Repeal "Promotion of Solar Panels"
Resolution History
A couple of days before the vote on the proposal Promotion of Solar Panels reached a successful conclusion, by sizeable margin at the time, a huge controversy began, one of the most important ones in UN history. The good intentions of the author, Starcra II, were not at stake, but for many followed by most UN members present in the UN forum, even including the author himself, this proposition was unrealistic and, as pointed out originally by some of the more senior nations (notably Frisbeeteria), the mandate would lead to economic catastrophes.
Noting the seeming inevitability of this resolution, some nations began a large counter-TG campaign. Telidia and the United Nations Old Guard contributed significantly to this, which decreased the margin between final yes and no votes to the point of a landslide being brought down to a 4:3 ratio - a sizable achievement in just a few days.
Two days before the end of the vote, Ficticious Proportions and Love and esterel presented a draft on the UN forum to repeal Promotion of Solar Panels in the case of its seemingly inescapeable passing. After a few refinements with the help of some nations in the forum, and then after the vote of “Promotion of Solar Panels” ended, the draft was ready. Ficticious Proportions submitted it few hours later and began a TG campaign with the help of CR Oscilloscopes. This campaign contacted about 95% of all delegates who voted against the original resolution to request their support. Starcra II, the author of “Promotion of Solar Panels” courageously supported the repeal. The proposal reached quorum with 203 approvals and then passed the UN vote relatively comfortably.
Promotion of Solar Panels became the fastest resolution to be repealed in history, only 10 days latter. Then a week later, a new proposal Fossil Fuel Reduction Act with the aim to replace and improve “Promotion of Solar Panels” reached the UN floor, intending to fill the void that good intentions alone had been proven not quite good enough to resolve.
Resolution Text
| Category: | Repeal | Resolution: | #124 | Proposed By: | Ficticious Proportions |
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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
- Votes For: 10,922
- Votes Against: 3,403
- Implemented: Tue Sep 27 2005
Gameplay Impacts
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