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  • This house supports efforts towards preserving biological diversity over alleviating direct animal suffering

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    Preserving Biological Diversity means protecting the variety of species and ecosystems e.g. preventing extinction, maintaining diverse ecosystems, and encouraging traditional natural balance of species. Alleviating Direct Animal Suffering means prioritizing the immediate well-being of individual animals, such as preventing pain and injury (in practices like factory farming).

    Queen's High School Tournament 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-04-13

  • This house prefers a world where all environmental action pushed solely for carbon reductions rather than carbon offsets

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    A carbon offset is a means of compensating for one's carbon emissions by engaging in an activity that decreases the same amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Examples include purchasing and sustaining forest land or deploying carbon capture and storage technology.

    Ateneo Debate Open Pre-UADC 2025 · Schools Semifinals · 2025-04-12

  • This house regrets the rapid urbanization of provincial areas in the Greater Manila Area

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    The Greater Manila Area [GMA], also known as NCR Plus, encompasses Metro Manila but also predominantly suburban neighboring provinces of Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal. In recent years, the GMA has experienced rapid urbanizaton, characterized by the development of new infrstructure. For example, development conglomerates have created premium residential villages and leisure malls, often targetting higher-income buyers. In areas such as Bulacan, modernization programs are being implemented onto existing crops and fields. "

    Ateneo Debate Open Pre-UADC 2025 · Open Grand Final · 2025-04-12

  • This house prefers a world where all environmental action pushed solely for carbon reductions rather than carbon offsets

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    A carbon offset is a means of compensating for one's carbon emissions by engaging in an activity that decreases the same amount of carbon in the atmosphere. Examples include purchasing and sustaining forest land or deploying carbon capture and storage technology.

    Ateneo Debate Open Pre-UADC 2025 · Open Quarterfinals · 2025-04-12

  • This house would trade the blue sky for a green Earth

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    To “trade the blue sky for a green Earth” is to establish a neutral global eco-authoritarian regime with the goal of significantly reducing and reversing environmental damage. Such actions may include periodic lockdowns (similar to COVID-19), stratospheric atmosphere injections to block out a portion of the sun’s light (thereby dimming the sky), and other geoengineering or bioengineering methods to maintain ecological balance. These measures can be implemented without the consent of individuals or nations, are neutral across all countries, cultures and ethnicities, and may compromise all rights except the right to life

    BITS Pilani Parliamentary Debate 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-04-11

  • That green belts in and around cities should be eliminated when experiencing a housing supply shortage

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    A green belt is an area designated to preserve nature or open space. They may be large recreational parks, undeveloped wilderness, or agricultural land. Development on this land is severely restricted.

    Macquarie Pre-Easters 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-04-05

  • This house believes that the Philippines should relocate it's capital city

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    The Philippines has reconsidered its capital city due to numerous concerns such as earthquakes and traffic congestion. It is not the only country with this sentiment as South Korea and Egpyt have also considered this action. Indonesia is actively implementing it's move from Jakarta to East Kalimantan. The Philippine's most recent proposal in 2019 was to move it to New Clark City in Tarlac.

    Southern Luzon Inter High School Debate Encounter 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-04-05

  • This house believes that governments should prioritise policies aligned with Buen Vivir

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    Buen Vivir is an indigenous peoples' philosophy that sees nature as a living being that has the same rights to life and happiness as people. According to Buen Vivir, society should heavily prioritise environmental protection, human rights and social justice at the expense of profits, competition and economic growth. Examples of countries that have committed to the advancement of Buen Vivir are: Ecuador and Bolivia

    Durham Schools 2025📚🏫 · Round 4 · 2025-03-29

  • This house supports the shaming of individuals as a tactic for social movements to catalyse change (e.g. for not taking environmentally sustainable actions, or violating lockdown/quarantine policies)

    Joynt Scroll 2024 · Round 2 · 2025-03-29