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The affirmatives discursive call to energy production is rooted in a species-centric ethics that is embedded within the idea of “human exceptionalism,” that humans are special and apart from nature, allowing for the continued dismissal of the inter-connectedness between humans and nature in favor of the consumption and destruction of the environment. Goodman 2011 Benny Goodman is a professor at Plymouth University Transformation for health and sustainability: Dualism and Anthropocentrism. plymouth.academia.edu/bennygoodman /Papers/677349/ Transformation_for_health_and_sustainability_Dualism_and_Anthropocentrism This ontological position of our ‘being’ in the
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created a brave new world fit for….buying stuff. Speciesist discourse creates the radical othering of non-human animals reducing them to bare life. Catlaw 2012 Thomas J. Catlaw is associate professor of public affairs at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University. Regarding the Animal On Biopolitics and the Limits of Humanism in Public Administration http://mesharpe.metapress.com/media/3pvxjjyxmn7wwcxwhkdr/contributions/v/3/2/8/v32838063kujg256.pdf Speciesism, commodification, and its
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of a recent book, we love, hate, and eat (Herzog, 2010). Bare life leads to unending violence and genocide against those deemed not politically worthy.
KOCHI and ORDAN 2K8 (Tarik Kochi is a professor at Queen’s University. Noam Ordan is a professor at Bar llan University) “an argument for the global suicide of humanity”, vol 7. no. 4., bourderlands e-journal http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf Within the picture many paint of humanity, events such as the Holocaust
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themselves “the crown of creation”, for animals “all people are Nazis” and animal life is “an eternal Treblinka” (Singer, 1968, p.750). Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to reject the ethical exceptionalism of the 1AC. Rejecting the affirmative opens up the understanding of the species-being, allowing us to move beyond the religion of humanism. HUDSON 2K4 Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf We are all equally reduced to mere specimens of
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Text: The President of the United States should issue an executive order to Executive orders are the most effective way to implement policies
Mayer 1 (Kenneth, Professor of Political Science @ University of Wisconsin – Madison, With the Stroke of a Pen) These chronicles...many cases disturbing.” Executive orders increase presidential power
Risen 4 (Clay, Managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, M.A. from the University of Chicago “The Power of the Pen: The Not-So-Secret Weapon of Congress-wary Presidents” The American Prospect, July 16, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen) In the modern era, ...to reproductive health. Pres powers key to strong U.S Leadership
Mallaby 00 (Sebastian, Member, Washington Post’s Editorial Board, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb) Finally, some will ...isolationism or multiculturalism. Power projection prevents multiple scenarios for nuclear war
Kagan 2007
Robert, Carnegie Senior Associate, “End of Dreams, Return of History” Policy Review, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/8552512.html#n10jap This is a good...easier path. |
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Obama winning – but its not a lock
Greninger, 9/26 - Economics of Campaign Discussed
http://www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/9/26/economics_of_campaign_discussed.htm Even with ...done deal," Casey said. Public doesn’t want nuclear spending- turns case
Mariotte 6/5 (June 5, 2012 JUN 05, 2012, Nuclear Power and Public Opinion: What the polls say
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say Conclusions Americans ...and deserve. Increased deficit spending leads to Romney victory
Edsall 12 (an American journalist and academic, best known for his 25 years covering national politics for the Washington Post Thomas, The New York Times, “Debt Splits the Left” http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/debt-splits-the-left/ Instead of more...drown it in the bathtub.” GOP takeover kills stem-cell research- solves disease
Jan 11 Staff writer for Boston Globe, 8-07-11 Tracy, “Most in GOP field would scale back stem cell funding: Scientists fear federal aid could be upended” http://articles.boston.com/2011-08-07/news/29862080_1_cell-lines-cell-funding-cell-research accessed date: 12-23-11 y2k WASHINGTON - Nearly all...therapies for patients.’’ Extinction
Keating ‘9 (Foreign Policy web editor, Joshua, “The End of the World”, 11-13-09, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, How it could happen:...as troubling complication. |
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Prices highest gain in 2 months
AP 9/27 “Oil gains almost $2, biggest gain since Aug”, The Associated Press, September 27, 2012, http://www.boston.com/business/markets/2012/09/27/oil-prices-rise-after-days-declines/YtME8OWyvxcb0Ud7o3JYkI/story.html The price...was Aug. 3. Plan sends a signal that collapses oil prices instantly.
Poruban 12 Steven Poruban, Senior Editor, Oil and Gas Journal, "API: Raising US oil supplies key to lowering gasoline prices" 3/26, Lexis, Accessed 9/17/12, mcmc A major component ...fell by $15-16/bbl. High Oil prices key to the Russian Economy
Nichol 2012 Jim Nichol, Coordinator Specialist in Russian and Eurasian Affairs, Russian Political, Economic, and Security Issues and U.S. Interests, Congressional Research Service, February 10, 2012, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL33407.pdf Russia’s economy ...flight, and unemployment Russian economic decline causes nuclear prolif, accidents, and miscalc.
