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| 09/26/2012 | Virgin Nucs 1ACTournament: UMKC | Round: All | Opponent: All | Judge: All Virgin Nucs 1AC
Welcome to the revolution… this is Prescription for the Planet.
BLEES 2005 Prescription for the planet The Painless Remedy for our Energy and Environmental Crises http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/P4TP4U.pdf I’d like to invite you to a revolution. Don’t worry, …for the U.S. Department of Energy that the project was not to be publized.
First, the squo places us on a slow road to collapseThe idea of easy oil or renewables as a panacea is dangerous – neither will be able to fill our need for energy in the coming yearsSteffy, 2011. Loren, business columnist for Houston Chronicle and author, “Drowning in Oil,” fuelfix.com, December 19, http:~/~/fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/19/loren-steffy-the-myths-of-untapped-oil/http://fuelfix.com/blog/2011/12/19/loren-steffy-the-myths-of-untapped-oil/
Keep in mind that domestic oil production …or unfettered drilling alone can save us, we risk waiting until it’s too late.
The nuclear race is in full swing – global development is inevitable.
The energy Collective July 31, 2012 Worldwide Nuclear Energy Expansion Continueshttp://theenergycollective.com/breakthroughinstitut/98406/worldwide-nuclear-energy-expansion-continues Global production of nuclear energy is expected…companies in China announcing their own Gen III reactor designs." The only question is whether the US will take the lead or slide to the back…Hence the plan : The United States Federal government should fund research and development for Integral Fast Reactors including capital investment in a pilot plant.The Plan SolvesNow is key time: Congressional approval of capital investment for a pilot plant must be done now – delay means the option will be lost
Steve Kirsch 8/10/2008 The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) project http://skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifr.htm From a risk management point of view, you certainly…we should start very soon, or that option will be lost forever. Congressional action is key – left to its own devices, DOE will just continue to research
Steve Kirsch 11/25/2009 Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/ How is it that we need more research today, yet 44 years ago, …will get built. If Congress requests nothing, then that’s what we will get: nothing. The Reactor is Inherently safe – survived Chernobyl and Three Mile Island disaster tests without incident
Charles E. Till¶ (Adapted from a series of four articles, entitled Plentiful Energy, the IFR Story, and Related Matters, in THE REPUBLIC News and Issues Magazine, June-September 2005. Preface by Terry Robinson.) http://www.sustainablenuclear.org/PADs/pad0509till.html The new safety characteristics of the reactor can be summarized …were duplicated, again with a quiet, damage-free shutdown. CompetitivenessScenario I – ChinaThe lack of government support for domestic nuclear power is threatening to leave us chasing China in Asian hegemonySCOTT CULLINANE 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376 While America’s nuclear industry has languished, current …Nuclear technology provides a clear example of this.
And China is doubling down on nuclear powerPEOPLE’S DAILY ONLINE, 2011 “China approves 10 more nuclear power generators,” January 26, http:~/~/english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90862/7272628.html China is expected to raise its 2020 target for the nuclear power …power stations, accounting for 50 to 60 percent of the total. A domestic nuclear industry is key to keeping our edge – without it China will outpace us in energy policy creating a shift in the balance of power globally
SCOTT CULLINANE 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376 In the context of US – PRC relations, nuclear energy is more than…policy conforms to strategy in order for the US to advance its position.
The U.S. is the only thing standing between great power competitions in Asia – arms races, miscalc and all-out conflict would result Khalilzad, 2011 (Writer of Heg Cards, Feb 8, http://www.nationalreview.com/author/259022/latest)
We face this domestic challenge while other major powers are experiencing rapid …significant barrier facing Chinese hegemony and aggression. These conflicts go nuclearUK Defence Forum, 2003 Regional Studies 8: “Conflict In The South China Sea,” Jan 20, 2003 http://www.ukdf.org.uk/regional/rs8.htm The oil rich and strategically important Spratly Islands archipelago is one …because they think they can get away with it.¶ Scenario 2 – Hegemony
The lack of government support for domestic nuclear power destroys US competitiveness
SCOTT CULLINANE 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376
History has recorded well American wartime nuclear developments which culminated …advancement of the PRC in nuclear energy changes the strategic calculus for America.
US competitiveness key to maintaining peace – without it we will have frequent crises and major wars – history provesKhalilzad, 2011 (, Feb 8, http://www.nationalreview.com/author/259022/latest)
We face this domestic challenge while other major powers are experiencing rapid economic …States is the most significant barrier facing Chinese hegemony and aggression. Dependency
Energy security module
Energy tensions have never been higher - dependence, unstable regions and competition for resources at most intense level in history
Merel van den Boomen June 2009 Nuclear Energy in a Changing World of Energy Security and Global Warming http://www.iias.nl/epa/files/Merel_van_den_Boomen.pdf Energy is vital in keeping our planet running, our economy alive…for the safe, secure, and sustainable use of energy worldwide.
IFRs can solve energy security and dwindling supplies for a millennium – it is unrivaled as a solutionBarry Brook 24 February 2011 Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III) http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change/ Fossil fuels currently supply about 80% of humankind’s primary energy…energy problems facing humanity in the 21st century.
Energy insecurity is on the brink – geopolitical tensions and new cold wars are forming around conflicts for energy resourcesAnup Shah, 2011. “Energy Security,” Global Issues, May 15, http:~/~/www.globalissues.org/article/595/energy-security#org/article/595/energy-security#globalissues-org
There has certainly been a recognition in recent months and years that energy security is a …possibly leading to resource-scarcity driven instability and conflict.
Energy vulnerabilities risk conflicts, economic downturns and a threat to modern life as we know itJournal of Energy Security, 2012. “From the Editor: Energy Geopolitics in the 21st Century,” April 19, http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=350:energy-geopolitics-in-the-21st-centuryandcatid=122:fromtheditorandItemid=389url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=350:energy-geopolitics-in-the-21st-centuryandcatid=122:fromtheditorandItemid=389
In closing, energy geopolitics in the 21st is partially a legacy of how energy has impacted …Ask anyone in the developing world and they’ll answer this for you.
Proliferation
Declining share of global energy trade is threatening US leadership on nonproliferationLoudermilk 2011 (Micah, research associate with the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program at National Defense University, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs”, Journal of Energy Security, 5-31-11, http:~/~/www.ensec.org/index.php?view=articleandcatid=116%3Acontent0411andid=314%3Asmall-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandtmpl=componentandprint=1andpage=andoption=com_contentandItemid=375url:http://www.ensec.org/index.php?view=articleandcatid=116%3Acontent0411andid=314%3Asmall-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandtmpl=componentandprint=1andpage=andoption=com_contentandItemid=375, accessed 8-1-12, RSR) Reactor safety itself notwithstanding, many argue that the scattering of small reactors around … agreements, spent fuel reprocessing, and developing reactor technologies.
Plan restores vibrant nuclear industry needed for global leadership in non-proliferationDr. Phillip J. Finck, 2005. Deputy Associate Laboratory Director for Applied Science and Technology and National Security, Argonne National Laboratory, 6-16-05, Before the House Committee on Science, Energy Subcommittee, Hearing on Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing,
The U.S. program represents a transition to an advanced nuclear fuel cycle…us regain international leadership in the field of nuclear energy.
In addition, pyroprocessing in IFR makes weapons-usable material technically impossible – it is virtually proliferation-free technology
Barry Brook 24 February 2011 Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III) http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change/ One of the arguments that was used to politically kill the IFR project, just as it was ready to demonstrate … while still condoning aqueous has their facts backward.
IFRs also solve the need for additional enriched uranium another factor in proliferation
Barry Brook 16 October 2009 The Integral Fast Reactor – Summary for Policy Makers http://bravenewclimate.com/2009/10/16/ifr-spm/ Proliferation resistant: The IFR is proliferation resistant on two counts. … into elements that are safe after 300 years.
Widespread proliferation leads to massive death and destruction
Victor A Utgoff, 2002 Deputy Director of Strategy, Forces, and Resources Division of Institute for Defense Analysis, Summer 2002, Survival, p.87-90 In sum, widespread proliferation is likely to lead to an occasional shoot… bodies of dead cities or even whole nations. | |
| 09/27/2012 | Questions/ProblemsTournament: All | Round: All | Opponent: All | Judge: All If you have any questions or problems, contact Scott Laczko at scottlaczko@gmail.com | |
| 09/27/2012 | 2AC - UMKC - RD 4Tournament: UMKC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Oklahoma | Judge: Caitlin Reynolds They say explosions but you can group there argumentsSodium is not reactive in the IFR their science is wrongBlees, Tom 2008 "Prescriptions of the planet" http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/P4TP4U.pdf At capFrameworkFirst Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be able to weigh the advantages of the plan PERIOD The negative can have a competitive policy option or a disadvantage or critical impact that may be uniquely caused by the affirmative The Role of ballot is to say yes or no to the action and outcomes of the plan.Second, is reasons to prefer: Finally, It is a voter for competitive equity—prefer our interpretation, it allows both teams to compete, other roles of the ballot are arbitrary and self serving It is necessary to exclude those who choose to be exclusionary. Failure affirms rejection of civility and democracyPerm: Do Both - If the alternative can overcome the status quo it can overcome the planPerm solves—the plan’s approach to the current energy crisis presents a unique opportunity to reform capitalismMichael A Peters 2012, ~Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ~10 June 2012, "Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism," Truthout, http://truth-out.org/news/item/9642-greening-the-knowledge-economy-a-critique-of-neoliberalism Ecopolitics must come to terms with the scramble for resources that increasingly dominates the competitive 2. Must work within the system to reform itJones and Spicer 09 Campbell, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at U of Leicester, Andre, Associate Professor in the Dept of Industrial Relations @ Warwick Business School U of Warwick, Unmasking the Entrepreneur, pgs. 22-23 The third strand in our proposed critical theory of entrepreneurship involves questions of the ’extra 4. Perm : do the plan and focus on ecological valuesCase is a disad to the k. capitalisim is key to generate capital investment and kirsh 2008 says that has to happen now. At best the k delays action and probably prevent.5. Perm do the plan and withdraw from all other forms of capital- no reason the plan would derail enough resistanceStewart, Director of the Global Policy Innovations, 9 6. We shouldn’t withdraw from the state but engage it – means the perm solves bestZizek, Professor at the European Graduate School, 9 The very first card we read is tagged as welcome to the revolution. Blees makes this abundantly clear. Our plan is the revolution that the capitalist structure would like to see happen fighting back against the oppressive nature of the typical energy secor and using what capitalisim has already thrown away8. We control uniqueness – free market growth solves global poverty and inequalityFrieden 10 – Jeffrey, Professor of Government at Harvard; researches international monetary and financial relations ~Mar 6, http://www.hceronline.com/?q=node/48-http://www.hceronline.com/?q=node/48~~ The good news about global inequality is that it has been declining. The world 9. Vauge alts are bad they create a moving target and that’s not our zizak making it impossible to create offense. And they are bad for education, if they are to question our methodology they need to hav a stable advocacy for us to copare it to letting the bock redefine the alternative is abusive and kills education reasons it’s a voter for education and fairness10. Rejecting capitalism will spark transition wars, re-entrenching cycles of exploitationGubrud 1997 ~Mark Avrum (Center for Superconductivity Research); "Nanotechnology and International Security"; Foresight Nanotechnology Institute; http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/-http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/ 11. Cap key to space – only way to prevent terminal extinctionWasser 10 – Alan, premier legal authority on Space Property Rights, former broadcast journalist 11. Capitalism key to technological innovation—helps the environmentBarker, 00 – electrical engineer, and manager of corporate communications for the Electric Power Research Institute and former industrial economist and staff author at SRI International and as a commercial research analyst at USX Corporation (Brent, "Technology and the Quest for Sustainability." EPRI Journal, Summer) The rate of innovation is especially critical to sustainability. The roadmap participants have concluded 12 Their alternative fails: their card says that we need to work on a global level, global communication is a modern day CAPATILST technological advancement.14 Neoliberalism is inevitable through global pressureWeede, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bonn, 04 (Erich, "The Diffusion of Prosperity and Peace by Globalization," The Independent Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, http://www.independent.org /pdf/tir/tir_09_2_1_weede.pdf) First, prosperous countries influence the legal foundations for capitalism or economic policies elsewhere. 15. Total rejection of capitalism fragments resistanceGibson-Graham, prof of human geography @ Australian National University, 96 One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce a knowledge of capitalism. 16. Collapse of capitalism causes extinction – outweighs other extinction scenariosJean-Francois Revel, 1993 Sociopolitical analyst 17. Alt fails—can’t change everyone’s mindsMead 09 - Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (Walter Russell, The New Republic, "Only Makes You Stronger", 2/4/09) But, in many other countries where capitalism rubs people the wrong way, this Floating pics are bad and a voter:
