| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: Florida MP | Judge: Joe Keeton Advantage 1 is Warming It’s real and anthropogenicAKOREDE et al 12 Electrical %26 Electronic Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia ~[M.F. Akorede, , H. Hizam, M.Z.A. Ab Kadir, I. Aris, S.D. Buba, Mitigating the anthropogenic global warming in the electric power industry, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 16, Issue 5, June 2012, Pages 2747–2761~] One of the most current and widely … sources such as vehicles, small boilers, etc. ~[3~], ~[7~] and ~[8~]. Dish Stirling solar power solves warming
Harriot 9 (Lina Harriot Solar Energy - Is It Possible To Achieve Grid Parity With Current Fossil Fuel Based Energy Systems? http://cmrt.centrale-marseille.fr/cpi/ever09/documents/papers/re3/EVER09-paper-198.pdf-http://cmrt.centrale-marseille.fr/cpi/ever09/documents/papers/re3/EVER09-paper-198.pdf) Conclusion
The issue of climate change has become …solar energy electricity production. Payne 2008 (Sarah Payne and Tony Dutzik, On the Rise Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global Warming Environment America Research %26 Policy Center Bernadette Del Chiaro Environment California Research %26 Policy Center Frontier Group Spring 2008)
Concentrating solar power presents a unique … emissions of global warming pollution.. Warming turns all impacts and causes extinctionJohn VOGLER IR @ Keele ET AL ’11 "Energy Security and Climate Security: Synergy or Conflict?" http://www.wiscnetwork.org/porto2011/papers/WISC_2011-727.pdf-http://www.wiscnetwork.org/porto2011/papers/WISC_2011-727.pdf p. 10-13
A combination of these analytical … enhanced international cooperation on climate governance. Advantage 2: Desalination Water shortages are coming- that causes global water wars and Yemen instability
Arsenault 8/26/12 (Chris, Risk of water wars rises with scarcity, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/2011622193147231653.html)
Almost half of humanity will face water scarcity … resources are always at the heart of tribal conflicts," Darwish told Al Jazeera. Water wars go nuclear
NASCA 6 (National Association for Scientific %26 Cultural Appreciation, Water Shortages – Only A Matter Of Time, http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/water.html) Water is one of the prime essentials for life as we … situation for which there will be no obvious answer. Yemen civil war destabilizes Saudi Arabia
STRATFOR 4/21/11 ~["Islamist Militancy in a Pre- and Post-Saleh Yemen," April 21, 2011 | 0859 GMT, pg. http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20110420-islamist-militancy-pre-and-post-saleh-yemen~~] The real heavyweight in Yemen is Saudi Arabia. The Saudi royals … in channeling jihadist efforts toward the al-Houthi threat. Oil prices soar – industries shut down
Babej 3/29/11 - Contributor to Forbes ~[Marc E. Babej, "A Saudi Oil Supply Disruption-The Ultimate Marketing Crisis Scenario," Forbes, 3/29/2011 @ 01:48PM |pg. http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcbabej/2011/03/29/a-saudi-oil-supply-disruption-the-ultimate-marketing-crisis-scenario/-http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcbabej/2011/03/29/a-saudi-oil-supply-disruption-the-ultimate-marketing-crisis-scenario/~] And still: in 2011, the term "unlikely" doesn’t quite carry the .. the Energy and Chemicals Practice in the Americas. That causes Global energy wars
King 08 – Researcher @ Center for New American Security ~[Neil King, Jr. (Columnist for the Wall Street Journal), "Peak Oil: A Survey of Security Concerns," CNAS Energy Security Visionaries Series, Center for New American Security, JULY 2008, pg. pdf~] Many commentators in the United States and abroad … elected leaders take the wise steps and avoid the rash ones. Pg. 13-15 Scenario 2: Agriculture
Groundwater depletion is unsustainable- it will trigger global food shortages
Postel 8/13/12 (Sandra, Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and lead water expert for National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative National Geographic Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents, Our Oversized Groundwater Footprint http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/13/our-oversized-groundwater-footprint/)
We don’t see it, smell it or hear it, but the tragedy … turmoil that springs from them – all but inevitable. Food Shortages cause nuclear war
Klare 06 – Professor of peace and world security studies @ Hampshire College ~[Michael Klare, "The Coming Resource Wars," TomPaine.com, Date: March 11, 2006, pg. http://www.waterconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=53710%26keybold=water%20land%20conflict~~] "As famine, disease, and weather-related disasters strike due to …nvolvement in these forms of conflict. Maude Barlow, 2002. National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and IFG Committee on the Globalization of Water. "The global water crisis and the commodification of the world’s water supply," The Crisis, Blue Gold, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Water/Crisis_BG.html.
Groundwater over-pumping and aquifer … mussels are extinct or vulnerable to extinction. Environment News Service ~[ENS~], 2/18/1997. "Nature’s services worth trillions," http://forests.org/archive/general/ecoworth.htm-http://forests.org/archive/general/ecoworth.htm. Ehrlich coined the term "brownlash" to describe the efforts of …. steps to sustain its life-support systems and thus preserve civilization. Solar powered desalination solves water shortages and agriculture
Science Daily 5/24/12 (Solar Desalination System for Arid Land Agriculture¶ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120525103922.htm
ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) — Ben-Gurion University … a useable byproduct. Solar Desalination System for Arid Land Agriculture Only Dish Sterling Solar Power solves
1st – Massive reductions in water consumption
Hashem 5/11/12 (Heba, Dubai, Dish Stirling: Made for MENA?, CSP Today http://social.csptoday.com/print/27693-http://social.csptoday.com/print/27693)
CSP sites typically consume large … and cost reductions are achieved is imminent. Department for International Development 2010 ( A Potential Role for an AMC in Supporting Dish/Stirling Concentrating Solar Power CASE STUDY ANNEX March 2010 Vivid Economics http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/EcoDev_Misc/60743-VividEconCSP_AMC.pdf-http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/EcoDev_Misc/60743-VividEconCSP_AMC.pdf) Dish/Stirling is the most suitable and well-… it could be undertaken by car mechanics. Third – the plan gets modeled globally
National Intelligence Council 2/2/12 ( Office of Director of National Intelligence Global Water Security INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT ICA 2012-08, 2 February 2012 http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press%20Releases/ICA_Global%20Water%20Security.pdf-http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press Releases/ICA_Global Water Security.pdf)
Implications for the United States Many states …achieving the same influence at US expense. The United States federal government should provide loan guarantees for Dish Stirling generation facilities. Federal loan guarantees jumpstart capital investments and create a marketTracey March 2012 (Daniel K., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D. "Alternative Energy Lending: The Missing Lending Link: Why a Federal Loan Guarantee Program is Critical to the Continued Growth of the Solar Power Industry," 16 N.C. Banking Inst. 349, Lexis) Solar power’s once bright future as a utility-scale 1 … energy, job creation, and domestic technology growth. 12 The plan causes mass commercialization
Williams 9/30/11 (Andrew, ¶ Dish Stirling: Down, but not out¶ http://social.csptoday.com/technology/dish-stirling-down-not-out-http://social.csptoday.com/technology/dish-stirling-down-not-out)
Dish Stirling technology took a knock in 2011…given adequate levels of funding and support. This causes rapid expansion, federal certainty is key for sustained investment
Lilliestam August 2012 (Johan Lilliestam International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, , Jeffrey M. Bielicki Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota , Anthony G. Patt International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Comparing carbon capture and storage (CCS) with concentrating solar power (CSP): Potentials, costs, risks, and barriers, Energy Policy Volume 47, August 2012, Pages 447–455)
6.2. CSP
No significant technological developments … or large-scale expansion of desert CSP is unlikely (Battaglini and Lilliestam 2010). Renewables incentives now (fast track + DOD lands)
Guardian 8/9/12 (BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network¶ guardian.co.uk, Thursday 9 August 2012 06.42 EDT¶ Obama aims to fast-track new wave of renewables projects¶ Seven major clean energy projects will be expedited through government permitting processes¶ http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/09/obama-renewables-http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/09/obama-renewables¶
The Obama administration has this week … that can be used for renewable energy generation. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The United States federal government should provide loan guarantees for Dish Stirling generation facilities. Advantage 1 is Warming AKOREDE et al 12 Electrical %26 Electronic Engineering Department, Faculty of Engineering, Universiti Putra Malaysia ~M.F. Akorede, , H. Hizam, M.Z.A. Ab Kadir, I. Aris, S.D. Buba, Mitigating the anthropogenic global warming in the electric power industry, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Volume 16, Issue 5, June 2012, Pages 2747–2761~ One of the most current and widely discussed … of small/mobile emissions sources such as vehicles, small boilers, etc. ~3~, ~7~ and ~8~. Dish Stirling solar power solves warming
Harriot 9 (Lina Harriot Solar Energy - Is It Possible To Achieve Grid Parity With Current Fossil Fuel Based Energy Systems? http://cmrt.centrale-marseille.fr/cpi/ever09/documents/papers/re3/EVER09-paper-198.pdf-http://cmrt.centrale-marseille.fr/cpi/ever09/documents/papers/re3/EVER09-paper-198.pdf) Conclusion
The issue of climate change has become an …the unit cost of solar energy electricity production. Payne 2008 (Sarah Payne and Tony Dutzik, On the Rise Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global Warming Environment America Research %26 Policy Center Bernadette Del Chiaro Environment California Research %26 Policy Center Frontier Group Spring 2008)
Concentrating solar power presents a unique …. its emissions of global warming pollution.. Warming turns all impacts and causes extinctionJohn VOGLER IR @ Keele ET AL ’11 "Energy Security and Climate Security: Synergy or Conflict?" http://www.wiscnetwork.org/porto2011/papers/WISC_2011-727.pdf-http://www.wiscnetwork.org/porto2011/papers/WISC_2011-727.pdf p. 10-13
A combination of these analytical pathways holds insights … carbon economy and enhanced international cooperation on climate governance. And it causes hydrogen sulfide poisoning—that destroys the ozone and causes extinction.
Ward 10
(Peter, PhD, professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington, paleontologist and NASA astrobiologist, Fellow at the California Academy of Sciences, The Flooded Earth: Our Future in a World Without Ice Caps, June 29, 2010) In the rest of this chapter I will support a contention that within several …current systems, sometimes called the conveyor currents. Collapses the oceans—extinction.
IANS 10
(6/19, Indo-Asian News Service, citing Ove Hoegh-Guldberg, professor at University of Queensland and Director of the Global Change Institute, and John Bruno, associate professor of Marine Science at UNC, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/sci-tech/could-unbridled-climate-changes-lead-to-human-extinction_100382787.html Sydney: Scientists have sounded alarm bells about … marine ecosystems function,’ Bruno warned, according to a GCI release. Advantage 2: Desalination Water shortages are coming- that causes global water wars
Arsenault 8/26/12 (Chris, Risk of water wars rises with scarcity, http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/06/2011622193147231653.html)
Almost half of humanity will face water scarcity by 2030 and … group can suppress another" Water wars go nuclear
NASCA 6 (National Association for Scientific %26 Cultural Appreciation, Water Shortages – Only A Matter Of Time, http://www.nasca.org.uk/Strange_relics_/water/water.html) Water is one of the prime essentials for life as … for which there will be no obvious answer. Groundwater depletion is unsustainable- it will trigger global food shortages
Postel 8/13/12 (Sandra, Postel is director of the Global Water Policy Project and lead water expert for National Geographic’s Freshwater Initiative National Geographic Freshwater Initiative in Water Currents, Our Oversized Groundwater Footprint http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2012/08/13/our-oversized-groundwater-footprint/)
We don’t see it, smell it or hear it, but the tragedy unfolding underground is nonetheless real – and it spells big trouble.
I’m talking about the depletion of groundwater, the st… turmoil that springs from them – all but inevitable. US crop failures cause global food crisis
Kennedy 8/21/12 (Robert, ¶ Food riots predicted over US crop failure¶ http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/08/20128218556871733.html
Analysts say crippling drought in the US likely to trigger unrest in impoverished …problems we have and create turmoil in markets." Food Shortages cause nuclear war
Klare 06 – Professor of peace and world security studies @ Hampshire College ~Michael Klare, "The Coming Resource Wars," TomPaine.com, Date: March 11, 2006, pg. http://www.waterconserve.org/shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=53710%26keybold=water%20land%20conflict~~ "As famine, disease, and weather-related disasters strike due to abrupt climate change," .. will escape involvement in these forms of conflict. Moradi 04
(Alexander, Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and PhD in Economics @ Oxford, "Have Gun Give Food: Nutrition, Agriculture, and the Onset of Civil Wars in Sub-Saharan Africa", http://www.ehs.org.uk/ehs/conference2006/Assets/MoradiNRIIB.pdf)
Our regression analysis demonstrates that the … should temporarily give every assistance to ensure that the people’s most basic needs are met. ("Russia: Problems in the Winners’ Circle", 6-13, http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/russia_problems_winners_circle, Google Cache)
As an energy and grain exporter, Russia is one of the clear winners in the current global energy and food markets. However, … strong Russia or depending on its neighbors in Europe, though Moscow wants to be the dominant partner in that relationship. (Steven, Prof. Pol. Sci. @ Johns Hopkins, Foreign Affairs, "Saving America from the coming civil wars", Vol. 28, Iss. 1, Proquest)
AT NO TIME since the civil war of 1918-Zo has Russia been closer to bloody conflict than it is today. The fledgling … of anything that would increase this threat more than the chaos that would follow a Russian civil war. Maude Barlow, 2002. National Chairperson of the Council of Canadians and IFG Committee on the Globalization of Water. "The global water crisis and the commodification of the world’s water supply," The Crisis, Blue Gold, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Water/Crisis_BG.html.