Cohen 2001 Stephen Cohen, Prof of Russian Studies at NYU, June 7, 2001, http://www.thenation.com/article/russian-nuclear-roulette?page=full The bad news ...ragile nuclear controls. Impact’s extinction
Leslie 96 John Leslie, Professor Emeritus of philosophy @ University of Guelph, 1996, The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction, p. 32 Probably, however...nuclear explosions. |
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Unique Link—Water resources stable now—greater production risks collapse.
DWT 12—Davis Wright Tremaine is a national business and litigation law firm. “Water and Energy: A Zero Sum Game?” May 29th, 2012, http://www.energyenvironmentallaw.com/2012/05/29/water-and-energy-a-zero-sum-game/Water and Energy: A Zero Sum Game?, Accessed date: 9-9-12 y2k Energy production...subject of a future blog. 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/ accessed date: 7-22-12 y2k Separately, water ... 2011, Pittock 2011, Stillwell et al. 2011 Extinction
Voinov and Cardwell 9—Alexey is Fellow @ Institute for Water Resources, US Army Corps of Engineers. Hal Cardwell , International Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation (ITC). “The Energy-Water Nexus: Why Should We Care?” Journal of Contemporary Water Research and Education, Issue 143, pages 17-29, December 2009. http://www.uvm.edu/giee/publications/Voinov_Energy_2009.pdf accessed date: 7-22-12 y2k Water and energy...market is allowed to work |
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Aff doesn’t solve- ignores materialism in favor of cultural analysis, rooting themselves within the capitalist paradigm.
Ebert and Zavarzadeh in 2008(Teresa L., English, State University of New York, Albany, Mas’ud, prolific writer and expert on class ideology, “Class in Culture”, p. 27-29)
On the theoretical ... look "outside." Resisting capitalism’s reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol and recognize that our ethico-political responsibility is to confront the constitutive violence ... otherwise sound matrix. The alternative is to reject the aff in favor of historical materialism – historical materialism links social praxis to a decisive judgment on capitalist oppression.
Lukacs in 67 (George, Hungarian Marxist philosopher and literary critic. He is a founder of the tradition of Western Marxism. He contributed the ideas of reification and class consciousness to Marxist philosophy and theory, and his literary criticism was influential in thinking about realism and about the novel as a literary genre. He served briefly as Hungary's Minister of Culture as part of the government of the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, History and Class Consciousness) 224-225
Historical materialism ...could act accordingly. |
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TEXT: The Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy should endow Innovation Inducement Prizes for by following the NAS’s guideline and recommendation and prizes specification. Prizes should be funded by allocating one-third of the U.S. Climate Change Technology. Solves case—Prizes create incentive for technological advancement and innovation.
Adler, 11—Jonathan H. Adler is Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation @ Case Western Reserve University School of Law. “Eyes on a Climate Prize: Rewarding Energy Innovation to Achieve Climate Stabilization” http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/elr/vol35_1/HLE101.pdf accessed date: 7-28-12 y2k Richard Branson and other...is a national priority |
| 10/12/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Text: The fifty states of America and all relevant localities and territories, should substantially reduce restrictions on passive solar construction in federally assisted housing States solve the entirety of the case – have the potential to access tons of solar energy
Goad et al., Center for American Progress Public Lands Project Research Manager, 2012,
(Jessica, Daniel J. Weiss, Center for American Progress Climate Strategy Director, and Richard Caperton, Center for American Progress Clean Energy Investment Director, "The Vast Potential For Renewable Energy In The American West", Think Progress, 8-6, PAS) thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/06/644271/the-vast-potential-for-renewable-energy-in-the-american-west/ 8-6-12 Arizona, California, Colorado, … met and surpassed. |
| 01/21/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
T-Material is not a restriction Restriction is a codified limitation
Law.Com 9 (“restriction”, The People's Law Dictionary by Gerald and Kathleen Hill (legal writers), http://dictionary.law.com/Default.aspx?selected=1835andbold=restrict, accessed 9-9-9) restriction n. … each owner. Limits- Their interp justifies any material “barrier” on production—like placement of rivers, amount of oil available, or any design flaw in current production methods. Methane production proves:
Williams 3 (Professor, BioResource and Agricultural Engineering Department California Polytechnic State University) Douglas http://agrienvarchive.ca/bioenergy/download/microturbine_dairy_williams.pdf The conclusions and …test this heating concept. T- Accelerating Aquisition United States federal government refers to the President, Vice President, Congress and the Judiciary – not the navy
US Legal ‘No Date (“United States Federal Government Law and Legal Definition,” http://definitions.uslegal.com/u/united-states-federal-government/) The United States...to the people. The plan allows for energy on US foreign bases that are not in the United States
US Department of State
Foreign Affairs Manual, 7 FAM 1116.1–4jap Not Included ...reason of birth." it does not have a net increase in production
Rogers, 2005
(Judge, STATE OF NEW YORK, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, RESPONDENT, NSR MANUFACTURERS ROUNDTABLE, ET AL., INTERVENORS, 2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 12378, ; 60 ERC (BNA) 1791, 6/24, lexis) 48 Statutory ... perfect condition. That’s not a financial incentive – here’s a list
Montana Environmental Quality Council, 2004,
("Alternative Energy Sources to Fuel Montana's Future?", EQC Study Report, September, PAS) www.aeromt.org/PDFs/2004energyreport.pdf 8-11-12 The National...Auctioned Contracts Even if they win all that, the plan isn’t substantial – that’s an 85% change.