Risk of nuclear storage outweighs all – the consequences are so big it doesn’t matter how low the risk is, we must avoid itDavid Comarow, 2001 Dir. Legal Affairs and General Counsel at FortuNet, Inc and COO and General Counsel at Austine Studios 2001, Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing 12-8-2001, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-energy/issues/yucca-mountain/yucca-mountain-testimony-comarow_2001-12-08.htm None of that is impossible, and therefore none of that is unthinkable. We | |
| 09/27/2012 | 2AC - UMKC - RD 5Tournament: UMKC | Round: 5 | Opponent: UCO | Judge: Coleman Sodium is not reactive in the IFR their science is wrongBlees, Tom 2008 "Prescriptions of the planet" http://www.thesciencecouncil.com/pdfs/P4TP4U.pdf Renewables Grid Add-onCk checks already crowded them out making them non uniqueStiffly evidenceWe are inherently clean look to our aff its all in the context of solving warmingThe grid is key growth Even small disturbances spilloverGlauthier ’03 (T. J. Glauthier, President and CEO of the Electricity Innovation Institute, September 21, 2003, "Lighting Up the Blackout: Technology Upgrades to America’s Electrical System" Lexis Nexis) I sincerely appreciate the opportunity to address this distinguished Committee on a subject about which Collapses the economyBryan ’03 (Jay Bryan, August 19, 2003, The Gazette, "Power grids vital in information age," Lexis Nexis) This worsened the already-anemic state of a U.S. economy that Economic decline causes multiple scenarios of nuclear warBurrows and Harris 2009 Mathew J. Burrows counselor in the National Intelligence Council and Jennifer Harris a member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit "Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis" The Washington Quarterly 32:2 https://csis.org/files/publication/twq09aprilburrowsharris.pdf Blackouts Add-onNuclear power solves blackouts and is critical to the stability of the energy gridMarvin Fertel, 2004 Senior Vice President of the Nuclear Energy Institute, 2004, Utility Fleet Management, Vol 23, issue 3, Project Muse) Nuclear plants provide voltage support because reactor operators can raise or lower power levels as Black Outs will permanently cripple the US economyUnited Press International, 2003 8/18/03 In the end, Bush would learn it was the largest electric blackout ever. This leads to wars.At capPerm: Do Both - If the alternative can overcome the status quo it can overcome the planPerm solves—the plan’s approach to the current energy crisis presents a unique opportunity to reform capitalismMichael A Peters 2012, ~Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ~10 June 2012, "Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism," Truthout, http://truth-out.org/news/item/9642-greening-the-knowledge-economy-a-critique-of-neoliberalism Ecopolitics must come to terms with the scramble for resources that increasingly dominates the competitive 2. Must work within the system to reform itJones and Spicer 09 Campbell, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at U of Leicester, Andre, Associate Professor in the Dept of Industrial Relations @ Warwick Business School U of Warwick, Unmasking the Entrepreneur, pgs. 22-23 The third strand in our proposed critical theory of entrepreneurship involves questions of the ’extra 4. Perm : do the plan and focus on ecological valuesCase is a disad to the k. capitalisim is key to generate capital investment and kirsh 2008 says that has to happen now. At best the k delays action and probably prevent.5. Perm do the plan and withdraw from all other forms of capital- no reason the plan would derail enough resistanceStewart, Director of the Global Policy Innovations, 9 6. We shouldn’t withdraw from the state but engage it – means the perm solves bestZizek, Professor at the European Graduate School, 9 The very first card we read is tagged as welcome to the revolution. Blees makes this abundantly clear. Our plan is the revolution that the capitalist structure would like to see happen fighting back against the oppressive nature of the typical energy secor and using what capitalisim has already thrown away8. We control uniqueness – free market growth solves global poverty and inequalityFrieden 10 – Jeffrey, Professor of Government at Harvard; researches international monetary and financial relations ~Mar 6, http://www.hceronline.com/?q=node/48-http://www.hceronline.com/?q=node/48~~ The good news about global inequality is that it has been declining. The world 9. Vauge alts are bad they create a moving target and that’s not our zizak making it impossible to create offense. And they are bad for education, if they are to question our methodology they need to hav a stable advocacy for us to copare it to letting the bock redefine the alternative is abusive and kills education reasons it’s a voter for education and fairness10. Rejecting capitalism will spark transition wars, re-entrenching cycles of exploitationGubrud 1997 ~Mark Avrum (Center for Superconductivity Research); "Nanotechnology and International Security"; Foresight Nanotechnology Institute; http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/-http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/ 11. Cap key to space – only way to prevent terminal extinctionWasser 10 – Alan, premier legal authority on Space Property Rights, former broadcast journalist 11. Capitalism key to technological innovation—helps the environmentBarker, 00 – electrical engineer, and manager of corporate communications for the Electric Power Research Institute and former industrial economist and staff author at SRI International and as a commercial research analyst at USX Corporation (Brent, "Technology and the Quest for Sustainability." EPRI Journal, Summer) The rate of innovation is especially critical to sustainability. The roadmap participants have concluded 12 Their alternative fails: their card says that we need to work on a global level, global communication is a modern day CAPATILST technological advancement.14 Neoliberalism is inevitable through global pressureWeede, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bonn, 04 (Erich, "The Diffusion of Prosperity and Peace by Globalization," The Independent Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, http://www.independent.org /pdf/tir/tir_09_2_1_weede.pdf) First, prosperous countries influence the legal foundations for capitalism or economic policies elsewhere. 15. Total rejection of capitalism fragments resistanceGibson-Graham, prof of human geography @ Australian National University, 96 One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce a knowledge of capitalism. 16. Collapse of capitalism causes extinction – outweighs other extinction scenariosJean-Francois Revel, 1993 Sociopolitical analyst 17. Alt fails—can’t change everyone’s mindsMead 09 - Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (Walter Russell, The New Republic, "Only Makes You Stronger", 2/4/09) But, in many other countries where capitalism rubs people the wrong way, this Risk of nuclear storage outweighs all – the consequences are so big it doesn’t matter how low the risk is, we must avoid itDavid Comarow, 2001 Dir. Legal Affairs and General Counsel at FortuNet, Inc and COO and General Counsel at Austine Studios 2001, Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing 12-8-2001, http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/key-issues/nuclear-energy/issues/yucca-mountain/yucca-mountain-testimony-comarow_2001-12-08.htm None of that is impossible, and therefore none of that is unthinkable. We | |
| 09/27/2012 | 2AC - UMKC - RD 8Tournament: UMKC | Round: 8 | Opponent: Trinity | Judge: Ashley Morgan A financial incentive is : A tax credit, production payment, trust fund, low cost loans and research and developmentMark Gielecki, Fred Mayes, and Lawrence Prete February 2001 Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htm R%26D is a financial incentive because is integral to the development of emerging energy technologiesMark Gielecki, Fred Mayes, and Lawrence Prete February 2001 Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htmd A. WE MEET Their Interpretation. The affirmative is REASONS TO PREFER1. LIMITSTheir interpretation hurts aff creativity by tying us down to nothing but leasing and subsidy cases, which would mean 12 cases for a years worth of debate. We give the neg good notice that they need to be able to defend government regulation of energy producers. 2. GROUNDTheir interpretation will lead to a boring year of debate only about the merits of increasing energy supply. No other topic in recent memory had only a single advantage area within it. Our interpretation gives them links to nuclear, energy, politics, and financial incentives 3. BRIGHT LINEWe provide a clear brightline for a financial incentive. Cross apply the Gielikie. E. NOT A VOTER FOR REASONS PREVIOUSLY STATED US system of hegemony is sustainable because the US disproportionally benefits – trade, economy, and securityNorrlof, 10 Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Carla, America’s Global Advantage; US Hegemony and International Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, p. 1-4 Hegemony key to solve terrorism – risks extinctionKnowles 10 ~Robert, Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, "TEN QUESTIONS: RESPONSES TO THE TEN QUESTIONS," William Mitchell Law Review, vol 36, 5061~ Nonetheless, there are some who argue that we are already living in a multipolar Heg key to check resurgent Russia, check Balkan conflicts, and sustain NATOBrookes 08 Senior Fellow for National Security Affairs at The Heritage Foundation. He is also a member of the congressional U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (Peter, Heritage, Why the World Still Needs America’s Military Might, November 24, 2008) FrameworkSecurity KFirst, policy analysis should precede discourse – most effective way to challenge powerJill Taft-Kaufman, Speech prof @ CMU, 1995, Southern Comm. Journal, Spring, v. 60, Iss. 3, "Other Ways", p pq and, realism is epistemologically trueFrank Harvey, associate professor of Political Science, Dalhouse University, The Future’s Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory, And Crisis Stability After The Cold War, 1997, p. 139 Realism is inevitable in a world where it accurately describes international politicsMearsheimer, 2002. ~professor of Political Science at U Chicago, John, "Realism, the Real World, and the Academy", Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies, p. 23-33~ And. realism is transformative—it can synthesize critical theories to provide effective strategies of changeAlastair J.H. Murray, Politics Department, University of Wales Swansea, Reconstructing Realism, 1997, p. 178-9 Permutation – do the plan as an engagement with realism while adopting the critical alternative in other instances of international relations – this is necessary to move beyond the squo they criticizeGuzzini, 1998 ~Senior Research Fellow at the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute and Associate Professor of Political Science, International Relations, and European Studies at the Central European University in Budapest, 1998~ ("Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold" p. 109- 235) And, fear is necessary to check extinction – provides a consciousness which sustains peaceJ.A.H. Futterman, Former US nuclear weapons scientist, 1994, "Obscenity and Peace: Meditation on the Bomb," Virtual Church of the Blind Chihuahua, www.dogchurch.org/books/nuke.html State actors must use realism or risk destruction – empirical support of the K’s alternative does not exist – the alternative’s unknown impact risks something worse than the known status quoMearsheimer, 1995. ~John, professor of Political Science at U Chicago, Summer, "A Realists Reply", International Security Vol. 20, No 1, p. 82-93~ Perm – critiquing security rhetoric is not enough – action is essentialAnthony Burke, Prof at the School of Political Science and International Studies at University of Queensland, Alternatives "Aporias of Security" 2002 p. 22 First Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be able to weigh the advantages of the plan PERIOD The negative can have a competitive policy option or a disadvantage or critical impact that may be uniquely caused by the affirmative The Role of ballot is to say yes or no to the action and outcomes of the plan.Second, is reasons to prefer: Finally, It is a voter for competitive equity—prefer our interpretation, it allows both teams to compete, other roles of the ballot are arbitrary and self serving | |
| 10/08/2012 | 2AC - SFSU - RD 1Tournament: SFSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Fresno | Judge: Brian Manuel
====Extinction precedes ontology – existence is a prerequisite for the self ==== Wapner 3 ~~Paul Wapner is associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University, DISSENT / Winter 2003~~JFS All attempts to listen to nature are, indeed, social constructions, except one AND -critics must be supporters, in some fashion, of environmental preservation.
