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Bill: Taking Care Of The Environment
Details
Submitted by[?]: The Underworld Party
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: November 2176
Description[?]:
| Hunting shouldn't even be legal, much less a national sport. In fifty years it'll be too late to look back and say "we should have taken care of our environment", we must take care of it from the very beginning, to ensure we have a pleasant place for our children and their children to grow up in. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy towards hunting endangered animals.
Old value:: The government enforces no regulations.
Current: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Proposed: Hunting endangered animals is illegal.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy regarding the keeping of exotic animals.
Old value:: Everyone may keep exotic animals, the trade in exotic animals is unregulated.
Current: Only zoos or zoological institutions are allowed to keep exotic animals.
Proposed: Everyone may keep exotic animals, but the trade in exotic animals is regulated by the government.
Article 3
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of hunting.
Old value:: Hunting and fishing is not regulated.
Current: The matters of hunting and fishing are handled by local governments.
Proposed: Hunting and fishing activities are restricted to designated areas and periods.
Article 4
Proposal[?] to change Government policy regarding a national park system.
Old value:: The government does not have a national park system policy.
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 5
Proposal[?] to change The official national sport.
Old value:: Hunting
Current: Football
Proposed: Go-Karting
Article 6
Proposal[?] to change Government regulation of pollution in industry.
Old value:: Industrial pollution is not regulated by the government.
Current: The government enforces highly restrictive industrial pollution standards.
Proposed: The government enforces moderate pollution restrictions.
Article 7
Proposal[?] to change Government-sponsored recycling programs.
Old value:: There is no national policy regarding recycled garbage.
Current: The government funds recycling facilities and enforces mandatory recycling for residents, commercial enterprise, and industry.
Proposed: The government funds recycling facilities for public use.
Article 8
Proposal[?] to change The government's policy on tree plantation.
Old value:: The government does not intervene with regard to the replantation of trees.
Current: The government requires tree plantation at higher than replacement levels for all logging or clearance operations.
Proposed: The government requires tree plantation at replacement level for all logging or clearance operations.
Article 9
Proposal[?] to change Waste disposal responsibility.
Old value:: Government disposes special waste only.
Current: It is the responsibility of local governments to decide on waste disposal regulation.
Proposed: Private companies are responsible for disposing of their own waste. The government disposes of residential waste.
Article 10
Proposal[?] to change Regulation of the quality of drinking water.
Old value:: The government does not regulate the quality of drinking water.
Current: The government sets a range of standards dependant on water usage. (grey water regulation, etc.)
Proposed: The government sets a single standard to ensure all tap water is drinkable.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 16:57:56, January 25, 2006 CET | From | The party formerly known as Likud | To | Debating the Taking Care Of The Environment |
| Message | We'll agree to this all, although some we'd like to see changed. But how about our national sport be Dreidel instead! =D |
| Date | 16:58:25, January 25, 2006 CET | From | The party formerly known as Likud | To | Debating the Taking Care Of The Environment |
| Message | No..no....wait, even better! EXTREME DREIDEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOW WITH MORE EXPLOSIONS AND ZOMBIES!!!!!!!!!! |
| Date | 20:37:46, January 25, 2006 CET | From | Judean People's Front | To | Debating the Taking Care Of The Environment |
| Message | yea. Extreme Dreidel would kick ass. and I say no to this bill. Put Dreideling on some other bill. |
| Date | 00:43:30, January 27, 2006 CET | From | National Farmers' Party | To | Debating the Taking Care Of The Environment |
| Message | This bill is far too extreme. It's something a crazed hippie would propose... |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes |
Total Seats: 47 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 25 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 28 |
| Random fact: It is not allowed to call more than 5 elections in 5 game years in a nation. The default sanction for a player persisting in the early election tactic will be a seat reset. |
| Random quote: "The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems, the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behaviour and religion." - John Maynard Keynes |