Groundwater over-pumping and aquifer depletion … mussels are extinct or vulnerable to extinction. Environment News Service ~ENS~, 2/18/1997. "Nature’s services worth trillions," http://forests.org/archive/general/ecoworth.htm-http://forests.org/archive/general/ecoworth.htm. Ehrlich coined the term "brownlash" to describe the efforts of …to sustain its life-support systems and thus preserve civilization. Solar powered desalination solves water shortages and agriculture
Science Daily 5/24/12 (Solar Desalination System for Arid Land Agriculture¶ http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120525103922.htm
ScienceDaily (May 24, 2012) — Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers … desalination can be a useable byproduct. Solar Desalination System for Arid Land Agriculture Only Dish Sterling Solar Power solves
1st – Massive reductions in water consumption
Hashem 5/11/12 (Heba, Dubai, Dish Stirling: Made for MENA?, CSP Today http://social.csptoday.com/print/27693-http://social.csptoday.com/print/27693)
CSP sites typically consume large amounts of water for cooling…and cost reductions are achieved is imminent. Department for International Development 2010 ( A Potential Role for an AMC in Supporting Dish/Stirling Concentrating Solar Power CASE STUDY ANNEX March 2010 Vivid Economics http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/EcoDev_Misc/60743-VividEconCSP_AMC.pdf-http://www.dfid.gov.uk/r4d/PDF/Outputs/EcoDev_Misc/60743-VividEconCSP_AMC.pdf) Dish/Stirling is the most suitable and well-… activity requires limited skills – potentially it could be undertaken by car mechanics. Third – the plan gets modeled globally
National Intelligence Council 2/2/12 ( Office of Director of National Intelligence Global Water Security INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT ICA 2012-08, 2 February 2012 http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press%20Releases/ICA_Global%20Water%20Security.pdf-http://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press Releases/ICA_Global Water Security.pdf)
Implications for the United States Many states turn to … forestall other actors achieving the same influence at US expense. Federal loan guarantees jumpstart capital investments and create a marketTracey March 2012 (Daniel K., Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D. "Alternative Energy Lending: The Missing Lending Link: Why a Federal Loan Guarantee Program is Critical to the Continued Growth of the Solar Power Industry," 16 N.C. Banking Inst. 349, Lexis) Solar power’s once bright future as a utility-scale 1 …, job creation, and domestic technology growth. 12 The plan causes mass commercialization
Williams 9/30/11 (Andrew, ¶ Dish Stirling: Down, but not out¶ http://social.csptoday.com/technology/dish-stirling-down-not-out-http://social.csptoday.com/technology/dish-stirling-down-not-out)
According to Tony Robey, Executive Chairman at Australia based CSP outfit Wizard Power, … especially given adequate levels of funding and support. This causes rapid expansion, federal certainty is key for sustained investment
Lilliestam August 2012 (Johan Lilliestam International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis; Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, , Jeffrey M. Bielicki Center for Science, Technology, and Public Policy, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota , Anthony G. Patt International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Comparing carbon capture and storage (CCS) with concentrating solar power (CSP): Potentials, costs, risks, and barriers, Energy Policy Volume 47, August 2012, Pages 447–455)
6.2. CSP
No significant technological developments or ….or large-scale expansion of desert CSP is unlikely (Battaglini and Lilliestam 2010). |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Reject their standing reserve impact—Thinking mass death in terms of being and the equation of agriculture with the holocaust elevates the perpetrators and prevents us from addressing specific causes of atrocity.
Todd PRESNER Comp Lit and Jewish Studies @ UCLA ’6 "Heidegger, Arendt, and the Modernity of Mass Death" Telos Vol. 135 Summer p. 102-105 To understand this strange phrase, we need to look back to Heidegger’s second …anonymous mass death is its defining and ultimate purpose. It shouldn’t be your goal to determine the value of life—it’s totalitarian to determine a specific political meaning to life.
Jerzy SZACKI Sociology @ Warsaw ’95 Liberalism After Communism p. 197 Liberalism does not say which of these different moralities is … as equals if it prefers one conception to another. ’ Doesn’t come first—Prioritize environmental existence over framing and ontology.
Paul WAPNER Prf. And Director of the Global Environmental Policy Program @ American ’3 "Leftist Criticism of ’Nature’" Dissent Winter p. 74-75 The third response to eco-criticism would require ..without taking a stand for the diversity of nature." Problem-solution impact is backwards—acting with a flawed epistemology allows us to change that epistemology.
Graham HARRIS Adjunct Prf. @ Centre for Environment University of Tasmania ’7 Seeking Sustainability in an age of complexity p. 9-10 1 am not going to address the global ’litany’ at length here. The arguments …with society and less as observers. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 2. All lives infinitely valuable—only ethical option is maximizing number saved
Cummisky, 96 (David, professor of philosophy at Bates, Kantian Consequentialism, p. 131) Finally, even if one grants that saving two … dignity who are saved, the better. Royal 10 — Jedidiah Royal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, M.Phil. Candidate at the University of New South Wales, 2010 ("Economic Integration, Economic Signalling and the Problem of Economic Crises," Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, Edited by Ben Goldsmith and Jurgen Brauer, Published by Emerald Group Publishing, ISBN 0857240048, p. 213-215)
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may …the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. 4. No root cause
Arthur MOL Environmental Sociology @ Wageningen ’2K "The Environmental Movement in an Era of Ecological Modernisation" Geoforum 31 p. EBSCO In the 1980s increasing numbers of environmental sociologists, …, as far as these concerned the preservation of its sustenance base. 5. Reforms are key to solve
John BARRY Reader in Politics @ Belfast ’7 "Towards a model of green political economy: from ecological modernisation to economic security" Int. J. Green Economics, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, 2007 p. 460 ~acroynym clarified-Turner~ Viewed by itself, EM ~ecological modernisation~ … of an abstract and utopian vision of the ’sustainable society’. Further technological development is key
Goklany 9—Indur M. Goklany, Ph.D, is the Assistant Director for Science and Technology Policy, Office of Policy Analysis, US Department of the Interior, and co-editor of the Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development ~"Have increases in population, affluence and technology worsened human and environmental well-being?" The Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, (2009) 1(3), http://goklany.org/library/EJSD%202009.pdf~~
8. Conclusion
Contrary to Neo-Malthusian fears, population is … the richer nations escaped from a century ago (Goklany 2007a; Boqiang 2007). 7. Plan key and alt solves—market key. Incentivizing market changes are better than non-capitalist relations at communicating information needed for environmental solutions. Their methodology and epistemology inevitably result in information defecits—non-market planning can’t solve.
Mark PENNINGTON Politics @ University of London ’1 Environmental Markets vs. Environmental Deliberation: A Hayekian Critique of Green Political Economy New Political Economy 6 (2) p. 181-184 Similar problems are evident in the unresolvable … given greater weight in an otherwise unregulated market. 8. Failure to specify how the alternative can create an economic transition will produce either tyranny or ineffectiveness.
Andrew SAYER Reader in Political Economy @ Lancaster ’95 Radical Political Economy: A Critique p. 13-14 Yet while the ’velvet’ character of the revolutions was …to the old problems of political economy. Degrowth empirically has no environmental benefits—emissions trends prove the Kuznets curve.
Ausubel and Waggoner 9—*Jesse Ausubel is Director of the Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University. He was one of the main organizers of the first U.N. World Climate Conference in Geneva. Over the past two decades he has been involved in a number of research projects ranging from the health of forests to an ongoing international effort aimed at assessing the diversity and abundance of life in the oceans. Paul E. Waggoner is Director Emeritus of The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station. ~April 18, 2009, "The Jack Rabbit of Depression, or Do economic slumps benefit environment?" http://phe.rockefeller.edu/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/jackrabbitofdepressionfinal.pdf~~ We are accustomed to the idea that growth consumes resources …. little to fear but not much to hope from the incipient depression. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 6. Changing growth to solve climate change works – radical social change won’t.
Manuel Arias-MALDONADO Poli Sci @ Malaga ’12 Real Green: Sustainability After the End of Nature p. 116-120 In principle, public opinion should just rely on science- hence … instead of a threat sounds like a cliche. But it happens to be true - or, to be more accurate, it can be made true. 7. economic knowledge key to solve
Michael TOMAN RAND and adjunct faculty member, Nitze School of International Studies, Johns Hopkins University and Bren School of the Environment, University of California Santa Barbara. ’6 Values in the Economics of Climate Change Environmental Values 15 p. 366 The role played by economic analysis of climate change in the …and public give-and-take in the direction of climate change policy. 6. Incentives are key to motivate action and the alt fails—Incentivizing market changes are better than non-capitalist relations at communicating information needed for environmental solutions. Their methodology and epistemology inevitably result in information defecits—non-market planning can’t solve.
Mark PENNINGTON Politics @ University of London ’1 Environmental Markets vs. Environmental Deliberation: A Hayekian Critique of Green Political Economy New Political Economy 6 (2) p. 181-184 Similar problems are evident in the … of those individual s with previously low incomes to be given greater weight in an otherwise unregulated market. Prioritize climate problem-solving. The case is a pre-requisite for discursive shifts on energy use and environmental harm.
Paul WAPNER Director of the Global Environmental Politics Program in the School of International Service at American University ’8 "The Importance of Critical Environmental Studies in the New Environmentalism" Global Environmental Politics 8.1 p. MUSE 6-13 We are all familiar with the litany of environmental woes. …and structural political transformation. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A threat prevention based stance net decreases conflict – institutional safeguards check error and abuse
Buchanan 07
Professor of Philosophy and Public Policy at Duke, Preemption: military action and moral justification, pg. 128 However, the consequentialist label is misleading, because it …, then the practice may be morally acceptable. The alternative is wishful thinking – the state will co-opt it and make things worse – only the perm solves
Tara McCormack, ’10, is Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Leicester and has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster. 2010, (Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, page 137-138) In chapter 7 I engaged with the human security framework … Values must be joined with engagement with the material circumstances of the time. 4. Representations and framework aren’t a prior issue—arguments for better policy should draw from different frameworks when appropriate.
Andrew LIGHT Environmental Philosophy @ NYU ’5 "What is Pragmatic Philosophy"
http://faculty.washington.edu/alight/papers/Light.What%20Pragmatic.pdf-http://faculty.washington.edu/alight/papers/Light.What Pragmatic.pdf. P. 349-351 I have no easy answer to this question of how practical or "do-able" …completely committing ourselves to utilitarianism. 6. The aff utilizes an emergency management perspective that’s key to mobilize action
Schneider 11 - Professor of Emergency Management Policy @ of North Carolina-Pembroke ~Dr. Robert O. Schneider (Chair of the Department of Political Science %26 Public Administration), "Climate change: an emergency management perspective," Disaster Prevention and Management, 20. 1 (2011): 53-62 It is clear with respect to hurricanes (and other weather extremes … preparedness, and response as a guide for policymaking. 1ac 7. No link—we are a challenge message. The 1AC is a challenge message not a threat message. That increases salience, collective action, and creative problem-solving.
