very knowledgeable of it, however if it is as harmful as the speakers say, it may be time to switch to other energy sources.

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