====Turn – failing to recognize and act within the inevitable state system endangers survival – the moral absolutism of the K proves self-destructive==== Murray, 1997. ~~Professor of Politics at the University of Wales, Alastair J.H., Reconstructing Realism: Between Power Politics and Cosmopolitan Ethics, p. 75-76~~
The central tenet of a realist approach in this respect is that each system of AND a bloody cycle of ineffectively executed attempts to block such domination.~’"
====Realism is inevitable- states will fear each other because of a lack of central authority and uncertain intentions==== Mearsheimer, 2004. ~~John, professor of Political Science at U Chicago, 2004, "Power and Fear in Great Power Politics", G.O. Mazur, ed., One Hundred Year Commemoration to the Life of Hans Morgenthau, p 184-196~~ ¶ I agree with Morgenthau that states constantly look for opportunities to take the offensive AND hegemon, because no other state can seriously threaten such a mighty power.
==K proper==
====Perm do both====
And, Heidegger~’s ontology creates an impersonal self absorbed being that destroy considerations of the Other Emmanuel Levinas, professor of philosophy, Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, 1969, pg. 46-47 The "egoism" of ontology is maintained even when, denouncing Socratic philosophy as AND . It is a movement within the same before obligation to the other.
====The case serves as a disad to the critique. We can not begin to have meaningful discussions of ontology if we are all dead. Means life precedes value to life====
====Perm do both: The solution must arise from the technology that created the problem – the plan and alt function together to restore the world.==== **Beckman 2k** ~~Tad: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at Harvey Mudd College, "Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics," http://www2.hmc.edu/~~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html~~. While we may now glimpse something of the human essence and the legitimate role of AND grants and our trust in it?" ~~{~~7~~, p. 35~~}
====Their alternative dooms us to extinction – only pragmatic political action can solve and allow the space for metaphysical investigation. This also answers their argument that ontology outweighs war ====
Ronald E. **Santoni 85**, Phil. Prof @ Denison, Nuclear War, ed. Fox and Groarke, p. 156-7 To be sure, Fox sees the need for our undergoing "certain fundamental changes AND arms race, many questions may be raised about his prescribed "solutions." Given our need for a paradigm shift in our (distorted) understanding of ourselves and the rest of being, are we merely left "to prepare for a possible shift in our AND Despite Zimmerman~’s elaborations and refinements his Heideggerian notion of "letting beings be" continues to be too permissive in this regard. In my judgment, an individual~’s AND wll ultimate violence be removed as the final arbiter of our planet~’s fate.
====No link - The plan is not the dangerous technological mindset that Heidegger warns against – using technology is not the same as relying on tech enframing.==== **Dreyfus 96** ~~Hubert, "Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault" University of California Berkeley ~http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html-http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html~~ Heidegger and Foucault are clear, then, that what is uniquely oppressive in our AND realities — exists alongside the most advanced high-tech production and consumption.
Perm: do the plan and all other instances of the alt – that creates a double bind: either the plan singularly can be solved by the detachment process, or the alternative doesn~’t have the ability to solve the thousands of scenarios of technological ontology in the squo.
====Focus on ontology w/o ethical guidance ensures violence====
**Child et al 95 **(Mark, PhD Candidate in Instructional Psychology @ BYU, "Autonomy or Heteronomy? Levinas~’s Challenge to Modernism and Postmodernism," ~http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/Educational-Theory/Contents/45_2_Child_etal.asp-http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/EPS/Educational-Theory/Contents/45_2_Child_etal.asp) In short, while those struggling to respond better to the challenges of learning and AND related to traditional notions of ethics, represents a challenge to these notions.
====Technological ontology is inevitable – man inherently uses technology to exploit things around him – at worst theres no specific brink to the 1AC that causes the impact that nuclear testing, and mining before wouldn~’t have caused making the impact non-unique at best====
====Heidegger~’s analysis and the exploration of the question of Being cheapens life destroying any value to life==== **Andrew Olesh 2008** (Martin Buber~’s Critique of Heidegger~’s Being-With: An exploration of a disagreement between two of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century Loyola College in Maryland SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Oneonta, New York) So Heidegger~’s exploration of the question of Being will therefore be an exploration of the AND not limited only to the way that the self relates with the self.
====Their link arguments totalize calculative thought – Calculation is a product of social institutions, like capitalism, not individual actions, like those of the aff – Only we harness institutions for change====
**Eldred 9** (Michael, Univ of Sydney, Left Curve, no 24, http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html.) Here, as everywhere else, Heidegger totalizes calculatingness without taking the economy into account AND opportunity of thinking through modern technology in its essential sameness with capitalist economy.
====The alternative results in passivity ==== **Richard Wolin** **1990** (THE POLITICSOF BEING, 1990 p. 147 Professor of Modem European Intellectual History) As we suggested earlier, the essential thinking of the later Heidegger promotes an " AND inflated, but the powers of human reason and will are correspondingly devalued.
=Discourse is bad security=
====First, policy analysis should precede discourse – most effective way to challenge power==== Jill Taft-Kaufman, Speech prof @ CMU, 1995, Southern Comm. Journal, Spring, v. 60, Iss. 3, "Other Ways", p pq The postmodern passwords of "polyvocality," "Otherness," and "difference," unsupported AND political agendas, institutions, agencies, and the budgets that fuel them.
====and, realism is epistemologically true==== Frank Harvey, associate professor of Political Science, Dalhouse University, The Future~’s Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory, And Crisis Stability After The Cold War, 1997, p. 139 Finally, the lack of purity and precision, another consequence of linguistic relativism, AND would know more or less about international relations if we pursued that strategy.
====Realism is inevitable in a world where it accurately describes international politics====
Mearsheimer, 2002. ~~professor of Political Science at U Chicago, John, "Realism, the Real World, and the Academy", Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies, p. 23-33~~ There is little reason to think that such hostility toward realism will subside anytime soon AND students will continue to be impressed by realism~’s compelling explanations of state behavior. Realism will disappear only if there is a revolutionary change in the structure of the international system, but that is not likely to happen anytime soon.
====State actors must use realism or risk destruction – empirical support of the K~’s alternative does not exist – the alternative~’s unknown impact risks something worse than the known status quo==== Mearsheimer, 1995. ~~John, professor of Political Science at U Chicago, Summer, "A Realists Reply", International Security Vol. 20, No 1, p. 82-93~~ ¶ Critical theory, unlike Keohane and Martin~’s latest version of liberal institutionalism and the AND will not topple realism from its commanding position in the international relations literature,¶ | |
| 10/08/2012 | 2AC - SFSU - RD 4Tournament: SFSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: Stanford | Judge: Abi Williams Norrlof, 10 Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Toronto, Carla, America~’s Global Advantage; US Hegemony and International Cooperation, Cambridge University Press, p. 1-4 In sketching my argument, I will show that the United States gains both materially AND stabilizing role has been huge in terms of allied support for dollar adjustment.
====Hegemony key to solve terrorism – risks extinction==== Knowles 10 ~~Robert, Visiting Assistant Professor at Chicago-Kent College of Law, "TEN QUESTIONS: RESPONSES TO THE TEN QUESTIONS," William Mitchell Law Review, vol 36, 5061~~
Nonetheless, there are some who argue that we are already living in a multipolar AND is to ensure that the political brances adhere to the rule of law.
=K=
====Their criticism~’s totalizing position shuts down movements – it~’s claims are based in false dichotomy and results in political suicide==== Krishna, 1993. ~~Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai~’i at Manoa, 1993 ~~Sankaran, Alternatives, Summer, p. 400-401~~
Chaloupka centers this difference between his own supposedly total critique of all sovereign truths ( AND his total critique of all sovereign truths or be trapped in obsolete essentialisms. This leads to a disastrous politics, pitting groups that have the most in common AND response to that need not be a totalizing critique that delegitimizes all narratives. The blackmail inherent in the choice offered by Der Derian and Chaloupka, between total critique and "ineffective" partial critique, ought to be transparent. Among other things, it effectively militates against the construction of provisional or strategic essentialism in our attempts to create space for an activist politics. In the next section, I focus more widely on the genre of critical international theory and its impact on such an activist politics.
====Their CP replicates the colonization they attempt to solve – they remove agency from the Native Americans and universalize their experiences, wants and needs==== Ward **Churchill.** Struggle for the Land, **1993**
There are several closely related matters which should be touched upon before wrapping this up AND bodies of people bound together by their bioregional and other natural cultural affinities.
====TURN: LABELING PEOPLE OR POLICIES AS RACIST IS COUNTEPRODUCTIVE — ALLOWS US TO IGNORE SYSTEMIC RACISM====
Stephanie M. **Wildman,** Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law, Privilege Revealed: how invisible preference undermines America, **1996**, p. 11
Other words we use to describe subordination also mask the operation of privilege. Increasingly AND label, rather than worrying about systemic racism and how to change it.
====They history of nuclear colonialism spans decades – killing natives, supporting cooperations and exploitation of lands are an all too common occurance====
Danielle **Endres** 01 March **2009** The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision Publisher http://utah.academia.edu/DanielleEndres/Papers/1763460/The_Rhetoric_of_Nuclear_Colonialism_Rhetorical_Exclusion_of_American_Indian_Arguments_in_the_Yucca_Mountain_Nuclear_Waste_Siting_Decision Before attending to the rhetorical nature of nuclear colonialism, it is important to emphasize AND people living near tailing piles at a high risk for lung cancer. 10
====Yucca Mountain is just one example of the transparently racist policies directed at Native Americans. It is time to reverse this trend and invest in better nuclear.====
Bayley **Lopez**, Septmeber 1, **2004** Radioactive Reservations The Uphill Battle to Keep Nuclear Waste Off Native American Land https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/09/01_lopez_radioactive-reservations.htm Yucca Mountain is just one more example to add to the list of the United AND to reverse this trend, beginning with the government~’s policies on nuclear waste.
