environment

10 Apr 2012

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...

This House would build hydroelectric dams

23 Feb 2012

Dams have probably existed for about as long as humans have had agriculture, to control water flow and to use the hydraulic energy for a water mill. Since the...

This House Does Not Trust the Market for Improvements in Energy Standards.

22 Feb 2012

On issues ranging from vehicle fuel efficiency standards through to mandatory levels of consumption for renewable energy there is an underlying discussion as...

This House believes tourism is a viable development strategy for poor states.

20 Feb 2012

Tourism accounts for a significant and growing source of global economic activity: receipts from international tourism grew to a total value of $919 billion in...

This house believes that developed countries have a higher obligation to combat climate change than developing countries

20 Feb 2012

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...

This house would restrict the use of ‘fracking’ to extract natural gas from shale

17 Feb 2012

The precautionary principle has no universally accepted definition, the 1992 Rio Declaration on Environment and Development defined it as 'Where there are...

This House would cease exploitation of the Antarctic continent

17 Feb 2012

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...

This house would encourage offshore drilling

26 Jan 2012

Offshore drilling is an extremely contentious topic in the national discourse. Due to concerns over the environmental impact of offshore oil extraction, a...

This house would tax aviation fuel.

26 Jan 2012

The debate over whether international aviation should be taxed brings together two global problems: how to control emissions that cause climate change; and how...

This house Believes People Should Not Keep Pets

26 Jan 2012

animal rights | Animal Welfare | environment | Pets | Environment

Humans, as a natural part of the animal kingdom, have interacted with the animals around them for the entirety of their existence. One of the defining...

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