Robert BRULLE Sociology %26 Envt’l Science @ Drexel ’10 "From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement" Environmental Communication 4 (1) p. 92 From Identity to Challenge Campaigns One of the most common …strongly motivating (O’Neill %26 Nicholson-Cole, 2009, p. 376; Witte %26 Allen, 2000). |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Obama inevitable – latino votesVOXXI NEWS 9 – 6 – 12 ~Latino vote decisive for Obama’s re-election, analysts say, http://www.voxxi.com/latino-vote-decisive-obamas-reelection/-http://www.voxxi.com/latino-vote-decisive-obamas-reelection/~~ Although the presidential race is still too close to call, political analysts … among white voters in eleven polls sourced. A recent CNN poll gives him 55 percent of the white vote. HILL 9 – 3 – 12 Washington Times Staff ~David Hill, Who wins the election? Most in academia predict Obama, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/3/who-wins-the-election-most-in-academia-predict-oba/-http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/sep/3/who-wins-the-election-most-in-academia-predict-oba/~~ *Mr. Lichtman, a history professor at American University While Mr. Lichtman is predicting a comfortable win for the president, most analysts … the final months and are more a reaction to circumstances over the past several years. WHITE 12 lawyer in D.C. regulatory law and policy, including environmental and energy issues ~Adam J. White, Obama’s Cynical Energy Agenda, Issues Number 12, Summer 12, http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/obamas-cynical-energy-agenda-http://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/obamas-cynical-energy-agenda~~** The American economy is flagging, and desperately in need of greater … has been harmful not only to America’s energy sector, but to the nation’s economy more broadly. NATIONAL JOURNAL 9 – 19 – 12 ~National Journal By Olga Belogolova, Insiders: Oil-Price Volatility Won’t Affect Election, http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/insiders-oil-price-volatility-won-t-affect-election-20120919~~%23.UFsddiG2CPw.twitter~~ During his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention, … climate change has been shoved off the field," one Insider said. IF energy matters, gas prices thump
SALTER 6 – 20 – 12 Syndicated Columnist ~Sid Salter, Gas prices a significant issue in 2012 election, http://meridianstar.com/columns/x1139580565/Gas-prices-a-significant-issue-in-2012-election/print-http://meridianstar.com/columns/x1139580565/Gas-prices-a-significant-issue-in-2012-election/print~~** Clearly, President Barack Obama’s energy policy will be a key …the political tab that comes due in November. National Journal 9/20 ~Executive Insight Briefing, http://www.nationaljournal.com/membership/document/download/3691~~ Hill Has Empty Calendar Until November
Both chambers of Congress have scrapped their …as the final major action until after the election. RUBINSTEIN 3 – 27 – 12 Reporter for Capital New York, has written for Bloomberg Businessweek, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the New York Observer, and the Brooklyn Paper ~Dana Rubenstein "When is Obama going to have his Eisenhower moment?" March 27, 2012 http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/politics/2012/03/5524547/when-obama-going-have-his-eisenhower-moment~~** In fact, even if Obama wins a second term, his ability … it’s needed, like, say, in the Northeast corridor. E. Wayne Merry, 3/15/2012. Former State Department and Pentagon official, is senior fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council. "Retire the ’reset’ with Russia," The Washington Times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/15/retire-the-reset-with-russia/. Russia lacks effective influence in either Iran or North Korea… with Moscow, but rather balanced and realistic normal relations. Relations dead – regardless of the candidate
BOVT 9 – 11 – 12 Political Analyst for the Moscow Times ~Georgy Bovt, Whether Obama or Romney, the Reset Is Dead, 11 September 2012, http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/whether-obama-or-romney-the-reset-is-dead/467947.html-C:\Users\Herndon\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\Whether Obama or Romney, the Reset Is Dead, 11 September 2012, http:\www.themoscowtimes.com\opinion\article\whether-obama-or-romney-the-reset-is-dead\467947.html~ During every U.S. presidential election campaign, there is a debate in … rhetoric from both sides would itself be considered a major achievement in bilateral relations. Won’t crush relations – Putin admits
NBC NEWS 9 – 6 – 12 Russia’s Putin: Romney ’mistaken,’ Obama ’honest’, http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/06/13705323-russias-putin-romney-mistaken-obama-honest-http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/06/13705323-russias-putin-romney-mistaken-obama-honest President Vladimir Putin said in an interview aired … is in part...campaign rhetoric, but I think it is, of course, without a doubt mistaken," Putin said. Romney’s comment already impacted relations – his winning is irrelevant
ABC NEWS 9 – 11 – 12 Putin Thanks Romney for Calling Russia No. 1 Foe, http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/putin-thanks-romney-for-calling-russia-no-1-foe/-http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/09/putin-thanks-romney-for-calling-russia-no-1-foe/ Russian President Vladimir Putin said today that Mitt … Nikolic, according to Interfax news agency. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: FORTIER %26 ORNSTEIN 07 1. Research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute 2. resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute ~John C. Fortier %26 Norman J. Ornstein, "Second Term Blues", Brookings Institute, pages 122-123~ Bush’s Concept of Leadership
The Bush concept of leadership stresses an executive style that has …: I won. You lost. That’s behind us. Let’s get down to work on the winning program – mine. Election wins and the size of victory impact the amount of capitalMORGAN 3 – 12 – 12 Host of Moneytalk ~Tom Morgan, Political capital, http://www.evesun.com/news/stories/2012-03-12/14376/Political-capital/-http://www.evesun.com/news/stories/2012-03-12/14376/Political-capital/~~ Sometimes watching a president is like … understand his situation. Many of them will call it his predicament. DAYEN 9 – 21 – 12 Fire Dog Lake Staff ~David Dayen, Farm Bill Set to Expire as Congress Leaves for Elections, http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/09/21/farm-bill-set-to-expire-as-congress-leaves-for-elections/~~ Today is the last day of the legislative session … an extension, this means that the current farm bill will expire on September 30. National Journal 9/20 ~Executive Insight Briefing, http://www.nationaljournal.com/membership/document/download/3691~~ Hill Has Empty Calendar Until November
Both chambers of Congress have …major action until after the election. Security overwhelms economics. This puts you in a nasty double bind —- either we resolve NMD, and that solves relations, or we don’t, and that overwhelms Jackson Vanik.
Alexey Pilko, 3/23/2012. Research Fellow, Department of Modern and Contemporary History of European and American Countries, Moscow State University. "Russia and the US: another chance?" Voice of Russia, http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_03_23/69371356/-http://english.ruvr.ru/2012_03_23/69371356/. Russian President-Elect Vladimir Putin would meet US …deteriorate. And their prospects remain unclear. E. Wayne Merry, 3/15/2012. Former State Department and Pentagon official, is senior fellow for Europe and Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council. "Retire the ’reset’ with Russia," The Washington Times, http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/mar/15/retire-the-reset-with-russia/. Russia lacks effective influence in either Iran or North … with Moscow, but rather balanced and realistic normal relations. Winners win – Obama needs to stand up to the GOP
Blow 9-9 ~Charles, writer for the NYT, Rise of the Fallen? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/opinion/blow-rise-of-the-fallen.html~~
So why does it feel as if we’ve been here before? Why does … the middle: you take fire from both sides. Capital irrelevant
Dickinson 09 professor of political science at Middlebury College and taught previously at Harvard University where he worked under the supervision of presidential scholar Richard Neustadt
(5/26/09, Matthew, Presidential Power: A NonPartisan Analysis of Presidential Politics, "Sotomayor, Obama and Presidential Power," http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/05/26/sotamayor-obama-and-presidential-power/-http://blogs.middlebury.edu/presidentialpower/2009/05/26/sotamayor-obama-and-presidential-power/)
As for Sotomayor, from here the path toward almost …). His real influence has already occurred, in the decision to present Sotomayor as his nominee. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Oil also causes this stuff Danko 6/27/12 (Pete, ¶ What the frack? Natural Gas Producer Buys into Solar¶ http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/06/what-the-frack-natural-gas-producer-buys-into-solar/-http://www.earthtechling.com/2012/06/what-the-frack-natural-gas-producer-buys-into-solar/)
Consol Energy, which produces billions of gallons of … into distilled water, "safe for consumption," Epiphany says. Romm 12 - Senior Fellow @ American Progress ~Dr. Joe Romm-http://thinkprogress.org/author/joe/ (Ph.D. in physics from MIT), "Natural Gas Is A Bridge To Nowhere — Absent a Serious Price for Global Warming Pollution-http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/01/24/407765/natural-gas-is-a-bridge-to-nowhere-price-for-global-warming-pollution/," Think Progress, Jan 24, 2012 at 2:30 pm, Pg. http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/01/24/407765/natural-gas-is-a-bridge-to-nowhere-price-for-global-warming-pollution/~~ Building lots of new gas plants doesn’t make much … meeting a near-term CO2 target in the U.S. in the context of a rising CO2 price. Golts 12 - Deputy editor of the online newspaper Yezhednevny Zhurnal ~Alexander Golts, "Why Pussy Riot Is Scarier Than a Nuclear Attack," The Moscow Times, 28 August 2012 pg. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/why-pussy-riot-is-scarier-than-a-nuclear-attack/467189.html~~%23ixzz26at6vIVA-http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/why-pussy-riot-is-scarier-than-a-nuclear-attack/467189.html The answer to his question is clear: With the process of globalization … Kremlin could act irrationally in the international arena. Greenstone 12 – Professor of Environmental Economics @ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ~Dr. Michael Greenstone (Former chief economist @ White House’s Council of Economic Advisers anf PhD in economics from Princeton University), "The True Costs of Alternative Energy Sources: Are We Unfairly Penalizing Natural Gas?," U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee • April 26, 2012 • pg. http://www.hamiltonproject.org/speeches_and_testimony/the_true_costs_of_alternative_energy_sources_are_we_unfairly_penalizin/ Some existing U.S. policies aim to correct externalities in energy … emissions, and fairness would dictate that both should receive equal subsidies. Brezinski ’5 (Zbigniew, National Security Adviser under the Carter Administration, US Russia: Zbigniew Brzezinski Assesses US Russia Relations, Radio Free America. 11 May 2005. http://www.rferl.org/feat uresarticle/2005/05/b62307e1-832c-4fbc-ab91-ba8fa7a0eb24.html) There can be no cold war because Russia is in no position to …cannot be corrected for them by the Americans |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Greenstone et al 12 – Professor of Environmental Economics @ the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ~Dr. Michael Greenstone (Former chief economist @ White House’s Council of Economic Advisers anf PhD in economics from Princeton University), Dmitri Koustas (Senior Research Assistant @ The Hamilton Project), Karen Li (Research Assistant @ The Hamilton Project), Adam Looney (Policy Director @ The Hamilton Project %26 Senior Fellow @ The Brookings Institution), %26 Harrison Marks (Intern @ The Hamilton Project), "Energy Policy Opportunities and Continuing Challenges in the Presence of Increased Supplies of Natural Gas and Petroleum," The Hamilton Project, Framing Memo | June 2012 The increased ability to recover ..increased natural gas availability. Pg. 7 / 4. They can’t solve for Iranian oil leverage – China, Japan and India are buying more of itMurphy 7/22/12 ~BRIAN MURPHY, "Iran clings to Asian oil market as sanctions bite, "Associated Press, Aug 22, 2012, pg. http://tinyurl.com/9lbgg2e DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — When Iran … South Asian analyst for IHS Energy in London. Pawlak %26 Moffett 9/7/12 ~Justyna Pawlak %26 Sebastian Moffett, "France, Britain, Germany urge more EU Iran sanctions," Reuters, PAPHOS, Cyprus | Fri Sep 7, 2012 2:52pm EDT , pg. http://tinyurl.com/9vzlg4m (Reuters) - European Union heavyweights Britain.. of a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Cyprus. 7. No Mideast war – Iran, Iraq and Saudis lack the requisite military to be aggressiveGholz %26 Press 10 - Professor of public affairs @ University of Texas-Austin %26 Professor of government @ Dartmouth University ~Eugene Gholz %26 Daryl G. Press, "Protecting "The Prize": Oil and the U.S. National Interest," Security Studies, 19:453–485, 2010 The majority of the world’s oil reserves appear to be located in the … because it might launch a bid for hegemony. Pg. 474-476 |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Banoni et al 4/23/12 (Vanessa A Banoni*†, Aldo Arnone†, Maria Fondeur†, Annabel Hodge†, J P Offner† and Jordan K Phillips, The place of solar power: an economic analysis of concentrated and distributed solar power, Chemistry Central Journal 2012, 6(Suppl 1):S6 doi:10.1186/1752-153X-6-S1-S6 http://journal.chemistrycentral.com/content/6/S1/S6) As to policy implications, given current levels … would receive a much higher return. WNA 2008 ~World Nuclear Association June 2008 Safety of Nuclear Power Reactors http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf06.html~~ It has long been asserted that nuclear reactor accidents are the .. than those from other industrial and energy sources. Experience bears this out. Svoboda ’10 (Elizabeth, Popular Mechanics, "Debunking the Top 10 Energy Myths", 7-7, http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/debunking-myths-about-nuclear-fuel-coal-wind-solar)
Myth No. 1 Nuclear Power Isn’t a Safe Solution In a recent … could potentially supply nearly all the energy the United States needs, reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. No impact to science diplomacy
Dickson 9 ~David, Direction Science %26 Development Network. June 2, 2009, "Science diplomacy: the case for caution", http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/category/new- frontiers-in-science-diplomacy-2009-http://scidevnet.wordpress.com/category/new- frontiers-in-science-diplomacy-2009, SM~ One of the frustrations of meetings at …, particularly in the developing world – were also clearly exposed. Recent budgets terminally destroyed science leadership – full spectrum cuts destroys US ability to compete scientifically
Orbach, 11 – Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin and served as Under Secretary for Science in the United States DOE ~Raymond L. Orbach, Director, Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin, "Research Vital to Economic Growth", http://www.energy.utexas.edu/index.php?option=com_content%26view=article%26id=100:research-vital-to-economic-growth%26catid=32:editorials%26Itemid=47, SM~ It was with a mixture of astonishment and dismay … and prosperity for future generations of Americans. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Sampson ’12 (President and CEO of the Property Casualty Insurers Association, David, 04/16, "Property Casualty Insurance: A Case Study in Federalism," http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/economic-intelligence/2012/04/16/property-casualty-insurance—a-case-study-in-federalism) Recently, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the … to a federal bureaucracy in Washington. ====No impact to federalism==== Blackmun ’85 (Former Supreme Court Justice, Harry, 02/19, Opinion of the Court, Garcia v. San Antonio Transit Authority, No. 82-1913, 469 U.S. 528, http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0469_0528_ZO.html) Of course, we continue to recognize that … for a reasoned disposition of the kind of controversy now before the Court. Cyberterrorism is ineffective and terrorists don’t want to use itMiora ’3 (Michael, CEO and founder of ContingenZ Corp, 25 years of experience in the security industry, consultation to the National Reconnaissance Office, August 1, 2003 Entrepreneur, No. 8, Vol. 31, interviewed by Geoff Williams, "Threat level: low; this CEO doesn’t worry about cyberterrorism—and he says you shouldn’t, either," p. 28, PDNSS4065) SARS. THE FLUCTUATING ECONOMY. Frightening stuff. But cyberterrorism? …while eluding capture is very difficult. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: No transition wars
D. Scott Bennett and Timothy Nordstrom, February 2000. Department of Political Science Professors at Pennsylvania State. "Foreign Policy Substitutability and Internal Economic Problems in Enduring Rivalries," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Ebsco. In this analysis, we focus on using economic …research design that can account for substitutability between them. Prices up – natural gas not key – transmission lines, transporation costs, heat wave
Fahey 12 ("Electricity Prices Rise Despite Cheaper Costs For Utility Companies," 7/11 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/11/electric-prices-rise-despite-cheap-production_n_1665946.html)
A plunge in the price of natural gas has … retail electricity price has been drifting mostly lower since 1984, when it was 16.7 cents per kilowatt-hour Be skeptical of their link evidence
REM 8/23/12 (CSP Today releases new LCOE data for solar thermal electric plants http://www.renewableenergymagazine.com/article/csp-today-releases-new-lcoe-data-for-20120823
CSP Today’s CSP Parabolic Trough and the CSP … whether or not to back future projects using this technological solution. Not expensive
REM 2/1/11 (CSP vs PV solar thermal gaining on photovoltaics
http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/02/csp-vs-pv-solar-thermal-gaining-on-photovoltaics-http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2011/02/csp-vs-pv-solar-thermal-gaining-on-photovoltaics
February 2, 2011 - BUSINESS WIRE — Despite … the pack on LCOE due to relatively high capex and mediocre performance. Natural gas is not key- shipping and chinese labor costs are
Reuters 9/12/12 (By Scott Malone¶ Costs pushing U.S. metal, chemical makers homeward-study* High shipping costs make Asian factories less attractive¶ * Cheaper U.S. natural gas also a factor¶ * Changing energy prices "game-changing," consultant says¶ http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/12/usa-manufacturing-shipping-idUSL1E8KBALH20120912¶ Wed Sep 12, 2012 12:00am EDT¶
BOSTON, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Makers of metal industrial components … was a change from 2006, when China was 3.6 percent cheaper. Payne 2008 (Sarah Payne and Tony Dutzik, On the Rise Solar Thermal Power and the Fight Against Global Warming Environment America Research %26 Policy Center Bernadette Del Chiaro Environment California Research %26 Policy Center Frontier Group Spring 2008) Job Creation and Economic Benefits
New solar thermal …n to the Gross State
Product.100 |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Pittock, 10—led the Climate Impact Group in CSIRO until his retirement in 1999. He contributed to or was the lead author of all four major reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He was awarded a Public Service Medal in 1999 and is CSIRO Honorary Fellow. (Barrie, Climate Change: The Science, Impacts, and Solutions, 2010, pg. 326) It is absolutely crucial that options for reducing …, together we can do it. We owe that, at least, to our children. Their agency arguments are utopian and can’t do anything about violence
Jarvis, 02
(Terry , lecturer in the school of International Relations at the University of South Australia, International Relations and the third debate, ed: Jarvis, 2002, p. 79-80)
Moving beyond realism, for George, also suggests the possibility of moving … pursuit of those ends he otherwise champions. He does neither. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Loan guarantees key to solve
Caperton, Director of Clean Energy Investment at American Progress, 7/12/12 (Richard W., The American Energy Initiative: A Focus on the ’No More Solyndras Act’ Testimony Submitted to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/07/12/11876/the-american-energy-initiative-a-focus-on-the-no-more-solyndras-act/-http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/07/12/11876/the-american-energy-initiative-a-focus-on-the-no-more-solyndras-act/
Why does the loan guarantee program exist?
