Sunday,
October 18,
2020

Resolution

To combat climate change, the world's nations must make it their highest priority to completely replace the burning of fossil fuels within the next 20 years.

For the affirmative:

Jeff Nesbit is the author “THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS: How Droughts and Die-Offs, Heat Waves and Hurricanes Are Converging on America.” He’s executive director of Climate Nexus, a non-profit that works on climate and clean energy solutions. He was the director of legislative and public affairs at the National Science Foundation during the Bush and Obama administrations, where he helped craft the legislative and strategy that led to the passage of the bipartisan America COMPETES Act. He was also FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s public affairs chief at the Food and Drug Administration, where he was instrumental in the agency’s successful efforts to regulate the tobacco industry and ban the marketing of cigarettes to children.

For the negative:

Bjorn Lomborg is the author of "FALSE ALARM: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor and Fails to Fix the Planet." He's president of the Copenhagen Consensus Center and visiting professor at Copenhagen Business School. The Copenhagen Consensus Center is a think-tank that researches the smartest ways to do good. For this work, Lomborg was named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world. His numerous books include "The Skeptical Environmentalist", "Cool It", and "How to Spend $75 Billion to Make the World a Better Place". Lomborg is a frequent commentator in print and broadcast media, for outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Guardian, CNN, FOX, and the BBC.