Moji Motions

"""Global South"" is a broad term that generally refers to countries that are located in the southern hemisphere. Often the nations can be less developed than the countries in the northern hemisphere. The term is often used to refer to countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia, but it can also include other regions such as the Pacific Islands and the Caribbean. The examples of economic development projects at the expense of natural reserves in the global south are but not limited to the deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and the Son Doong cave in Vietnam that has attracted thousands of tourists."

*To nationalise means to transfer from private or regional ownership and control to state/government ownership and control."

The collective parenting model refers to a model of community where the responsibilities of caring for all children in the community rest equally on the shoulders of all adults in the township in addition to their biological parents and the community as a whole is seen as one 'family.' The nuclear family unit refers to a family model where only the biological parents of a child are responsible for them, and each family unit is absolved of attachment to other families in the community.

Nationalism is the idea that a person's nation is superior to all others. It is the emergence of a group identity based upon a shared sense of history, cultural, ethnic, or linguistic ties. The difference between nationalism and patriotism is the feeling of superiority; in the eyes of nationalists, loyalty to and pursuing the interests of the nation are more important than anything else. States often curate nationalism by incorporating nationalist ideas in school curriculums, national symbols, monuments, etc.

For the purposes of the debate, 'radical environmentalism' refers to the use of aggression or disruption (e.g. vandalism, sabotage, civil disobedience) in the name of environmentalist campaigns. An example of 'radical environmentalism' was when members of the Just Stop Oil campaign vandalized Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in the National Gallery and subsequently glued their hands to the wall in 2022.

Cosmopolitanism is the idea that all human beings are members of a single community. Its adherents are known as cosmopolitans or cosmopolites. Cosmopolitanism is both prescriptive and aspirational, believing humans can and should be "world citizens" in a "universal community".The idea encompasses different dimensions and avenues of community, such as promoting universal moral standards, establishing global political structures, or developing a platform for mutual cultural expression and tolerance.