[Grosseschnauzer]

Quote: Repeal "Promotion of Solar Panels"

A proposal to repeal a previously passed resolution

Category: Repeal

Resolution: #122

Proposed by: Ficticious Proportions

Description: UN Resolution #122: Promotion of Solar Panels (Category: Environmental; Industry Affected: All Businesses) shall be struck out and rendered null and void.

Argument:
Let it primarily be noted that the original creator of this resolution, Starcra II, in his own words, has admitted to his resolution having faults and was previously aware of the repeal. He encourages nations to support this repeal as he is writing up a newer, better version of the resolution which will be up for debate before submission to the UN.

This repeal does not condemn solar panels, and the United Nations acknowledges that this resolution is well intentioned, but:

-A- The mandatory objective to ban fossil fuels use in ten years is unrealistic, due to it entailing:
- Too short a timescale for the phasing out of fossil fuels
- Too great a fiscal expense of environmentally-conscious replacements and the introduction of said replacement s
- Too much consumption of resources and of fossil fuels themselves for the materials and processes required for the manufacture of more environmentally-conscious alternatives
- An unforeseen and accidental hindering of many fossil fuel reliant economic sectors such as the aeronautical and airlines sector.
- An impact on power supplies, thus reducing the productive outputs of industries extracting, processing and modifying further resources to make the products that are taken for granted in maintaining our quality of life. This may involve the processing and packaging of foodstuffs, medicines, water and other supplies used in aid programs and our daily lives.

-B- This resolution's requirements will destroy many economies in next 10 years due to the costs of extracting, obtaining and processing the resources required, as mentioned in Section A, and the costs of the economy recovering to the level it was at before the fossil fuel ban would have to come out of already nearly depleted treasuries.

-C- As some nations receive little sunlight each year and many new/clean/renewable sources of energy are available, the nations must be to allowed to decide between these choices, some of which are more suited to their climates and geography, in order to decrease their use of fossil fuels, whilst maintaining the economic viability and practicality of the replacements.

-D- This resolution falsely states that the combustion of fossil fuels results in holes in the Ozone layer, and while the UN accepts that they theoretically assist the Greenhouse Effect and are aware of its implications, this error must be removed to prevent the misinforming of member states.

The United Nations,

PLEASED by the environmental concerns of the original proposal and its promotion of renewable energy source, but

REGRETTING the aforementioned shortcomings,

REPEALS Resolution #122 - "Promotion of Solar Panels".

This resolution was co-authored by Love and esterel

Voting Ends: Tue Sep 27 2005 [/quote]

We anticipate casting the region's vote on late Monday (EDT).

[Antrium]

Antrium is strongly for this proposal. We really don't like Promotion of Solar Panels due to the fact that other environmentally friendly energy sources may be better in some places, not just solar energy.

[Groot Gouda]

I'd like to inspect the replacement proposal before I consider voting for this repeal. Although the resolution has it faults, I like the idea behind it enough to be glad that it's in place.

[Mikitivity]

Since this repeal is being endorsed by Starcra II, my government is inclined to vote for the repeal, but to also encourage Starcra II to revisit the issue of alternative energy with a replacement resolution. At this time, Mikitivity has voted yes.

[Keeslandia]

We are STRONGLY opposed to the repeal. While the Empire agrees with some of the original observations made when the original resolution was passed and some of the points about other forms of energy being more appropriate in some venues, we believe it would be a terrible mistake to disengage from the idea of alternative energy sources and global warming without a replacement resolution in place.

There is no reason a resolution can't either simply amend the initial resolution to correct some of the flaws or replace the original resolution with a null clause within the text of the replacement.

We firmly believe enactment of this resolution would be a terrible policy statement at a time when we see the ravages of global warming manifesting themselves everyday. The Keeshonds within the Empire are very vocal about the issue of global warming as they demand the preservation of our northern environment. With that much fur you'd be opposed to warming too!

Off the soapbox now.

[Grosseschnauzer]

Quote: FOR    [ 4 ]    [57.14%]
AGAINST  [ 1 ]  [14.29%]
ABSTAIN  [ 2 ]  [28.57%][/quote]

Based on this, I will be casting the region's vote for the repeal.