====IFRS ARE OUR BEST NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY – REVERSES THE TREND OF VIIOLENCE AND WASTE DISPOSAL ON NATIVE LANDS By eating the waste previously dumped====
====Destruction of territoriality eradicates The Other, leading to ontological violence – this underwrites all physical violence==== **Kato 93** (Masahide, "Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and Nuclear War via the Strategic Gaze," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political. Vol 18, No. 3 (Summer 1993). Pp. 339-360.) The latest form of domination through the mimetic relationship between (the First World) AND physical violence against the Third World, Fourth World, and Indigenous Peoples.
=ptx=
===Uniqueness overwhelms the link-Obama has more than 75% chance of winning the electoral college and due to Romney~’s lackluster convention boost, there~’s no way Romney can turn those numbers around===
**Silver 9/5** (Nate Silver, politics journalist, September 5, 2012, Sept. 4: The Simple Case for Why Obama Is the Favorite, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/sept-4-the-simple-case-for-why-obama-is-the-favorite/, uwyo//amp) I~’ve been tiptoeing around this point, because I don~’t think that our forecast model AND show only a tie for him now, then he will eventually lose.
===Double bind – either the above evidence is true and the uniqueness overwhelms the link or their Obama ev uses flawed polling data – more accurate voter turnout polls show Romney in the lead===
**Morris 9/21** (Dick, "Why the polls understate Romney vote," The Hill, September 21, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/250999-why-the-polls-understate-romney-vote) Republicans are getting depressed under an avalanche of polling suggesting that an Obama victory is AND race either tied or Romney ahead, a view much closer to reality.
===Romney~’s far ahead in financial contributions – that~’s a measure of popular support. Our ev takes into account recent gains in Obama~’s contributions, and Romney~’s still ahead===
**Gillum 9/21** (Jack, "Obama gaining in battleground state contributions," Bradenton Herald, September 21, 2012, http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/21/4209751/obama-gaining-in-battleground.html) Importantly, Romney~’s campaign has raised more money from donors who gave over %24200 AND another challenge for Romney in key states with only six weeks before Election Day
===Jobs will determine the election===
**Silver 12** (Nate is chief pollster for New York Times~’ 538 election polling center. Regarded as top-level pollster based on distinct mathematical models. "Obama~’s Magic Number May Be 150,000 Jobs Per Month," Feb 3,~http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/business/economy/obamas-magic-number-may-be-150000-jobs-per-month.html-http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/business/economy/obamas-magic-number-may-be-150000-jobs-per-month.html) No economic indicator is a political holy grail. The American economy is a hard AND produces a break-even number of 151,000 jobs a month.
===More evidence – Jobs, not energy, matter in the swing states===
**Schoen 9/21** (John W., "Job markets in battleground states may decide presidential election," NBC News, September 21, 2012, http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14016437-job-markets-in-battleground-states-may-decide-presidential-election) For months, political pundits have argued that President Barack Obama will have a tough AND August, based on the latest jobless data released by the government Friday.
===Active polling data shows massive public support for recycled fuel reactors and almost 80% view it as job creation===
**September 2012** (Bisconti Research, Inc. provides public opinion and communications research services in the United States. It offers various research methods, including public opinion surveys, in-depth in-person interviews, focus groups, online surveys, message research, and advertisements and brochure tests, as well as effective practices guidance services. The company studies audiences, such as the general public, special segments of the public, leadership groups, public officials, employees, and business customers, "US Nuclear Power Policy," September 2012, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf41_US_nuclear_power_policy.html) Public opinion regarding nuclear power has generally been fairly positive, and has grown more AND and job creation; and 77% associate nuclear energy and clean air.
===Even if they win that Nuclear Power is unpopular it won~’t affect the election. Both candidates support it and there~’s only a risk that it~’ll give them a boost.===
**Colman 9/21** (Zack, "Anti-nuclear group finds little hope in NRC, presidential race," The Hill, September 21, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/251033-anti-nuclear-group-finds-little-hope-in-nrc-presidential-race) An anti-nuclear-energy group protested the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) AND Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney are both champions for nuclear power.
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| 10/08/2012 | 2AC - SFSU - RD 5Tournament: SFSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: USC | Judge: Jared Anderson =Topicality=
==A2 Topicality – Not an Incentive for Production==
A. COUNTERINTERPRETATION
====A financial incentive is : A tax credit, production payment, trust fund, low cost loans and research and development====
Mark **Gielecki**, Fred **Mayes**, and Lawrence **Prete** February **2001** Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htm A financial incentive is defined in this report as providing one or more of the AND the commercial viability of the good(s) provided. (4)
====R%26D is a financial incentive because is integral to the development of emerging energy technologies====
Mark **Gielecki**, Fred **Mayes**, and Lawrence **Prete** February **2001** Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htmd Whereas these EIA subsidy reports discussed the scope of Federal energy subsidies and attempted to AND an assessment of the aggregate impact of the various programs for promoting renewable energy
B. WE MEET Their Interpretation. The affirmative is ( INSERT THEIR~’S )
====REASONS TO PREFER====
====1. LIMITS==== Their interpretation hurts aff creativity by tying us down to nothing but leasing and subsidy cases, which would mean 12 cases for a years worth of debate. We give the neg good notice that they need to be able to defend government regulation of energy producers.
====2. GROUND==== Their interpretation will lead to a boring year of debate only about the merits of increasing energy supply. No other topic in recent memory had only a single advantage area within it. Our interpretation gives them links to nuclear, energy, politics, and financial incentives
====3. BRIGHT LINE ==== We provide a clear brightline for a financial incentive. Cross apply the Gielikie. E. NOT A VOTER FOR REASONS PREVIOUSLY STATED
=Critique =
====Perm do both: The solution must arise from the technology that created the problem – the plan and alt function together to restore the world.==== **Beckman 2k** ~~Tad: Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Humanities and Social Sciences at Harvey Mudd College, "Martin Heidegger and Environmental Ethics," http://www2.hmc.edu/~~tbeckman/personal/Heidart.html~~. While we may now glimpse something of the human essence and the legitimate role of AND grants and our trust in it?" ~~{~~7~~, p. 35~~}
====Their alternative dooms us to extinction – only pragmatic political action can solve and allow the space for metaphysical investigation. This also answers their argument that ontology outweighs war ====
Ronald E. **Santoni 85**, Phil. Prof @ Denison, Nuclear War, ed. Fox and Groarke, p. 156-7 To be sure, Fox sees the need for our undergoing "certain fundamental changes AND arms race, many questions may be raised about his prescribed "solutions." Given our need for a paradigm shift in our (distorted) understanding of ourselves and the rest of being, are we merely left "to prepare for a possible shift in our AND Despite Zimmerman~’s elaborations and refinements his Heideggerian notion of "letting beings be" continues to be too permissive in this regard. In my judgment, an individual~’s AND wll ultimate violence be removed as the final arbiter of our planet~’s fate.
====No link - The plan is not the dangerous technological mindset that Heidegger warns against – ==== **Dreyfus 96** ~~Hubert, "Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault" University of California Berkeley ~http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html-http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html~~ Heidegger and Foucault are clear, then, that what is uniquely oppressive in our AND realities — exists alongside the most advanced high-tech production and consumption.
Perm: do the plan and all other instances of the alt – that creates a double bind: either the plan singularly can be solved by the detachment process, or the alternative doesn~’t have the ability to solve the thousands of scenarios of technological ontology in the squo.
Technological ontology is inevitable – man inherently uses technology to exploit things around him – at worst theres no specific brink to the 1AC that causes the impact that nuclear testing, and mining before wouldn~’t have caused making the impact non-unique at best
====Heidegger~’s analysis and the exploration of the question of Being cheapens life destroying any value to life==== **Andrew Olesh 2008** (Martin Buber~’s Critique of Heidegger~’s Being-With: An exploration of a disagreement between two of the most significant thinkers of the 20th century Loyola College in Maryland SUNY Oneonta Undergraduate Philosophy Conference Oneonta, New York) So Heidegger~’s exploration of the question of Being will therefore be an exploration of the AND not limited only to the way that the self relates with the self.
====Their link arguments totalize calculative thought – Calculation is a product of social institutions, like capitalism, not individual actions, like those of the aff – Only we harness institutions for change====
**Eldred 9** (Michael, Univ of Sydney, Left Curve, no 24, http://www.arte-fact.org/capiteen.html.) Here, as everywhere else, Heidegger totalizes calculatingness without taking the economy into account AND opportunity of thinking through modern technology in its essential sameness with capitalist economy.
====The alternative results in passivity ==== **Richard Wolin** **1990** (THE POLITICSOF BEING, 1990 p. 147 Professor of Modem European Intellectual History) As we suggested earlier, the essential thinking of the later Heidegger promotes an " AND inflated, but the powers of human reason and will are correspondingly devalued. =Ptx =
==2AC Obama Good==
===Uniqueness overwhelms the link-Obama has more than 75% chance of winning the electoral college and due to Romney~’s lackluster convention boost, there~’s no way Romney can turn those numbers around===
**Silver 9/5** (Nate Silver, politics journalist, September 5, 2012, Sept. 4: The Simple Case for Why Obama Is the Favorite, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/sept-4-the-simple-case-for-why-obama-is-the-favorite/, uwyo//amp) I~’ve been tiptoeing around this point, because I don~’t think that our forecast model AND show only a tie for him now, then he will eventually lose.
===Double bind – either the above evidence is true and the uniqueness overwhelms the link or their Obama ev uses flawed polling data – more accurate voter turnout polls show Romney in the lead===
**Morris 9/21** (Dick, "Why the polls understate Romney vote," The Hill, September 21, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/250999-why-the-polls-understate-romney-vote) Republicans are getting depressed under an avalanche of polling suggesting that an Obama victory is AND race either tied or Romney ahead, a view much closer to reality.
===Romney~’s far ahead in financial contributions – that~’s a measure of popular support. Our ev takes into account recent gains in Obama~’s contributions, and Romney~’s still ahead===
**Gillum 9/21** (Jack, "Obama gaining in battleground state contributions," Bradenton Herald, September 21, 2012, http://www.bradenton.com/2012/09/21/4209751/obama-gaining-in-battleground.html) Importantly, Romney~’s campaign has raised more money from donors who gave over %24200 AND another challenge for Romney in key states with only six weeks before Election Day
===Jobs will determine the election===
**Silver 12** (Nate is chief pollster for New York Times~’ 538 election polling center. Regarded as top-level pollster based on distinct mathematical models. "Obama~’s Magic Number May Be 150,000 Jobs Per Month," Feb 3,~http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/business/economy/obamas-magic-number-may-be-150000-jobs-per-month.html-http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/business/economy/obamas-magic-number-may-be-150000-jobs-per-month.html) No economic indicator is a political holy grail. The American economy is a hard AND produces a break-even number of 151,000 jobs a month.