Right now, innovative companies—the key to our … important industrial sector alive during very challenging times. 4. Market signals fail to solve climate – timescale and information deficits are too large.
Rasmus KARLSSON Poli Sci @ Lund ’9 "A global Fordian compromise?—And what it would mean
for the transition to sustainability" Envt’l Science and Policy 12 p. 195
First, a liberal economist would argue that beneficial as global free …the overall integrity of the economic system. Pollin 12 ~Robert, Department of Economics and Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), University of Massachusetts-Amherst, "Public policy, community ownership and clean energy," 3-19, Cambridge J Regions Econ Soc~The historic severity of the 2008–2009 Great …. These include lower cost-of-capital, increased public support and electricity price stability. Writing in the Washington Post a couple weeks ago, Jeffrey Leonard …dominance of traditional fossil fuels against their competitors. Fettweis 11—Professor of Poli Sci @ Tulane University ~Christopher J. Fettweis, "The Superpower as Superhero: Hubris in U.S. Foreign Policy," Paper prepared for presentation at the 2011 meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1-4, Seattle, WA, September 2011, pg. http://ssrn.com/abstract=1902154~~ The final and in some ways most important pathological …of the United States would be a lot better off as well. |
| 09/30/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Fed key
Caperton, Director of Clean Energy Investment at American Progress, 7/12/12 (Richard W., The American Energy Initiative: A Focus on the ’No More Solyndras Act’ Testimony Submitted to the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee on Energy and Power and Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/07/12/11876/the-american-energy-initiative-a-focus-on-the-no-more-solyndras-act/-http://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/green/report/2012/07/12/11876/the-american-energy-initiative-a-focus-on-the-no-more-solyndras-act/ Why does the loan guarantee program … tools that don’t exist in many states. AT: STATES
Griffith and Caperton 5/14/12 (John and Richard, John Griffith is a Policy Analyst with the Economic Policy team at the Center for American Progress. Richard Caperton is the Director of Clean Energy Investment at the Center. This piece was originally published at the Center for American Progress. Federal Loans %26 Loan Guarantees — Huge Benefit, Low %26 Predictable Cost (New Analysis) http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/14/federal-loans-loan-guarantees-huge-benefit-low-predictable-cost-new-analysis/) The federal government is in a unique position ..proven to be a safe and responsible lender. Federal incentives key
McCue 6/13/12 (Dan, US correspondent, US CSP: A shrinking violet?, http://social.csptoday.com/markets/us-csp-shrinking-violet-http://social.csptoday.com/markets/us-csp-shrinking-violet)
After a dazzling comeback, the US …Associate Director of Solar Research at IHS, the technology research company |
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| 10/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States. Advantage 1 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Archer and Rahmstorf, 10—*a professor of Geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, has published over 70 scientific papers on a wide range of topics on the carbon cycle and its relation to global warming professor of Physics of the oceans, and head of the department at the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (David and Stefan, The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Page 66) So what are the results? Those studies analyzing global temperature … climate in a profound way. The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions ~Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA %26 Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), "Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions," Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration-http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration~~ And I also want to discuss one of the most promising technologies … to visit the website, www.neori.org, for more on the recommendations we have made. Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy ~Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), "ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE," University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937 Top coal producing nations, including the United States, China, and India… international community recognizes it must address with alacrity. 1ac AND, reducing CO2 key to prevent a tipping point
Hansen et al 10 – Director of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies ~Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Makiko Sato (Physicist @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. Pushker Kharecha (Researcher of earch sciences and astrobiology @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. David Beerling (Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences @ University of Sheffield), Dr. Robert Berner (Professor Geology and Geophysics @ Yale University), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (Lab. Des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines), Dr. Mark Pagani (Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology @ Yale University), Dr. Maureen Raymo (Paleoclimatologist/marine geologist @ Boston University), Dr. Dana L. Royer (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Wesleyan University) %26 Dr. James C. Zachos ( Professor of Earth %26 Planetary Sciences @ University of California – Santa Cruzo) "Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?" Open Atmos. Sci. J. (2008), vol. 2, pp. 217-231 Realization that today’s climate is far out of equilibrium … could be out of humanity’s control. Three internal links—
First, establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz %26 Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology %26 Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin ~Ernest J. Moniz %26 Scott W. Tinker "Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration," An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010 Wealth creation from expanded use of CO2 for EOR can serve as … and the rents associated with oil production are shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 1ac Second, our incentive results in negative emissions
Ricci %26 Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans %26 Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech ~Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) %26 Sandrine Selosse, "Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage," Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03 4. Discussion
This paper is devoted to discussing the global and regional potential of the CCS …processes and procedures have to be thought and determined in the design of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac Three, we get china on board
Gardner, 11 (Timothy, December 11, 2011, "Using Oil to Reduce Carbon Emissions," http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1) WASHINGTON — As futuristic projects designed to … framework to enable this technology." Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center ~Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) "Conquering Climate Change," The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian extinction, a number of chain reaction events….forecasts sound, they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac AND, ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 2-18-10 ~Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, "Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred" http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/~~%23more-19529-http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/~~ Marine life face some of the worst impacts…. we depend on that life — the time to start slashing carbon dioxide emissions is now. Methane release kills all of humanity
Ferguson 12 ~Michael, "Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?," August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html-http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html~~ I came across a news report back in December that stopped me in my tracks.2 … report on Eastern Siberia is of grave concern. Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 ~Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack "Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive-http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html," 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html-http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html~~ Recent research suggests that the size of the ocean itself …to induce. We, as a society, are not." Positive feedbacks predominate —- vapor, vegetation, and outgassing amplify warming
Hansen in ’8
(James, Director @ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Prof. Earth and Env. Sci. @ Columbia U. Earth Institute, "Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist", http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Hansen_1.pdf-http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Hansen_1.pdf) Earth is heated by sunlight and, in balance, reaches a … forcings, such as slight changes in the tilt of Earth’s axis.2 Advantage 2 is China Lack of cooperation on oil production is fueling a strategic rivalry between China and the US is every region of the worldHerberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego ~Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), "China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations," New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations~~
Competing Visions of Energy Security
On the vexing challenge of energy security there remains a major … same time aggravating energy security fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force ~John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois %26 MBA from Washington University), "A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China," Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781-http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781~~
To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon capture costs?
There’s where we think China comes in. China has very low‑….CCS technology with little or no subsidies, and no price on carbon. Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute ~Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), "For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration," Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php~~ All these factors combined call into question the Chinese central … that might otherwise have to wait for a more comprehensive climate policy. 1ac Zha %26 Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University %26 Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong ~Zha Daojiong %26 Hu Weixing, "Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington," Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115 Policy dialogues are certainly useful. Yet, as is true of ….cooperation in the spirit of partnership can help improve the status quo. Pg. 112-115 Glaser, 12— a senior fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Bonnie, Armed Clash in the South China Sea, April 2012, http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883)-http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883) The risk of conflict in the South China Sea … of this agreement remains to be seen, but for now tensions appear to be defused. Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel ~Max Fisher, "5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War," The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm~~
Neither the U.S. nor China has any interest in any kind of war with one … deal on what kind of groundwork the U.S. and China can lay now. Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. ~Lawrence S. Wittner, "Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?," Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446~~ While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used. … the world, they should be working to encourage these policies. India and China risk warPant, 12—teaches at King’s College London in the Department of Defence Studies and is an Associate with the King’s Centre of Science and Security Studies. Recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His research is focused on Asia-Pacific security issues (Harsh V., South China Sea: New Arena of Sino-Indian Rivalry , August 2nd, 2012, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/south-china-sea-new-arena-sino-indian-rivalry-http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/south-china-sea-new-arena-sino-indian-rivalry) LONDON: While the world focuses on the rising tension … realistically with appropriate resources and capabilities. Caryl 10 ~Christian, Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the editor of Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab website, "Don’t Even Think About It," 7-13, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/13/dont_even_think_about_it?page=0,1-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/13/dont_even_think_about_it?page=0,1~ China and India have built up a %2460-billion-per-year trading ….tensions can spiral out of control." You can say that again. Oil fuels conflict over the senkaku islandsRamzy, 12 (Austin, Beijing correspondent for TIME. "Tensions with Japan Increase as China Sends Patrol Boats to Disputed Islands." TIME, September 14, 2012. http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/-http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/.) The standoff between China and Japan over a group of …. fishing boat captain, triggered broad protest in China, and it likely will again this year. Tatlow 9/14/12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. "Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute." The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/-http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.)