Substantial means 85%
Cudahy ’95 Justice Cudahy, 5-30-95, United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, 55 F.3d 1318; 1995 U.S. App. LEXIS 13268 An exemption from...addressed this issue. T-On
Interpretation – restrictions must be directly on energy production
American Heritage Dictionary, No Date,
("-on", PAS) http://ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=onandsubmit.x=0andsubmit.y=0 9-1-12 on prep.¶ 1.¶ a. Used to....meditated on his actions. T-Avoid is not an incentive
Interpretation – incentives require a linkage to a specific reward – avoidance is not an incentive
Stern, Loyola Chicago Assistant Law Professor, 2006,
(Stephanie, "ARTICLE: Encouraging Conservation on Private Lands: A Behavioral Analysis of Financial Incentives", Arizona Law Review, Fall, 48 Ariz. L. Rev. 541, PAS) Accessed on LexisNexis 8-11-12 *548 Third, when...receipt of rewards).
T-Procurement
Increase requires pre-existing program
Webster’s Dictionary 98 Increase: to...well developed Financial Incentives are distinct from procurement
Schoofs 4 “A Federal Renewable Portfolio Standard: Policy Analysis and Proposal”, Sam Schoofs Calvin College 2004 WISE Intern 6 August 2004, Washington Internships for Students of Engineering Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2004/WISE2004-SamSchoofsFinalPaper.pdf There are two main...certification programs in place [13]. T-Extend Duration = not T That means at least a doubling
Mormann 11 (Fellow, Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance, Stanford Law School.)
Felix 38 Ecology L.Q. 903 Innovation of the scale necessar...product on energy RD&D. n191 Extending duration of incentive is not increase
Lanier 11 (exec.Dir. Jacksonville Boys & Girls Club)
http://www.coj.net/departments/special-services/docs/childrens-commission/about-us/jcc-board-minutes-6-15-11-(1).aspx The Board is...decrease the contract amount. |
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Energy production can’t keep up to demand in a globalized, consumerist society. Fossil fuels will cause extinction through climate change. Transitioning to renewables won’t work without dramatic reductions in consumerism and de-globalization of the economy
Ehrenfeld 2k5 David Ehrenfeld is professor II of biology at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, The Enviromental Limits to Globalization http://web.ebscohost.com.mutex.gmu.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=cf059e32-d8ed-475f-b662-01bd253c26e8%40sessionmgr111andvid=5andhid=106 Among the environmental … less energy (Ehrenfeld 2003b) Collapse is inevitable in a growth society – only allowing the economy to crash now sparks a transition to localized de-development. That’s key to prevent massive ecosystems collapse and resource scarcity.
Korowicz 11 (5/14/11, David, physicist and human systems ecologist, the director of The Risk/Resilience Network in Ireland, a board member of FEASTA (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability), “In the world, at the limits to growth,”http:www.feasta.org/2011/05/14/in-the-world-at-the-limits-to-growth/) Yet our feet of … of experience found. Consumption is driving the earth to the brink of extinction through massive environmental destruction –beginning the search for new alternative ways of organizing society locally and massively decreasing consumption is the only hope for earth’s survival.
Barry 10 (Glen, Ph.D. in "Land Resources" from the U of Wisconsin-Madison, Jan 7, www.australia.to/2010/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=308:resisting-global-ecological-changeandcatid=69:reportsandItemid=272) The human family faces … remains to be renewed. Solar companies provide a laundry list of fail buckets
Blackwell 12 (Richard, reporter @ Globe and Mail, July 14th, 2012, In the darkness, solar industry sees some light; As vanishing subsidies and plunging panel prices send companies into bankruptcy, there are some rays of hope signalling that this alternative energy may be on a path to recovery, Lexis (assessed September 15,2012 IB Solyndra, an upstart … technology companies. It doesn’t matter how much costs have changed, Americans still have perceptions it costs way too much and aren’t interested
Business Wire, April 25th 2012, New Data Shows 97% of Americans Overestimate the Cost of Installing Solar Panels; National Survey Reveals Misconceptions Prevent 2 out of 3 Homeowners from Going Solar, Lexis (assessed September 15,2012 IB Sunrun , the nation's …. it Costs to Go Solar Be skeptical of their solvency claims. All of their studies are only considering optimal conditions- which don’t’ happen
Trainer 2k7 Ted Trainer senior lecturer school of social work New South Wales. Renewable energy cannot sustain a Consumer Society pg 44 The available evidence …. arrangement of reflectors. Silicon shortages kill solvency
Wenzel 8 (Elsa, CNET News Staff Writer, 08 May 9, “Barriers to solar energy's blockbuster promise,” http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-9939715-54.html, d/a 8-2-12, ads (assessed September 15,2012 IB As 26 U.S states …. on the weather. |
| 10/15/2012 | Tournament: JMU | Round: 3, 6 | Opponent: | Judge:
The affirmatives discursive call to energy production is rooted in a species-centric ethics that is embedded within the idea of “human exceptionalism,” that humans are special and apart from nature, allowing for the continued dismissal of the inter-connectedness between humans and nature in favor of the consumption and destruction of the environment.
