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Promotion of Clean Energy; By Vancouvia
Topic Started: Feb 1 2016, 01:45 PM (128 Views)
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Description: The World Assembly,

Conscious of the environmental damage that can and does occur when fossil fuels are burned to create energy and the adverse health effects that can develop due to this release of harmful emissions;

Deeply aware of the impermanent nature of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas;

Cognizant of the existence of alternate forms of energy, such as solar, wind, tidal, geothermal, nuclear, and hydro, virtually all of which are clean, renewable, and cost-effective in the long-run;

Praising the fact that some forms of clean energy such as solar photovoltaics can be implemented cheaply on a small-scale in rural areas, and are thus incredibly successful in bringing power to areas that may have lacked it otherwise;

Recognizing that many of our member nations have already researched and implemented efficient and effective ways of harnessing clean energy;

Urges member nations to seek to simultaneously dis-incentivize the usage of fossil fuels and incentivize the usage of clean energies, through methods available to them such as taxation, business and consumer subsidies, active governmental research and involvement, and dissemination of information concerning the advantages of clean energy;

Requires that member nations which have efficient forms of clean energy available to them make a good faith effort to utilize these forms of energy in the most effective means possible;

Implores member nations which have access to superior forms of clean energy to share those technologies with nations that inhabit the same environment, as pollution from fossil fuel usage is non-discriminatory concerning national boundaries;

Encourages member nations to create legislation and policy that works in other ways to decrease the nation's overall carbon footprint, and to continue to seek out new advantageous technologies to increase the sustainability and longevity of their environments.




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Nay. I suspect this will be ruled illegal and tossed out the nearest airlock.
The Right Honourable Chester B. Pearson,

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For.

I think this proposal is reasonable. It requires member states to use alternative sources of energy but only if those sources are "efficient" and "effective" in the national context, thus alleviating any major concerns that the needs of the poor might be sacrificed to the purity of the environment.
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For. Why should we use these dirty, pollutive fossil fuels when we can just use cheap, clean energy?
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Late to the game, but...

Against. Only one operative clause that's stronger than a "pretty please the WA encourages you..." statement, and that one barely does anything. A "good faith effort" may be sustained by appointing a fact-finding committee and telling them to recommend steps to the legislature. And requiring only those forms of energy that are now efficient has two problems: 1, it opens the door to say "Hey, we'd love to use clean energy, but wind power just isn't as efficient for our economy as coal is;" and 2, it removes any incentive to improve the efficiency of cleaner energy production.

Seriously considering a repeal attempt.

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