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Bill: Aesthetic bill 2515 "Sensible Nature Relationship"
Details
Submitted by[?]: "Le Chaim" - Aesthetic Party
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2516
Description[?]:
| "Well, actually, what are the current measures for? I mean: The current law bars us men from everything, we mustn't hunt animals or fish, we mustn't clear forests but for the purpose of fire breaks. We have to plant more trees than we clear. What is all that for? The people who have created this laws have set some abstract idea (maybe a completely false opinion of "nature") higher than human being. [...] What they do forgest is the following: 1. Certain natural circuits break down if men don't regulate them (wild game, fish, forests). 2. Also human being is part of "nature", where does your absolute religious principle begin, where does it end? 3. What use is it to plant more trees than we clear? What reason is there for increasing the forest areas in our nation if we must not chop down the trees or hunt in them? 4. Alteration and change are not as such bad. In fact the world is alteration. The world as it is today including all the animals and plants is the unbelievable effect of accidents and coincidences, evolution does not work without change. Nature itself changes (ice ages, ...), animals change the nature (cows, algae, every biological organism, of course above all man). At the end of the Cambrian age the large amount of plants had produced so big masses of oxygen (which is dangerous for the climate) that 90 % of the species died out. If there had never been any accidental and casual changes, whatever their reasons might be, there would nave never been dinosaurs or mammals. We are living on a planat that trundles through space, we owe ourselves to unbelievable accidents and changes. Why do we want to conserve what is changing by nature?" |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy concerning forest protection.
Old value:: Forests have strictly enforced protection. Felling is limited to fire breaks.
Current: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Proposed: Forests are protected. Logging is allowed by licence only.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Private hunting and fishing practices are banned.
Current: Hunting and fishing is not regulated.
Proposed: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Current: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Proposed: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Current: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Proposed: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Debate
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| Vote | Seats | ||||
| yes | Total Seats: 126 | ||||
| no |
Total Seats: 175 | ||||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
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