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  • You are an author who is trying to warn against climate change. Rather than write a dystopian sci-fi novel on the aftermath of climate change this house would write a similar fantasy novel (magic brooms instead of hovercrafts spells instead of laser guns etc) where using magic slowly but irreversibly harms the Earth.

    Gemini Cup 2021 · Open Quarters · 2021-09-25

  • This house would lift patents on technologies designed to deal with environmental concerns

    Infoslide

    A patent is the granting of a property right by a sovereign authority to an inventor. this grant provides the inventor exclusive rights to the patented process, design, or invention for a designated period in exchange for a comprehensive disclosure of the invention.

    Regatta IV 2021 · 4 · 2021-09-11

  • Assuming anatomic feasibility, this house, as John Cena in his 2nd term as US President, W release a chemical which caused all animals, and their offspring, (excluding humans) to grow to random sizes, between a mouse and a double-decker bus

    International Zoo Open · 3 · 2021-09-04

  • This house would focus on adapting to the consequences of climate change rather than trying to prevent it

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    Climate change and global warming is the rapid increase in temperature on EarThis house, caused largely by human behaviour. It is an urgent issue that needs to be solved. The two most popular ways are adaptation and prevention (mitigation). Adaptation means focusing on ways humans can live with the impacts of climate rather rather than solving the problem itself. this includes protecting and strengthening food supply, building dams in areas where floods commonly occur, and other more long term plans such as space exploration. Mitigation means putting in all efforts to prevent climate change from getting worse. this includes lowering global carbon emissions through cutting meat, using renewable energy, and encouraging more sustainable ways of living in general. The two methods vary in cost, efficacy, and scale.

    Online Summer Debate Championships 2021 · 3 · 2021-08-28

  • As environmental activists this house would prioritize lobbying the government to create environmentally friendly policies (e.g. Cap and Trade banning environmentally harmful chemicals) rather than campaigning individuals to take responsibility for environmental change and change their lifestyle (e.g. reducing/recycling waste taking public transportation).

    International Relations English Competition UGM 2021 · 2 · 2021-08-24

  • This house believes that the change in the demographic of leaders has done the environmental movement more harm than good

    Shri Ram Debating Festival 2021 · 1 · 2021-08-23

  • This house believes that the culture of consumption (consumerism) does more harm than good (consumption)

    Infoslide

    Consumerism is a characteristic of a culture of consumption that is expressed in: - the acquisition of goods for the moral satisfaction of buying for the sake of shopping' and not with practical necessity. - things depreciate and become obsolete faster than they physically wear out. - reflection of the social status of the consumer."

    Школьный ЛД турнир 2021 г.Кокшетау · Open Semis · 2021-08-22

  • This house would decline to regulate firms using traditional anti-monopoly policies (e.g., breaking up firms, preventing mergers and acquisitions, etc.) and instead mandate that companies meet a threshhold of public good (including but not limited to environmental and/or social activism, providing infrastructure to underprivileged communities, establishing scholarship or educational funds, etc.) proportionate to their size.

    VIT Round Robin 2021 · 3 · 2021-08-21

  • 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 the intentional large-scale intervention in the Earth’s climate system to counter climate change. It includes techniques to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and technologies to rapidly cool the Earth by reflecting solar energy back to space.

    International Scholastic Debating Championship 2021 (Senior) · 1 · 2021-08-20

  • This house prefers a human gatherer society over an agriculture one

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    A hunter gatherer society's primary means of subsistence are wild plants and animals.They are usually nomadic and non-hierarchical. Meanwhile, agricultural society mostly relies on crops cultivation and domesticated animals for their source of food. They usually stayed in one place for a long time to develop their lands and farms

    ALSA e-Comp UI 2021 · HS Quarterfinals · 2021-08-20