BEIJING - It has all the ingredients of a future tragedy, …. deputy minister of commerce, Jiang Zengwei, said on Thursday that economic and trade ties could be affected by the dispute, Reuters reported. Oil cooperation is key to institution building and regionalismJianxing, ’6 ~Dr. Zhang Jianxin Associate Professor, Institute of International and Public Affairs Shanghai Jiaotong University. "Oil Security Reshapes China’s Foreign Policy". Center on China’s Transnational Relations, Working Paper No. 9. http://www.cctr.ust.hk/materials/working_papers/WorkingPaper9.pdf~~
5）Participate and improve international institutions. Keep …. in contemporary East Asian regionalism share much in common. Key to solve transnational security threats and nuclear warSwanstrom 5 ~Niklas, *Program Director of the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute and Silk Road Studies Program. He is also editor for the China-Eurasia Forum Quarterly. He holds a Ph.D. and a Licentiate degree from Uppsala University and a MALD degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, USA. Dr. Swanström’s specialization is conflict management, security issues, and negotiations in Central and Northeast Asia, as well as Chinese foreign policy, "CONFLICT PREVENTION AND CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NORTHEAST ASIA", 2005, http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2005_swanstrom-ed_book_conflict-prevention-and-conflict-management.pdf-http://www.isdp.eu/images/stories/isdp-main-pdf/2005_swanstrom-ed_book_conflict-prevention-and-conflict-management.pdf~~
After the end of the Cold War, states, regional and international ….e level), but more research is needed on this issue before any conclusions can be drawn. Every impact – including democracy, Korean war, disease, terrorism, and the environmentFrost, ’8 ~Dr. Ellen L Frost is a visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and an adjunct research fellow at the National Defense University’s Institute of National Strategic Studies. "Asia’s New Regionalism". https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47e2d7961e70a.pdf-https://www.rienner.com/uploads/47e2d7961e70a.pdf~~
Fifth, a new power—China—is arising in Asia, altering the … prosperous, just, and stable world order? Diamond 95—Director at The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law @ Stanford and Senior Fellow @ The Hoover Institution ~Larry, "Promoting Democracy in the 1990s," http://carnegie.org/fileadmin/Media/Publications/PDF/Promoting%20Democracy%20in%20the%201990s%20Actors%20and%20Instruments,%20Issues%20and%20Imperatives.pdf~ This hardly exhausts the lists of threats to our security and …international security and prosperity can be built. Korea war goes global and nuclearSTRATFOR 10 (5/26/10, "North Korea, South Korea: The Military Balance on the Peninsula," http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100526_north_korea_south_korea_military_balance_peninsula-http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20100526_north_korea_south_korea_military_balance_peninsula, JMP)
So the real issue is the potential for escalation — or an accident that … might be if the situation escalates much further. Pandemics cause extinctionSteinbruner 98 - Senior Fellow at Brookings Institution ~John D., "Biological weapons: A plague upon all houses," Foreign Policy, Dec 22,A~
It s a considerable comfort and undoubtedly a key to our … health, but a fundamental security problem for the species as a whole. Toon et al 7 – Owen B. Toon, chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at CU-Boulder, et al., April 19, 2007, "Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism," online: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf-http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf
To an increasing extent, people are congregating in the world’s … carried out as well for the present scenarios and physical outcomes. Philippine Star, 2008 ~Citing Rodrigo Fuentes, director of The Asean Center for Biodiversity, 4/21/2008. "Biodiversity in region endangered," BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific – Political, http://www.philstar.com/Article.aspx?articleId=57404~~
He even warned that biodiversity in the region could …arge-scale mining, and agricultural expansion Contention 3 is solvency
Linking CO2 capture with oil production spurs a carbon market that meets unmet demand
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?" September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1-http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) As the thinking goes, EOR could provide a huge new … something going on in the middle there. It’s not clear to me what that is." Current efforts for EOR are not good enough because of scope and source—CO2 EOR is critical
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?" September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1-http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1) A key carbon-cutting technology may have met its savior: … the price ~of CO2~ isn’t too steep," Melzer said. |
| 10/27/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Plan
The United States federal government should provide a tax credit for enhanced oil recovery that uses industrial carbon dioxide in the United States.
Warming Adv
Advantage 1 – Warming
Its real and anthropogenic
Archer and Rahmstorf, 10—*a professor of Geophysical sciences at the University of Chicago, has published over 70 scientific papers on a wide range of topics on the carbon cycle and its relation to global warming professor of Physics of the oceans, and head of the department at the Postdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (David and Stefan, The Climate Crisis: An Introductory Guide to Climate Change, Cambridge University Press, Page 66)
So what are the results? Those studies analyzing global temperature … climate in a profound way.
The credit stimulates a carbon market – results in carbon capture and storage
Claussen 12 – President of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions Eileen Claussen (Former Director of the Office of Atmospheric Programs @ EPA %26 Former Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs), "Speech: Utilizing CCS to Reduce Emissions," Keynote speech at the 11th Annual Conference on Carbon Capture, Utilization and Sequestration, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 1, 2012, pg. http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration-http://www.c2es.org/press-center/speech/claussen-carbon-capture-sequestration~~
And I also want to discuss one of the most promising technologies … to visit the website, www.neori.org, for more on the recommendations we have made.
Only CCS can mitigate extreme warming
Der 10 - Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy @ U.S. Department of Energy Dr. Victor K. Der (Former Director of the Office of Clean Energy Systems where he directed large-scale demonstration programs, including the Clean Coal Technology Demonstration program, the Power Plant Improvement Initiative, the Clean Coal Power Initiative, and FutureGen, a program for near-zero coal emissions. PhD in Mechanical Engineering from University of Maryland), "ARTICLE: CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE: AN OPTION FOR HELPING TO MEET GROWING GLOBAL ENERGY DEMAND WHILE COUNTERING CLIMATE CHANGE," University of Richmond Law Review, March 2010, 44 U. Rich. L. Rev. 937
Top coal producing nations, including the United States, China, and India… international community recognizes it must address with alacrity. 1ac
AND, reducing CO2 key to prevent a tipping point
Hansen et al 10 – Director of NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies Dr. James Hansen, Dr. Makiko Sato (Physicist @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. Pushker Kharecha (Researcher of earch sciences and astrobiology @ NASA/Goddard Institute for Space Studies), Dr. David Beerling (Professor of Animal and Plant Sciences @ University of Sheffield), Dr. Robert Berner (Professor Geology and Geophysics @ Yale University), Valerie Masson-Delmotte (Lab. Des Sciences du Climat et l’Environnement/Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, CEA-CNRS-Universite de Versailles Saint-Quentin en Yvelines), Dr. Mark Pagani (Professor of paleoceanography and paleoclimatology @ Yale University), Dr. Maureen Raymo (Paleoclimatologist/marine geologist @ Boston University), Dr. Dana L. Royer (Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences @ Wesleyan University) %26 Dr. James C. Zachos ( Professor of Earth %26 Planetary Sciences @ University of California – Santa Cruzo) "Target atmospheric CO2: Where should humanity aim?" Open Atmos. Sci. J. (2008), vol. 2, pp. 217-231
Realization that today’s climate is far out of equilibrium … could be out of humanity’s control.
Three internal links—
First, establishing a market incentive solves
Moniz %26 Tinker 10 – Professor of Physics and Engineering Systems @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology %26 Director of the Bureau of Economic Geology @ University of Texas at Austin Ernest J. Moniz %26 Scott W. Tinker "Role of Enhanced Oil Recovery in Accelerating the Deployment of Carbon Capture and Sequestration," An MIT Energy Initiative and Bureau of Economic Geology at UT Austin Symposium, July 23, 2010
Wealth creation from expanded use of CO2 for EOR can serve as … and the rents associated with oil production are shared with upstream CO2 suppliers. Pg. 19-20 1ac
Second, our incentive results in negative emissions
Ricci %26 Selosse 11 – Lecturer of Environmental Economics @ Université d’Orléans %26 Researcher in the Centre for Applied Mathematics @ MINES ParisTech Dr. Olivia Ricci (PhD in Energy and Environmental Economics from Université d’Orléans, France) %26 Sandrine Selosse, "Global and regional potential for bioelectricity with carbon capture and storage," Les Cahiers de la Chaire Modélisation, Working Paper N° 2011-03
4. Discussion
This paper is devoted to discussing the global and regional potential of the CCS …processes and procedures have to be thought and determined in the design of future energy policies. Pg. 12-14 1ac
Three, we get china on board
Gardner, 11 (Timothy, December 11, 2011, "Using Oil to Reduce Carbon Emissions," http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1-http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/12/business/global/12iht-green12.html?_r=1)
WASHINGTON — As futuristic projects designed to … framework to enable this technology."
Failure risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) "Conquering Climate Change," The Futurist, May-June, 2010
During the Permian extinction, a number of chain reaction events….forecasts sound, they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac
AND, ocean acidification causes extinction
Romm 2-18-10 Dr. Joseph Romm is the editor of Climate Progress and a Senior Fellow at the American Progress, Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy during the Clinton Administration, PhD in Physics from MIT, "Nature Geoscience study: Oceans are acidifying 10 times faster today than 55 million years ago when a mass extinction of marine species occurred" http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/~~%23more-19529-http://climateprogress.org/2010/02/18/ocean-acidification-study-mass-extinction-of-marine-life-nature-geoscience/~~
Marine life face some of the worst impacts…. we depend on that life — the time to start slashing carbon dioxide emissions is now.
Methane release kills all of humanity
Ferguson 12 Michael, "Global Warming: An Impending Catastrophe?," August, http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html-http://michaelfergusonforallevents.blogspot.com/2012/08/global-warming-impending-catastrophe.html~~
I came across a news report back in December that stopped me in my tracks.2 … report on Eastern Siberia is of grave concern.
Sea level rise causes extinction
Sato 8 Rebecca, Contributing Editor at DailyGalaxy.com, former Head Writer at Freedom FastTrack "Can Changes in Sea Level Cause Periods of Mass Extinction?—A Galaxy Exclusive-http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html," 6-19, http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html-http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2008/06/changes-in-sea.html~~
Recent research suggests that the size of the ocean itself …to induce. We, as a society, are not."
Positive feedbacks predominate —- vapor, vegetation, and outgassing amplify warming
Hansen in ’8
(James, Director @ NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Adjunct Prof. Earth and Env. Sci. @ Columbia U. Earth Institute, "Tipping Point: Perspective of a Climatologist", http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Hansen_1.pdf-http://pubs.giss.nasa.gov/docs/2008/2008_Hansen_1.pdf)
Earth is heated by sunlight and, in balance, reaches a … forcings, such as slight changes in the tilt of Earth’s axis.2
Oil Adv
Advantage 2 is China
Lack of cooperation on oil production is fueling a strategic rivalry between China and the US is every region of the world
Herberg 11 - Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Pacific Studies @ University of California–San Diego Dr. Mikkal E. Herberg (Research Director on Asian energy security at the National Bureau of Asian Research), "China’s Energy Rise and the Future of U.S.-China Energy Relations," New America Foundation, June 21, 2011 |pg. http://newamerica.net/publications/policy/china_s_energy_rise_and_the_future_of_us_china_energy_relations~~
Competing Visions of Energy Security
On the vexing challenge of energy security there remains a major … same time aggravating energy security fears and distrust of key nearby powers. 1ac Global governance prevents conflict escalation. Only the AFF can access a large war impact
Wright 10 - Executive director of studies @ The Chicago Council on Global Affairs Thomas Wright (Lecturer of Public Policy @ University of Chicago), “Strategic Engagement’s Track Record,” The Washington Quarterly • JULY 2010, 33:3 pp. 35_60 The obstacles to a new ....‘legitimate’ international orders.49 pg. 54 Global governance prevents extinction
Farer and Sisk 10 – Dean of the School of International Studies @ University of Denver and Professor of international and comparative politics @ University of Denver Tom Farer (Former president of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS), Former special assistant to the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, and Former senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and Timothy D. Sisk (Director of the Center for Sustainable Development and International Peace (SDIP) and Associate fellow of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy), “Enhancing International Cooperation: Between History and Necessity,” Global Governance 16 (2010), 1–12 Among scholars, practitioners, and political leaders ... and morally tolerable form. Three internal links—
First, tech swaps provide sufficient backing for US incentives
Thompson 12 – Director of the Coal Transition Project @ Clean Air Task Force John Thompson (BS degree in chemical engineering from the University of Illinois %26 MBA from Washington University), "A recipe to jumpstart CCS in the US – the rewards of collaborating with China," Interviewed by: Adam Aston | Global CCS Institute, January 11, 2012, pg. http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781-http://www.adamaston.com/?p=781~~ To spur EOR, how can we bring down carbon capture costs?
There’s where we think China comes in. China has very low‑….CCS technology with little or no subsidies, and no price on carbon.
Second, EOR lays a fundamental framework for other energy policies
Logan et al. 07 – Senior associate @ World Resources Institute Logan, Joanna Lewis (Senior international fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change), and Michael B. Cummings (JD candidate @ Georgetown University and former Business/Solutions Fellow @ Pew Center on Global Climate Change), "For China, the shift to climate-friendly energy depends on international collaboration," Boston Review, January/February 2007, pg. http://bostonreview.net/BR32.1/loganlewiscummings.php~~
All these factors combined call into question the Chinese central … that might otherwise have to wait for a more comprehensive climate policy. 1ac
Third, the plan is a key confidence building measure
Zha %26 Hu 07 – Professor of International Studies @ Renmin University %26 Professor of Politics @ University of Hong Kong Zha Daojiong %26 Hu Weixing, "Promoting Energy Partnership in Beijing and Washington," Washington Quarterly • 30:4 Autumn 2007, pp.105–115
Policy dialogues are certainly useful. Yet, as is true of ….cooperation in the spirit of partnership can help improve the status quo. Pg. 112-115
Scenario 1 is oil nationalism:
Oil insecurity is fueling a naval arms race in the South China Sea
Glaser, 12— a senior fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (Bonnie, Armed Clash in the South China Sea, April 2012, http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883)-http://www.cfr.org/east-asia/armed-clash-south-china-sea/p27883)
The risk of conflict in the South China Sea … of this agreement remains to be seen, but for now tensions appear to be defused.
The situation will spiral out of control
Fisher 11 – Associate editor at The Atlantic, where he edits the International channel Max Fisher, "5 Most Likely Ways the U.S. and China Could Spark Accidental Nuclear War," The Atlantic, Oct 31 2011, 1:49 PM ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/6nh9yjm~~
Neither the U.S. nor China has any interest in any kind of war with one … deal on what kind of groundwork the U.S. and China can lay now.
Extinction
Wittner 11 - Professor of History @ State University of New York-Albany. Lawrence S. Wittner, "Is a Nuclear War with China Possible?," Huntington News, Monday, November 28, 2011 - 18:37 pg. http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446~~
While nuclear weapons exist, there remains a danger that they will be used. … the world, they should be working to encourage these policies.
India and China risk war
Pant, 12—teaches at King’s College London in the Department of Defence Studies and is an Associate with the King’s Centre of Science and Security Studies. Recently, he has been a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. His research is focused on Asia-Pacific security issues (Harsh V., South China Sea: New Arena of Sino-Indian Rivalry , August 2nd, 2012, http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/south-china-sea-new-arena-sino-indian-rivalry-http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/south-china-sea-new-arena-sino-indian-rivalry)
LONDON: While the world focuses on the rising tension … realistically with appropriate resources and capabilities.