Goodman 2011 Benny Goodman is a professor at Plymouth University Transformation for health and sustainability: Dualism and Anthropocentrism. plymouth.academia.edu/bennygoodman /Papers/677349/ Transformation_for_health_and_sustainability_Dualism_and_Anthropocentrism This ontological... fit for….buying stuff. And the threat of extinction is rooted in an anthropocentric conception of life that denies value to the inhuman and to deeper forms of cosmic consciousness.
Seed 88 (John; Australian environmentalist and director of the Rainforest Information Centre; THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN - TOWARDS A COUNCIL OF ALL BEINGS; http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm) "But the time...as a whole Repression of war through imagination of its practical solution is like going to sleep, detaching from our present condition, war cannot go away, there is no solution
Hillman ‘4 (James, Psychologist, scholar, international lecturer, originator of post-Jungian archetypal psychology, professor at Yale and the University of Chicago, "The Terrible Love of War", Penguin Press, pg. 214-217)
There is no practical...peace and reason Speciesist discourse creates the radical othering of non-human animals reducing them to bare life.
Catlaw 2012 Thomas J. Catlaw is associate professor of public affairs at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University. Regarding the Animal On Biopolitics and the Limits of Humanism in Public Administration http://mesharpe.metapress.com/media/3pvxjjyxmn7wwcxwhkdr/contributions/v/3/2/8/v32838063kujg256.pdf Speciesism, commodification...eat (Herzog, 2010). Bare life leads to unending violence and genocide against those deemed not politically worthy.
KOCHI and ORDAN 2K8 (Tarik Kochi is a professor at Queen’s University. Noam Ordan is a professor at Bar llan University) “an argument for the global suicide of humanity”, vol 7. no. 4., bourderlands e-journal http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol7no3_2008/kochiordan_argument.pdf Within the picture...Treblinka” (Singer, 1968, p.750). Thus the Alternative: Vote negative to reject the ethical exceptionalism of the 1AC.
Rejecting the affirmative opens up the understanding of the species-being, allowing us to move beyond the religion of humanism.
HUDSON 2K4 Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf We are all...and society? And, the affirmative’s policies are founded upon the faulty Cartesian assumption that non-human animals are mindless automatons that are to be commodified for human salvation, perpetuating their exclusion and annhiliation.
Catlaw 2012 Thomas J. Catlaw is associate professor of public affairs at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University. Regarding the Animal On Biopolitics and the Limits of Humanism in Public Administration http://mesharpe.metapress.com/media/3pvxjjyxmn7wwcxwhkdr/contributions/v/3/2/8/v32838063kujg256.pdf The Cartesian foundations...low a plane?” (p. 211). |
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Prolif will be slow even in the new era.
Tepperman ‘9 (Jonathon, former Deputy Managing Ed. Foreig Affairs and Assistant Managing Ed. Newsweek, Newsweek, “Why Obama should Learn to Love the Bomb”, 44:154, 9-7, L/N)
The risk of...mellow behavior. Arms races don't cause war.
Strachan ‘4 (Hew, Chichele Prof. History of War – U. Oxford, RUSI Journal, “War and Emipre”, 149:2, April, Proquest)
Britain had ample...even deter it. Prolif domino effects never materialize.
Alagappa ‘8 (Muthiah, Distinguished Senior Fellow – East-West Center, in “The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia, Ed. Muthiah Alagappa , p. 521-522)
It will be useful...the Middle East Thorium is not economically viable at all – there are no commercial reactor designs and all tests have failed
SimplyInfo, Sept 14, 2011
(Thorium, Not The Nuclear Savior Claimed, http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=3101)
Thorium power...existing fuels. Too many alt causes to nuclear leverage
NEI 12 “Improved Policies for Commercial Nuclear Trade Will Create American Jobs”, June 2012, http://www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/newplants/policybrief/improved-policies-for-commercial-nuclear-trade-will-create-american-jobs?page=1~~~~~~
While U.S. firms ...liability regimes. Most generous time frame is a decade – and that’s for lightwater reactors only, other reactors take longer.
US Department of Commerce 11 (February, "The Commercial Outlook for US Small Modular Nuclear Reactors", US Dept. Commerce: International Trade Administration, http://trade.gov/mas/ian/build/groups/public/@tg_ian/@nuclear/documents/webcontent/tg_ian_003185.pdf - accessed 9/22/12) kc Although SMRs...certification in 2012
Doomsday warming predictions are false.
Aikman, 11—Amos, the Australian Staff Reporter, “Climate forecasts 'exaggerated': Science journal” 11-15-11 http://www.theaustrali-an.com.au/news/health-science/climate-forecasts-exaggerated-science-journal/story-e6frg8y6-1226205464958 accessed date: 5-15-12 y2k Dramatic forecasts...previously thought." Focusing on global warming and environmental crisis ignores the broader cultural problem of anthropocentric thought – masking it and further entrenching anthropocentric mindsets.
