Environmental Debate Topics

List of 119 Environmental Debate Topics

1. “Clean coal”
2. Algae biofuel
3. Animal rights
4. Animal testing
5. Animals in sports and entertainment
6. Are national parks mainly for human use or preservation?
7. Artificial insemination
8. Artificial life
9. Australian Carbon Trading Scheme
10. Ban on Antarctic exploitation
11. Ban on factory farming
12. Ban on incandescent light bulbs
13. Ban on logging
14. Ban on mountaintop removal coal mining
15. Ban on oil drilling in Bristol Bay, Alaska
16. Ban on snowmobiles in US national parks
17. Belo Monte dam
18. Biodiversity and Endangered Species
19. Biofuel
20. Bottled water vs. tap water
21. Bullfighting
22. Cap-and-trade for water
23. Cap-and-trade versus carbon tax
24. Carbon emissions trading
25. China should slow its economic growth in favor of the environment
26. Climate change mitigation vs adaptation
27. Coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology
28. Coastal wind farms
29. Compressed air vehicles
30. Conservation concessions
31. Contraception for the purpose of reducing overpopulation
32. Corn ethanol
33. D cont.
34. Driftnet ban
35. Drinking bottled water
36. Earth Hour
37. Ecotourism
38. Electric vehicle mandates
39. Electric vehicles
40. Feed-in tariffs for renewable energy
41. Fish farming ban
42. Flooding the US Grand Canyon in 2008
43. Free trade
44. Free-market environmentalism
45. Gallons per mile instead of miles per gallon
46. Geoengineering
47. Geoengineering, iron fertilization of algae blooms
48. Geoengineering, solar shading
49. Geothermal energy
50. Government incentives for petrol-free vehicles
51. High-speed rail
52. Hunting for sport
53. Hybrid vehicles
54. Hydroelectric dams
55. Hydrogen vehicles
56. Is climate change chiefly human-caused?
57. Is global warming a crisis?
58. Ivory trading
59. Japanese whaling in Australian Antarctic waters
60. Kangaroo culling in Australia
61. Kyoto Protocol
62. Landmines in the Korean Demilitarized Zone
63. Light pollution
64. Liquid nitrogen economy
65. Mandatory carbon capture and storage for all new coal-fire plants
66. Market vs. regulatory approaches to cutting carbon emissions
67. Natural gas
68. Natural gas vehicles
69. Nuclear energy
70. Nuclear energy in France
71. Offshore wind farms
72. Oil drilling in the Arctic
73. Oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
74. Oil drilling in wildlife refuges
75. Oil from shale
76. Oil sands
77. Organic food
78. Pesticides
79. Pickens US energy plan
80. Protecting endangered species with trade bans
81. Re-introduction of beavers in Britain
82. Real vs fake Christmas tree
83. Reforestation as a solution to global warming
84. Run-of-the-river hydroelectricity
85. Seal meat trade
86. Should governments pay residents to not cut-down trees?
87. Should India agree to limits on carbon emission?
88. Should plastic shopping bags be banned?
89. Should the developing world use DDT?
90. Should the U.S. ban offshore drilling for oil?
91. Should we reverse the flow of the Chicago River?
92. Solar energy
93. Solar shading with airborne particles
94. Solar thermal energy
95. Sustainable development
96. Taxation of international aviation
97. TH would ban bottled water
98. THBT we should plant more trees.
99. Thorium based nuclear energy
100. Three Gorges Dam
101. Tidal energy
102. Underground nuclear waste storage
103. United Kingdom Climate Change Programme
104. Upper oceanic heat transport
105. Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, Australia
106. Urbanism
107. US offshore oil drilling
108. US Renewable Electricity Standard
109. Veal
110. Vegetarianism
111. Vehicle fuel economy standards
112. Water fluoridation
113. Wave power
114. Wearing animal furs and skins
115. Whaling
116. Wind energy
117. Would unmitigated climate change be catastrophic?
118. Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository
119. Zoos