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  • B: That environmentalist movements should cease opposition to the Thacker Pass Lithium mine

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    B: Thacker Pass is the site of the largest lithium deposit in the United States. There are fears that mining the deposit may displace indigenous groups and damage the local environment. Thacker Pass is not near any major population centres.

    Monash Easters 2022 · Round 4 · 2022-05-17

  • A: That all green energy policies should be source neutral

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    A: A source neutral policy does not favour any one particular energy source over another, providing a common regulatory framework, approvals process and tax treatment to all sources that meet the requisite environmental standards (Eg Carbon Neutrality).

    Monash Easters 2022 · Round 4 · 2022-05-17

  • This house believes that all new public transportation contracts should only be awarded to fully electric bids

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    Public transit is a system of vehicles used to transport a mass of people from one place to another such as trains and buses. An electric bid means that a public transportation vehicle uses electricity as its primary source of energy generation in order to function.

    Korea Junior Nationals 2022 · 4 · 2022-04-21

  • This house believes that social media platforms should censor all materials that promotes eco-fascism.

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    Eco-Facism can be defined as a political ideology which blames the demise of the environment on overpopulation, immigration, and over-industrialization. Eco fascists are identified as nature obsessed people, who in a bid to protect the environment support very radical means of racial purity through Eugenics and deep ecology (the idea that the only way to preserve life on Earth is to dramatically—forcefully, if necessary—reduce the human population).

    Zimbabwe Easters Debating Championships 2022 · 3 · 2022-03-31

  • This house believes that the Predators of Farthing Wood should continue to follow 'The Code' with regards to the Prey of Farthing Wood at Blue Wolf National Park

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    Farthing Wood was a forest in the South West of England. It has recently been turned into a housing estate. All of the animals who previously lived there decided to move to Blue Wolf National Park as their new home. For safety on this journey, they all decided upon 'The Code'. 'The Code' dictates that none of the predator animals (foxes, badgers, weasels, etc.) are to eat any of the prey animals (mice, rabbits, pheasants etc.) in the group until they reach Blue Wolf. After months of travelling together and peril-filled stories, they reach Blue Wolf and are homed safely with the animals who already live in the park.

    Severn Cup 2022 · Gold Final · 2022-03-26

  • This house believes that the American government should increase the gas tax and direct the revenue towards modernizing and expanding public transport.

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    In the US, the vast majority of revenue earned from the gas tax is earmarked for public transit and infrastructure projects, such as highway and bridge construction.

    Cornell Novice Nationals 2022 · Quarterfinals · 2022-02-12

  • This house believes that most of the budgets of developing countries in the field of environment should be spent on fossil fuel technology and not on ecosystem adaptation.

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    Ecosystem based adaptation: Ecosystem based adaptation is a way to help people adapt to the adverse effects of climate change. These include sustainable ecosystem conservation (e.g. planting) and sustainable management (recycling) to mitigate the adverse effects of climate change. Fossil fuel technology: Fossil fuel technology is a commercially effective technology that helps convert fossil fuels and organic matter into useful products, including electricity, without emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. this parliament believes that most of the budgets of developing countries in the field of environment should be spent on fossil fuel technology and not on ecosystem adaptation.

    16th Parliamentary Debate Competition 2022 · 4 · 2022-02-02

  • This house as the US Federal Government would return the National Parks to indigenous tribes.

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    The National Parks System has often been called America's best idea but that idea came at a cost - the cost of 85 million acres that once belonged to Native Americans. David Treuer argues that the federal government should give those acres back. Treuer is himself a Leech Lake Ojibwe.

    Fred Scheller Forensics Invitational 2022 BP Debate · 4 · 2022-01-28

  • This house believes that the environmental movement should abandon the narrative of personal responsibility in favor of one which emphasizes institutional accountability

    Asia Schools Open - Winter 2022 · U16 Finals · 2022-01-16

  • This house believes that the environmental movement should abandon the narrative of personal responsibility in favor of one which emphasizes institutional accountability

    Asia Schools Open - Winter 2022 · Open Semis · 2022-01-16

  • This house as the Chief W transition the tribe from nomadic hunter gatherers to sedentary farmers.

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    It is 8000 years into the past and you are the leader of a hunter gatherer tribe. Someone in your village comes back from an expedition where they say they found a small village who was growing grains and vegetables in fields. They have both brought back sufficient seeds to make it through to the first harvest and found a suitable patch of land in a defensible location to grow it in. For the purposes of this debate you have the knowledge of a random nomadic chief.

    Winter Carnival 2022 · 2 · 2022-01-14

  • This house would introduce a quota for climate change refugees, where refugees are allocated in proportion to countries’ carbon emissions

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    Carbon dioxide emissions or CO2 emissions are emissions stemming from the burning of fossil fuels and other process, they include carbon dioxide produced during consumption of solid, liquid, and gas fuels as well as gas flaring. Carbon dioxide is largely associated with global warming and its regulation have been the target of environmental policies.

    Asia Schools Open - Spring 2022 · 4 · 2022-01-14

  • This house prefers a world where no one consumes meat

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    Lying flat denotes a philosophy in contemporary Chinese social discourse that calls upon individuals to accept the vicissitudes of life, resign them from seeking to agitate or push for a better life, and to take life as it comes

    Windsor Juniors Debating Competition 2022 · 3 · 2022-01-09

  • This house believes that scientists should not bring dinosaurs back to life

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    This debate assumes that scientists have the technology to recreate and hatch eggs of previously-extinct dinosaur species.

    Asia Junior Championships 2022 · 5 · 2022-01-01

  • This house believes that the environmental movement ought to publicly support anti-natalist groups.

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    Antinatalism is the belief that it is morally wrong or unjustified for people to have children

    Malaysian National Schools WSDC 2022 · 4 · 2022-01-01