This House believes we're too late on global climate change
Global Climate Change, formally referred to as global warming, is the largest threat facing the long term survival of the human species.Motion: This house believes we're too late on global climate...
View ArticleThis house would tax aviation fuel.
The debate over whether international aviation should be taxed brings together two global problems: how to control emissions that cause climate change; and how to find additional funding for...
View ArticleThis house would encourage offshore drilling
Offshore drilling is an extremely contentious topic in the national discourse. Due to concerns over the environmental impact of offshore oil extraction, a moratorium on offshore drilling was passed in...
View ArticleThis house would ban all unsustainable logging
Forests around the world are quickly shrinking as a result of illegal or unregulated deforestation.Charlotte R JonesMotion: This house would ban all unsustainable loggingread more
View ArticleThis House would go nuclear
Nuclear power is any nuclear technology designed to extract usable energy from atomic nuclei via controlled nuclear reactions[1]. The most common method is through nuclear fission, though other methods...
View ArticleThis House would cease exploitation of the Antarctic continent
It is little more than one hundred years since humans first set foot on Antarctica and even today few people have visited the frozen and hostile southern continent. Although nine countries have...
View ArticleThis house believes that developed countries have a higher obligation to...
Climate change and global warming are the result of massive emissions of ‘greenhouse gases’ such as CO2, CFCs[1] and nitrous oxide.[2] This has been a problem due to the exponential increase in the...
View ArticleThis House would exploit unconventional oil
There are several types of unconventional oil, like oil sands and oil shale. Oil sands, tar sands, or bituminous sands are ‘unconventional petroleum deposits’, basically sand and mud mixed with...
View ArticleThis House Belives that wind power should be a primary focus of future energy...
Whether as a result of global warming or of the increasing cost of fossil fuels it is increasingly clear that alternative sources of energy are going to be required. Debate increasingly surrounds the...
View ArticleThis House would go vegetarian
There have been very few human societies in which no meat or fish are eaten, although in some parts of the world the normal diet is made up largely of staple foods such as rice, with meat and fish...
View ArticleResolved: Adaptation should be the most urgent response to Climate Change.
There are several definitions of adaptation in this context but, broadly, it is the idea that climate change is a reality, and that changes in human and natural systems will allow humanity to both...
View ArticleThis House believes Tennessee is correct to protect teachers who wish to...
The case: Teaching creationism in US schoolsOn April 11 2012, Tennessee passed a law that will protect teachers who choose to explore the merits of creationism alongside theories of evolution in public...
View ArticleThis House would cease the exploitation of the Arctic Region
Perhaps ironically, one of the effects of climate change has been to open up new areas of the polar caps – previously unreachable –for use by human beings, including for mineral extraction. The...
View ArticleThis House would, as the developed world, fund African climate adaptation
The latest report (fifth) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) put the blame for climate change firmly on humanity. The chair of the working group on Physical Science notes “We...
View ArticleThis House believes the Seychelles should buy territory and relocate due to...
The Seychelles are an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, northeast of Madagascar. It is one of the smallest countries in the world at only 455 km2, its population is also comparatively small at only...
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