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Energy consumption represents the peak of our manipulation of the environment. Rather than revealing the ontological beauty of nature, it stores it for human utilization. This is the pinnacle of standing reserve logic that obviates our relation to the power of the Earth.

Beckman, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, 2000 Tad, Harvey Mudd College, Martin Heidegger and Environnmental Ethics, page @ http://www2.hmc.edu/~tbeckman/personal/HEIDART.HTML

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The discourse of environmental apocalypse is proven to cause rash ineffective decision making that only ever exacerbates the situation being described. Only replacing this urge to DO with and urge to THINK can prevent the looming catastrophe.

McWhorter, Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies Department of Philosophy University of Richmond, 92 LaDelle, Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Ethics, page (check page #)

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The ontological crisis of modern enframing renders all being expendable. All acts of destruction are not events in themselves but merely signs of a new age defined by technological comportment. In an un-world of standing reserve

Milchman and Rosenberg ,1996 (Alan, Professor of Political Science at Queens College CUNY,  Alan, Assistant professor at Queens College CUNY, “Heidegger, Planetary Technics, Holocaust” Martin Heidegger and the Holocaust p.  225-226)

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Ontological damnation outweighs nuclear war

Zimmerman, 97 Michael, Contesting Earth's Future: Radical Ecology and Postmodernity, Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press, 1997. p.119-120

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Rather than impose our image of reality upon the world we should let the Earth disclose itself to us, singing words of wisdom, let it be.

Padrutt, member of the Daseinsanalytisches Intitut in Zurich, 92 Hanspete, Heidegger and the Earth: Essays in Environmental Ethics, Edited by Ladelle Mcwhorter, Chapter 2: Heidegger and Ecology, page 17-19 

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Ontology comes first- it’s the starting point for all political considerations

Dillon, Prof of Politics- University of Lancaster, 99 Michael, Moral Spaces p. 97-98

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The affirmative paints a picture of international relations that operates on a simple causal basis. If x then y. This illusion of causality is simply a security blanket for an inherently disordered world. The craving for order and certainty is inherently violent. Proliferation is a single instance of a myriad of existential threats that plague international relations. The deployment of nuclear weapons is the finality of a dangerous technologization that will forever contain and exploit - but never resolve - conflict

Burke ‘7 /Anthony, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations at UNSW, Sydney, Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason, Theory and Event Volume 10 Issue 2, Muse/

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Donald Rumsfeld sophisticatedly outlined U.S. foreign policy by declaring that we must preemptively strike the “unknown unknowns” - the ubiquitous and unintelligible enemies that are perceived as existential challenges, whether in fact or potential. In response American aims become threat-generating. The attempt to provide order and control becomes the endless madness of preemptive warfare.

Massumi ‘7 /Brian, “Potential Politics and the Primacy of Preemption,” Theory and Event 10.2, Muse/

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Fear is the motivating factor of status quo politics. We no longer seek a world of predictability and order, but instead embrace disorder and vulnerability. There are no enemies, and especially no potential enemies, and thus no scapegoats. Rather than renouncing uncertainty, we overcome it, opening up space for a truly radical politics

Lavin ‘6 /Chad, political theory at Tulane, “Fear, radical democracy, and ontological methadone,” Polity 38.2, April/

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The debate space is key! Investigating our framing of and relation to nuclear imagery and international politics if we are to make political changes. This is an independent criticism as well as solvency for the alternative. Nuclear exchange is inevitable as long as militaristic and economically driven forces control the symbolism of the nuke. Only voting negative solves this and the violent rationality of the affirmative.

Taylor ‘3 /Bryan C, Prof Communications University Colorado at Boulder, “Our Bruised Arms Hung Up as  Monuments: Nuclear Iconography in  Post-Cold War Culture,” Critical Studies in Media Communication 20.1, March/