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Resolved:

Resolved means “A determination or decision; a fixed purpose” according to the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 2006, p.

Violation:

The Affirmative does not specify what constitutes a wind energy source.

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“The United States Federal Government should offer to accept all liability imposed by the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act for the production and construction of airborne wind turbines on Brownfields.”

competition

1.       Mutually Exclusive – The CP excludes all non-airborne turbines from qualifying for the incentive. Any permutation would be severance of Affirmative advocacy and prove the abuse on the ‘Resolved’ topicality.

2.       Theoretical Competition – Affirmative advocacy is to support energy produced from multiple sources, while the CP specifies their technology. If they had wanted to advocate a single technology, they should have specified in plan text.

NET BENEFITS

1.       CP solves 100% of case offense and avoids any solvency deficit.

2.     Airborne turbines SOLVE INTERMITTENCY PREVENTING WIND DROPS AND BLACKOUTS

Jim Fraser, Peak Energy, 2008, p. http://peakenergy.blogspot.com/2008/01/alternative-wind-power-experiments.html

3.     Airborne turbines will not interfere with radar and meet all FAA requirements

M. Ragheb, “Airborne Wind Turbine Concepts”, Apr. 7, 2008, p. https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mragheb/www/NPRE%20498WP%20Wind%20Power%20Systems/Airborne%20%20Wind%20Turbine%20Concepts.pdf

4.     airborne turbines will not impact birds or bats

New York Times, “Airborne Wind Turbines”, Dec. 9, 2007, p. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09_1_turbine.html?_r=1andpagewanted=print

5.     endangered bats haven’t been impacted yet, but larger development of wind energy will cause the destruction of bat species

National Research Council. May 2007. “Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects.” Online.

6.     a large buildup of wind turbines would results in the death of bats that are important to ecosystems

Blum 05 Justin. Washington Post. 1/1/5. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A39941-2004Dec31?language=printer

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The “thought of ourselves as subjects” we are forced to embrace by way of liberationist struggles for identity and self affirmation maintains an instrumental rationality of dualistic thought which re-creates and further solidifies the exact structures of oppression such projects attempt to resist – Unfortunately, it has been empirically proven that this is not something we can overcome with further criticism or resistance, rather if we are ever to evade this ever widening trap we must first begin on the personal level, - letting go of the tight grasp upon our own position of subjectivity, freeing ourselves from its tyranny by way of imaging making the leap to dwelling in thinking being itself

Stenstad 2006 (Gail, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at East Tennessee State University, associate editor of Heidegger Studies, and a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  “Transformations Thinking After Heidegger” University of Wisconsin Press. Page(s) 182-183)

The affirmative project of identity politics relies on a form of lived experience corresponding to machination – dividing the world into subjects and objects always striving for progress and calculable explainability

Stenstad 2006 (Gail, professor in the Department of Philosophy and Humanities at East Tennessee State University, associate editor of Heidegger Studies, and a member of the board of directors of the International Association for Environmental Philosophy.  “Transformations Thinking After Heidegger” University of Wisconsin Press. Page(s) 55-56)

A world subsumed by calculative technological thought destroys our ontological relationship with Being. Our instant access to everything as a tool for use obliterates the essential being of all things making even total planetary destruction a radically less important issue and a likely inevitability.

**gender paraphrased

Caputo 93 (john, Demythologizing Heidegger, p. 136-41)

Our alternative is to embrace gelassenheit.

The first step is “Releasement towards things” – this will allow us to become aware that technology is useful, but shackles us. Awareness can break the shackles, denying technology the right to dominate our existence.

The second step is “openness to the mystery.”  This is a “higher action” that means we do not demand answers – we wait. This is how we transform our thinking from calculative to meditative. We have to wait to allow Being to reveal itself to us.  [emphasize that there needs to be a will to not will]

Dalle pezze 2006 (Barbara, PhD in Philosophy U of Hong Kong, “Heidegger on Gelassenheit”, Minerva 10:94-122)

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Managerial thought reduces the world to objects for¶ manipulation and control, which renders it as a self-circulating¶ resource for our use and disposal. This privileges a single way of¶ viewing the world and forecloses alternative modes of thought.

McWhorter 92 (Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 6)

One of the many “truths” the affirmative posits is the stories they call “advantages”. These projections of decline and catastrophe are technological behavior in that they map out and calculate the future in order to create a standing reserve of symptoms.

Heidegger 62  (Martin. “Die Technik und die Kehre”, pp.45-6)

history as happening ever brings us into the proper relation to destining, let alone into the essential origin of destining in the disclosing coming-to-pass of the truth of Being that brings everything into it’s own.

Attempts to reduce global warming is futile – The quick fix actions are rooted in the technological mindset which initially produced the problem!

Hill '07 [Glenn,“DESIGN WITHOUT CAUSALITY: HEIDEGGER’S IMPOSSIBLE CHALLENGE FOR ECOLOGICALLY SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE”, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/handle/2100/474]

ECO-Gender

The affirmative relies on a Western, dualist mindset that creates binaries between woman and man, humanity and nature… these dualisms [EB1] are hierarchally ordered to continually devalue that which is feminine.

Kamrar 8 [Jenn: writing professor at Portland Community College “Toward An Ecofeminist Pedagogy” Conference Proceedings: Masters in Teaching Program 2006-2008 Teaching the Child in Front of You in a Changing World January 28 and 29, 2008 Chapter p. 127]

Human-centered rationality treats humanity as separate from nature, which paves the way for humans to use nature at their disposal as a mass of undifferentiated beings

Plumwood 02 [Val: Australian Research Council Fellow at University of Sydney –002 Environmental Culture: The ecological crisis of reason [Routledge nb] p. 111-113]

Constant usage and consumption of nature depletes nature – culminating in the sacrificial self-destruction of humans.

Nhanenge 07 [Jytte: Master of Arts at the development studies at the University of South Africa “Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the concerns of women,, poor people and nature into development” http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1].

Our alternative is to adopt a critical ecofeminist pedagogy within this debate that seeks, at every level, to refuse hierarchy and domination. This means we must embrace the human learner in the context of the nonhuman and nature, paying particular attention to the diversity of knowledge production through language, teaching, and learning.

Kamrar 8 [Jenn: writing professor at Portland Community College “Toward An Ecofeminist Pedagogy” Conference Proceedings: Masters in Teaching Program 2006-2008 Teaching the Child in Front of You in a Changing World January 28 and 29, 2008 Chapter p. 128]

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[EB1]This evidence also indicates that dualism is the root cause of all oppression.

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The 1ac represents nuclear extinction as an end all instant conflict between nation-states to be avoided at all with your endorsement of the plan. ‘Extinction’ can only be conceptualized when the world is understood as a totality. This representational focus of the nuclear debate on extinction not only ignores the nuclear violence that has been carried out against Indigenous Peoples around the world, but it is indicative of the techno-strategic implementation of the plan. 

Kato 1993

Masahide (Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii)  “Nuclear Globalism: Traversing Rockets, Satellites, and --Nuclear War-- via the Strategic Gaze “ Alternatives i8 1993 339-360

Invoking the threat of apocalypse legitimates any use of force not short of annihilation- the only way we get to the impact is by tying it to the affirmative policy

Coviello, PhD in English From Cornell, Queer Frontiers, 2K p. 40-41