My Debate Script: THBT Human Overpopulation Is A Global Crisis.





It's unbelievable but the small dots in this picture are actually people.



  These days, I'm attending an English academy to do some parliamentary debate. In fact, there are only two people in the class but we are pretending that there are enough people to do parliamentary debates. I started attending the academy last Friday. The topic was that 'This House Believes That Human Overpopulation Is A Global Crisis' and I was the Prime Minister. Here is my speech:

Ladies and gentlemen, because of the advancements in medication and increasing of food, global population is increasing over and over every year. According to Wikipedia, the world's population continued increasing after the Black Death of Europe. As of September 2012, the world population reaches 7.039 billion people and it will increase more and more as time passes by.

Hello, my name is Eujin Jo and I'm the Prime Minister of the governement side. Today's topic is that 'This House Believes That Human Overpopulation Is A Global Crisis' and our team strongly supports the topic. That is because, first, many people all over the world are starving. Second, if the world population increases, crime rate will increase, too. And, finally, because of overpopulation, environmental problems are increasing these days.

Today, as the Prime Minister of the Government Side, I will give the split, define the terms and state the first three arguments of our team. Besides, the Deputy Prime Minister will state the other two arguments of our team and rebut some points of Leader of the Opposition. Lastly, our whip will rebut the points of the Deputy Leader of the Opposition and tell you the reason why our team definately win this Debate.

Now, I'd like to define the terms. I define the term 'overpopulation' as 'too many human beings living on the earth'. Also, I define the term 'crisis' to mean 'causing a lot of global problems such as some environmental problems and crimes'.

I'll state the first three arguments of our team from now on. First of all, many people all over the world are starving nowadays especially in Africa. That is mainly because we can not prduce enough foods for all the human biengs even if we are farming and cooking over and over. According to FAO, about 925 million people are starving or can not eat enough food. The earth is too small to feed every human being on it.

Moreover, if there are more people, there may be more crimes. It is an obvious fact and we can know it through the example of these two countries-America and Korea-. American population is more than 300 million. On the contrary, Korean population is only about 50 million. American crime rate is absolutely higher than Korean. In America, more than 1.2 million crimes are taking place every year while only 1082.0 crimes are occuring in Korea a year. This example tells us the fact that crime rate will increase if the global population increases and overpopulation will cause more serious crimes on the earth.

Third, overpopulation will cause several environmental problems and shortage of natural resources. 'More people' means 'more creatures which need fossil fuels, energy and food to live'. They make numerous trashes everyday and the trashes will pollute the earth. Moreover, the green house gasses and other pollutants from their cars and factories will result in more serious environmental problems which will cause a lot of disasters.

So far, I, as the Prime Minister, defined the terms, gave the split, and stated the three arguments of our team in detail. Ladies and gentlemen, somebody even said, "humans are 10 thousand times more common than we should be". Overpopulation is one of the most serious global problems these days and it will effect all the human beings on the earth. Thank you very much.

I think that this speech is a little bit better than the speeches I wrote during the GLPS. But my debate teacher who came from America said that I had some things to improve and change in the speech.

 He said that I had to let the audience know about the specific associations and places I mentioned in my speech. As you can see in the speech, I cited one of the reports of FAO, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, but did not explain about the organization in detail. That was because I expected that almost every people all over the world might know the famous organization. However, the teacher said that I should not expect every people to know FAO but should explain about it during the debate.

He also said that my second argument was not that logical. My second argument was that 'there would be more crimes if there were more people on the earth'. The teacher said that stating the argument was very similar to saying " if the counsumption of icecream increased in the summer, there would be more flies." Increasing of flies and icecream consumption are mainly because of hot weather. However, the two things themselves do not have any relationship. Likewise, even if increasing of crimes and people are because of the big size of the country, we can not say that they have a cause-and-effect relationship.

In fact, I did my second debate in the English academy yesterday night with a topic that 'This House Believes That Music, Movies And Video Games That Glorify Violent And Criminal Behaviours Should Be Banned' and I was the Leader of the Opposition this time. The speech for yesterday was much longer than the previous speech. I'll upload it later.