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The baby boomers have stolen the family silver - IQ2 debate
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This debate took place at the Royal Geographical Society on 27th October 2011.
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Hey old man! You owe me. You got a free university education and then you grabbed all the houses and pulled up the ladder. You're sitting on the best jobs and all we young people can do is beg for an unpaid internship and worry about how we're going to pay off our debts. As you get older you're going to cream off the resources of the welfare state which is obliged to take care of you, and we're going to have to pay for it one way or another.
Hang on a minute, kid! We're the generation that built this wealthy society and we worked hard for everything we have. Why are you so set on grabbing what's ours when you could be using your youth and energy to create wealth for yourselves? We forked out for your school fees, your computers and your holidays abroad. Yes, things are tough at the moment but we're using all our connections to get you work experience with our friends' companies and you've still no plans to leave home. Is there no end to your complaints?
Who's right, who's wrong? Come to the debate, hear the arguments and decide for yourself.
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London's climate change policy should begin in Beijing
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This debate took place at The Royal Society in London on 20th October 2011.
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If a windmill is about to blight your cherished view of the green English countryside, you might start to wonder why on earth the Department for Energy and Climate Change thinks it is a good idea to subsidise the monsters at vast cost to the British taxpayer. Why not retune some boilers in Guangdong instead? Or encourage the booming cities of China to power themselves with gas, not coal? There's a whole raft of practical, carbon-saving steps which can be more cheaply achieved in the growing, bustling emerging world. After all, a ton of carbon saved in China is as good in global terms as a ton saved in the UK. So why ever spoil our green and pleasant land?
Hang on, though. Wasn't the "green new deal" all about creating jobs in a new sort of economy? Making Britain a leader in an industry of the future? Not to mention making us just a little less dependent for our energy on geopolitically unstable regions of the world. Make China the focus of all our policy effort, and it will be China that reaps the knock-on benefits. Why would we realistically agree to that?
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IQ2 Cycling festival - featuring Will Self & Geoff Dyer
The IQ2 Cycling festival took place at the Royal Geographical Society on 8th September 2011.
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Democracy is India's Achilles' heel - IQ2 debate
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The Intelligence Squared debate "Democracy is India's Achilles' heel" took place on 27th September 2011 at the Royal Geographical Society, and featured William Dalrymple, Mani Shankar Aiyar, Suhel Seth, and Patrick French.
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