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historical materialism alternative

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DeBEAUVOIR 1947 (Simone, French writer/philosopher, “The Positive Aspects of Ambiguity,” The Ethics of Ambiguity, translated by Bernard Frechtman, p. 74-155.)

GORDON ‘86 (Haim A., University of Alabama, “Kierkegaard: The Becoming of a Subject,” Dance, Dialogue, and Despair: Existentialist Philosophy and Education for Peace in Israel, Questia.) 

Oppression is carried out by the erasure of the other’s concrete existential reality. When there is a universal methodology based on a particular knowledge constructed by the oppressor, the oppressed become slaves to be controlled and marginalized.
FREIRE 1970 (Paulo, Revolutionary Bad-Ass, “Chapter 2,” Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Continuum Books, http://www.webster.-edu/~corbetre/philosophy/education/freire/freire-2.html.)

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Water use is on the brink
Gleick et al. 12
Peter H. Gleick, President and Co-Founder of the Pacific Institute in the United States, 6/19/12, "A Twenty-First Century U.S. Water Policy," pg. 9

The relative abundance or scarcity of water AND decommissioning of the Elwha Dam).

Plan causes negative trade-off of water resources.
Hussey and Pittock 12—Karen Hussey is Senior Lecturer @ Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Jamie Pittock is the Leader of Australia and United States–Climate, Energy and Water, US Studies Centre, Sydney. “The Energy–Water Nexus: Managing the Links between Energy and Water for a Sustainable Future” http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol17/iss1/art31/

Separately, water and energy are recognized AND (see Opperman et al. 2011, Pittock 2011, Stillwell et al. 2011). 

Turns case and trades off with ag industry use – causes food price increases
Webber 12
Michael E. Webber, assistant professor of mechanical engineering and the associate director of the Center for International Energy and Environmental Policy at the University of Texas, July 23, 2012, "Will Drought Cause the Next Blackout?" http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/24/opinion/will-drought-cause-the-next-blackout.html?_r=1%26pagewanted=print

WE’RE now in the midst of the nation’s AND vulnerability will become more important with time.