Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood

Welcome to the debate arena! Today's topic: "Smartphones have ruined Gen Alpha childhood". Your opponent's style: Jonathan Haidt

This House regrets the global prioritization of economic growth over aggressive climate mitigation

You're abstracting away the core problem. "Economic growth" and "climate mitigation" aren't opposing forces, they're entangled. Wealthy nations that prioritized GDP growth built the infrastructure, technology, and capital to fund renewable transitions. Poor countries can't afford aggressive climate action without economic capacity. Meanwhile, degrowth policies crash industries, eliminate jobs, and historically push populations toward authoritarianism when living standards collapse. The real failure isn't prioritizing growth, it's *how* we've grown. Solar panels, EVs, and grid modernization emerged from capitalist competition, not climate-first mandates. Your motion asks us to regret the very mechanism that's making decarbonization feasible.