===More evidence – Jobs, not energy, matter in the swing states===
**Schoen 9/21** (John W., "Job markets in battleground states may decide presidential election," NBC News, September 21, 2012, http://economywatch.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/21/14016437-job-markets-in-battleground-states-may-decide-presidential-election) For months, political pundits have argued that President Barack Obama will have a tough AND August, based on the latest jobless data released by the government Friday.
===Active polling data shows massive public support for recycled fuel reactors and almost 80% view it as job creation===
**September 2012** (Bisconti Research, Inc. provides public opinion and communications research services in the United States. It offers various research methods, including public opinion surveys, in-depth in-person interviews, focus groups, online surveys, message research, and advertisements and brochure tests, as well as effective practices guidance services. The company studies audiences, such as the general public, special segments of the public, leadership groups, public officials, employees, and business customers, "US Nuclear Power Policy," September 2012, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf41_US_nuclear_power_policy.html) Public opinion regarding nuclear power has generally been fairly positive, and has grown more AND and job creation; and 77% associate nuclear energy and clean air.
===Even if they win that Nuclear Power is unpopular it won~’t affect the election. Both candidates support it and there~’s only a risk that it~’ll give them a boost.===
**Colman 9/21** (Zack, "Anti-nuclear group finds little hope in NRC, presidential race," The Hill, September 21, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/251033-anti-nuclear-group-finds-little-hope-in-nrc-presidential-race) An anti-nuclear-energy group protested the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) AND Obama and GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney are both champions for nuclear power. | |
| 11/07/2012 | Aff Tricks...Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: | |
| 11/09/2012 | New AdvTournament: UNLV | Round: All | Opponent: All | Judge: All WasteNuclear reprocessing re-invigorates the nuclear industry and eliminates the need for Yucca MountainJack Spencer, Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation, November 15, 2007, The Heritage Foundation, Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes, http://www.heritage.org/Research/EnergyandEnvironment/bg2086.cfm The U.S. government even banned entire com¬mercial technologies outright. In 1977 Any other nuclear reactor will forces NRC to reverse termination of Yucca Mountain due to court-ordered resolution of disposal problemPost and Courier, 2012. August 20 http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120820/PC1002/120829989/1022/restart-yucca-mountain-project-http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120820/PC1002/120829989/1022/restart-yucca-mountain-project ====Fuel cycle in IFR only produces waste with very short lives and very low radioactivity that are easily contained==== Yucca Mountain would lead to extinction and the destruction of the biosphere – our probability is infiniteDavid Comarow, Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing, Attorney at Law, Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable, 2K1 We have come a long way in a very short time indeed. But 225 High risk of accidents which results in extinctionDavid Comarow, Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing, Attorney at Law, Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable, 2K1 Transportation of nuclear waste ensures accidents or terrorist attacks- the impact is worse than ChernobylKevin Kamps, 2006. Nuclear Information and Resource Service, 6-19-06, Safety and Security Concerns about Derailment of Train Hauling Atomic Waste: Inconsistencies Raise Questions about Emergency Preparedness, http://www.shundahai.org/6-18-06NIRSPR_Safety_and_Security_About_Derailment_of_Train_Hauling_Nuke_Waste.htm-http://www.shundahai.org/6-18-06NIRSPR_Safety_and_Security_About_Derailment_of_Train_Hauling_Nuke_Waste.htm " This raises serious concerns about the security of atomic waste shipments," said Kevin Terrorist attack would cause extinctionMohamed Sid-Ahmed, Al-Ahram, 9-1-2004, "Extinction%21" http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm | |
| 01/06/2013 | 1AC USCTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1ACThe squo places us on a slow road to collapseThe nuclear race is in full swing – global development is inevitable.The energy Collective July 31, 2012 Worldwide Nuclear Energy Expansion Continueshttp://theenergycollective.com/breakthroughinstitut/98406/worldwide-nuclear-energy-expansion-continues The only question is whether the US will take the lead or slide to the back…Hence the plan : The United States Federal government should fund research and development for Integral Fast Reactors including capital investment in a pilot plant.The Plan SolvesNow is key time: Congressional approval of capital investment for a pilot plant must be done now – delay means the option will be lostSteve Kirsch 8/10/2008 The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) project http://skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifr.htm Congressional action is key – left to its own devices, DOE will just continue to researchSteve Kirsch 11/25/2009 Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/ The Reactor is Inherently safe – survived Chernobyl and Three Mile Island disaster tests without incidentCharles E. Till¶ (Adapted from a series of four articles, entitled Plentiful Energy, the IFR Story, and Related Matters, in THE REPUBLIC News and Issues Magazine, June-September 2005. Preface by Terry Robinson.) http://www.sustainablenuclear.org/PADs/pad0509till.html Building a pilot plant proves its commercial viability, prevents Yucca, and stops MOX plantsSteve Kirsch Entrepreneur and philanthropist Posted: June 27, 2009 Climate Bill Ignores Our Biggest Clean Energy Source http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-kirsch/climate-bill-ignores-our_b_221796.html CompetitivenessScenario I – ChinaThe lack of government support for domestic nuclear power is threatening to leave us chasing China in Asian hegemonySCOTT CULLINANE 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energy%26catid=118:content%26Itemid=376-http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energy%26catid=118:content%26Itemid=376 And China is doubling down on nuclear powerPEOPLE’S DAILY ONLINE, 2011 "China approves 10 more nuclear power generators," January 26, http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90862/7272628.html-http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90778/90862/7272628.html A domestic nuclear industry is key to keeping our edge – without it China will outpace us in energy policy creating a shift in the balance of power globallySCOTT CULLINANE 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energy%26catid=118:content%26Itemid=376-http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energy%26catid=118:content%26Itemid=376 IFR is the best nuclear technology – recycled fuel, secure, and proliferation proof.Steve Kirsch 11/25/2009 Why We Should Build an Integral Fast Reactor Now http://skirsch.wordpress.com/2009/11/25/ifr/ The U.S. is the only thing standing between great power competitions in Asia – arms races, miscalc and all-out conflict would result These conflicts go nuclearUK Defence Forum, 2003 Regional Studies 8: "Conflict In The South China Sea," Jan 20, 2003 http://www.ukdf.org.uk/regional/rs8.htm Waste====Fuel cycle in IFR only produces waste with very short lives and very low radioactivity that are easily contained==== Any other nuclear reactor will forces NRC to reverse termination of Yucca Mountain due to court-ordered resolution of disposal problemPost and Courier, 2012. August 20 http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120820/PC1002/120829989/1022/restart-yucca-mountain-project-http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120820/PC1002/120829989/1022/restart-yucca-mountain-project Yucca Mountain would lead to extinction and the destruction of the biosphere – our probability is infiniteDavid Comarow, Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing, Attorney at Law, Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable, 2K1 We have come a long way in a very short time indeed. But 225 High risk of accidents which results in extinctionDavid Comarow, Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing, Attorney at Law, Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable, 2K1 Transportation of nuclear waste ensures accidents or terrorist attacks- the impact is worse than ChernobylKevin Kamps, 2006. Nuclear Information and Resource Service, 6-19-06, Safety and Security Concerns about Derailment of Train Hauling Atomic Waste: Inconsistencies Raise Questions about Emergency Preparedness, http://www.shundahai.org/6-18-06NIRSPR_Safety_and_Security_About_Derailment_of_Train_Hauling_Nuke_Waste.htm-http://www.shundahai.org/6-18-06NIRSPR_Safety_and_Security_About_Derailment_of_Train_Hauling_Nuke_Waste.htm " This raises serious concerns about the security of atomic waste shipments," said Kevin Terrorist attack would cause extinctionMohamed Sid-Ahmed, Al-Ahram, 9-1-2004, "Extinction%21" http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm New advantageWater shortages coming —- causes instabilityAFP 9/11, "World water crisis must be top UN priority: report", http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gcIGn59te-BGkDoG1uG6XrAMXO_A?docId=CNG.96ef5382d53f44338468570447594103.851 Nuclear energy has proven to be the best method for desalinationJEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Monday 22 October 2012 Especially in China, Egypt, and Pakistan —- goes nuclearNPR 10 (NPR citing Steven Solomon who has written for The New York Times AND http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122195532-http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122195532 Middle East war causes World War 3The Earl of Stirling 11, hereditary Governor %26 Lord Lieutenant of Canada, Lord High Admiral of Nova Scotia, %26 B.Sc. in Pol. Sc. %26 History; M.A. in European Studies, "General Middle East War Nears - Syrian events more dangerous than even nuclear nightmare in Japan", http://europebusines.blogspot.com/2011/03/general-middle-east-war-nears-syrian.html Intelligence reports indicate that fights over water are coming fastChris Arsenault Last Modified: 26 Aug 2012 Risk of water wars rises with scarcity http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/2011622193147231653.html Pakistan water scarcity causes war with IndiaDr Akmal Hussain 11, The Express Tribune, "Pakistan’s water crisis", 8-25, http://tribune.com.pk/story/231905/pakistans-water-crisis/ Indo-Pak war causes extinctionGreg Chaffin 11, Research Assistant at Foreign Policy in Focus, July 8, 2011, "Reorienting U.S. Security Strategy in South Asia," online: http://www.fpif.org/articles/reorienting_us_security_strategy_in_south_asia | |
| 01/29/2013 | 2AC - USc Round 4Tournament: USC | Round: 4 | Opponent: Texas | Judge: Mark Gielecki, Fred Mayes, and Lawrence Prete February 2001 Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htmd A. WE MEET Their Interpretation. The affirmative creates a pilot plant as well as proves it’s commercial viability REASONS TO PREFER
