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  • This House, as the environmental movement, would actively demonize individuals that perform moral offsetting

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    Moral offsetting is a phenomenon where after one indulges in dubious moral behaviour, they would aim to offset it by doing an objective moral right. In the context of environmental activism, an example of moral offsetting can be an individual donating to charity after not recycling, or taking an environmentally unfriendly mode of transport.

    Taiwan Schools Debate Challenge 2022 · Open Quarterfinals · 2022-10-05

  • This House Supports the developing world's claim to the "Right to burn"

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    Right to burn is the right to use carbon and carbon related products to grow a country's economy. Historically western developed nations or their predecessors have through processes such as the industrial revolution, been able to amass wealth and develop better economies at the cost of polluting the environment.

    Habib Worlds Schools Debating Championship 2022 · Semifinals · 2022-09-09

  • This house believes that environmental group should prioritize environmental advocacy surrounding institutional shift in foreign policy (politically stabilizing environmentally rich regions, demillitarization/denuclearization, indigenous/east african liberation) as opposed to economic/production focus efforts (development of green tech, carbon tax, csr, etc)

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    USU Open 2022 · 3 · 2022-08-20

  • This house believes that environmentalists should emphasize blaming large corporations for environment degradation, as opposed to focusing on individual responsibility

    Rahat - The Fundraiser Debate · Round 6 · 2022-08-04

  • This house would require the consent of local communities for the construction of national/transnational infrastructure placed through them

    Rahat - The Fundraiser Debate · Round 3 · 2022-08-04

  • This house would retroactively apply environmental laws and regulations to corporations

    Rahat - The Fundraiser Debate · Round 6 · 2022-08-04

  • This House believes that areas with severe land shortages should ban burials

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    World Schools Debate Open 2022 · National Teams Finals · 2022-07-30

  • This House believes that the Hong Kong government should ban and crack down on the sale of endangered animal parts

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    In Asia, endangered animal parts such as rhino horn, bear bile, and shark fins are highly in demand and consumed for medicinal or cultural reasons. Many of these parts pass through Hong Kong, either for domestic consumption or for transport to the Chinese and Japanese markets. Some of this is legal, for example shark fin soup, while the government simply turns a blind eye to the trafficking of other goods.

    World Schools Debate Open 2022 · National Teams Semifinals · 2022-07-30

  • This House Believes That the environmental movement should take more radical action in the fight against climate change (e.g., blocking roads, vandalism, blowing up pipelines etc.)

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    WUDC Belgrade 2022 · Partial Double-Octofinals · 2022-07-20

  • This House advocates human colonization of outer space.

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    For the purposes of this debate, colonisation is the act of occupying the new land and establishing new infrastructure such as homes, offices and power grids for electricity (much like you would if wanted to create your own country in a new world)! Outer space is the space outside of the earth including the planets, stars, and the space between the planets

    Asia Schools Open BP 2022 · 4 · 2022-07-02