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  • This house, as an environmental activist from a country with inadequate environmental regulations and movements, would take up the approach of radical environmentalism

    Infoslide

    Radical Environmentalism is typified by the idea of taking direct action in defense of Mother Nature including civil disobedience, ecotage and monkeywrenching and economic sabotage

    20th BDC-IUBAT Pre Worlds 2023 · Novice Final · 2023-10-12

  • This house would prefer national park agencies to buy up additional land for national parks rather than improving the protection and facilities at existing national parks

    Mini Gong Pre-WUDC 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-10-01

  • This house would abolish the 'right to roam' in Scotland.

    Infoslide

    The Right to Roam is a Scottish law that allows anyone to wander, cycle, swim, camp, etc in open countryside, whether the land is privately or publicly owned. This right only comes with strict responsibilities to both the ecology and community of an area.

    Edinburgh Cup 2023 · Pro-Am Finals · 2023-09-30

  • This house would legalize the licensed hunting of endangered animals

    Infoslide

    Hunting licenses are paid permits granted by the government that allow for the selective and regulated hunting of wild animals. There are annual limits placed on how many licenses are granted and how many animals a licensee may hunt.

    McGill Central Canadian Novice Championship 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-09-29

  • This house, as the progressive glacier movement, would campaign for glaciers to voluntarily acquiesce to global warming.

    Infoslide

    "For the purposes of this debate, glaciers (e.g. ice sheets, icebergs, ice shelves) have suddenly developed sentience, communication and the capacity to consciously control the pace of their melting or stop it entirely. Glaciers cannot stop the process of global warming or its other adverse consequences (e.g. sea levels may rise at a different pace, but this does not affect carbon emissions or the prevalence of bushfires). Nobody else apart from the glacier species is aware that glaciers have developed intelligent thought.”

    Zadek Debate Open 2022; Go Green! 🕺🏽🎉🥂. · Semi Finals · 2023-09-22

  • This house believes that environmental movements should support climate engineering that fundamentally alters the environment, in an attempt to combat Global Warming

    Infoslide

    Climate engineering is a deliberate and large-scale intervention in earth’s climatic system in an effort to combat Global Warming. Climate engineering may take many forms; Examples include, but are not limited to, planting large forests where none previously existed, fertilizing the ocean with iron to dramatically increase the population of algae, and increasing cloud coverage so less sunlight reaches earth’s suface.

    Zadek Debate Open 2022; Go Green! 🕺🏽🎉🥂. · Round 4 · 2023-09-22

  • This house, as the environmental movement, would prioritize advocating for the return of land rights to indigenous people as their primary environmental protection strategy

    14th CNLU Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Open Pre Semis · 2023-09-22

  • This house, as the environmental movement, would prioritise advocating for the return of land rights to indigenous people as their primary environmental protection strategy

    14th CNLU Parliamentary Debate 2023 · Novice Semifinals · 2023-09-22

  • This House, as South Africa, would prioritise investment into renewable energy over traditional forms of electricity

    Infoslide

    The South African electricity grid has experienced frequent daily power outages due to the dominance of "coal mafias", companies that control the majority of coal mines in the country and prioritise exporting high-quality coal over domestic energy needs. There is limited alternative energy infrastructure in South Africa.

    USU IV 2023 · Round 6 · 2023-09-16

  • This House believes that social movements should prioritise advocating for members of their population to actively participate in and reform existing systems rather than challenging them externally (e.g., Black Lives Matter advocating for Black Americans to join the police force, environmentalists seeking positions within corporations, queer movements advocating for integration within religions)

    USU IV 2023 · Round 1 · 2023-09-16

  • This house opposes the implementation of ecological migration.

    Infoslide

    Ecological Migration refers to the strategy of governments to relocate citizens in cities that are distressed by climate change and other environmental factors, into newer and less populated locations. Recently, China has relocated 329,000 "ecological immigrants" from the Ningxia Hui Region into 161 newly built small villages.

    Oragon Debate Cup 2023 · Quarterfinals · 2023-09-15