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This house supports B.C.'s ban on single use plastics.
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In July 2023, the B.C. government announced a plan to ban single use plastics offered by businesses by December 2023. Shopping bags, disposable food service accessories, and food service packaging made from hard-to-recycle plastics will be banned. Certain sectors such as healthcare will be exempted from the restriction. Plastic items for personal use (such as trash bags from grocery stores) will not be banned. Businesses must provide eco-friendly alternatives to consumers, and they are allowed to charge an extra fee for the alternative.

Junior Fall HST 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-12-01
This house would Defund Space Exploration
Junior Fall HST 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-12-01
This house prefers a world where dogs had never been domesticated.
Queen's Holiday Open 2023 · Junior Finals · 2023-12-01
This house believes that Latin American states should nationalize their hard commodities extraction industries
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A hard commodity is a natural resource that must be mined or extracted. Latin American states have significant reserves of hard commodities. These include a projected 5–10% of the world's demand for oil by 2030, and over a fifth of the global reserves for metals (silver, tin, nickel, copper, and lithium), which are used to produce green energy.

JHU Pre-WUDC 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-11-24
This house supports the expansion of low emission zones
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In low emission zones, specific regulations are enforced to reduce air pollution, primarily by limiting or restricting access to certain types of vehicles based on their emission levels. These zones often target high-pollution vehicles, such as older diesel cars, with restrictions or fees.

Diliman Debate Open 2023 · Schools Semifinals · 2023-11-24
This house opposes techno-optimist narratives
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Techno-optimism refers to the belief that all problems (social, environmental, economic) can be solved with technological progress.

JHU Pre-WUDC 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-11-24
As opposed to financing green energy start-ups, this house believes that states should financially incentivize existing fossil fuel companies' transition into green energy
Diliman Debate Open 2023 · Novice Semifinals · 2023-11-24
This house, in the fight against climate change, would take international action against countries (e.g., exclusion from international institutions, sanctions, cutting of diplomatic ties, etc.)
Western University Fall Debating Championships 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-11-03
This house prefers Renewable Energy Industry to be Exclusively Regulated by Government Investments Rather than Relying on Free Market
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Nusantara Overland Varsities English Debate Competition 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-10-28
This house believes that it is in the interest of environmental movements to prioritise policy that aims to lower the broad damage of climate change e.g lower levels of greenhouse gases and cleaner oceans at the cost of localised effects e.g extinction of endangered species and the destruction of local communities
Manchester Novices 2023 · Round 3 · 2023-10-21
This house, as a left-of-center majority government, would aggressively relax regulations on the construction of new infrastructure (e.g., environmental reviews, hiring and procurement rules, zoning restrictions, mandatory comment periods)
US Universities Debate Championship Tournament 2023 · Round 2 · 2023-10-20
That we believe that private space exploration companies (e.g. SpaceX) will do more harm than good
Primary IDC 2023 · Grand Final · 2023-10-20
This house believes that the environmental movement should prioritize advocating for anti-consumerism rather than green products
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Green products, also known as eco-friendly products or environmentally friendly products, are items or goods that have been designed, manufactured, or distributed in a way that minimizes their negative impact on the environment and human health.

Sunway Pre-Nationals 2023 · Semifinals · 2023-10-20
Makeup round motion: That environmentalists should focus their campaigning on trying to get individuals to change their behaviour, rather than on corporations or governments (e.g. trying to get people to choose better products rather than trying to lobby governments to change policies)
Primary IDC 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-10-20
This house hopes that the referendum will pass
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In the near future, the technology to move island sized landmasses has been developed. It can move any island up to the size to New Zealand. All the islands around the world are holding a referendum to merge all the islands together into a new continent.

Fictional IV 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-10-20
This house believes that the immortal witch should actively Sabotage the industrial revolution
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There exists an immortal alien at the start of the preindustrial revolution era. After traveling 2000 years into the future and back, you have developed the benefit of foresight.

Seri Iskandar Debate Open 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-10-14
Assuming feasibility, This house would adopt a uniform global carbon pricing scheme.
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Carbon pricing curbs greenhouse gas emissions by placing a fee on emitting and offering an incentive for emitting less. In the status quo, so far, 46 countries are pricing emissions through carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes and others are considering it.

Strait Debate Open 2023 · Pre-Semi Finals · 2023-10-14
This house Predicts that society will collapse by 2075.
Peter Maguire Intervarsity 2023 · Novice Finals · 2023-10-14
This house supports developing states which hold globally significant proportions of critical resources (e.g. energy resources, rare earth minerals, some agricultural goods, ores, fresh water) forming resource cartels
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A cartel is when a group of producers agree to coordinate supply of their product to the market, which means they can control prices (e.g. cutting supply to increase prices/flooding the market to decrease them). For example, OPEC is a cartel of oil-producing states that is led by Saudi Arabia.

Sydney AWGMDC 2023 · Round 4 · 2023-10-14
This house believes that developed countries should pursue a policy of degrowth.
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Degrowth involves a planned decrease in economic production and consumption within a given economy (often measured via GDP). It could involve the prioritization of fewer emissions intense industries, heavy taxes or limits on emissions, shorter work weeks, and voluntary reductions in consumer spending.

Peter Maguire Intervarsity 2023 · Round 5 · 2023-10-14