3. we are reasonably topical E. NOT A VOTER FOR REASONS PREVIOUSLY STATED Frame work Limits are necessary to sustain nonviolent debate Apolitical theorizing exists only in the ivory tower and fails to persuade anyone or change anything The central tenet of a realist approach in this respect is that each system of Justice pdb Norton 3 (Bryan, Prof. of Philosophy, Science, and Technology at School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, Fall 2003, Environs, 27 Environs Envtl. L. and Pol'y J. 81) We must use science to confront issues like environmental justice Danielle Endres March 2007 The State of Environmental Justice in Altering consumptive patterns and revitalizing environmentalism requires specific political plans – that form of politics is a prerequisite to social transformation. Lewis 92 (Martin professor in the School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies at Duke University. Green Delusions, 1992 p11-12) Consequences can be assessed, despite their critique of our epistemology – any chance we’re right about our predictions of the future is a reason to prefer the plan to doing nothing Cowen 6 (Tyler, GMU, December 2006, “The Epistemic Problem Does Not Refute Consequentialism,” Utilitas, 18:4, proquest) Environmental pragmatism can use cost-benefit analysis without letting it control policymaking Mintz 4 (Joel, Prof. of Law, Nova Southeastern Univ. and Scholar at Center for Progressive Regulation; 2004, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, 31 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 1) Even a very small risk we’re right is a reason to vote aff – limited information about the future is enough to tip the consequentialist balance Cowen 6 (Tyler, GMU, December 2006, “The Epistemic Problem Does Not Refute Consequentialism,” Utilitas, 18:4, Proquest) And, technological thought is inevitable and necessary for achieving a communicative state. Feenberg 96 (Andrew, Chair of Philosophy and Technology at SFU. 1996. “From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads” http://www.agora.qc.ca/textes/feenberg.html) And, the ambivalent nature of technology must be embraced in some forms to achieve the multitude of potentialities that form a progressive approach to being and the world Feenberg 96 (Andrew, Chair of Philosophy and Technology at SFU. 1996. “From Essentialism to Constructivism: Philosophy of Technology at the Crossroads” http://www.agora.qc.ca/textes/feenberg.html) It’s impossible to determine an answer to being – ontological questioning results in an infinite regress and total paralysis Levinas and Nemo 85 (Emmanuel, professor of philosophy, and Philippe, professor of new philosophy, Ethics and Infinity, 1985, pg. 6-7) Value to life can’t be measured externally – we must preserve life to give people autonomy Shwartz 2 (L. “A Value to Life: Who Decides and How?” Medical ethics: a case-based approach 2002 www.fleshandbones.com/readingroom/pdf/399.pdf) Paradox of risk Perm: Do Both they do not have impacts if this k is true because their claims are all about link chains to get to them as well. Kurasawa 4 (Fuyuki, Constellation, v. 11, no. 4, 2004, “Cautionary Tales,” Blackwell) Kurasawa 4 (Fuyuki, Constellation, v. 11, no. 4, 2004, “Cautionary Tales,” Blackwell) Even if traditional paradigms of prediction are flawed, there’s value to discussing our advantages Kurasawa 4 (Fuyuki, Constellation, v. 11, no. 4, 2004, “Cautionary Tales,” Blackwell) Wagner 2k (Joseph, Poly Sci Prof @ Colgate, 5-2-2000, “The Revolt Against Reason,” in Critical Thinking, ed. Oxman-Michelli and Weinstein, http://hascall.colgate.edu/jwagner/DownloadFiles/Revolt.doc) Wagner 2k (Joseph, Poly Sci Prof @ Colgate, 5-2-2000, “The Revolt Against Reason,” in Critical Thinking, ed. Oxman-Michelli and Weinstein, http://hascall.colgate.edu/jwagner/DownloadFiles/Revolt.doc) Jarvis 2k (D.S.L., Lecturer in IR at the University of Sydney, International Relations and the Challenges of Postmodernism, 2000, p. 130-131) Paths of glory First, policy analysis should precede discourse – most effective way to challenge power and, realism is epistemologically true Mearsheimer, 2002. professor of Political Science at U Chicago, John, “Realism, the Real World, and the Academy”, Realism and Institutionalism in International Studies, p. 23-33 Add on They history of nuclear colonialism spans decades – killing natives, supporting cooperations and exploitation of lands are an all too common occurance Danielle Endres 01 March 2009 The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision Publisher Yucca Mountain is just one example of the transparently racist policies directed at Native Americans. It is time to reverse this trend and invest in better nuclear. Bayley Lopez, Septmeber 1, 2004 Radioactive Reservations The Uphill Battle to Keep Nuclear Waste Off Native American Land https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/09/01_lopez_radioactive-reservations.htm IFRS ARE OUR BEST NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY – REVERSES THE TREND OF VIIOLENCE AND WASTE DISPOSAL ON NATIVE LANDS By eating the waste previously dumped Destruction of territoriality eradicates The Other, leading to ontological violence – this underwrites all physical violence | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT KoreaTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Barry Brook 24 February 2011 Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III) http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change/ IFR solves the impact we create safeguards against horizontal proliferation and terrorism Barry Brook March 11, 2011 Summary of Non-Proliferation Advantages of the Integral Fast Reactor http://theenergycollective.com/barrybrook/53334/ifr-fad-9-summary-non-proliferation-advantages-integral-fast-reactor The US is the only one to lead prolif talks, but they must remain a tech innovator Dr. George S. Stanford. 18 February 2010 IFR FaD context – the need for U.S. implementation of the IFR http://bravenewclimate.com/2010/02/18/ifr-fad-context/ Ensures safe nuclear technology - allows the US to promote non-proliferation objectives, otherwise wildfire prolif is inevitable | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT CIRTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Non Unique - No vote till June, congress at a standstill Fiscal cliff proved we will compromise Loren Thompson 1/02/2013 Sequestration Threat To Defense Sector Begins To Recede http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2013/01/02/sequestration-threat-to-defense-sector-begins-to-recede/ Fiscal cliff provides empirics of bipart - this card is predictive not descriptive Loren Thompson 1/02/2013 Sequestration Threat To Defense Sector Begins To Recede http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2013/01/02/sequestration-threat-to-defense-sector-begins-to-recede/ too much republican infighting over sandy thumps Obama link Steve Frank 5:09 pm on 01/02/2013 House failure to fund Sandy relief triggers Republican civil war http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/01/02/house-failure-to-fund-sandy-relief-triggers-republican-civil-war/ New approvals for nuke power came under Obama first in 30 years – No backlash Mark Clayton, 2012 Obama vs. Romney 101: 7 ways they differ on energy issueshttp://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0831/Obama-vs.-Romney-101-7-ways-they-differ-on-energy-issues/Nuclear-power The GOP loves nuclear – this is from their platform Gop.com 2012 http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_america/ | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT NeolibTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Case is a disad to the k. capitalisim is key to generate capital investment and kirsh 2008 says that has to happen now. At best the k delays action and probably prevent. The Net Benefit - US intervention is critical to world peace – there is no substitute The good news about global inequality is that it has been declining. The world 10. Rejecting capitalism will spark transition wars, re-entrenching cycles of exploitation
The rate of innovation is especially critical to sustainability. The roadmap participants have concluded 14 Neoliberalism is inevitable through global pressure First, prosperous countries influence the legal foundations for capitalism or economic policies elsewhere. One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce a knowledge of capitalism. | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT NeolibTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Case is a disad to the k. capitalisim is key to generate capital investment and kirsh 2008 says that has to happen now. At best the k delays action and probably prevent. The Net Benefit - US intervention is critical to world peace – there is no substitute The good news about global inequality is that it has been declining. The world 10. Rejecting capitalism will spark transition wars, re-entrenching cycles of exploitation
The rate of innovation is especially critical to sustainability. The roadmap participants have concluded 14 Neoliberalism is inevitable through global pressure First, prosperous countries influence the legal foundations for capitalism or economic policies elsewhere. One of our goals as Marxists has been to produce a knowledge of capitalism. | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT nat gas DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: kevin Doran and adam Reed Aug. 17, 2012 Natural Gas and Its Role In the U.S. Energy Endgame http://e360.yale.edu/feature/natural_gas_role_in_us_energy_endgame/2561/ Their link is reversed – Natural gas is pushing out nuclear from the mix. MARTIN LAMONICA August 9, 2012 A Glut of Natural Gas Leaves Nuclear Power Stalled http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428737/a-glut-of-natural-gas-leaves-nuclear-power/ Even if economical it isn’t wise – other countries are moving forward crowding us out in the future. REBECCA SMITH March 15, 2012 Cheap Natural Gas Unplugs U.S. Nuclear-Power Revival http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577281490129153610.html Switch back to Nuclear inevitable – demand and price spikes that nat gas can handel REBECCA SMITH March 15, 2012 Cheap Natural Gas Unplugs U.S. Nuclear-Power Revival http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304459804577281490129153610.html Community and environmental impacts will increase their costs regardless kevin Doran and adam Reed Aug. 17, 2012 Natural Gas and Its Role In the U.S. Energy Endgame http://e360.yale.edu/feature/natural_gas_role_in_us_energy_endgame/2561/ And even if we do crowdout it’s a good thing There are many dangerous chemicals in fracking – they cause cancer, hemorraging, multiorgan failure, inhibited development in children and death The majority of chemical products used by the gas industry have not been fully tested | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT States C/PTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Federal action key – administrative leadership is the only way to send a signal for adoption. Will the California budget crisis tip the United States into recession? The California economy | |
| 01/29/2013 | AT States C/PTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Federal action key – administrative leadership is the only way to send a signal for adoption. Will the California budget crisis tip the United States into recession? The California economy | |
| 02/12/2013 | All 2AC's - sorry can't make it upload my filesTournament: Northwestern | Round: All | Opponent: All | Judge: All NU RD2 VS IOWAA2 Topicality – Not an Incentive for ProductionA. COUNTERINTERPRETATION A financial incentive is : A tax credit, production payment, trust fund, low cost loans and research and developmentMark Gielecki, Fred Mayes, and Lawrence Prete February 2001 Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htm RandD is a financial incentive because is integral to the development of emerging energy technologiesMark Gielecki, Fred Mayes, and Lawrence Prete February 2001 Incentives, Mandates, and Government Programs for Promoting Renewable Energy http://lobby.la.psu.edu/_107th/128_PURPA/Agency_Activities/EIA/Incentive_Mandates_and_Government.htmd B. WE MEET Their Interpretation. The affirmative is a direct financial incentive for energy production:
REASONS TO PREFER1. LIMITSTheir interpret over limits because it means new technology could never be topical – we would have stale debates all year about old conventional nuclear technology instead of discussing newer kinds of reactors that are more relevant to topic education because it is the energy of the future. 2. GROUNDOur interpretation gives them links to nuclear, energy, politics, and financial incentives 3. REASONABILITY 4. Competing interpretations are bad 5. LIT CHECKS ABUSE 1ac evidence refers to the need for government incentives for production of new nuclear energy. Cross apply the Kirsch evidence. E. NOT A VOTER FOR REASONS PREVIOUSLY STATED CaseNuclear power coming - US specificde Rugy, ’12 CoalOur aff says that they are already investing in nuclear tech means its about us catching up to prevent the impacts. Chin realizes that they don’t need to have the resources to be able to maintainIFR’s can use the coal infrastructure already in place making it attractive to businessArchambeau ET AL Charles February 2011 ,The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR): An Optimized Source for Global Energy Needs Randolph Ware 2,3 , Tom Blees 1 , Barry Brook 4 , Yoon Chang 5 , Jerry Peterson 6 , Robert Serafin 3 , Joseph Shuster 1 , Evgeny Velikhov 7,8 , Tom Wigley 3 https://mail-attachment.googleusercontent.com/attachment/u/0/?ui=2andik=7e82ee6686andview=attandth=1393de35b34cbad1andattid=0.1anddisp=inlineandrealattid=f_h61ue8ad0andsafe=1andzwandsadssc=1andauthuser=0andsadnir=1andsaduie=AG9B_P98sTh2qE7xG6xQFnYQI7RFandsadet=1352518599515andsads=p66DGuviaNMSI_COCadz6upx6VA This means that we would off set our own coal use to displace. The effects on rom chinaNuclear power solves the impactGronlund 7 Nuclear power in a Warming world: Assessing the Risks, Addressing the Challenges, Lisbeth Gronlund; David Lochbaum; Edwin Lyman, Union of Concerned Scientists, http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear-power-in-a-warming-world.pdf-http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear-power-in-a-warming-world.pdf ====Nuclear tech solves warming – decreases reliance on carbon based sources.==== Nuclear is the only option quick enough to reverse the impacts of warmingMcCarthy 4 (Michael McCarthy, Lovelock: ’Only nuclear power can now halt global warming’¶ Published May 23 2004 by Independent UK-http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=524313, Archived May 23 2004, http://www.energybulletin.net/node/320-http://www.energybulletin.net/node/320) JD 50 2acPerm do both: co-operation acts as a link shield to politics as Obama can shift blame to the states.Federal action key – it’s the only way to revive the industry in the wake of competing international players.Wallace and Williams, ’12 Solvency deficiet- the cp doesn’t solve for heg. It doesn’t make sense for the states to independently fund research. The states also don’t fund the DOE means they can’t build the pilot plant.States CP illegit:
