Argument Map Directory

Argument Map Directory
Argument maps are a way to organize issues (questions to be answered), ideas (alternative answers for a question), and arguments (statements that support or detract an idea or other argument).

Proposition: Solar
PRO: [America has enough money to develop solar, even if it is not cost effective now]

CON: [Solar is not nearly as cost effective as coal/oil or wind]

Proposition: Wind
PRO: [Wind has a high enough efficiency]

PRO: [Wind has a low enough production cost]

CON: [Wind is highly unreliable and takes up quite a bit of space]

Proposition: Bill Gates' Nuclear (Traveling wave reactor -- TWR)
PRO: [TWR runs off the waste created by our current reactors]

PRO: [TWR leaves very little waste behind]

PRO: [TWR reactor life is about 60 years]

PRO: [TWR is a large scale, long term solution]

Proposition: Gross National Product (GNP)
PRO: [Money eases the exchange of product and services]

CON: [GNP does not measure life satisfaction]

Proposition: Gross National Happiness (GNH)
PRO: [GNH has multidimensional poverty measures from ophi.org.uk]

CON: [GNH just measures the present environmental damage]

Proposition: Gross National Health (GNH)
PRO: [Health is both mental and physical, which is even better than just happiness]

PRO: [Details looking at health/wellbeing could be included in both GNH and GPI]

Proposition: Genuine Progress Index (GPI)
PRO: [GPI takes into account more environmental variables than GNH]

PRO: [GPI goes further than GNH to try to incorporate long term environmental damage]

CON: [GPI does not have an effective development/poverty metric]