Nuclear escalation
Caryl 10 Christian, Senior Fellow at the Legatum Institute and the editor of Foreign Policy’s Democracy Lab website, "Don’t Even Think About It," 7-13, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/13/dont_even_think_about_it?page=0,1-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/07/13/dont_even_think_about_it?page=0,1
China and India have built up a %2460-billion-per-year trading ….tensions can spiral out of control." You can say that again.
Oil fuels conflict over the senkaku islands
Ramzy, 12 (Austin, Beijing correspondent for TIME. "Tensions with Japan Increase as China Sends Patrol Boats to Disputed Islands." TIME, September 14, 2012. http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/-http://world.time.com/2012/09/14/tensions-with-japan-increase-as-china-sends-patrol-boats-to-disputed-islands/.)
The standoff between China and Japan over a group of …. fishing boat captain, triggered broad protest in China, and it likely will again this year.
Nuclear war
Tatlow 9/14/12 (Didi Kirsten, China columnist for the International Herald Tribune. "Rising Tension — and Stakes — in Japan-China Island Dispute." The New York Times, September 14, 2012. http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/-http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/14/rising-tension-and-stakes-in-japan-china-island-dispute/.)
BEIJING - It has all the ingredients of a future tragedy, …. deputy minister of commerce, Jiang Zengwei, said on Thursday that economic and trade ties could be affected by the dispute, Reuters reported.
Solvency
Contention 3 is solvency
Linking CO2 capture with oil production spurs a carbon market that meets unmet demand
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?" September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1-http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1)
As the thinking goes, EOR could provide a huge new … something going on in the middle there. It’s not clear to me what that is."
Current efforts for EOR are not good enough because of scope and source—CO2 EOR is critical
Rahim, 12 (Saqib, ENERGY POLICY: Could oil recovery create a market for carbon capture?" September 24th, 2012, http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1-http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/09/24/1)
A key carbon-cutting technology may have met its savior: … the price of CO2 isn’t too steep," Melzer said |
| 01/03/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Plan: The United States federal government should issue a revenue ruling establishing that solar power production is a real estate investment trust qualified asset class. Advantage is solar installations There is an oversupply of solar panels- lack of financing equity will ensure a market crash ~GREEN~
Hinckley 10/18/12 (Elias. Leads the clean energy practice at Kilpatrick Townsend, Perfect Storm Brewing for Troubled U.S. Solar Manufacturers, http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/10/18/perfect-storm-brewing-for-troubled-u-s-solar-manufacturers/-http://www.consumerenergyreport.com/2012/10/18/perfect-storm-brewing-for-troubled-u-s-solar-manufacturers/)
Three Thoughts on the State of the Solar Market
There has been some upheaval upstream in the … will be a regular part of the energy news cycle. IRS REIT expansion guarantees massive investment- overcomes all alt causes and is key to certaintySturtevant, 10 – George Washington University Solar Institute
(Josh, J.D. from George Washington University Law School, Legal Associate at Distributed Sun LLC, in-house legal fellow at a renewable energy financing and development firm, "The Solar REIT: A Vision for the Future of German Solar Development," BlawgConomics, 11-10-2010, blawgconomics.blogspot.com/2010/11/solar-reit-vision-for-future-of-german.html, accessed 10-12-12) Frequent visitors to the site may be familiar with our proposal to … survive any storm, whether politically or economically generated. Stone 8/8/12 ~Brian Stone, Assistant Professor in the City and Regional Planning Program at the Georgia Institute of Technology, "Urban Heat Islands and Climate Change: Planning for Extreme Heat in Cities," http://www.epa.gov/hiri/resources/transcripts/8_aug_2012-webcasttranscript-stone.pdf~~
Most critical is your logical infrastructure. In … heat wave with a prolonged blackout in the major U.S. cities is certainly increasing. Perez et al 11 ~Richard Perez, Research Professor, Atmospheric Sciences Research Center, SUNY; Ken Zweibel, director of the GW Solar Institute at George Washington University; Thomas Hoff, Founder of Clean Power Research and President of its Research and Consulting Group; "Solar power generation in the US: Too expensive, or a bargain?" Energy Policy Volume 39, Issue 11, November 2011, Pages 7290–7297~
Solar generators, distributed PV in particular, are … deployment potential of nearly 375 GW in the US. Latynina 3 ~Yulia, Novaya Gazeta (liberal semi-weekly), Moscow, Russia, Aug. 18, 2003 http://www.worldpress.org/americas/1579.cfm~~
The scariest thing about the cascading power outages was not spoiled groceries in the fridge, or elevators getting stuck, or even, however cynical it may sound, sick … drop in power, and finally a cascading outage of the entire grid system. And heat wave blackouts causes disease spreadKelly and Osterholm 08 ~Nicholas S. Kelley, Research assistant with The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy(CIDRAP) Business Source and a doctoral student in the Divison of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, and Michael T. Osterholm, PhD, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, director of the NIH‐supported Center of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance within CIDRAP, a professor in the Division of Environmental Health Sciences, School of Public Health, and an adjunct professor in the Medical School, University of Minnesota. Written in their report "Pandemic Influenza, Electricity, and the Coal Supply Chain" http://www.sovrn.com/PDF/pubs_CIDRAP_Coal_Report.pdf~~
When one considers public health preparedness, the availability of … operate in the background—unless a breakdown in the infrastructure occurs. Greger 08 – M.D., is Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at The Humane Society of the United States (Michael Greger, , Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching, http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=111-http://birdflubook.com/a.php?id=111)
Senate Majority Leader Frist describes the recent slew of emerging … College of London, "might easily transmute into a tune whistled whilst passing a graveyard."3154 Stones 9 ~Edward Stones, Director of Energy Risk at Dow Chemical Company, Dow Chemical Company Statement for the Record at the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources hearing on the Role of Natural Gas in Mitigating Climate Change, October 28 2009, http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=9b7877b6-e616-76f1-3513-0c3fe4cda514~~
In 2009, as in 2002, 2004 and 2006, drilling has declined … and will continue to do so after this and every trough. Powerfin Partners 11 ~Powerfin Partners is a manager of institutional funds for solar projects in North America, with meaningful experience in energy capital markets, legal and regulatory matters, and renewable engineering, "Why the Solar Industry Lacks Pricing Power," December 20, 2011, http://www.powerfinpartners.com/new_site/pdf/Why%20the%20Solar%20Industry%20Lacks%20Pricing%20Power%20122011.pdf~~
While myriad uncertainties surround the future of … portion of your budget with a long-lived asset like solar. The Fertilizer Institute 9 ~Trade Group representing the fertilizer industry, "The U.S. Fertilizer Industry and Climate Change Policy," April 2 2009, http://www.kochfertilizer.com/pdf/TFI2009ClimateChange.pdf~~
Fertilizer nutrients – nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium – are all naturally occurring elements that are "fed" to plants and crops for healthy and abundant food and fiber production. They are currently responsible for 40 to 60 percent of the world’s food supply. Harvest … disaster or substandard world harvest away from a full-scale food crisis. Lugar 2k | Chairman of the Senator Foreign Relations Committee and Member/Former Chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee (Richard, a US Senator from Indiana, is Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and a member and former chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability," pg online @ http://www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/lugar.html)
In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the … of billions of people and the health of our planet. Solar solves warming
Dr. Ekins-Daukes 2009 (Ned, June, Solar energy for heat and electricity: the potential for mitigating climate change Imperial College London Grantham Institute for Climate Change Briefing paper No 1, physics lecturer at the University of Sydney, Australia. Awarded his PhD from Imperial College London in 2000 https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/climatechange/public/pdfs/GranthamJune.pdf)
The sun supplies the majority of the energy available … necessary manufacturing and installation infrastructure is built. Warming risks a planetary die-off – Geological history is on our side
Bushnell 10 - Chief scientist at the NASA Langley Research Center ~Dennis Bushnell (MS in mechanical engineering. He won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership.) "Conquering Climate Change," The Futurist, May-June, 2010 During the Permian extinction, a number of chain … sound, they’re actually conservative. Pg. 7-8 1ac Advantage Solar Manufacturing The US is losing the race for solar- the industry will offshore now- that explodes the trade deficit and destroys the entire supply chain
(SEMI) Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International * June 2012 (SEMI is the global industry association serving the nano- and microelectronics manufacturing supply chains. The SEMI North American PV Advisory Committee consists of representatives from equipment and materials suppliers, cell and module manufacturers, national laboratories and other entities.*Full list of contributors in aff file Manufacturing Solar Photovoltaic Products in the United States http://www.pvgroup.org/sites/pvgroup.org/files/docs/SEMI-PVGrp_WhPpr_MnfctrngSlrPV.pdf-http://www.pvgroup.org/sites/pvgroup.org/files/docs/SEMI-PVGrp_WhPpr_MnfctrngSlrPV.pdf) The challenge for U.S. policy makers is how to … will lose its ability to innovate." 22 Every sector is at risk
(SEMI) Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International * June 2012 (SEMI is the global industry association serving the nano- and microelectronics manufacturing supply chains. The SEMI North American PV Advisory Committee consists of representatives from equipment and materials suppliers, cell and module manufacturers, national laboratories and other entities.*Full list of contributors in aff file Manufacturing Solar Photovoltaic Products in the United States http://www.pvgroup.org/sites/pvgroup.org/files/docs/SEMI-PVGrp_WhPpr_MnfctrngSlrPV.pdf-http://www.pvgroup.org/sites/pvgroup.org/files/docs/SEMI-PVGrp_WhPpr_MnfctrngSlrPV.pdf) The solar industry is comprised of a diverse set of … advantage or watch it gravitate to offshore locations. Only the S-REIT provides sufficient certainty and stimulates the right kind of productionSturtevant, 11 – George Washington University Solar Institute
(Joshua, J.D. from George Washington University Law School, Legal Associate at Distributed Sun LLC, in-house legal fellow at a renewable energy financing and development firm, "The S-REIT: An Investment-Driven Solution to Solar Development Problems," 2011, solar.gwu.edu/Research/Sturtevant_S-REIT.pdf, accessed 10-14-12)
Prior to the financial crisis, the PV incentive regime placed the … for developers to expand operations. 23 Solar REITs are key to the supply chain and fostering innovation
Runyon 12/12/12 (Jennifer, Managing Editor, RenewableEnergyWorld.com and Conference Chair, Renewable energy World North America, Renewable Energy REITs or MLPs Would Unlock Billions for Project Development http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2012/12/renewable-energy-reits-or-mlps-would-unlock-billions-for-project-development.html-http://www.power-eng.com/articles/2012/12/renewable-energy-reits-or-mlps-would-unlock-billions-for-project-development.html
According to Richard Kauffman, Senior … are being financed today just doesn’t make sense, said Kauffman. Baru 9 Sanjaya is a Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School in Singapore Geopolitical Implications of the Current Global Financial Crisis, Strategic Analysis, Volume 33, Issue 2 March 2009 , pages 163 – 168
Hence, economic policies and … resources to simultaneously sustain economic growth and military power. Continued industry migration devastates the military – puts UAVs, missile defense, cruise missiles, and intel at risk.
Lieberman, 2003
~Joe, US Senator, "THE NATIONAL SECURITY ASPECTS OF THE GLOBAL MIGRATION OF THE U.S. SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY," 6-5, http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/s060503.html~~
The Pentagon’s Advisory Group on Electron Devices (AGED) has warned that the … and Singapore) is not an acceptable national security option. Missile defense prevents rogue nuclear aggression.
Kourri, 2009
~Jim, vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and a staff writer for the New Media Alliance, "Exclusive: Security: Obama, Gates Gamble with American Lives," 7-18, http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.3772,css.print/pub_detail.asp~ - The threat from North Korea and Iran … to put our nation at risk and not listen to the American public."
Global nuclear war.
