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Bill: Saving Terra
Details
Submitted by[?]: Free Thinking Tribes
Status[?]: passed
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 2733
Description[?]:
| Through Ecology. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Current: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Proposed: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change Government policy regarding a national park system.
Old value:: The government devolves park policy to local governments.
Current: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Proposed: The government funds and maintains a network of national parks and/or marine protected areas.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: Local governments may set plantation policy.
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.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change The government's stance on whaling.
Old value:: Commercial whaling is legal, but the government establishes whaling quotas.
Current: Commercial whaling is legal, but the government establishes whaling quotas.
Proposed: Whaling is illegal.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 01:50:49, March 29, 2009 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Saving Terra |
| Message | 1. As long as they are well regulated to ensure they dont become a pest, there is simply no reason to prohibit private collectors having foreign animals. Which is what the current law is. 2. Local governments have sovereignty over land, and as such, must be accorded the right to administer their lands as they wish. 3. Whale is meat just like any other. There is no reason to make whaling illegal. It is ironic that a party who fully supports vicious and destructive wars tries to put forward the image that they care about the environment (or anything at all apart from general destruction of the Tukarali way of life). |
| Date | 19:14:42, March 29, 2009 CET | From | Free Thinking Tribes | To | Debating the Saving Terra |
| Message | and interesting that a party who claims to have any interest for the people of Tukarali does not support these measures to help save our environment. |
| Date | 20:27:21, March 29, 2009 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Saving Terra |
| Message | You have failed to show how these would do anything for the environment at all. We have shown how they are useful and damaging. |
| Date | 04:52:02, March 31, 2009 CET | From | Free Thinking Tribes | To | Debating the Saving Terra |
| Message | 1. Allowing only zoos to maintains exotic animals prevents abuse of these animals and builds stronger trust with foreign countries who would give us these animals. 2. Whales are an endangered species, and the continued hunting of them will eventually wipe them out. "There is no reason to make whaling illegal." Not if you don't mind your grandchildren never seeing a whale in their lifetime. 3. Local governments must keep the rising global carbon emissions levels in mind when addressing tree plantation and national parks. We believe they have failed in this area, so now it is the duty of our national government to help where they have not. |
| Date | 06:31:27, March 31, 2009 CET | From | Judicial Union Party | To | Debating the Saving Terra |
| Message | You will find that most species of whale are not endangered actually, that is just propaganda from unscientific fundamentalist environmental groups. It is the land belonging to the tribes, the national government has no right to legislate regarding it. It is unconstitutional. |
| Date | 20:28:59, March 31, 2009 CET | From | Free Thinking Tribes | To | Debating the Saving Terra |
| Message | I cannot argue this point with you anymore. You simply believe what I do not and your facts do not agree with my facts. I am finished here. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 356 | |||
| no |
Total Seats: 144 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 0 |
| Random fact: The players in a nation have a collective responsibility to ensure their "Bills under debate" section is kept in good order. Bills which are irrelevant or have become irrelevant should be deleted. Deletion can be requested for bills proposed by inactive parties on the Bill Clearout Requests thread: http://forum.particracy.net/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=4363 |
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