Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: newton pc | Judge: hever arjon
The first reason is that the Private Space Industry is increasing rocket launches which releases pollutants and quickens climate change.
Gammon 21 Katharine Gammon 7-19-2021 "How the billionaire space race could be one giant leap for pollution" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jul/19/billionaires-space-tourism-environment-emissions (I'm an award-winning independent science journalist based in Santa Monica, California. My interests range from culture and nature in public lands to the lives of scientists to the complexity of baby brains. Before I became a professional journalist, I served in the Peace Corps in Bulgaria, and attended MIT and Princeton University.)Jia Recut
Last week Virgin Galactic took Richard Branson past the edge of space, roughly 86
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to act is now – while the billionaires are still buying their tickets."
Tereza 21 ~Tereza; June 07, 2021; Bachelor's in Journalism and Master's in Cultural Anthropology from Prague's Charles University, Master's in Science from the International Space University. Space.com, "Air pollution from reentering megaconstellation satellites could cause ozone hole 2.0," https://www.space.com/starlink-satellite-reentry-ozone-depletion-atmosphere~~
Chemicals released as defunct satellites burn in the atmosphere could damage Earth's protective ozone layer
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of satellites expected to be burning in the atmosphere on a daily basis.
Letzing 21, John Letzing, Digital Editor, Strategic Intelligence, World Economic Forum, How many space launches does it take to have a serious climate impact?, https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/what-s-the-climate-impact-of-space-exploration/ (accessed 2/18/22)
As space launches proliferate related climate concerns may grow. The success of two recent
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of causing the loss of 5 or more of Antarctic sea ice.
UN 20 UN Climate and Clean Air Coalition, 2020, Why we need to act now, https://www.ccacoalition.org/en/content/why-we-need-act-now (accessed 2/10/22)
It is not enough to act. We must act now. Delayed efforts to
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, and making significant contributions to achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.
Climate change is our top priority – it causes extinction and worsens all impacts
Kennedy and Sharp 21 Ted Kennedy and Robert Sharp, Ted Kennedy is a sustainability professional with over 25 years of experience in clean energy and climate change: 11 years with the World Bank Group in financing, policy, and development of renewable energy projects, 8 years with Endesa/Enel developing carbon portfolios, and consulting firms. Robert Sharp was an assistant at the National Defense University and then Associate Professor specializing in security sector reform, stability operations and counterterrorism with a focus on the Middle East. Founder and Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Quality Assurance Advisor at the UAE National Defence College, Coffey International Development consultant as the Academic Advisor and Programme Manager with the Unites States Security Coordinator, 8-22-2014, Climate Change and Implications for National Security, https://intpolicydigest.org/climate-change-implications-national-security/, 10-18-2021
Over the 250 years carbon fuels have enabled tremendous technological advances including a population growth
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, but in human time it is (was) slow and incremental.