Solvency deficit: the cp isn’t through a federal government actor, so it would not include NRC approval – the plan has the Congress approve a pilot plant which fast tracks NRC approval because it is a federal agency – the CP can’t do that. Timeframe: Getting the 50 states to agree on the pilot plant and approve building, etc. could take years. Too much bureaucracy would lead to inaction. Federal action key – administrative leadership is the only way to send a signal for adoption.Wallace and Williams, ’12 We’ve prempted this argument in the 1ac our kirch evidence makes it clear that congress would be key.Budget wrangling in California now – any spending dooms the state’s economyLA Times ’12 (5/13, http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/13/local/la-me-0513-state-deficit-20120513-http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/13/local/la-me-0513-state-deficit-20120513, TGA) Collapses the economyNavarro 08, ~Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University~ Will the California budget crisis tip the United States into recession? The California economy Condo Bad
2. Destroys argumentative responsibility: 3. Moving target: 6. Infinitely regressive: This is a voter for reasons of ground, fairness and education. AT Immigration ReformWon’t pass cannot agree on path to citizenshipElise Foley 02/07/2013 Obama On Immigration Reform: Politics Not Easy, But ’Now Is The Time’ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/07/obama-immigration-reform_n_2638843.html Their evidence says that republican’s will have to get on bored for their own good – that’s not true David Von Drehle Feb. 07, 2013 On Immigration, Conservative Mastermind Kris Kobach Is Not Backing Down¶ By x¶ http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/07/on-immigration-conservative-mastermind-kris-kobach-is-not-backing-down/?iid=sl-main-belt (—) FIAT solves the link: Congress won’t backlash against itself.Their it’ll pass cards a political hype – staunch republican resistanceDavid Von Drehle Feb. 07, 2013 On Immigration, Conservative Mastermind Kris Kobach Is Not Backing Down¶ By x¶ http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/07/on-immigration-conservative-mastermind-kris-kobach-is-not-backing-down/?iid=sl-main-belt No pass til 2014 – Obama will use it as a weapon in electionsDavid Von Drehle Feb. 07, 2013 On Immigration, Conservative Mastermind Kris Kobach Is Not Backing Down¶ By x¶ http://swampland.time.com/2013/02/07/on-immigration-conservative-mastermind-kris-kobach-is-not-backing-down/?iid=sl-main-belt (—) Past failures to pass immigration reform deny the impact.Nuclear is bipartisan and has congressional interestMarcus King Et AL • LaVar Huntzinger • Thoi Nguyen March 2011 CNA’s Center for Naval Analyses is a federally funded research and development center (FFRDC) for the Navy and Marine Corps. The Center also provides research and analyses services to other military and government agencies to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of U.S. national defense efforts. Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S.¶ Military Installations http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf New approvals for nuke power came under Obama first in 30 years – No backlash Mark Clayton, 2012 Obama vs. Romney 101: 7 ways they differ on energy issueshttp://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/2012/0831/Obama-vs.-Romney-101-7-ways-they-differ-on-energy-issues/Nuclear-power ====(—) Immigration reform won’t come till a vote till August:==== Despite the Fukushima disaster, the nuclear industry is still popular – polls prove.Cooper and Sussman 11 (Michael and Dalia, NYT Staff Writers, "Nuclear Power Loses Support in New Poll", New York Times, Public opinion is key to the president’s political capitalBarrett and Eshbaugh-Soha 7 (Andrew W. and Matthew, March, Political Research Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 1, "Presidential Success on the Substance of Legislation", University of North Texas, pp. 100-112, Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4623810, Accessed: 7-15-10) Plan popular- Nuke lobbySamuelsohn 2011 (Darren Samuelsohn, March 16, 2011, "Nuclear industry lobbyists’ clout felt on Hill," Politico, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51367.html) No disads- Lots of SMR funding now, Obama’s committed If bi-part support now than no PC necessaryTom Karst 02/07/2013 House committee considers immigration reform http://www.thepacker.com/fruit-vegetable-news/House-Judiciary-Committee-considers-path-to-immigration-reform-190283571.html PC not key republican bill comingKevin Foley February 08, 2013 Republicans late to party on immigration reform http://mdjonline.com/view/full_story/21654513/article-Republicans-late-to-party-on-immigration-reform?instance=secondary_story_left_column Gun control is Obamas focus PC not keyMcManus 2/1/13 (Doyle, "The GOP: New fans of immigration reform", http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2013/02/01/2794775/the-gop-new-fans-of-immigration.html-http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2013/02/01/2794775/the-gop-new-fans-of-immigration.html, CMR) Obama’s main challenge in this battle is to stay out of the way. That Continued fiscal cliff battle thumps the link—sucks the oxygen out of the room for other legislation: (—) Obama has about a month of political capital—formula is for gridlock: Multiple nominations thump the linkNicholas 1/29 (Peter, "U.S. News: Republicans Bristle At Obama’s New Roster", 2013, The Wall Street Journal Europe, CMR) President Barack Obama’s most recent nominations and appointments show¶ that he is assembling a 1ar – nominations (CFPB)Cordray will be a huge battleSchroeder 1/27 President Obama is getting in the ring for another knockdown battle with congressional Republicans over NU RD3 VS PITTc/pthey read that hegemony is bad and this c/p – this makes zero sense1) it reappropriates the harms of the kritique just changing the actor on which one can act on another Permutation The aff is a dramatic policy shift that reverses this trend. First we are able to use this technology to reprocess the nuclear waste and second it prevents us from having to continue to mine for these resources on native landsThey history of nuclear colonialism spans decades – killing natives, supporting cooperations and exploitation of lands are an all too common occurance Danielle Endres 01 March 2009 The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision Publisher Yucca Mountain is just one example of the transparently racist policies directed at Native Americans. It is time to reverse this trend and invest in better nuclear.Bayley Lopez, Septmeber 1, 2004 Radioactive Reservations The Uphill Battle to Keep Nuclear Waste Off Native American Land https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/09/01_lopez_radioactive-reservations.htm IFRS ARE OUR BEST NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY – REVERSES THE TREND OF VIIOLENCE AND WASTE DISPOSAL ON NATIVE LANDS By eating the waste previously dumpedAT Reps KFrameworkFirst Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be able to weigh the advantages of the plan against the kritique. The negative can have a competitive policy option or a disadvantage or critical impact that may be uniquely caused by the affirmative The Role of ballot is to say yes or no to the action and outcomes of the plan.Second, is reasons to prefer: Apolitical theorizing exists only in the ivory tower and fails to persuade anyone or change anythingLepgold and Nincic 1 (Joesph, associate professor of Government at Georgetown and Miroslav professor of Poly Sci at UC-Davis, Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance pg. 2-4)JFS Theorizing is a direct trade-off with political action – that causes a resurgence of the genocidal atrocities of the 20th centuryWolin 4
(Richard, distinguished professor of intellectual history at Graduate Center, City University of New York, The Seduction of Unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, pg. 8-9)JFS Extinction precedes ontology – existence is a prerequisite for the selfWapner 3 ~Paul Wapner is associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University, DISSENT / Winter 2003~JFS K properThe case serves as a disad to the critique. if we win any of our advantages we destroy them on time frame and magnitude. Their impacts scenarios have been around forever the only thing we can’t recover from is through destruction of our biosphere from our waste advantage or nuclear warPerm do bothDiscursive focus trades off with focus on structural change—it becomes a psychological substitute for action.Kidner 2k – psychology professor, David, Nature and Psyche, p 66-7 Energy POLICY matters and we need policy action to address the pressing energy needs of the US and the world- Must evaluate consequencesWirth, Gray and Podesta, ’3 The Future of Energy Policy Timothy E no specific link to the aff – cross apply our framework, their link should not be to the status quo but to the affirmative. This is doubly true when we are winning the nuclear renisance arguments means that their focus on security is already taken over. It’s about how the US can minimize those impactsConditionality is bad: Overemphasis on method destroys their scholarshipWendt 2002 Wendt, Handbook of IR, 2002 p. 68 No link- they havn’t produced a link to research and development, nuclear power, or IFR’s… don’t let them link the plan to the status quo. The status quo is where we can just expect death.Calculation is good and doesn’t devalue lifeRevesz 2008 Richard L. Revesz (Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, JD Yale Law School) and Michael A Livermore. (JD NYU School of Law, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, and Managing director of the NYU Law Review). Retaking Rationality How Cots-Benefit Analysis Can Better protect the Environment and Our Health. 2008. P. 1-4. And they read policy and reps this is uniqly bad. It allows them to no link out of their own representation arguments. This causes us to double turn outselves this is a voter for fairnessDon’t evaluate their ethics in a vacuum-Their moral tunnel vision is complicit with the evil they criticize─Isaac, 2002. (Jeffrey C., James H. Rudy professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington, "Ends, Means and politics," Dissent, Spring) No alt solvency- their have been attempts in the past yet the status quo remains. They need a concrete method for solving for the critique impacts or you prefer our carded evidence.Preserving existence is the primary obligation of a human and precedes value to life questions.Wapner 03 ~Paul Wapner, associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University. "Leftist Criticism of "Nature" Environmental Protection in a Postmodern Age," Dissent Winter 2003 http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/archives/2003/wi03/wapner.htm-http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/archives/2003/wi03/wapner.htm~~ Realism is inevitable- states will fear each other because of a lack of central authority and uncertain intentionsMearsheimer, 2004. ~John, professor of Political Science at U Chicago, 2004, "Power and Fear in Great Power Politics", G.O. Mazur, ed., One Hundred Year Commemoration to the Life of Hans Morgenthau, p 184-196~ Turn – failing to recognize and act within the inevitable state system endangers survival – the moral absolutism of the K proves self-destructiveMurray, 1997. ~Professor of Politics at the University of Wales, Alastair J.H., Reconstructing Realism: Between Power Politics and Cosmopolitan Ethics, p. 75-76~ The central tenet of a realist approach in this respect is that each system of This is a floating PIC – they should lose: It forces judge intervention which is bad for education – No one knows how much it takes to make a floating PIC a legitimate option or how much warning makes it acceptable, means that it forces the judge to arbitrarily decide if it’s legitimate or not, which makes debate irrelevant It skews time – PICS are bad enough, but then not giving us a target to attack until the end of the debate shifts the debate into the later speeches, which hurt our time It’s also bad for fairness –we can’t make new arguments to answer the PIC because the neg will claim that we should have seen it coming, even though we shouldn’t be expected to see it coming. Shifting the debate into later speeches will always disadvantage the negative because they get the negative block and get to radically change the angle of the aff’s answers after we have already invested our energy into a strategy This is a voter for the reasons stated above Violence is decreasing due to hegemony- DA to the altDrezner 2005 Daniel W. Drezner Associate Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University May 25, 2005 "Gregg Easterbrook, war, and the dangers of extrapolation" http://www.danieldrezner.com/archives/002087.html NU RD5 VS LOUISVILLEFramework extension====Their framework destroys the oppositional focus of debate competition by doing away with the stasis of the topic making clash nearly impossible – they destroy the shared social activity that is debate by annulling the political "other" of switch-side debate and instead advocating something we may (and probably do) all agree with==== Calculation is good and doesn’t devalue lifeRevesz 2008 Richard L. Revesz (Dean and Lawrence King Professor of Law at New York University School of Law, JD Yale Law School) and Michael A Livermore. (JD NYU School of Law, Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, and Managing director of the NYU Law Review). Retaking Rationality How Cots-Benefit Analysis Can Better protect the Environment and Our Health. 