'We Would Break The Law To Save The Planet' | Dr Gail Bradbrook | Oxford Union Debate

7 November 2019 - The Motion: This House Would Break The Law To Save The Planet. The motion passed.

Rising global temperatures threaten to destabilise our planet irreversibly. Faced with this existential threat, how far should we be willing to go in our attempts to achieve action on climate change?

Speakers in Proposition:

Dr Gail Bradbrook : Environmental activist, and co-founder of Extinction Rebellion; she is a contributor to This is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook
Amelia Womack : Deputy Leader of the Green Party since 2014; she is the youngest Deputy Leader of any UK political party

Speakers in Opposition:

Gina McCarthy : Administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency from 2013 to 2017; current Professor at the Harvard School of Public Health
Leslie Hook : Environment and clean energy correspondent for the Financial Times; she is an award-winning journalist, and leads the FT's climate crisis coverage

(official page here: https://www.oxford-union.org/node/2039)

*Since this debate Professor Rockström has made a different statement about how many people he believes would be killed at 4 degrees celsius: https://tinyurl.com/uh5be8p

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