Climate Change Debate | Jack Woollett | Proposition

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The Motion: This House Believes The West Has No Right to Impose Environmental Standards on Developing Countries

Jack Woollett opens the case for the proposition, as the first speaker of six in the debate.

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The motion was defeated.

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[Chrispy]

Appreciate the channel uploading these in order, listing the order, AND putting the outcome in the description. I see you read the comments :)

[RevivedRecords]

Speakers that introduce the opposing side with humour are next level

[niakeys]

Handsome and very intelligent young man with a good moral concious, we need more of this. I wish him well in is future endeavours.

[alvitahmiid]

Thanks for raising our climate-related problems in the debate. 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇬🇧🇬🇧

[Earth]

This guy is just amazing!! Smart, to the point and good sense of humor

[QrayzHD]

Could such an advancement of the human experience have been possible without burning fossil fuels?

[reyjunix]

It it's easy to imposed, but hard to implements.

[nareshmainani]

The analogy he gave at the beginning was incomplete and lopsided, what he missed was the clause of going first, the player who goes first definitely scores a hundred point even if he doesn’t find the ball, for those going second are assured of 50 points if they deliberately choose the same cup, even after knowing that there’s nothing inside. and the best clause of the game was that, they just need 50 points to survive to the next level. Obviously no choice left!

If it’s not about the players competing and winning individually then they could probably cut a deal of sharing the first gain made and the player who goes second shouldn’t/wouldn’t have wasted a chance luring for small gain. The case is simple, In the real world it’s not about players, it’s about survival and there’s only one team and is losing, - The living beings!

[emrihazemens]

Did she just fall in love with the Speaker? 09:53

[hot]

I watched this only to conclude that Oxford may not be that great

[ishitahumnabadkar]

Why are they passing bitter sweet comments on each other instead of actually speaking about the topic

[RScott]

I have been privileged to been employed by a large Aerospace company that includes some of the most experienced Atmospheric Biologists in the world. These are folks tasked with tracking data not to satisfy the man made climate change narrative but to find conditions that produce efficiency in air travel. It turns out that more efficiency has a by-product of less pollution. The 2 scientists I have supported for nearly 20 years agree on several things, pollution is bad for everyone, that alternative fuels are the future and that the 2 biggest influences to the Climate are Solar radiance and Geothermal/Volcanic activity. That there are no recorded patterns to establish any causation by any other factors. Even the orbit of the Earth and Moon contribute more impact than man has.

[noneone.............]

Awareness is the key to elaborate this issue. If country like China gives the highest polution level for the world, The great instituion like United Nation below its part like UNDP must dictacts and warms to be wise of China's enviromental system because the result goes globally. It's hard issue but must be handle by awareness of all principals.

[its_alveera_naaz]

Why they don't learn some of the theory they've written onto their notes!

[kashifafridi]

WHAT the white queen is sitting for?
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[uvg]

Per capita consumption of meat in W. Europe and USA in excess of 180kg per capita per yr. This contributes to poor land use, water wastage, methane and emissions resulting from supply chain and a slew of other unsustainable practices that harm oceans and Forests.

(Per capita consumption in India 4 kg per capita per yr, Asia consumes the least of all continents)

Generally speaking Asia is more densely populated than Europe. India for ex has nearly 5 times the population of the US with a third of the land it has. Canada's population is about twice the size of New Delhi's and it has 3 times the land compared to India. I can go on and on.

As the speaker points out developing countries have to balance economic and industrial activity and environmental practices. But for structural reasons we have to be doubly mindful of water, Forrest's, clean air and other natural resources.

Although we are ahead on our UN targets for switching to renewables and although we have planted almost a billion trees in recent years, we have to constantly balance industrial growth with environmental policy which impacts public health among other quality of life indicators.

We realise if we model our society on the wasteful, consumerist systems pioneered in the West the country is in for catastrophe.

So whereas I agree the West shouldn't pontificate, it should lead by setting an example.

[jyotithakur]

Darn he is hech 1000 times more nervous than kriti

[aurora_]

Someone has his social media accounts?

[Hhenryarero]

The Underdeveloped, the Development and the Developed Countries with Regards to climate change

[MMD-zz]

Why does he keep checking if his nose is still on his face?