NCFCA debaters have spent the year advocating federal election law reforms and arguing against opponents’ reforms. With at least two of next year’s proposed topics we have an important, if not obvious, connection with...
A Review of Wilfred Beckerman’s Through Green–Coloured Glasses Environmentalism Reconsidered by Marina Tanasé Environmental are still hot subject even after ample discussion over the last few decades. One of the reasons for paying attention to this topic...
[A review by Marina Tanase of The Race to the Top: The Real Story of Globalization by Tomas Larsson] Using real-world examples, Tomas Larson explains what globalization actually is, offering readers powerful stories and...
Oceans are a lot like land, just wetter. Wet is good for life, and the world’s oceans covering 70% of the planet can be a source of vast new wealth or conflicts. A May,...
Many of the federal government’s current marine natural resource policies are failures. That is, they have failed to achieve the goals stated when current policies and legislation was first proposed or amended. This reality...
Civilization began as societies learned to plant and raise grain, fruit, and vegetables in farms, orchards, and gardens rather than wander the countryside gathering them, and learned to raise and herd cattle rather than...
Why be stupid about California water, fish, and energy? Federal marine natural resource policies, not nature, are at the heart of stupid for California’s recent water shortage. The Federal government’s Central Valley Project “annually...
It seems a crime for students to debate federal marine natural resources policies all year without addressing overcriminalization. According to Five Solutions for Addressing Environmental Overcriminalization, “Texas has 11 felonies related to oyster harvesting.” Couldn’t Texas...
Much in the public policy world invites reform. Broken federal policies and programs abound. The quest for policy debaters is to craft and advocate reform proposals likely to make the world a better place....
What I’ve wondered for years and wish a debater would research: why not use new deep drilling technologies and geothermal energy to turn saltwater to freshwater from mountain tops? Below is picture along California...
