There is only one earth, if we don't treat it with the respect it deserves today it could disappear tomorrow. With all the environmentally dangerous things we do, big changes need to happen to ensure this doesn't happen. Pollution of air, water and soil occurs every day. One of the main substances used by the vast majority of the planet today are fossil fuels. Burning these fuels, like coal or oil, gives us the power to be the productive people we are today, but it is having a lasting effect on our mother earth. There are many solutions bouncing around in the minds of many today, solar energy, hydroelectric energy and windmills. These solutions, like many others, come with a number of problems, such as the fact that they are expensive to set up, they are not possible in every location, and energy production would vary with climate change. Nuclear energy, on the other hand, has the potential to be very efficient and the sooner it is adopted in the world today on a large scale, the better it will be for us. Both the Union of Concerned Scientists in “Nuclear Energy is an Environmentally Bad Way to Reduce Pollution” and Peter Schwartz and Spencer Reise in “Nuclear Energy is the Best Way to Address Global Warming” they both advocate their possible solutions to preserve the planet, but as you can see from the headlines they use two completely different approaches. What is more valuable today, people's lives or the life of the planet? Arguments on this topic could go both ways, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) wrote in “Nuclear energy is an environmentally harmful way to reduce pollution” that people should be maxim worry. If the United States were to produce a large amount of plants, it would cost quite a bit of paper solutions in a better way. Works Cited Schwartz, Peter and Reise, Spencer. “Nuclear energy is the best way to tackle global warming” The environment. Louise Gerdes, ed. Opposite Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. Peter Schwartz and Spencer Reise, “Nuclear Now!: How Clean, Green Atomic Energy Can Stop Global Warming,” WIRED, vol. 13, February 2005. Copyright © 2005 Conde Nast Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Reproduced with permission. WebUnion of interested scientists. “Nuclear energy is an environmentally harmful way to reduce pollution.” The environment. Louise Gerdes, ed. Opposite Viewpoints® Series. Greenhaven Press, 2009. Union of Concerned Scientists, “Nuclear Energy and Global Warming,” Union of Concerned Scientists: Position Paper, March 2007, pp. 1-4. Copyright © 2007 Union of Concerned Scientists. Reproduced with permission. Net..