Climate Change Debate | Kriti Joshi | Opposition

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

Kriti Joshi opens the case for the opposition, as the second speaker of six in the debate.

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The motion was defeated.

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[ramankyadav]

She has delivered a fantastic speech, her pronunciation is good and the confidence is mind blowing.
She deserve a huge appreciation

[royjose]

What's the problem with these Indian people. She delivered a very good speech with lots of courage that most of us don't have. Give some appreciation instead of giving bad comments.

[PriyankaKumari-rbvl]

Sarcasm, humor, facts, figures, pronunciation, fluency and her unwavering confidence.... What a great mixture of skills she has brought out in her speech.

[banas]

She was speaking in the AC hall, and all of those who were clapping have ACs/heaters in their homes and they have more electricity consumption than any person from developing nations. Historically CO2 is emitted by developed nations, and now developed nations want to share the responsibility to cope up with climate change.
India and other developing countries were not part of that historic emissions. Now questions arise. How many developed countries provide funds for renewable transitions? Why do developed nations have issues with India providing subsidies for solar panels? What is the per capita emission of India or any developing countries? why western or so called developed nations don't want to change their lifestyle? why are they forcing developing nations to limit their growth?

[loveislove]

10 % comments about her movement and pronunciation
90 % comments about those 10 %comments .

[asadwholesomememe]

I'm not an indian and idk her but I liked the way she delivered that speech and she deserves appreciation ❤

[mragankmanitripathi]

I am in class 10th a 15 year old boy and recently in my school a debate was organised and the topic was "privatisation of Defence will weaken the Indian Army" and me and my team got the favour of topic( preposition of the topic) I struggled quiet a bit to understand the topic but after thoroughly studying it, I finally understood it and won the debate and also won the best debater award.

[mdtarique]

Bus life me etna hi confidence chahiye ☺️
Proud of you 👍👍👍
Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[dhwanibhatt]

i am Indian and am proud of her ... her soul choosing such responsibility is beautiful

[NiketBahety]

Now I can see only positive comments criticising the negative comments but I cannot see any negative comments tho🤨

[shit_hub]

That was an absolutely fantastic speech. She made it very easy for listeners to understand the cause. Keep it up☺

[MohdUmair-xcnj]

That's truly fascinating 💖! It has indeed broadened my perspective of seeing the linkage between the problems related to climate change in developing countries and their horrible colonial pasts ⚡. Keep up the good work 👏🙌🏻

[chayanka_kaushik]

I am sure the other 3.5K (majority) likers don't have any problem with how she speaks, stands and delivers the speech. Only dumb people have concerns to these. You know there goes a saying "Empty vessels make the most noise". It takes a lot to stand there and deliver a speech written by herself. Debate is the flow of information and bring about a positive change and whether it done through reading or memorizing, same thing. Also monotonic reading is a different case. She was interacting with the audience too. And she has a British accent because she lives there. Don't criticize when you can't be close enough to her. I think she really deserves a clap.

[manashpratimpathak]

I am an Indian and I don't know why our sky is blue 😅. By the way, I would also like to admit that this girl can speak her mother tongue very well.

[amdadullahraihan]

As a Bangladeshi, I almost cried after hearing from her that our country will be under the ocean after this century because of climate change and the people of our country are not even aware of this.

[Shalukastylecorner]

i m struggling right now with my studies..ryt now i m doing Msc environmental sciences i was thinking to leave it..but this speech gave me some inner confidence to pusue Phd in environmental sciences..thankyou sister..you e literally making us proud:)

[rashmidaksh]

I was scrolling down thinking i will get some more knowledge nd see some discussion how can we attempt to sort out the climate issue, but what i m seeing is people are more concerned about her body language, her memory power instead of the issue even after hearing these many thought provoking points.
U came here to judge her or for the knowledge

[atulsingh]

There's no denying pollution in India but a polite disagreement to her saying the sky is opaque because I personally have never seen that. Another thing is that developed nations have carelessly industrialized and emptied resources but developing nations are not that's why they're still developing. We've already chosen the environment friendly path. But I agree nothing is enough. But when I look forward to hear such debates in Oxford I am surprised to hear what I already know. People have heard the problem now they need a solution which I don't see here. Still delivery of speech and all that was good. So congratulations 🇮🇳🙏🥰

[Yogsh]

Thanks for making us to feel proud to say that you delivered not a speech even in front of high authorities all necessary issues facing all over world now days absolutely informative way to explain by you..fluency of english is extraordinary...

[Ansh-mkzh]

India has shown the world, we are leading from the front, we have formed International Solar Alliance, we have given the world Panchamrit(by our PM in the latest COP26) we are the only developing country to fulfill the targets of Paris Climate Accords efficiently, we have given to ourselves ambitious targets... Moreover leave the historical emissions done by the West, our per capita emissions is still one of the lowest in the world... The developed nations never delivered on their promise to provide financial and technical assistance to developing nations(agreed upon in the Paris Climate Accord), we still don't complain and we have still set an ambitious target of attaining net zero emissions.. except for few Polluted towns the sky in India is still blue and clear, as per the latest report our forest cover has increased, we have focused on electric vehicles inspite of our financial barriers... It's easy to target your home country standing in the Oxford, the real challenge is to stand United and fight against the evil Climate Change and, ... And her speech was just fantastic