Young Voices Debate Tough Topics: DEI and Climate Change

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🗓️ 24 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Two days. Four questions. Ten judges and high school students participating in the national championship run by Incubate Debate, the U.S.’s fastest-growing high school debate league. This is what civil debate in the public square looks like — and what it can be across the country. Join us as we follow eight students who debate the following questions: “Should College DEI Programs Be Abolished?” and “Is Climate Change An Emergency?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:29.2	This is open to debate. I'm John Donvan.
0:34.0	Hi everybody, this week we're taking the episode on the road for something a little bit different.
0:39.0	A departure from the polarization and the deterioration in civil disagreement that we're seeing on our
0:44.6	college campuses.
0:46.2	We are in Florida for the final tournament, the championship round, of a program called Incubate
0:51.0	Debate.
0:52.0	That's a high school debate organization that has programs in 180 schools
0:55.9	across Florida, South Carolina, and Georgia.
0:59.7	We want you to hear these sharp young minds debate,
1:02.4	particularly in the final rounds where they will take on two tough questions
1:06.1	one of them is should college-de-E-I programs be abolished the other one is climate change in emergency
1:11.9	so a big part of this program will be those finals.
1:14.5	We're a debate show after all.
1:16.1	But that all comes later on in the program.
1:18.0	First, we'll join the students
1:19.3	as they arrive to a large middle school campus
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