2008. P. 1-4. They assume traditional debate to be some form of "grand theory" which its not – our approach does not EXCLUDE their approach, but they seem to be advocating to exclude OUR approach.Martin, 2001 ~Brian, Professor of Social Sciences at U. of Woolongong, Australia,"Review of Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics, by Ronald Bleiker," Social Alternatives, January, http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/01BRsa.html-http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/01BRsa.html~~: Bleiker argues for acceptance of contingent foundations, saying that "grand theories of dissent run the risk of objectifying and entrenching forms of domination" (p. 140). I am sceptical that theories of dissent - such as the consent theory of power - have such an influence on dissent itself. Many contemporary activists are far more flexible than the stereotype of the dogmatic Marxist. Grand theories are more commonly used as resources than as straitjackets. * Role-playing as public actors shatters apathy and political alienation, which is critical to check inequality and exploitationMitchell 2K (Gordon, Director of Debate and Professor of Communication – U. Pittsburgh, Argumentation and Advocacy, Vol. 36, No. 3, Winter) Theory can impact policymakers, but only if it focuses on practical policy issuesLepgold and Nincic 10 (Joesph, associate professor of Government at Georgetown and Miroslav professor of Poly Sci at UC-Davis, Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance pg. 11-12) CaseCompNothing about this argument has made an argument about personal before life. This means that our conceded impact on this flow is not only true but also will kill us all. Nuclear war mutes the personal.WasteThey drop our waste advantage which is not about my knowledge production. They also say that I havnt listened to the communities. However you have not you have assumed that we have no because of where this reactor will go. There is already a facility at the river savannah site. Those harms. However not doing this reverts us back to Yucca. That’s the government decisions the law argument. We reverse that trendthe status quo where nuclear technolongy will continue to dump on the native lands. The aff is a dramatic policy shift that reverses this trend. First we are able to use this technology to reprocess the nuclear waste and second it prevents us from having to continue to mine for these resources on native landsThey history of nuclear colonialism spans decades – killing natives, supporting cooperations and exploitation of lands are an all too common occurance Danielle Endres 01 March 2009 The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision Publisher Yucca Mountain is just one example of the transparently racist policies directed at Native Americans. It is time to reverse this trend and invest in better nuclear.Bayley Lopez, Septmeber 1, 2004 Radioactive Reservations The Uphill Battle to Keep Nuclear Waste Off Native American Land https://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2004/09/01_lopez_radioactive-reservations.htm IFRS ARE OUR BEST NUCLEAR TECHNOLOGY – REVERSES THE TREND OF VIIOLENCE AND WASTE DISPOSAL ON NATIVE LANDS By eating the waste previously dumpedKriticisimFirst, policy analysis should precede discourse – most effective way to challenge powerJill Taft-Kaufman, Speech prof @ CMU, 1995, Southern Comm. Journal, Spring, v. 60, Iss. 3, "Other Ways", p pq Arguing about what governments ought to do is not the same as complicity with the existing order This debate matters – use the aff to stand in solidarity with the plan as a method to resist the possibility of nuclear war –HNSG (Harvard Nuclear Study Group – Albert Carnesale, UCLA Chancellor Emeritus and holds Even if it doesn’t we still have an obligation to begin with questions of policy-makingjenny Edkins and maja Zehfuss1 Review of International Studies (2005), 31,p. 454-5 Localized visions of politics collapse all political horizons and inevitably lead to passivity – only embracing localized fictions of large scale political action can move us forward and fight the existing power structureCharlie Bertsch (Ph.D. , English at UC-Berkeley) 1995 "Useful Fictions" Bad Subjects Online Journal Issue ~#19 http://bad.eserver.org/issues/1995/19/bertsch.html ZompettiThe affirmative approach stifles dissent and serves to deflect attention from the structural problems underlying inequality in debate – critical self-reflection is the exception, not the rule, in reaction to these types of arguments when presented in debate roundsZOMPETTI 04 Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Illinois State University The second major problem with this turn in contemporary policy debate is its¶ The alternative would fail because of its localized focus – must both DESCRIBE problems in the world and DO something about those problemsCOOK IN 1992 ~Anthony E. Cook, Associate Professor at Georgetown Law School, "Reflections on Postmodernism", 26 New Eng.L. Rev. 751, Spring of 1992; L/N~ Several things trouble me about Foucault’s approach. First, he nurtures in many ways Discursive focus trades off with focus on structural change—it becomes a psychological substitute for action.Kidner 2k – psychology professor, David, Nature and Psyche, p 66-7 ====The negative reentrenches the Black/White paradigm – ignoring all other races in regards to treatment in debate and beyond==== Paradigms of race shape our understanding of race and our definition of racial problems. This turns the case by preventing understanding of issues of race and ethnicity – renders solvency for their harms limited at best and impossible at worstFransisco Valdes, 97 visiting professor of law @ University of Miami, "Under Construction – LatCrit Consciousness, Community, and Theory", CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW, October 1997, page lexis The predominance of this paradigm in legal and social thought thus must be well understood NU RD8 VS MACALESTERFrameworkFirst Our interpretation is that the affirmative should be able to weigh the advantages of the plan PERIOD The negative can have a competitive policy option or a disadvantage or critical impact that may be uniquely caused by the affirmative The Role of ballot is to say yes or no to the action and outcomes of the plan.Theorizing is a direct trade-off with political action – that causes a resurgence of the genocidal atrocities of the 20th centuryWolin 4
(Richard, distinguished professor of intellectual history at Graduate Center, City University of New York, The Seduction of Unreason: the intellectual romance with fascism from Nietzsche to Postmodernism, pg. 8-9)JFS Extinction precedes ontology – existence is a prerequisite for the selfWapner 3 ~Paul Wapner is associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University, DISSENT / Winter 2003~JFS At capPerm: Do Both - If the alternative can overcome the status quo it can overcome the planPerm solves—the plan’s approach to the current energy crisis presents a unique opportunity to reform capitalismMichael A Peters 2012, ~Michael A. Peters is professor of education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and professor emeritus at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ~10 June 2012, "Greening the Knowledge Economy: A Critique of Neoliberalism," Truthout, http://truth-out.org/news/item/9642-greening-the-knowledge-economy-a-critique-of-neoliberalism Ecopolitics must come to terms with the scramble for resources that increasingly dominates the competitive 2. Must work within the system to reform itJones and Spicer 09 Campbell, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at U of Leicester, Andre, Associate Professor in the Dept of Industrial Relations @ Warwick Business School U of Warwick, Unmasking the Entrepreneur, pgs. 22-23 The third strand in our proposed critical theory of entrepreneurship involves questions of the ’extra Case is a disad to the k. capitalisim is key to generate capital investment and kirsh 2008 says that has to happen now. At best the k delays action and probably prevent.5. Perm do the plan and withdraw from all other forms of capital- that puts them in a double bind either the permutation solves or the alternative can’t overcome the drop in the bucket of the plan6. We shouldn’t withdraw from the state but engage it – means the perm solves bestZizek, Professor at the European Graduate School, 9 8. We control uniqueness – free market growth solves global poverty and inequalityFrieden 10 – Jeffrey, Professor of Government at Harvard; researches international monetary and financial relations ~Mar 6, http://www.hceronline.com/?q=node/48-http://www.hceronline.com/?q=node/48~~ The good news about global inequality is that it has been declining. The world 9. Vauge alts are bad they create a moving target and that’s not our zizak making it impossible to create offense. And they are bad for education, if they are to question our methodology they need to hav a stable advocacy for us to copare it to letting the bock redefine the alternative is abusive and kills education reasons it’s a voter for education and fairness10. Rejecting capitalism will spark transition wars, re-entrenching cycles of exploitationGubrud 1997 ~Mark Avrum (Center for Superconductivity Research); "Nanotechnology and International Security"; Foresight Nanotechnology Institute; http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/-http://www.foresight.org/Conferences/MNT05/Papers/Gubrud/ 11. Capitalism key to technological innovation—helps the environmentBarker, 00 – electrical engineer, and manager of corporate communications for the Electric Power Research Institute and former industrial economist and staff author at SRI International and as a commercial research analyst at USX Corporation (Brent, "Technology and the Quest for Sustainability." EPRI Journal, Summer) The rate of innovation is especially critical to sustainability. The roadmap participants have concluded 14 Neoliberalism is inevitable through global pressureWeede, Professor of Sociology at the University of Bonn, 04 (Erich, "The Diffusion of Prosperity and Peace by Globalization," The Independent Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, Fall, http://www.independent.org /pdf/tir/tir_09_2_1_weede.pdf) First, prosperous countries influence the legal foundations for capitalism or economic policies elsewhere. 16. Collapse of capitalism causes extinction – outweighs other extinction scenariosJean-Francois Revel, 1993 Sociopolitical analyst Don’t evaluate their ethics in a vacuum-Their moral tunnel vision is complicit with the evil they criticize─Isaac, 2002. (Jeffrey C., James H. Rudy professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington, "Ends, Means and politics," Dissent, Spring) Perm: Do the plan and all portions of the alternative that don’t require rejection of the planTheir link arguments take out alt solvency J.K. Gibson-Graham 96 (J. K. Gibson-Graham is the pen name of Katherine Gibson and Julie Graham. Graham is Prof. of Geography at the UMass, Amherst. Gibson is Senior Fellow of Human Geography at Australian National Univ., The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It), 1996, 263) Policy relevance is a pre-requisite to emancipation – purely theoretical focus ensures domination by current policy elitesJeroen Gunning (lecturer in international politics at the Department of International Politics at the University of Wales) 2007 "A Case for Critical Terrorism Studies?" Blackwell Synergy Radical alternativeThe permutation doesn’t link– reformist political actions in context of radical change isn’t mutually exclusive – It can be used to undermine systems of powerDixon 5 (Chris, Activist and founding member of Direct Action Network, 2005, "Reflections on Privilege, Reformism, and Activism," www.geocities.com/kk_abacus/ioaa/dixon2.html, accessed 3-6-05) ====Resistance and rejection are flawed responses to capitalist structures – we have to utilize collective action and coercion through legislation==== Trend plus inaction equals drift. When a¶ trend has external¶ causes¶ Energy POLICY matters and we need policy action to address the pressing energy needs of the US and the world- Must evaluate consequencesWirth, Gray and Podesta, ’3 The Future of Energy Policy Timothy E |
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