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THE Manila Times' most recent forum, this one on the broad topic of 'sustainability,' was held on Thursday, April 18, and as I prepared to set off to engage in my discussion moderator duties, an interestingly coincidental article appeared in my morning news feed: an opinion piece by Dan Gearino, a senior writer and editor for Inside Climate News who specializes in 'the business side of the clean-energy transition,' musing on the somewhat ironic subject, 'Is it time to...

Gearino's argument, in a nutshell, is that 'clean energy' and similar climate-related buzzwords are not well-defined enough to prevent them from being used in a potentially detrimental way.No form of energy is 'clean' if you look at it comprehensively. Take nuclear energy, for example, which is often touted as 'clean energy' because when it is used to generate electricity, the only thing it emits is water vapor.

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