Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma BM | Judge: Izak Dunn

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
 

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)
Only when insight brings itself … s everything into it’s own.
 

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.

Caputo 93 (john, Demythologizing Heidegger, p. 136-41)
The essence of technology is …, ontological destruction.
 

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.

Dalle pezze 2006 (Barbara, PhD in Philosophy U of Hong Kong, “Heidegger on Gelassenheit”, Minerva 10:94-122)
When we think meditatively we do not p … ‘just’ wait, wait without expecting.
 

The affirmative perpetuates the commodification of energy, which only serves to fuel dependence on capitalist growth

David Korowicz 11 [physicist and human systems ecologist. He is a member of Feasta’s executive committee and works as an independent consultant], “On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy,” Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse” April 2011, New Society Publishers, Online Edition,  http://fleeingvesuvius.org/2011/10/08/on-the-cusp-of-collapse-complexity-energy-and-the-globalised-economy/
Like human beings and life on earth, … to whom they sell their services

Tournament: UMKC | Round: 1 | Opponent: Oklahoma BM | Judge: Izak Dunn

Solar is worse for the environment – inefficiency causes more emissions

Zycher, Pacific Research Institute Senior Fellow, 12 (Benjamin, Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics adjunct professor, associate in the Intelligence Community Associates Program of the Office of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, former senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, April 19, “Zycher testimony to joint House subcommittee hearing on subsidies for renewable energy,” http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/alternative-energy/zycher-testimony-to-joint-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-subsidies-for-renewable-energy/, d/a 8-1-12, ads)
A cleaner environment is worth it… monster utterly destructive in so many dimensions.