Burdon 2k10
Peter D. Burdon is a professor of law at the University of Adelaide. Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1636564 The current environmental...human beings. Their environment impacts are nonsensical outside of an anthropocentric worldview – nothing forever dies it merely changes its form of life.
Hargrove 2002 Eugene Hargrove, Professor of Philosophy at UNT, 2002
Environmental Ethics p. 513-514 There are a number...just as likely to produce benefits. SMRs are ineffective at solving climate change
Makhijani and Boyd 10 ARJUN, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research AND MICHELE, former director of the Safe Energy Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, “Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power”, September, http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/resources/nuclear-smrs-cost-safety-waste.html date accessed: 9-16-12cd Efficiency and most...waste disposal problems. No solvency- either status quo solves case or Loans don’t guarantee production
Wald 11 (Matthew L. Wald- is a reporter at The New York Times, where he has been writing about energy topics for 30 years, "Despite Bipartisan Support, Nuclear Reactor Projects Falter" April 28, 2011 www.nytimes.com/2011/04/29/business/energy-environment/29utility.html?_r=0 DATE ACCESSED: 10/1/12) TM In an effort to...could bring new rules.¶ |
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Doomsday warming predictions are false.
Aikman, 11—Amos, the Australian Staff Reporter, “Climate forecasts 'exaggerated': Science journal” 11-15-11 http://www.theaustrali-an.com.au/news/health-science/climate-forecasts-exaggerated-science-journal/story-e6frg8y6-1226205464958 accessed date: 5-15-12 y2k Dramatic forecasts...previously thought." Focusing on global warming and environmental crisis ignores the broader cultural problem of anthropocentric thought – masking it and further entrenching anthropocentric mindsets.
Burdon 2k10
Peter D. Burdon is a professor of law at the University of Adelaide. Law: The Philosophy of Earth Jurisprudence http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1636564 The current environmental...human beings. Their environment impacts are nonsensical outside of an anthropocentric worldview – nothing forever dies it merely changes its form of life.
Hargrove 2002 Eugene Hargrove, Professor of Philosophy at UNT, 2002
Environmental Ethics p. 513-514 There are a number...just as likely to produce benefits. SMRs are ineffective at solving climate change
Makhijani and Boyd 10 ARJUN, electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research AND MICHELE, former director of the Safe Energy Program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, “Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power”, September, http://www.psr.org/nuclear-bailout/resources/nuclear-smrs-cost-safety-waste.html date accessed: 9-16-12cd Efficiency and most...waste disposal problems. Economic decline doesn’t cause war
Miller 00 (Morris, Economist, Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Administration – University of Ottawa, Former Executive Director and Senior Economist – World Bank, “Poverty as a Cause of Wars?”, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Winter, p. 273) The question...to abort another). History proves
Ferguson 6 (Niall, Professor of History – Harvard University, Foreign Affairs, 85(5), September / October, Lexis) Nor can...followed by wars Collapse is inevitable in a growth society – only allowing the economy to crash now sparks a transition to localized de-development. That’s key to prevent massive ecosystems collapse and resource scarcity.
Korowicz 11 (5/14/11, David, physicist and human systems ecologist, the director of The Risk/Resilience Network in Ireland, a board member of FEASTA (The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability), “In the world, at the limits to growth,”http:www.feasta.org/2011/05/14/in-the-world-at-the-limits-to-growth/) Yet our feet of clay...experience found |
| 10/15/2012 | Tournament: JMU | Round: Quarterfinals | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
Offcase- Anthro (Same shell that's in the Anthro 1NC JMU, but here's the extra cards read in the 1NC) Dignity and life have no meaning within a framework of biopolitics due to the subject being treated only in a productive capacity allowing for the justified killing and unrepenting killing of those not qualified as political.
Agamben 99 Giorgio Agamben was Professor of Philosophy at University of Verona, Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive, pg. 68-69 There are...implacable land-surveyor of Muselmannland. And – policymaking through cost benefit analysis attempts to quantify and weigh competing forms of existence through anthropocentric logics of valuation.
Des Jardins 2001 Joseph Des Jardins, Professor of Philosophy at St John’s University, Environmental Ethics p. 56-57 This only hints...attain this end. Focusing on sustainability trades off with questions of consumption.
Princen et al 2002 Thomas Princen, Associate Professor U of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment, Michael Maniates, Michael Maniates Professor of Environmental Science and Political Science Allegheny College Visiting Professor of Environmental Studies Oberlin College, Ken Conca, Professor School of International Service, American University, PhD, University of California, Berkeley; M.S., University of Wisconsin-Madison; Sc.B., Brown University Confronting Consumption, 2002, mcmc, p. 1-2 Perhaps it is no surprise...chooses to ignore. Their world-view is unsustainable—try or die
Berry 95 (Thomas, Ph.D. from the Catholic University of America in European intellectual history “The viable human” in Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, ed. George Sessions) A deep cultural pathology...industrial establishment'. |
| 10/15/2012 | Tournament: JMU | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Liberty LS | Judge:
SMR’s are embedded in the military industrial complex – nuclear companies subvert democratic control over nuclear energy.