Dibb, 2006
~Paul, Emeritus Prof of IR, Australian National University, Sydney Morning Herald (Australia), August 15, 2006 Tuesday, "As one nuclear flashpoint reaches a lull, another simmers away," Pg. 11, Lexis~
NOW that the building blocks for achieving a cessation in hostilities in the crisis involving Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon are in place, the focus can shift back to the main game - Iran and North Korea. Both flashpoints have the … Iran and Israel in the Middle East. Intel failures cause accidental launch
Nichiporuk, 1998
~Brian, RAND, "U.S. MILITARY OPPORTUNITIES: INFORMATIONWARFARE CONCEPTS OF OPERATION," http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1016/MR1016.chap7.pdf~~
Enemy Strategies That Target Key U.S. … disadvantage in early air-to-air engagements. The plan and certainty key to export dominanceJenkins, 11 — Breakthrough Institute Energy Policy director
(Jesse, "Is America Losing the Clean Energy Race?" National Journal, 10-26-11, energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/10/is-america-losing-the-clean-en.php?comments=expandall~%23comments, accessed 10-17-12) The global market for clean energy products grew to %24… energy-hungry markets throughout the world. Klarevas, 9 — NYU Center for Global Affairs professor
(Louis, "Securing American Primacy While Tackling Climate Change: Toward a National Strategy of Greengemony," Huffington Post, 12-15-9, www.huffingtonpost.com/louis-klarevas/securing-american-primacy_b_393223.html, accessed 10-19-12) As national leaders from around the world are gathering in Copenhagen, … - and the best approach for achieving this is to promote a national strategy of greengemony. Brzezinski, former US national security advisor, 12
(Zbigniew, national security advisor under U.S. President Jimmy Carter, currently Robert E. Osgood Professor of American Foreign Policy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, a scholar at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a member of various boards and councils, "After America," Foreign Policy, www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/03/after_america, accessed 2-9-12) How does the world look in an age of U.S… there would normally be conflict. |
| 01/04/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Sturtevant, 10 – in-house legal fellow at a renewable energy financing and development firm
(Josh, J.D. from George Washington University Law School, "The Solar REIT: A Vision for the Future of German Solar Development," BlawgConomics, 11-10-2010, blawgconomics.blogspot.com/2010/11/solar-reit-vision-for-future-of-german.html, accessed 10-12-12)
As part of that proposal, we suggested that …
environmentally friendly energy sector in the future. Wiesmann, 10-15 – Financial Times Berlin correspondent
(Gerrit, "German rush to renewables faces backlash," Financial Times, 10-15-12, www.ft.com/cms/s/0/347e5530-16b4-11e2-957a-00144feabdc0.html~%23axzz29TR3GknR, accessed 10-16-12) The rapid proliferation of subsidised solar and wind plants …
a backlash and erode public support for a central Merkel policy. Dooms Merkel and the German economyDempsey, 12 — Carnegie Europe senior associate
(Judy, editor-in-chief of Strategic Europe, IHT columnist, former diplomatic correspondent for the Financial Times in Brussels, "Merkel pays price for shift on energy," The International Herald Tribune, 5-29-12, l/n, accessed 10-16-12) The chancellor faces the political repercussions …
- especially as other big industrial economies want to see if it is feasible. German economic decline kills the EU and the euro
Mason 10/23/12 (John, Faculty of the Finance Department, Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania. German Strength Holds Up The Euro http://seekingalpha.com/article/941801-german-strength-holds-up-the-euro-http://seekingalpha.com/article/941801-german-strength-holds-up-the-euro) People keep wondering why the euro retains as …
a nation a more relevant player in the world economic community. EU prevents extinction
Bruton ’1 (John, Former Irish Prime Minister, Report before the Joint Committee on European Affairs, Parliament of Ireland, October, http://www.irlgov.ie/committees-02/c-europeanaffairs/future/page1.htm) 2.5 As the Laeken Declaration put it, "Europe needs to shoulder its …
, prevail over blind global forces that will otherwise overwhelm us. Gommes, 11 — former Columbia Law Review senior editor
(Thomas, publisher of Periscope Post, former corporate lawyer, "Eurozone in crisis: The death of the euro could trigger World War III," 12-9-11, www.periscopepost.com/2011/12/eurozone-in-crisis-the-death-of-the-euro-could-trigger-world-war-iii/, accessed 10-23-12, ) Eurozone in crisis: The death of the euro could trigger …
an acceptable response to perceived slights. Glaser, 93 — Assistant Prof @ Chicago,
(Charles, International Security Summer, 1993) However, although the lack of an imminent Soviet threat eliminates the most …
not unconcerned about Europe’s future. |
| 01/07/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Haltom 10 - Co-director of Coal River Muntain Watch ~Vernon Haltom, "Can a Wind Farm Transform Appalachia’s Energy Future?," Solutions Journal, Volume 1 | Issue 4 | Page 71-77 | Jul 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/9e3fyr8 The communities of the Coal River Valley suffered a …donation, and turn off that light in order to remain standing. Flaccavento 10 - Founder of Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD) and SCxALE, Inc ~Anthony Flaccavento-http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/user/4896, "The Transition of Appalachia," Solutions Journal, Volume 1 | Issue 4 | Page 34-44 | Aug 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/39kwh4h Thirdly, the approach of the "environmental movement", …to exemplify sustainable development, it will be difficult to ignore. Global collapse and extinction coming – We must establish a model for sustainability.Gowdy 07 - Professor of Economics @ Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ~John Gowdy, "Avoiding Self-Organized Extinction: Toward a Co-Evolutionary Economics of Sustainability," Red Orbit, April 26, 2007, pg. http://tinyurl.com/apnknbt A current line of research addressing the question of sustainability is analyzing in … resource bottleneck of the current century.
There are multiple scenarios for our demise
Shahan 09 – Director/editor @ CleanTechnica-http://cleantechnica.com/ and Planetsave-http://planetsave.com/ ~Zachary Shahan-http://ecolocalizer.com/author/zshahan/, "Global Collapse, Human Survival %26 the Planet’s Boundaries, Eco Localizer, September 24, 2009, pg. http://ecolocalizer.com/2009/09/24/global-collapse-human-survival-the-planets-boundaries/
Global Environmental Collapse
Scientists from the US, Europe, and Australia identified … our systems to produce what we take. Otherwise, the planet has its limits.
*9 Tresholds are (1) climate change, (2) ozone, (3) land use change, (4) freshwater use, (5) biodiversity, (6) ocean acidification, (7) nitrogen and phosphorus inputs, (8) aerosol loading and (9) chemical pollution Biggers 09 - Co-founder of the Coal Free Future Project-http://coalfreefutureproject.org/. ~Jeff Biggers, "Declaration of Clean Energy Independence: We Need a Road Map to a Coal Free Future-http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/declaration-of-clean-ener_b_565669.html," Huffington Post, Posted: May 6, 2010 07:54 AM, pg. http://tinyurl.com/2bg2kp4 In the wake of the worst coal mining …time to imagine a coal-free future for the rest of the country. Only wind solves – It provides a viable alternative to mountaintop removal and pave the way for sustainable developmentZeller 10 ~TOM ZELLER Jr.-http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/z/tom_jr_zeller/index.html?inline=nyt-per "A Battle in Mining Country Pits Coal Against Wind," New York Times, Published: August 14, 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/8ctubyz Critics say the practice, known as "mountaintop removal mining…. "There would be no more utility-scale wind up there." Wind incentives will short-circuit the Tea Party rebellion against Obama and empower progressivesElk 09 - Union organizer and labor journalist who writes for Harper’s Magazine, the American Prospect, the Huffington Post and In These Times. He has appeared as a comme¬ntator on CNN, Fox News, and NPR. ~Mike Elk-http://www.ourfuture.org/users/new-4013, "Stop The Teabaggers, Give Them Green Jobs: Lessons From the Coalfields of West Virginia," Campaign for America’s Future, August 27, 2009 - 4:40pm ET, pg. http://tinyurl.com/mq62jx West Virginia shows us how we could easily win over …are the lessons that West Virginia has to offer us. Mann %26 Ornstein 12 - Chair and a senior fellow in Governance Studies @ Brookings Institution-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookings_Institution %26 political scientist and resident scholar @ American Enterprise Institute ~Thomas E. Mann-http://www.npr.org/books/authors/151524793/thomas-e-mann %26 Norman J. Ornstein-http://www.npr.org/books/authors/151524801/norman-j-ornstein, It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, pg. http://tinyurl.com/8ucplnz Six years ago, we wrote The Broken Branch, which sharply criticized the Congress …is key to taking the right steps to overcome dysfunctional politics. Kornacki 12/27 (Steve, senior political writer, has been published in several newspapers, including the NYT and WSJ. "Triumph of the Tea Party mindset." Salon, December 27, 2012. http://www.salon.com/2012/12/27/triumph_of_the_tea_party_mindset/-http://www.salon.com/2012/12/27/triumph_of_the_tea_party_mindset/.) Two stories that might seem to contradict each other ran in the New …now rules the Republican Party. Tea party influence erodes liberal internationalism, causes protectionism, and risks strikes on IranMead 11 – Professor of Foreign Affairs and the Humanities @ Bard College ~Walter Russell Mead, "The Tea Party and American Foreign Policy: What Populism Means for Globalism," Foreign Affairs, March/April 2011Volume 9o • Number 2 Any increase in Jacksonian political strength makes a …visionary "win-win" global schemes. Pg. 42-43 Hirsch ’6 (Jorge, Prof. Physics @ UC San Diego, "America and Iran: At the Brink of the Abyss", 2-20, http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8577-http://www.antiwar.com/orig/hirsch.php?articleid=8577)
The U.S. has just declared that it will defend Israel militarily against Iran if needed. Presumably …bomb explodes, the fall into the abyss can be averted by choices made by each and every one of us. We may never PANZNER 08 Faculty – New York Institute of Finance. Specializes in Global Capital Markets. MA Columbia ~Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, Revised and Updated Edition ~Paperback~, p. 137-138~
Continuing calls for curbs on the flow of finance and …between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war. Kupchan, ’12 - Charles Kupchan, Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations ~"Grand Strategy: The Four Pillars of the Future". Democracy, Issue ~%2323, Winter 2012. http://tinyurl.com/ccd6y5n~~
Making Room for the Rising Rest
As emerging powers continue their ascent, dampening … that progressives fully understand. Kugler 06 – Professor of world politics @ Claremont Graduate University ~Jacek Kugler (Consultant to the IMF, the World Bank, State Department, and Department of Defense. His publications on the causes and consequences of war use formal modeling and empirical analysis), "The Asian Ascent: Opportunity for Peace or Precondition for War?," International Studies Perspectives-http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/journal/118516737/home, Volume 7, Issue 1-http://www3.interscience.wiley.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/journal/118606983/issue, Pages 36-42
Given the fundamental importance of demographic and economic forces in …that reasonably would be anticipated from a nuclear war. Wright 10 - Executive director of studies @ The Chicago Council on Global Affairs ~Thomas Wright (Lecturer of Public Policy @ University of Chicago), "Strategic Engagement’s Track Record," The Washington Quarterly • JULY 2010, 33:3 pp. 35_60~
The obstacles to a new international order are not just due to free-riding…, is possible only in ’legitimate’ international orders.49 pg. 54 Ikenberry 11—Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University ~G. John Ikenberry, Liberal Leviathan: The Origins, Crisis, and Transformation of the American World Order, 2011~
Rather than a single overriding threat, the United States and other countries face a host of …marshal resources and tackle problems along a wide and shifting spectrum of possibilities. Pg. 350-353 Toon et al 7 – Owen B. Toon, chair of the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at CU-Boulder, et al., April 19, 2007, "Atmospheric effects and societal consequences of regional scale nuclear conflicts and acts of individual nuclear terrorism," online: http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf-http://climate.envsci.rutgers.edu/pdf/acp-7-1973-2007.pdf
To an increasing extent, people are congregating in the world’s … (Harwell and Hutchinson, 1985). Such a study should be carried out as well for the present scenarios and physical outcomes. Cimbala, 2008
~Stephen, Distinguished Prof. Pol. Sci. – Penn. State Brandywine, Comparative Strategy, "Anticipatory Attacks: Nuclear Crisis Stability in Future Asia", 27, InformaWorld~
If the possibility existed of a mistaken preemption during and immediately after …for the obsolescence or marginalization of major interstate warfare. Eller 08 - Professor of history @ University of Kentucky ~Ron Eller, "Obama’s ’Appalachian Problem’? It’s Not So Easy," Daily Yonder, 05/16/2008, pg. http://tinyurl.com/5elfq7 Popular stereotypes and misreading of Appalachian history have …the contradictions and challenges of our time. We do so at our own peril. Skocpol-http://www.politico.com/arena/bio/theda_skocpol.html 10 - Professor of Government and Sociology @ Harvard University ~Theda Skocpol, "Obama and the Democrats Need a Jobs and Taxes Argument for National Recovery," Politico’s The Arena, Sep. 20, 2010, pg. http://www.politico.com/arena/perm/Theda_Skocpol_E8BD76F7-7169-44FC-B779-3993550FC1E6.html Polls and all kinds of measures of the concerns of … Beyond "reelect us," they never say. They fudge - while offering a constant media spectacle of indecision and retreat. Dreier 09 - Professor of Politics and Director of the Urban %26 Environmental Policy Program @ Occidental College in Los Angeles ~Peter Dreier, "ARTICLE: ORGANIZING IN THE OBAMA ERA: A PROGRESSIVE MOMENT OR A NEW PROGRESSIVE ERA?," The John Marshall Law Review, Spring, 2009, 42 J. Marshall L. Rev. 685 What we know already is that if Barack Obama has any chance to …their legislators, to participating in protest - is essential. Cassese et al. 12 – Professor of Poli Sci @ West Virginia University ~Erin Cassese, Jeremy Zimmerman (PhD Candidate in Poli Sci @ West Virginia University) %26 Lauren Santoro (PhD Candidate in Poli Sci @ West Virginia University), Political Engagement in Appalachia: Distinctive Regional Subculture or Confluence of Demographic Variables? (2012). Paper for the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association pg. SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2108204 As one might expect given these characteristics, rates of political …these states, as well as nationally. Pg. 3 USDA special category solves development and modelingMACED 10 ~Mountain Association for Community Economic Development, "Economic Transition in Central Appalachia: Ideas for the Appalachian Regional Development Initiative" April 8, 2010 2. Expand local renewable energy production
Central Appalachia’s historic reliance on coal has also meant little … could be allocated for such investments. Pg. 8-11 Central Appalachia is the key battleground – Federal investment in wind will facilitate a national political and economic transitionBailey 10 – Research and Policy Director @ Mountain Association for Community Economic Development ~Jason Bailey-http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/user/4907, "Start Appalachian Transition through Green Jobs Investments," Solutions Journal, Volume 1 | Issue 4 | Aug 2010, pg. http://tinyurl.com/9gxb8bm Most communities around the world aren’t yet aware of how …transition, and transition here can help make bigger transitions possible elsewhere. GARDNER 12 – 31 – 12 Roll Call Staff ~Lauren Gardner, Obama Suggests Cliff Deal Would Extend Wind Tax Credit, http://www.rollcall.com/news/obama_suggests_cliff_deal_would_extend_wind_tax_credit-220432-1.html?pos=hln-http://www.rollcall.com/news/obama_suggests_cliff_deal_would_extend_wind_tax_credit-220432-1.html?pos=hln~~ President Barack Obama signaled Monday that a tentative … proposed a phase-out over the next few years. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge:
advantage
While the American Electric Power decision greenlighted regulations, it has closed the door on compensatory for those seeking climate justice.
