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Bill: Environmental education
Details
Submitted by[?]: Cooperative Commonwealth Federation
Status[?]: passed
Votes: This bill is a resolution. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: May 2101
Description[?]:
| Whereas the Citizens Assembly has agreed by consensus that the environemtn is a positive good, and Whereas the government parties have jsut removed national-level environmental regulation, and Whereas the governemt parties claim to support environmental education instead of regulation The Assembly calls upon the government to undertake some form of environmetnal education, and asks that the government inform the Assembly what measures it intends to take. |
Proposals
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 22:35:25, August 21, 2005 CET | From |  Tuesday Is Coming | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | We will support this on certain conditions: Taxes are not used to fund this(this includes deficits, etc.-future taxes). Private schools are not forced to teach this. Leave their curriculum up to the schools themselves No one is forced to learn this, voluntary education is more effective anyway. Perhaps any government controlled media could include this in their content? |
| Date | 22:58:50, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | Whereas is being misused in this proposition. Whereas means "in contrast to", "different to". Where the government publishes environmental guidelines, these should, in our opinion be included in school curricula. However should is just what this will remain as must implies the government defining curricula which is wrong. We are perfectly happy to require all corporations to publish their waste output figures along with their financial figures. Likewise we would happily support and encourage international environmental events in our nation. Offering to this end tax breaks on the costs involved. We would also be willing to give tax incentives to cleaner consumption, but as sales tax is currently at zero, this is impossible. |
| Date | 23:28:02, August 21, 2005 CET | From | Democractic Socialist Party of Lodamun | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | God help me, I agree with ASP and TiC. Except, I believe it should be law that this becomes part of the public school curriculum. |
| Date | 20:08:18, August 22, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | The resolution is written in proper international format. It is the governmet's duty to do something to promtoe environmental education. We await their actions. |
| Date | 01:56:09, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | We don't recognise this international format that misuses the language. It should be something like "Considering that the Citizens Assembly has agreed by consensus that the environment is a positive good, and Recognising that the government parties have jsut removed national-level environmental regulation, and Recognising that the government parties claim to support environmental education instead of regulation The Assembly calls upon the government to undertake some form of environmental education, and asks that the government inform the Assembly what measures it intends to take." |
| Date | 01:58:06, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | We have to oppose due to the grammartical obstinacy of the GA. If they repropose this using the correct terms, then we will support. Whereas is a connective of opposition, it is almost synonymous with Despite. ((In RL I am an English teacher amongst other things.) |
| Date | 05:42:38, August 23, 2005 CET | From | Cooperative Commonwealth Federation | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | OOC: yeah, whatever. In real life I have to read a lot of UN resolutions, and this is how they use whereas. For confirmation, google UN resolution whereas. You'll see plenty, including US congressional resolutions too if you're a UN-hater. According to dictionary.com: where·as ( P ) Pronunciation Key (hwâr-z, wâr-) conj. It being the fact that; inasmuch as. While at the same time. While on the contrary. n. An introductory statement to a formal document; a preamble. A conditional statement. More to the point, we look forward to learning what the government plans to DO now that this resolution seems set to pass. |
| Date | 22:03:37, August 24, 2005 CET | From | National People's Gang | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | grammartical? Long live private education. |
| Date | 17:26:18, August 25, 2005 CET | From | Adam Smith Party | To | Debating the Environmental education |
| Message | Long live typos you mean. (and rather large fingers that tend to hit two keys at the same time.)) |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | ||||||
| yes |
Total Seats: 214 | ||||||
| no |
Total Seats: 62 | ||||||
| abstain |
Total Seats: 24 |
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