Common Dreams 12 Common Dreams, Are America's Nukes on the Brink of Death? Comment Posted by user: alachuagreen¶ Apr 8 2012 - 11:15pm https://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/04/05-1, Accessed 9/23/12, mcmc The nuclear industry...helped to write. Failure to challenge the military’s seizure of academic knowledge production leads to neverending war and technological devastation. Breaking this epistemological stranglehold is a pre-requisite for debate.
Turse 4 Nicholas, Doctoral Candidate @ Columbia University, “The Military-Academic Complex” The military-academic ...way of the world. |
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Bing R1- Rutgers CK (Baudrillard)
1NC- Presumption, Framework, Cap
2NR- Presumption/Framework Bing R3- Rutgers RS (Res on Trial/Whiteness)
1NC- Cap, Framework, Case
2NR- Cap, Case Bing R5- Binghamton RN (IFR Loan Guarantees)
1NC- Anthro, Elections, Prizes CP, Case
2NR- Anthro, Case Clarion R2- James Madison BM (Settlerism)
1NC-Anthro, T, Case
2NR- Anthro, Case Clarion R3- John Carroll FS (Thorium SMR's)
1NC- ASPEC, XO, Elections, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro Clarion R6- Pittsburgh JW (Courts rule on commerce clause for Fracking)
1NC- T-On, Anthro, Oil DA, Water DA, Guar DA, Case
2NR- Oil DA, Case Clarion Quarters- Army BS (Army Nuclear Carrier Acquisition)
1NC- T-you aren't a financial restriction, restriction, substantial, in the US, and you aren't the USFG, Anthro, Elections, Oil, Case
2NR- T Clarion Semis- James Madison BL (Nuclear Loan Guarantees)
1NC- ASPEC, XO + Prez Powers, Anthro, Elections, Oil, Case
2NR- Anthro JMU R1- George Washington BS (Passive Solar)
1NC- States, Elections (Obama Good), T Restriction, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro JMU R3- Liberty CM (Thorium SMR Loan Guarantees)
1NC- Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro JMU R6- Liberty EF (SMR Loan Guarantees)
1NC- Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro JMU Quarters- Liberty LS (SMR Loan Guarantees)
1NC- Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro West Point R1 (Towson JR)
1NC- Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro West Point R3 (Binghampton GR) (Tax Credit for SMR/Hibachi Reactors}
1NC- Anthro, QER CP, Elections, Case
2NR- Anthro West Point R6 (Dartmouth CL) (Wind PTC)
1NC- Anthro, QER CP, Elections, Case
2NR- Anthro West Point Quarters (Towson HW) (Hip Hop Pedagogy)
1NC- Framework, Anthro, Baudrillard, Case
2NR- Anthro, Baudrillard, Case Liberty R1 (Wake DD) (Liquid Coal Fuel)
1NC- T Direct, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro Liberty R3 (Georgetown BU) (Military SMRs)
1NC- T-Procurement, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro Liberty R5 (Mary Washington LP) (Wind PTC)
1NC- T, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro Wake R1 (Rutgers RS) (Frank Ocean)
1NC- FW, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro Wake R4 (Augustana EH) (Military Reconstruct of weapon to solar panels?)
1NC- T, XO, Politics, Anthro, ASPEC, Case
2NR- Anthro Wake R5 (JCCC) (SMRs)
1NC- T, XO, Politics, Oil DA, Anthro, Case
2NR- Case, Oil DA Wake R7 (Weber State OG) (Sacrifice the Resolution)
1NC- Anthro, Framework, Case
2NR- Framework, Case Navy R1 vs Army CH (Ground Renewable Expeditionary Energy System)
1NC- T, Anthro, case
2NR- Anthro Navy R3 vs UMW LP (Wind PTC)
1NC- T, Politics, States, Anthro, Case
2NR- States/Politics Navy R5 vs Rutgers CJ (Cap Hiphop Performance)
1NC- Framework, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro Navy R8 vs Dartmouth CL (Airborne Wind)
1NC- States, Politics, Anthro, Case
2NR- Anthro |
| 10/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Text: The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology should direct the Department of Energy to include a Quadrennial Energy Review as an addendum to the Quadrennial Technology Review. The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology should direct the Department of Energy to include a recommendation to provide production tax credits and a 20% investment tax credit to GE-Hitachi Nuclear Energy and all subsequent developers for production of a demonstration Power Reactor Innovative Small Module at the Department of Energy’s Savannah River Site and for all subsequent reactors following that design for energy production in the United States. Counterplan solves the entirety of the case – DOE recommendations cause enactment – AND – Even if it fails – private actors will change their behavior
DOE, Department of Energy, 2011,
("QTR: Report on the First Quadrennial Technology Review", September, Pg. XI, PAS) energy.gov/sites/prod/files/ReportOnTheFirstQTR.pdf 10-6-12 An important...the Department’s investments. |
