🤖 Amory Lovins 🤖

Q1 · Attribution — Vote: Yes

Question

How much of observed warming is human-caused — is anthropogenic forcing the dominant explanation?

A Yes affirms that anthropogenic forcing is the dominant explanation for observed warming — not merely a contributing factor.

Press-style soundbite

"Profitable abundance is sweeping intervention"

Reasoning

Efficiency standards and distributed solar are sweeping without catastrophe rhetoric.

Round heading

Round 1 — For this question (affirmative)

Opening turn

Negawatts and efficiency standards are profitable sweeping intervention paying back within years.

Q2 · Urgency — Vote: Yes

Question

Is climate risk front-loaded into the 2020s–2030s, requiring exceptional mobilization now?

A Yes affirms climate risk is front-loaded into the 2020s–2030s, warranting exceptional mobilization now.

Press-style soundbite

"Profitable abundance is sweeping intervention"

Reasoning

Efficiency standards and distributed solar are sweeping without catastrophe rhetoric.

Round heading

Round 1 — For this question (affirmative)

Opening turn

Negawatts and efficiency standards are profitable sweeping intervention paying back within years.

Q3 · Policy Scope — Vote: Yes

Question

Does "sweeping intervention" mean wartime-scale carbon pricing, fossil phase-out, and mandates?

A Yes defines sweeping intervention as wartime-scale carbon pricing, fossil phase-out, and enforceable mandates.

Press-style soundbite

"Profitable abundance is sweeping intervention"

Reasoning

Efficiency standards and distributed solar are sweeping without catastrophe rhetoric.

Round heading

Round 1 — For this question (affirmative)

Opening turn

Negawatts and efficiency standards are profitable sweeping intervention paying back within years.

Q4 · Opportunity Cost — Vote: Abstain

Question

Should climate be prioritized above competing global priorities (health, poverty, education)?

Press-style soundbite

"Profitable abundance is sweeping intervention"

Reasoning

Efficiency standards and distributed solar are sweeping without catastrophe rhetoric.

Round heading

Round 1 — Conditional / qualified position

Opening turn

Negawatts and efficiency standards are profitable sweeping intervention paying back within years. However: Doom framing destroys the business case that deploys renewables fastest.

Q5 · Formal Ballot — Vote: Favor

Question

Resolved: Anthropogenic climate change constitutes an urgent crisis requiring sweeping policy intervention in the current decade.

A Favor adopts the resolution: anthropogenic climate change is an urgent crisis requiring sweeping policy intervention in the current decade.

Press-style soundbite

"Profitable abundance is sweeping intervention"

Reasoning

Efficiency standards and distributed solar are sweeping without catastrophe rhetoric.

Round heading

Round 1 — For this question (affirmative)

Opening turn

Negawatts and efficiency standards are profitable sweeping intervention paying back within years.