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Plan: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase financial incentives for space-based solar power. Implementation through normal means. Ask and we’ll clarify.

1AC (2/)

Contention 1 is Warming

Climate change is happening now and it’s anthropogenic

American Meterological Society 8/20/12

[“Information Statement of the American Meterological Society”, http://www.ametsoc.org/policy/2012climatechange.html]

Warming of the climate system … for thousands of subsequent years.

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Contention 2 is Women’s Rights:

Climate change disproportionately affects women and exacerbates the gender barrier

Parsons 10

[Sarah, food columnist at GOOD magazine, where she covers the environmental aspects of food production and policy. She has also worked as a Senior Organizer and Editor for health, environment and food issues at Change.org, the world's fastest-growing platform for social change. Her science and environmental writing has been published in Popular Science, Grist.org, Audubon, OnEarth, GOOD, Plenty, Inhabitat.com, HGTV.com, Providence Business News, “Research Shows Climate Change Disproportionately Affects Women”, Inhabitat.com, 3/11/10, http://inhabitat.com/research-shows-climate-change-disproportionately-affects-women/]

A story recently … than boys.

And, examining the role of women in combating climate change is critical – changes in policy fail without it

Stott 10

[Robin, Health Commissioner at Commission for a Sustainable London, Co-Chair of Climate and Health at the NHS, “Population and Climate Change: moving towards gender equality is the key”, Journal of Public Health 32.2, ]

The likely impacts of climate … fertility rate is less than replacement, and the population is falling.

1AC (4/)

And, orienting our climate change policy towards women is critical – failures to consider the important role they can play subjects them to further marginalization

Denton 2

[Fatma, Program Leader for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), “Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation: Why Does Gender Matter?”, Gender and Development 10.2, July 2002]

Climate change is likely to … women and men.

Further, considering the role of women is key to solving poverty

Sidelining women from climate change policy further exacerbates poverty – including them in the discussion promotes greater development

Denton 2

[Fatma, Program Leader for Climate Change Adaptation in Africa at the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), “Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation: Why Does Gender Matter?”, Gender and Development 10.2, July 2002]

Women are patently …-makers, researchers, and development planners.

Poverty is the worst form of violence – it kills more people than an ongoing nuclear war

Abu-Jamal, prominent social activist and author, ‘98

[A Quiet and Deadly Violence, Sept 19, http://www.flashpoints.net/mQuietDeadlyViolence.html]

The deadliest form of violence is poverty. --Ghandi It has often been observed that America is a truly violent nation, as shown by the thousands of cases of social and communal violence that occurs daily in … fight each other.

And, ignoring the poor to deal with “real emergencies” allows populations to be continually mobilized for imperialist wars

Giroux 05

(The Terror of Neoliberalism: Rethinking the Significance of Cultural Politics http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/25115243.pdf, Henry A. Giroux holds the Global TV Network Chair in Communications at McMaster in Hp.13-14)

We live at a … investment in militarization.

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A lack of recognition for the rights of women underpins the roots of international conflict.

Caprioli and Boyer 2001

(Mary and Mark, U. Mass and U. Conn, “Gender, Violence, and International Crisis”, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 45, No. 4, p. 509)

This suggests that … with less egalitarian societies.

Further, moving to a model of sustainable development is critical – it helps us avoid further consumption

Princen 3

[Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. environmental politics, 2003, Global Environmental Politics 3:1, February 2003 ©]

Global timber harvesters are squeezing more and more fiber out of a hectare of forest and yet deforestation proceeds unabated. The automobile and petrochemical industries are creating more wealth for a unit of pollution, yet emissions continue to grow. And the world’s water managers seem to agree on most things, including the need for treaties and more water, yet freshwater availability is diminishing. Contrary to conventional wisdom, there is actually quite a lot of cooperation and efficiency in today’s political and ecological economy. Where there are problems—e.g., deforestation, greenhouse gas build-up, water scarcity— practitioners and scholars alike call for more cooperation and more efficiency. It might just be that the principles themselves—cooperation and efficiency—are part of the problem, a problem well suited, it would seem, for scholarly analysis. Yet for all the scholarly … export, and responsibility evasion.

And, consumption leads to extinction

Jorgensen 3

[Andrew K, Institute for Research on World-Systems, Department of Sociology at the University of California, 2003, “Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis,” http://www.irows.ucr.edu/andrew/papers/jorgensonSP.pdf]

A key factor is relatively ignored in cross-national studies of environmental depletion and degradation: varied consumption … of the resources.

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Contention 3 is Solvency

Space-based solar power solves warming

Mohammed and Ramasamy 2009

[S. Sheik, and K., College of Engineering, Dhofar University “Solar Power Generation using SPS and Wireless Power Transmission”, Proceedings of International Conference on Energy and Environment, March 19-21, 2009]

1) Solar Energy is Renewable, Clean and Exhaustless The main causes which prevent using fossil fuels for power generation are the limited availability of fossil fuels and they emit CO2, green house gases which results global warming. The CO2 emission is almost zero … not be harmful.

And, technology will spread – technical cooperation ensures that all countries will have access to the technology – India proves

Garretson 10

[Peter A., Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis ISDA Occasional Paper No. 9, SKY’S NO LIMIT, August 2010 p.67]

These were necessary … General Electric Jack

Welch Center (GE-JWC).

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And, its sufficient – space-based solar power can power the entire planet, and the US is ready to do so

Garretson 10

[Peter A., Institute for Defence Studies and Analysis ISDA Occasional Paper No. 9, SKY’S NO LIMIT, August 2010 p.18]

A second key advantage …national tech base.

And, financial incentives are key – it removes the entry barriers

Timmer 9

[John, science editor at Ars Technica, “Space-based solar power, part 2: running the numbers”, Ars Technica, 7/10/2009, http://arstechnica.com/science/2009/07/running-the-numbers-on-space-based-solar/]

And avoiding smaller … with NASA.

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Finally, a shift to sufficiency principles solves consumption

Princen 3

[Thomas, Associate Professor of Natural Resource and Environmental Policy at the School of Natural Resources and Environment at the University of Michigan. environmental politics, 2003, Global Environmental Politics 3:1, February 2003 ©]

”18 Modern society has, of course, … on costs externalized.

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Contention 4 is Framework

Current notions of security understand war as an isolated event detached from the status quo framework of negative peace – this ontology perpetuates crisis politics that entrench global militarism – only a commitment to positive peace can challenge omnipresent militarism.

Cuomo 1996 (Chris J. Cuomo, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati, “War Is Not Just an Event: Reflections on the Significance of Everyday Violence,” Hypatia, Volume 11, Number 4, Fall 1996, p. 30-33)

Philosophical attention to war has typically appeared in the form of justifications for entering into war, and over appropriate activities within war. The spatial metaphors … face of what appears to be the inevitability of war and militarism.

Focusing on easily visible examples violence ignores the elements of subjective violence. The violence we ignore makes violence permissible at all.

Kappeler, 1995

Susanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 1-2

Violence is recognized … beings or things.

Focusing on the magnitude of violence fails to account for the means of violent action.

Kappeler, 1995

Susanne Kappeler, Freelance Writer, A History of Violence, 1995, pg 8

This does not mean that … or is not violence.