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| 11/02/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Suzuki and Moola 9 (David Suzuki, PhD in zoology from UChicago, and Faisal Moola, 8.20.09, David Suzuki Foundation blog, “It's time for a new economic paradigm,” http://www.davidsuzuki.org/blogs/science-matters/2009/08/its-time-for-a-new-economic-paradigm/ I list ecosystem _and _other…. out and replace them. Expanding energy production is caused by an ontology that subordinates nature- that obscures consumption that’s the root cause of the caseBackhaus 9 Gary Backhaus Phil @ Loyola Maryland, "Automobility: Global Warming as Symptomatology" April 2009, www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/1/2/187 Gore unwittingly bases… its same course. Democratic theory maintains human-supremacist logic – their call for greater human participation is an extension of anthropocentric policy.Thomassen 2005 (García Pelayo Thomassen is a Fellow at Centro de Estudios Políticos y Constitucionales University of London) “Radical democracy: politics between abundance and lack” http:~/~/books.google.com/books?hl=enandlr=andid=z6BP3P-UQg0Candoi=fndandpg=PR7anddq=Radical+democracy:+politics+between+abundance+and+lackandots=Ba1ZA09mKZandsig=BeyaIJz_xDk55N0BgZNtlExf3Dc#v=onepageandq=Radical%20democracy%3A%20politics%20between%20abundance%20and%20lackandf=com/books?hl=enandlr=andid=z6BP3P-UQg0Candoi=fndandpg=PR7anddq=Radical+democracy:+politics+between+abundance+and+lackandots=Ba1ZA09mKZandsig=BeyaIJz_xDk55N0BgZNtlExf3Dc#v=onepageandq=Radical%20democracy%3A%20politics%20between%20abundance%20and%20lackandf=false Democratic theory today rests largely … which we are exquisitely enmeshed. |
| 11/02/2012 | Tournament: Liberty Tournament | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Financial incentives are direct, indirect are fiscal incentives Kurtz 2 Emile Noel Fellow, Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice, New York University Law School; Lecturer, Law School, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jurgen 23 U. Pa. J. Int'l Econ. L. 713 Incentives to attract investors… financial incentives. n64 “FOR” is a limiting term Clegg 95 - J.D., 1981 Yale Law School; the author is vice president and general counsel of the National Legal Center for the Public Interest. (Roger, “Reclaiming The Text of The Takings Clause,” 46 S.C. L. Rev. 531, Summer, lexis) Even if it made no sense… Amendment. n20 Limits- Their interp is practically limitless Dyson et al 3 - International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (Megan, Flow: The Essentials of Environmental Flows, p. 67-68) Understanding of… is practically limitless. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: UMW LP | Judge:
Necessary” allows the affirmative to redefine plan action.
American Heritage Dictionary 2k (http://www.thefreedictionary.com/necessary) nec·es·sar·yadj.1. Absolutely ... the necessary apologies. Resolved means a firm course of action
American Heritage Dictionary 06 (American Heritage Dictionary, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/resolved) Resolve TRANSITIVE ... formal vote. B. They delay implementation to December 31st
‘Should’ requires immediate action
Summer ‘94 (Justice, Oklahoma Supreme Court, “Kelsey v. Dollarsaver Food Warehouse of Durant”, http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=20287#marker3fn14) 4 The legal ... 336, 337, 27 L.Ed. 201 (1882). C. They give PTC’s for wind facilities that don’t yet exist
Increase means pre-existing
Buckley et al ‘6 (Jeremiah Buckley et al, Attorney, Amicus Curiae Brief, Safeco Ins. Co. of America et al v. Charles Burr et al,06 http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/06-84/06-84.mer.ami.mica.pdf) First, the court s... it”) (citation omitted). D. Vote neg on presumption: Necessary does not mean sufficient; plan cannot solve.
Swartz 97 Norman Swartz, 1997 (professor emeritus, Department of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University, http://www.sfu.ca/~swartz/conditions1.htm) For example, ...being a square." |
| 01/21/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
We begin at the end. The affirmative thinks that we should avert catastrophe so that humanity will continue. We take issue with this; we believe that humanity is bad. To start, we begin at the beginning. The foundations of humanity are founded upon a false political distinction between the human/nonhuman.
Catlaw 2012 Thomas J. Catlaw is associate professor of public affairs at the School of Public Affairs, Arizona State University. Regarding the Animal On Biopolitics and the Limits of Humanism in Public Administration http://mesharpe.metapress.com/media/3pvxjjyxmn7wwcxwhkdr/contributions/v/3/2/8/v32838063kujg256.pdf The Cartesian foundations...too low a plane?” (p. 211). These distinctions and actions based upon human centered thought are the root cause of war.
Johns 98 David M. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Political Science Portland State Univ. B.S. Political Science and Anthropology 1976, Portland State University; M.A. Political Science 1978, J.D. Law, 1980, Columbia University.The Relevance of Deep Ecology to the Third World (1990) Some Preliminary Comments in The great new wilderness debate By J. Baird Callicott, Michael P. Nelson ct Page/s 257 MILITARIZATION As with overconsumption we...the current crisis the Alternative is: Vote negative to reject the ethical exceptionalism of the 1AC. Rejecting the affirmative opens up the understanding of the species-being, allowing us to move beyond the religion of humanism.
