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Organizing the economy around innovation creates economics of speed- leads to rapid investment shifting and product development- that’s unsustainable and makes financial collapse inevitable
Goldman et al. ‘6
 (Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, Noah Kersey, Landscapes of the Social Relations of Production in a Networked Society, Fast Capitalism 2.1, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/SocialRelations.html)
The formula for success
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The landscape of risk is omnipresent. 

Service liberalization like the plan removes barriers to speed and increases the pace of global economic transaction- ensures environmental collapse, resource wars, and extinction
Simons ’10
(Petrus, Former Trader and Economist, PhD in Philosophy, Accelerate or Slow Down, Stimulus: The New Zealand Journal of Christian Thought and Practice, Vol. 18 (2010): 32-25)
Paul Virilio’s metaphor of a
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 that speed kills.
 
Alternative Text: the judge should vote negative to refuse the economics of speed

Prior refusal of the economics of speed is key- fractures its hegemony and opens space for a multitude of economic timescapes- only this re-framing can lead to effective capitalism
Hassan ‘5
(ARC Senior Research Fellow, Media and Communications @ Univ. of Melbourne) (Robert, Timescapes of the Network Society, Fast Capitalism 1.1, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism-/1_1/hassan.html)

Nonetheless, the truly revolutionary
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shape it into something(s) we haven't yet dreamed of.

You should procrastinate the question of the aff in favor of methodological questions- that means you refuse time frame calculations and prioritize their approach to the topic- that acts as a performative counter-conduct that refuses the colonization of debate by the economics of speed
Binkley ‘9
(assistant professor of sociology at Emerson College) (Sam, The Work of Neoliberal Governmentality: Temporality and Ethical Substance in the Tale of Two Dads, Foucault Studies, No 6, pp. 60-78, February 2009)
Foucault’s many statements on practices
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mobilized as a daydream, against the writing of reports.    

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cal Berkeley SH | Judge:
The United States Federal Government should set a price ceiling on Natural gas at $3 per ton

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Obama leads, but only slightly
Silver 10/26 (http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/26/oct-25-the-state-of-the-states/#more-36719)
Thursday was a busy day for the polls,
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so in three others.

SMR’s are politically unpopular with the public – tied to the nuclear stigma
Szondy 12
David, Feb 16, GIZMAG “Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors - the future of energy?” http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/
Indeed, it is in government
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 a very real thing.

Approval ratings are key to the election
Cook, The National Journal Political Analyst, 11
(Charlie, October 27, “Underwater,” http://www.nationaljournal.com/columns/cook-report/the-cook-report-obama-underwater-20111027, d/a 7-20-12, ads)
The best barometer of how a
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 on the same side.

C) Impact Romney will bomb Iran his first month in office
Kidd 12 (Dr. Billy, research psychologist and long-term political activist, June 14, ‘Romney Strategist Prepare for War Against Iran,’ http://www.opposingviews.com/i/politics/foreign-policy/crisis-gaza/romney-strategists-prepare-war-against-iran)
The Emergency Committee for
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 come next January.

Attacking Iran causes full-scale war with Russia
 Conway January 17, 2012 Alvin Conway Author, blogger he cites Russia’s former ambassador to NATO and the Arab Times “Iranian Crisis: escalating series of troubling events sliding world towards war” http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/iranian-crisis-escalating-series-of-troubling-events-sliding-world-towards-war/
Russian response could lead to
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our security.” –Arab Times

US-Russia War Most Likely Scenario for extinction
Bostrom 2002 Nick Bostrom Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Oxford University“Existential Risks” Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, No. 1 (2002). http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html
A much greater existential risk
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 the 21st century.

Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cal Berkeley SH | Judge:
Energy is the barrier to US space weapons- only SMR commercialization allows the Air Force to deploy a space laser
Maybury, 12
(Chief Scientist-USAF, “Energy Horizons: United States Air Force Energy SandT Vision 2011-2026,” 1/31, http://www.fas.org/irp/doddir/usaf/energy.pdf)
Space is the ―ultimate
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space based assets increases.

U.S. space weapons would spark an arms race – causes first use of ASATs – deterrence would not apply.
Su ‘10
Jinyuan Su, The Silk Road Institute of International and Comparative Law, School of Law, Xi'an Jiaotong University. “Towards an effective and adequately verifiable PPWT”. Space Policy Volume 26, Issue 3, August 2010. ScienceDirect.
First, deployment of space-based
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weapons these can be applied selectively and discriminately. The situation would worsen as more states acquired an ASAT capability.

They cannot win on impact turns- deterrence collapse inevitable and causes extinction
Hitchens ‘8
Theresa Hitchens, directs the Center for Defense Information in Washington, D.C., and leads its Space Security Project, in cooperation with the Secure World Foundation. She is author of Future Security in Space: Charting a Cooperative Course (2004) and was editor of Defense News from 1998 until 2000. “Space Wars”. Scientific American, Mar2008, Vol. 298, Issue 3. EbscoHost
Yet any arms race in space would almost inevitably
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 would be highly problematic.