Tournament: USC | Round: 6 | Opponent: Pepperdine CE | Judge: Dunn
Victimization K

Stigma controls bodies into categories of powerlessness
Bumiller 88 

Professor of Political Science and Women’s/Gender Studies, Amherst College
Kristin, The Civil Rights Society: The Social Construction of Victims, p. 69)

Once a victim it becomes unavoidable because they internalized being a victim resulting in the ultimate form of violence
Sengupta 06, 

media practitioner, writer with the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata "I/Me/Mine—Intersectional Identities as Negotiated Minefields," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SIGNS/journal/issues/v31n3/40253/40253.html

The language of victimhood undermines the capacity for choice and action and suppresses structural dimensions of oppression. This also turns the case
Minow 93, 

Professor of Law at Harvard, Martha, “SURVIVING VICTIM TALK”, August, 40 UCLA Law Review 1411, lexis 

Ontology precedes ethics—ontological interrogations PRECEDE the Affirmative’s political call for action.  Vote for the critique, which rethinks assumptions on presumption, because the affirmative’s policy will negate its own advantage claims.
Dillon 99

 professor of International Relations at the University of Lancaster, (Michael, Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics, p. 97-8)

Once a victim it becomes unavoidable because they internalized being a victim resulting in the ultimate form of violence
Sengupta 06, 

media practitioner, writer with the Raqs Media Collective
Shuddhabrata "I/Me/Mine—Intersectional Identities as Negotiated Minefields," Signs: Journal of Women in Culture, http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/SIGNS/journal/issues/v31n3/40253/40253.html

CP Solves –  Posterity Clause ruling on the plan would establish intergenerational standing – key to prevent all environmental extinction impacts
Davidson 3
John Edward, J.D., Professor of Constitutional Law, Pioneer Pacific College; Senior Research Fellow, Constitutional Law Foundation
"Tomorrow’s Standing Today: How the Equitable Jurisdiction Clause of Article III, Section 2 Confers Standing Upon Future Generations," 28 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 185, LEXIScn

Domestic precedent exists
Harvard law 08
The International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School
http://www.sehn.org/pdf/Model_Provisions_Mod1E7275.pdf

Intergenerational standing key to lawsuits – checks future legislation
Harvard Law 08
From the opinion of Associate Justice Hilario G. Davide Jr., writing for the Republic of the Philippines Supreme Court, en banc, July 30, 1993, in Minors Oposa v. Factoran
http://www.law.harvard.edu/news/spotlight/environmental-law/related/visionary.html
Posterity Clause would have prevented Katrina
Wolfe 2008
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1368andcontext=dlj

Tech innovation solves extinction
Heaberlin 2004
Led the Nuclear Safety and Technology Applications Product Line at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, 2004
(Scott W., A Case for Nuclear-Generated Electricity pg 45-6)

Innovation key to the economy-turns the aff
Edwards and DeHaven 12
Corporate Welfare Spending vs. the Entrepreneurial Economy by Chris Edwards and Tad DeHaven House Budget Committee This testimony was delivered on June 1, 2012. Fellows at the CATO Institute http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/corporate-welfare-spending-vs-entrepreneurial-economy-http://www.cato.org/publications/congressional-testimony/corporate-welfare-spending-vs-entrepreneurial-economy
Agency deference destroys efficient production – stable legal interpretation is key to innovation
Buzebee 2010, professor of law, emory law school, director of emory environmental and natural resource law program. Lessons for climate legislation prompt innovation and discourage inertia, 32 wash, Lexis.

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CP
Text: The United States Supreme Court should rule that the Posterity Clause requires the United States Federal Government to DO THE PLAN  in the United States

CP Solves –  Posterity Clause ruling on the plan would establish intergenerational standing – key to prevent all environmental extinction impacts
Davidson 3
John Edward, J.D., Professor of Constitutional Law, Pioneer Pacific College; Senior Research Fellow, Constitutional Law Foundation
"Tomorrow’s Standing Today: How the Equitable Jurisdiction Clause of Article III, Section 2 Confers Standing Upon Future Generations," 28 Colum. J. Envtl. L. 185, LEXIScn
We deplete freshwater … than 1331 

Courts solve – have jurisdiction to rule over environmental law and the tax code.
Elmendorf 2001, Christopher. “ State Courts, Citizen Suits, and the Enforcement of Federal Environmental Law by Non-Article III Plaintiffs.” The Yale Law Journal, Vol. 110, No. 6 (Apr., 2001), pp. 1003-1044
Unencumbered by … against state agencies. 