HUDSON 2K4 Laura, The Political Animal: Species-Being and Bare Life, mediations journal, http://www.mediationsjournal.org/files/Mediations23_2_04.pdf We are all equally...politics and society? Additionally, the affirmative thinks that death is bad, however, consciousness exists outside of our conceptions of the physical body. Life is merely transformed.
Lanza 2010 (Robert Lanza is considered one of the leading scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. "Does Death Exist?: Life Is Forever, Says Theory" http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-lanza/does-death-exist-life-is_b_410306.html) In the cartoon, Bugs...them piece by piece. Only extinction allows us to overcome human-life-centeredness
Mitchell Heisman (The opposite of a bullshitter, suicide practitioner, and University at Albany bachelor's degree in psychology) 2010
Suicide Note, online @ http://www.suicidenote.info/, loghry The conventional distinction...organisms or different species |
| 01/21/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Electricity can’t replace liquid fuels for the vast majority of military fuel use
Zubrin 2007, Robert Zubrin, New Atlantis contributing editor, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the president of Pioneer Astronautics, an aerospace engineering RandD firm, Nov. 10, 2007, “Energy Victory,” Prometheus Books, p. 24
Nuclear, hydroelectric, wind...discussed in chapters 10 and 11. Fuel costs are only 3% of military expenditures, even given recent price increases—they don’t break the bank
Anthony Andrews, Specialist in Energy and Energy Infrastructure Policy, 9/22/2009, "Department of Defense Fuel Spending, Supply, Acquisition, and Policy," www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R40459.pdf
In FY2000, fuel...fuel to military-specification. Air Force is 60% of DOD fuel consumption
Paul Dimotakis et al, The MITRE Corporation, September 2006, "Reducing DoD Fossil-Fuel Dependence," www.fas.org/irp/agency/dod/jason/fossil.pdf
DoD fuel consumption...standards for fuel consumption. Convoys effectively ensure access to fuel
LtCol Scott A Rew, Materiel Branch Chief for Combat Development @ Army Armor Center at Fort Knox, May-June 2009, "Protecting Our Logistics Assets: A Look to the (Near) Future," www.almc.army.mil/alog/issues/May-June09/pdf/alog_mayjun09.pdf
More than anything...address all of the issues No solvency – government fails at picking winners in the market – always losers
IER, Institute for Energy Research, 10-25, 2012,
("From Bad to Worse: U.S. Taxpayers Keep Losing Money on Solyndra", Institute for Energy Research, PAS) www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/2012/10/25/u-s-taxpayers-keep-losing-money-on-solyndra/ 10-25-12 History has shown...filed for bankruptcy. No solvency – low natural gas prices crowdout out solar
Friedman, New York Times, 2012,
(Thomas, "Get It Right on Gas", New York Times, 8-4, PAS) www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/friedman-get-it-right-on-gas.html?_r=3andref=opinion 8-21-12 WE are in the midst...they should punish them.” Environment turn – solar production ruins land for biodiversity
Outka, Florida State University College of Law Energy and Land Use Law Visiting Scholar, 2011,
(Uma, "ARTICLE: The Renewable Energy Footprint", Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 30 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 241, June, PAS) Accessed on LexisNexis 9-14-12 *249 The cumulative land impact...acres" if approved. n47 Solar and Wind are clean energies – does pollute water supplies
Huffington Post 12 Earth Techling ,staff writer, 07/13/2012 1:40 pm, “Can Solar And Wind Power Save Our Rivers?”, Huffington Post, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/13/can-solar-and-wind_n_1668763.html Date Accessed September 19, 2012 1:28AM) IB
In an era of stressed watersheds...Network report says |
| 01/21/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Sequestration is at the top of the docket- Obama political capital key to compromise
Ward 1/14 Obama Looks To Cut GOP's Spending Advantage By Declaring Debt Nearly Stabilized, 01/14/2013, Jon Ward, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/14/obama-spending-cuts_n_2474244.html President Barack Obama's...about these entitlements." PTC not popular
Yin 13 Assessing the Wind Production Tax Credit, January 8, 2013, Clifton Yin, a Clean Energy Policy Analyst at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. Prior to joining ITIF, he earned a Master of Public Policy degree with a focus on environmental and regulatory policy from the Georgetown Public Policy Institute. http://theenergycollective.com/cliftonyin/167936/assessing-wind-production-tax-credit As part of the...is thus long overdue. Sequestration cuts NIH- undermines disease prevention, econ, heg, and science leadership
Gabbe 12 Sequestration cuts would be a disaster for U.S. medical research, Dr. Steven G. Gabbe, December 24, 2012, senior vice president for health sciences at Ohio State University and chief executive officer at OSU’s Wexner Medical Center, http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/12/24/sequestration-cuts-would-be-a-disaster-for-u-s~-~-medical-research.html Physicians at the nation’...sequestration cannot happen. Disease causes extinction
Keating 9 Foreign Policy web editor, Joshua, “The End of the World”, 11-13-09, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/11/13/the_end_of_the_world?page=full, How it could happen: Throughout...troubling complication |