Burkett 11 - Professor of Law @ University of Hawaii Maxine Burkett, “Climate Justice and the Elusive Climate Tort,” The Yale Law Journal Online, 121 Yale L.J. Online 115 (2011), pg. http://yalelawjournal.org/2011/09/13/burkett.html. The Supreme Court’s decision in … and recognize the corrective potential of compensation claims and their role in administering the process, the disparately impacted may enjoy appropriate recourse. Opening their doors to climate tort claims would be the courts’ distinct contribution to what will hopefully be a diverse and multi-layered commitment to rectifying, at least in part, the losses of the climate vulnerable.
Using damages to support domestic clean development supports indigenous sustainable energy. This builds institutions dedicated to climate justice.
Burkett 08 - Professor of law @ University of Colorado Maxine Burkett, “Just Solutions to Climate Change: A Climate Justice Proposal for a Domestic Clean Development Mechanism,” Buffalo Law Review, 56 Buffalo L. Rev. 169, April 2008 There are as many possibilities in rural communities…. home economies can be fostered and advanced with the support of an independent, firmly established market infrastructure—the dCDM. We have lost the war to prevent warming. We must adapt our legal reasoning if we want to marshal the resources needed to cope
Craig 10 - Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Environmental Programs @ Florida State University Robin Kundis Craig, “'Stationarity is Dead' - Long Live Transformation: Five Principles for Climate Change Adaptation,” Harvard Environmental Law Review, Vol. 34, No. 1, 2010, pp. 9-75 Climate change is creating positive … into actions that will help humans, species, and ecosystems cope with the changes that are coming. Pg. 13-16
A coping strategy is critical. Warming induced scarcity produces climate change hotspots.
Marlow and Barcelos 11 - Co-Executive Directors of the Three Degrees Project at the University of Washington School of Law Jennifer Marlow (JD from the University of Washington) and Jennifer Krencicki Barcelos (JD from the University of Washington), “Global Warring and the Permanent Dry: How heat threatens human security in a warmer world,” Seattle Journal of Environmental Law, 2011 Volume 1 Issue 19 2. Food and Water
Coupled with heat-related dangers to public health, ...; pollution or overuse of water; weather changes that kill fish and farms.”51 pg. 28-29
South Asia, China and the Andean region will become war zones. Conflicts will escalate
Werz and Conley 12 - Senior Fellow @American Progress where his work as member of the National Security Team focuses on the nexus of climate change, migration, and security and emerging democracies and Research Associate for National Security and International Policy @ the Center for American Progress Michael Werz and Laura Conley, “Climate Change, Migration, and Conflict: Addressing complex crisis scenarios in the 21st Century,” Center for American Progress, January 2012 The costs and consequences of climate change … … in the Himala as that could affect hundreds of millions; and shifting agricultural zones”—all of which will affect food supplies. 19 Pg. 1-7
First, South Asia - Climate crisis there risks an all-out nuclear exchange that would decimate the region in minutes
Brennan 08 – Lieutenant in the United States Navy James F. Brennan, “The China-India-Pakistan Water Crisis: Prospects for Interstate Conflict,” Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS IN SECURITY STUDIES (FAR EAST, SOUTHEAST ASIA, PACIFIC) from the NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, September 2008
India and Pakistan’s enduring rivalry provides the … a fourth party, such as the United States, to motivate change. pg. 45-46
The war will not be limited. Indo-Sino-Paki war poses a unique extinction risk
Robock and Toon 10 - Professor of climatology at Rutgers University and Chair of atmospheric and oceanic scienc¬es @ University of Colorado-Boulder Allan Robock (Director of Rutger’s Center for Environmental Prediction) and Owen Brian Toon (Fellow of the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics University of Colorado-Boulder, “Local Nuclear War,” Scientific American, January 2010 Ableism paraphrased Why discuss this topic now that the cold war has ended? Because as other …Pakistan could face a decision to use all its nuclear arsenal quickly before India swamps its military bases with traditional forces. Pg. 74-75
Second, Chinese climate migration – It risks a war over the Russian Far East
Weitz 12 - Director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Political-Military Analysis Richard Weitz, “Superpower Symbiosis: The Russia-China Axis,” World Affairs, November/December 2012, pg. http://tinyurl.com/cjcc3v2 A major worsening of China-Russia ties would actually represent a regression to the mean. …, when they competed to see which would achieve the one true communism.
Russia will fight to control the RFE. It can’t win without nuclear escalation
Rousseau 12 - Professor and Chair of Political Science and International Relations @ Khazar University Richard Rousseau, “Will China Colonize and Incorporate Siberia?,” Harvard International Review, July 9, 2012 | 12:07 AM, pg. http://tinyurl.com/c55zp3n If Siberia is in fact awaiting a Chinese Future, a number of scenarios might unfold over the next decade. The worst-case scenario for Russia is not only the continuation of … who were present during the exercise. Vostok 2010 simulated a response to a possible attack from China. It included the firing of live ammunition, simulated airborne assaults and amphibious assault landings.
Russian nuclear attack leaves the earth uninhabitable
Starr 10 - Director of Clinical Laboratory Science Program @ University of Missouri Steven Starr (Senior scientist @ Physicians for Social Responsibility.), “The climatic consequences of nuclear war” | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 12 March 2010, Pg. http://www.thebulletin.org/web-edition/op-eds/the-climatic-consequences-of-nuclear-war This isn't a question to be avoided. Recent scientific studies have …amine that could kill one billion people.
Third, The Andes water crisis – US response will set a precedent. Lack of adaptation assistance will force US military escalation
Somerville 11 - Medill National Security Reporting Project Heather Somerville (Graduate student at Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism, perusing a Masters of Science in Journalism), “Losing the Andes glaciers,” January 17, 2011 12:01 am, Global Warming: A project of a National Security Journalism Initiative, pg. http://global-warning.org/main/peru/ HUARAZ, Peru — Glacier melt hasn’t caused a national crisis in Peru
demise.
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it has a history of being called on for disaster response in Latin America, according to the Air Force’s Briggs. “It will be the U.S. military that will respond to a climate change disaster.” The Andes precedent risks US military intervention of water disputes around the world
Healey 10 - Senior fellow @Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government Thomas Healey, “The Global Water Crisis Is Too Big to Ignore,” The Georgetown Public Policy Review, 16 Geo. Public Pol'y Rev. 63, 2010 - 2011 THE POTENTIAL FOR CONFLICTS
Dwindling or disappearing reserves of freshwater have far-reaching consequences. The lack of abundant, safe, and accessible water is creating a combustible brew … sounded by a group of top retired U.S. military admirals and generals in a report published by the CNA Corporation (Sullivan et al. 2007), a nonprofit company which conducts in-depth analyses for government leaders.
Each intervention risks uncontrolled nuclear escalation
Hellman 12 – Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering @ Stanford University Dr. Martin Hellman, War Games and Nuclear Risk,” Defusing the Nuclear Threat, November 25, 2012, pg. http://nuclearrisk.wordpress.com/2012/11/25/war-games-and-nuclear-risk/ A 2008 RAND Project Air Force report states:
In 2004, Director of Air Force Strategic Planning Major General Ronald J. Bath sponsored a war game in which uncontrolled escalation occurred, … terrorism have added dangerous new dimensions. Conention 2
We solve – Our judicial precedent paves the way for a treaty that funds global adaptation programs
Abate 10 - Professor of Law @ Florida A and M University Randall S. Abate, “Public Nuisance Suits for the Climate Justice Movement: The Right Thing and the Right Time, Washington Law Review, Vol. 85 Iss. 197
B. Incorporating Climate Justice Principles into the Post-Kyoto Regime
As Kivalina-like litigation theories gain support in the courts …
toward increased responsibility for the public and private entities that are principally responsible for those harms. Pg. 247-252
Our decision shifts public perceptions
Kilinski 09 – JD from Florida State University College of Law Jennifer Kilinski, International Climate Change Liability: A Myth or a Reality?, 18 J. Transnat’l L. and Pol’y 377, Spring 2009 However, if any case can contain the necessary elements to …. The only question is, will this movement come from the judiciary by finding liability for climate change? Or will the filing of cases alone move world governments to action, precluding the immediate need for large damage awards? Either way, this planet will long be dealing with how to apportion responsibility for emissions and corresponding damages incurred by victims of climate change. Pg. 415-417
Nuisance damages will encourage generators to voluntarily pay for global adaption efforts
Cutting and Cahoon 08 - Professor of Environmental Studies @ UNC Wilmington and Professor of Biology and Marine Biology @ UNC Wilmington Robert H. Cutting and Lawrence B. Cahoon, “"The 'Gift' that Keeps on Giving: Global Warming Meets the Common Law," Vermont Journal of Environmental Law, 10 VJEL 109, 2008, Volume 10 B. Litigation
Much of the litigation of the past few years focused on federal resistance both to the EPA’s regulation and to states’ efforts to regulate fuel composition, mileage, and GHG emissions. … be just enough incentive to spur generators to develop their own creative solutions to the problems associated with GHG emissions.
The inability to immediately halt warming makes adaptation the only solution
Marlow and Barcelos 11 - Co-Executive Directors of the Three Degrees Project at the University of Washington School of Law Jennifer Marlow (JD from the University of Washington) and Jennifer Krencicki Barcelos (JD from the University of Washington), “Global Warring and the Permanent Dry: How heat threatens human security in a warmer world,” Seattle Journal of Environmental Law, 2011 Volume 1 Issue 19 The 2007 IPCC report defines adaptation as “t…
a natural disaster, whereas it was manmade, from A to Z, as a war. It is exacerbated by climate change, but it was manmade, as a disaster.84 Pg. 35-39 Climate security discourse shifts the paradigm of security from competition to cooperation. Hugh DYER School of Politics and Interational Studies @ Leeds ‘8 “The Political Significance of 'Energy Security' and 'Climate Security'” Paper presented at British International Studies Association 33rd Annual Conference http://www.bisa.ac.uk/2008/pps/Dyer.pdf. Assumptions of structure Here we want to map a shift in the political point of reference for essential assumptions about the structure of the international system. Both ‘energy security’ and ‘climate security’ play to an existing set of assumptions about international relations being defined essentially in terms of a condition of security (or, more to the point, insecurity), and consequent political relationships and political issues defined in terms of security, which rest on a very limited and short-… … just playing to beat the clock, or if they’ve stopped long enough to reconsider the rules and purposes of the strategic context in which they act.
Greening climate geopolitics is better than trying to abandon security. Simon DALBY Geography @ Carleton ‘3 in A Companion to Political Geography ed. John Agnew p. 450-451 In much of the contemporary literature on environment … in conjunction with the regttabk purchasing patterns of suburbanites in London plastics are understood as both a problem of disposal and related to the expropriation of land and resources from distant rural communities. The 1AC is a challenge message not a threat message. That increases salience, collective action, and creative problem-solving. Robert BRULLE Sociology and Envt’l Science @ Drexel ’10 “From Environmental Campaigns to Advancing the Public Dialog: Environmental Communication for Civic Engagement” Environmental Communication 4 (1) p. 92 From Identity to Challenge Campaigns …, fear combined with information about effective actions can also be strongly motivating (O’Neill and Nicholson-Cole, 2009, p. 376; Witte and Allen, 2000).
climate adaptation framing re-politicizes the distribution of the harms of climate change. Lauren RICKARDS Victorian Centre for Climate Change Adaptation Research and the Melbourne School of Land and Environment, University of Melbourne ’10 “Governing the future under climate change: contested visions of climate change adaptation” VCCCAR Scenarios for Climate Adaptation Working Paper p.16 Scenarios are a means of developing .. ideas about what this future should look like under adaptation, and that work is needed to unpack and compare these visions. As a practice enlisted toward a highly political end, scenarios also highlight the importance and political character of process and, in particular, the question of whose values count via who participates. proposing alternative economics out of nowhere is of zero value. Economic reform towards sustainability is key. John BARRY Reader in Politics @ Belfast ‘7 “Towards a model of green political economy: from ecological modernisation to economic security” Int. J. Green Economics, Vol. 1, Nos. 3/4, 2007 p. 447-448 Economic analysis has been one of the weakest … ‘post-liberal’ (but certainly not anti-liberal) green perspective.1
Changing growth to adapt to climate change works – radical social change won’t. Manuel Arias-MALDONADO Poli Sci @ Malaga ’12 Real Green: Sustainability After the End of Nature p. 116-120 In principle, public opinion should just rely on science- hence the activity of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change as a bridge between science and the public. But then again, we have read Kuhn and Fereyabend: the sociology of scientific knowledge has convinced us that society is inside the laboratory and science can … opportunity instead of a threat sounds like a cliche. But it happens to be true - or, to be more accurate, it can be made true. |