Courts shields  from ptx– allows congress to take a position without policy responsibility
Whittington, politics professor at Princeton, 2007
(Keith, “Political foundations of judicial supremacy” 136-137, ldg)
Effective political … the judicial decisions

 
PTX
CIR is top of the docket – Obama pushing for it now
Killough, CNN, 1/30
(Ashley, January 30, 2013, “Obama wants immigration reform in first half of the year”, http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/01/30/obama-wants-immigration-reform-in-first-half-of-the-year/, 1/31/13, atl)
President Barack … immigration system.
Obama has the perfect strategy on immigration now, but controversial actions cause polarization
Weber, senior editor at TheWeek.com, 1/29
(Peter, graduate of Northwestern University, Peter has worked at Facts on File and The New York Times Magazine, he speaks Spanish and Italian, January 29, 2013, “Should Obama stay out of the immigration fight?” http://theweek.com/article/index/239363/should-obama-stay-out-of-the-immigration-fight, 2/1/13, atl)
President Obama travels … without saying anything
Government incentives for any energy source cause backlash – resurrects solyndra fiasco
Harder, National Journal Energy Contributor, 11
(Amy, “What Role Should Government Play In Energy Production”, 09-26-11, da: 09-29-12, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/09/what-role-should-government-pl.php, lmm)
The failure of solar … to oil firms’
Only continued bipartisan support ensures passage
Fabian, ABC News, 1/30
(Jordan, January 30, 2013, “Obama Confident Immigration Reform Passes This Year”, http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/Politics/president-obama-confident-immigration-reform-passes-year/story?id=18358660, 1/31/13, atl)
President Barack … percent since 2000.
Obama involvement inevitable—only maintaining current atmosphere ensures passage
Sanchez and Dennis, Roll Call Staff, 1/30
(Humberto and Steven, January 30, 2013, “GOP Warns Obama to Tread Lightly on Immigration”, http://www.rollcall.com/news/gop_warns_obama_to_tread_lightly_on_immigration-222040-1.html?pg=2, 2/1/13, atl)
And any Republicans … it done,” Schumer said
Deal is secured as long as Obama keeps up bipartisan momentum
Shear, NY Times, 1/30
(Michael, January 30, 2013, “On Immigration, Obama Assumes Upper Hand”, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/31/us/politics/on-immigration-obama-acts-as-if-he-has-the-upper-hand.html?_r=0, 2/1/13, atl)
WASHINGTON — As the specifics … immigration reform
CIR is key to Latin American stability
Gittelson, garment manufacturer in the Los Angeles area for over twenty-five years, 2009
(Robert, has developed practical, first-hand experience in dealing with the immigration issues that are challenging our country today,  THE CENTRISTS AGAINST THE IDEOLOGUES: WHAT ARE THE FALSEHOODS THAT DIVIDE AMERICANS ON THE ISSUE OF COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM,  23 ND J. L. Ethics and Pub Pol'y 115, lexis,  ldg)
In the alternative … southern border?
Latin American instability causes extinction.
Manwaring, Research Professor of Military Strategy, 2005
(Max, “THE TRANSFORMATION OF INTERSTATE WAR: VENEZUELA’S HUGO CHAVEZ, BOLIVARIAN SOCIALISM, AND ASYMMETRIC WARFARE” http://www.airpower.au.af.mil/apjinternational/apj-s/2006/2tri06/manwaringeng.html, ldg)
President Chavez … and conflict
 
K
Securitizing the environment cedes authority to military and security experts, which trades off with focus on the environment and instead justifies militaristic buildup.
Brzoska 8
Michael Brzoska ‘8, Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg “The securitization of climate change and the power of conceptions of security,” Paper prepared for the International Studies Association Convention 2008,
In the literature on … scarce resources.

Militarism’s logical conclusion is extinction; historical trends show an ever increasing amount of violence and devastation in military solutions that threatens all of existence
Mészáros 3 (István, June 2003, Phil. @ U of Sussex, Monthly Review Volume 55, Number 2)
It is not for the … course of development.
Understanding how our rhetoric affects the way we make policy is a prerequisite to the policy itself, otherwise they are will be doomed to fail.
Loge 2005
Peter Loge The George Washington University; Former Director, The Justice Project Publisher: Drake University Law Review 53 Drake L. Rev. 693 Lexis-Nexis
“A critical piece … contested ground
The Alternative is to Reject the affirmative and the security discourse of the 1AC

PIC

Do the plan without the discursive representations of the 1AC

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The conventional economic philosophies of the plan presume a flawed notion that resources are endless and growth is limitless. The plan fails to see that these notions are at the foundation of financial instability, resource degradation and the threat to our survival.

Heinberg 11 Richard Heinberg “The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” 2011 Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, Richard is the recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.

The ideological clash between … to shrink, not grow

The internal links go negative in the debate – the return to economic normalcy is a shroud which leaves us highly vulnerable to a plethora of impact scenarios driven by unemployment and unrest.
Heinberg 11 Richard Heinberg “The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” 2011 Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, Richard is the recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.
Over the short … currency war

The growth and spread of humanity along these lines has overwhelmed the Earth’s ability to support life and will result in extinction
Heinberg 11 Richard Heinberg “The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” 2011 Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, Richard is the recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.
Accidents … adapt and regroup.

The Alternative is to reject the Affirmative and their growth first policies in favor of a “steady-state economy”
Heinberg 11 Richard Heinberg “The End of Growth; Adapting to Our New Economic Reality” 2011 Senior Fellow-in-Residence at Post Carbon Institute, Richard is the recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.
If growth … economy growth