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What is the United Nation stance on global warming? what bils are there to help combat the destruction of the environment?

We would like to welcome the representative of Domhain to this chamber, and wish them well in their future endeavors.

There are a number of resolutions that touch on environmental caretaking across the NSUN multiverse. The most pertinant resolutions would appear to be #71 and #72, "Sustainable Energy Sources" and "Reduction of Greenhouse Gases" respectively, though doubtless others should be taken into account.

#126, Fossil Fuel Reduction Act, is also important.

Global warming?

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Problem with combatting global warming is that nations inevitably play the Roleplay card - I know some nations desire global warming, such as for terraforming purposes. From that perspective, global warming is a good thing.

On RL earth it is a bad thing. But, we ain't the RL UN.:D

I think the temperature of this room just rose. Please excuse me while I adjust my... uh... collar.

Yes these debates can get rather "heated." It's all the CO2 from the mouths of the delegtes I believe. :D

As a nation in the Antarctic, we are concerned about global warming. Contrary to popular opinion, the continent is not all rock solid above the sea level, there is simply a lot of solid ice forming the antarctic continent. If all the ice were to melt, this would be what the place would look like. (Not counting the fact that the oceans would rise, and so would the continent because of the lack of all that ice weighing it down.)

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Never the less, while we think that Global warming is not really a NS problem, we can see the potential for global profit in the notion. A free trade resolution on establishing a carbon trading market. Investment in plants that put more carbon into the soil than they take out of it. Reversing the whole problem so as to increase O2 in the amosphere. (This would be the "support your local dinosaur" resolution allowing large creatures without diaphrams to once again exist on the planet.) Yes there is a potential for profit here. :D

What is the United Nation stance on global warming? what bils are there to help combat the destruction of the environment?

I've got a proposal I'm currently running through off-site forums for improvement. I should be submitting it here fairly soon.

Never the less, while we think that Global warming is not really a NS problem, we can see the potential for global profit in the notion. A free trade resolution on establishing a carbon trading market. Investment in plants that put more carbon into the soil than they take out of it. Reversing the whole problem so as to increase O2 in the amosphere. (This would be the "support your local dinosaur" resolution allowing large creatures without diaphrams to once again exist on the planet.) Yes there is a potential for profit here. :D

I think I'd support such a resolution. :)

the reason i ask is because i think it should be an aim of the UN to bring the world into a self sufficient age in which renewable energy is at the centre. the world economy cant sustain itself when it relies in oil etc for nearly everything, not only energy but all the products made from oil such as plastics etc. i think we should be encouraging neclear power and possibly solar.

the reason i ask is because i think it should be an aim of the UN to bring the world into a self sufficient age in which renewable energy is at the centre. the world economy cant sustain itself when it relies in oil etc for nearly everything, not only energy but all the products made from oil such as plastics etc. i think we should be encouraging neclear power and possibly solar.

I applaud you for your conviction, but the UN is not the venue in which to rectify mistakes made by RL people.

There are hundreds of thousands of nations in the UN, and many of them do not inhabit or reside on the earthly sphere. As such, they don't have to worry about globabl warming or such things. Indeed, legislating on fuel requirements and enviromentalism is disadvantageous.

oh right well that just gave me a new view of this whole thing. where do the peoples not in the earthly sphere reside exactly?

and in that case let us forget this issue entirely.

where do the peoples not in the earthly sphere reside exactly?The Sun's upper atmosphere, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Mars' moons, The Moon, various asteroids, Jupiter, Jupiter's moons, Saturn, Saturn's moons, Uranus, Uranus' moons, Neptune, Neptune's moons, Pluto, Charon, Nix, Sedna, various Kuiper Belt objects, various Oort Cloud objects, and numerous other solar systems and galaxies.

The Sun's upper atmosphere, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Mars' moons, The Moon, various asteroids, Jupiter, Jupiter's moons, Saturn, Saturn's moons, Uranus, Uranus' moons, Neptune, Neptune's moons, Pluto, Charon, Nix, Sedna, various Kuiper Belt objects, various Oort Cloud objects, and numerous other solar systems and galaxies.

plus Middle-Earth, the Discworld, Narnia, Faerie, and various other alternative (non-astronomically-located) realities...

plus Middle-Earth, the Discworld, Narnia, Faerie, and various other alternative (non-astronomically-located) realities...Indeed. And I also forgot the various alternate Earths housed in II.

Kinda like having an infinite number of Shadows, hee.

Is Discworld anything like Niven's Ringworld or does it have something to Disco? Have there ever been players who've tried to make a Dyson Sphere? Around Sol?

Is Discworld anything like Niven's Ringworld or does it have something to Disco? Have there ever been players who've tried to make a Dyson Sphere? Around Sol?

No, it's more along the lines of this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discworld_%28world%29) I believe.

Is Discworld anything like Niven's Ringworld or does it have something to Disco?There's a ring around Titan.

Have there ever been players who've tried to make a Dyson Sphere? Around Sol?Not around Sol, no.

... *(nonchalantly tosses out impressive detail)* ...

I'd always known mods needed encylopaedic knowledge, but I'd never realised it encompassed even the Encyclopaedia Galactica.

Trantor, Terminus and the holograph of Hari Seldon salute you!

You forgot about those nations existing in temproral locational paradoxes inhabited by people in nift headgear!