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Topicality

A. Definitions

A.      Substantially means 90%

WORDS and PHRASES citing Auclair v Riley 2000, p. no page. (

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2d 861, 96 N.H. l.-Tax347.1.

B.      Restriction means a limiting factor

American Heritage Dictionary 09 (http:~/~/www.thefreedictionary.com/com/restriction

Something that restricts; a regulation or limitation.

C.      ON means creating OPPOSITION

Merriam Webster 12 ON—used as a function word to indicate the object of collision, opposition, or hostile action bumped my head on a limb an attack on religion pulled a gun on me

D.    Energy production is the extraction of primary energy forms and is distinct from consumption

Sagar, Oliver, and Chikkatur 06

Ambuj Sagar is a senior research associate in the Science, Technology, and

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Developing Countries” 7 Vt. J. Envtl. L. 1

n1 The energy sector encompasses activities relating to the production, conversion, and use

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in industrial, residential, commercial, transportation and other end-uses.

B. Violation – The Affirmative removes restrictions on energy consumption not production.

C. Standards –

1.       Ground – the affirmative allows for more consumption in which there are millions of ways we can consume energy, which opens the floodgates to different affirmatives.

2.       Limits – there are thousands of ways we could remove restrictions on production, so it makes it impossible for the negative to prepare for all the different consumption manners.

3.       Grammatical Precision – the resolution asks the US to reduce restrictions ON energy production NOT on energy consumption.

4.       Extra T – part of their affirmative is outside of the topic which uniquely hurts our ability to debate them because our topic specifc arguments like Ks and CPs may solve for 2/3 of the plan, but the rest of the plan is either residual offense or unpredictable.

E.       Topicality is a Voter for Fairness and Education

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Energy policy only concerns itself with the systematic ordering of nature upon a standing reserve for future exploitation

Schalow 2006  (Frank Schalow, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Orleans.  The Incarnality of Being: The Earth, Animals, and the Body in Heidegger’s Thought, pg. 96-97) 

Can we classify Heidegger as an ecologist, or even as a protoecologist? This

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, or better yet, the orderability of what is to be seized.

In constructing nature as a resource to be harnessed and utilized as a tool,

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: Heidegger, Profound Boredom and the Alterity of Nature”, September)  SVK

To be clear, though this type of experience might be described positively as an

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no inherent limitations that might curb their manipulation and exploitation as resources.

Loss of human self assertion would be worse than nuclear omnicide

Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy @ Tulane, 1994 (Michael, Contesting Earth’s Future, p 119-120) SVK

Heidegger asserted that human self-assertion, combined with the eclipse of being,

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species are somehow lessened because they were never "disclosed" by humanity.

The alternative is a break from calculative thought through meditation

Best and Nocella, Associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso, 2006 (Steven and Anthony, Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth, p. 82-84, Google Books) SVK

Yet, for both Heidegger and revolutionary environmentalists, there exist possibilities for transformation despite

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in the ELF communiques, is found in Native American philosophy and practice.

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High oil prices are driving Russian economic growth

MLA 12

(4/20, Meat and Livestock Australia, “High oil prices drive Russian economy,” http:~/~/www.mla.com.au/Prices-and-markets/Market-news/au/Prices-and-markets/Market-news/High-oil-prices-drive-Russian-economy, Accessed: 7/11/12, GJV)

The Russian economy is expected to grow by 4% in 2012, according to

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about by a slowdown in the Euro zone and the wider global economy.

There is a substitution effect between nuclear and oil prices

Lee and Chiu 10

(Chien-Chiang, Yi-Bun – University Kaohsiung Taiwan;“Oilprices, nuclear energy consumption, and economic growth: New evidence using a heterogeneous panel analysis”; Energy Policy Volume 39, Issue 4, April 2011, Pages 2111–2120) BHB

This paper applies panel data analysis to examine the short-run dynamics and long

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no causality between nuclear energy consumption and economic growth in the short run.

Incentives for nuclear power lowers oil prices – trades off
 US Fed News 8 (5/6/08. “SKYROCKETING GAS PRICES HIGHLIGHT NEED TO USE AMERICAN RESOURCES” http:~/~/www.lexis.com/research/retrieve?_m=08d0fc06b2da1455085f3578e4de428danddocnum=6and_fmtstr=FULLand_startdoc=1andwchp=dGLbVtz-zSkAland_md5=com/research/retrieve?_m=08d0fc06b2da1455085f3578e4de428danddocnum=6and_fmtstr=FULLand_startdoc=1andwchp=dGLbVtz-zSkAland_md5=f4756b7493583c302d5375ed8a4b39a8)
  Despite promises of a "commonsense plan" to lower gas prices, the Democrats have failed to act on the number one issue affecting Kentuckians' pocketbooks since taking over the Majority in Congress. Our country must invest in alternative energy sources in order to reduce our energy dependence and lower fuel costs. It is time Congress works in a bipartisan manner to create a balanced energy solution that promotes conservation efforts and increases energy production on our own soil. Speaker Nancy Pelosi has rejected commonsense solutions that increase production in America and use our own resources. The law of supply and demand is a staple of economics. It is commonsense that when we increase domestic supply, gas prices will fall. I have voted for and supported a number of proposals that would do just that. For example, the No More Excuses Energy Act (H.R. 3089) would encourage new refinery construction, allow for environmentally responsible exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife html?_nkw=arctic+national+wildlife+refuge||target="_blank" title="Shopping link added by SkimWords" (ANWR) and the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and provide tax incentives to encourage the construction of new nuclear power plants.

Downfall of the oil industry collapses the Russian economy

Dashevsky 11 (Steven, Managing Director of Dashevsky and Partners (Investment Firm), Adviser to Dean, Moscow School of Management May 24^th, http://rt.com/business/news/russia-economy-oil-rpice/)

RT: High oil prices have helped Russia’s budget but is the country too dependent

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sentiment for all of the Russian economy, not just oil and gas.”

Russian Econ collapse Impact – Laundry List

Oliker and Paley 2002, Olga Oliker and Tanya Charlick-Paley, RAND Corporation Project Air Force, “Assessing Russia’s Decline,” www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/MR1442/

Continuing trends toward military, political, economic, and social decline in Russia threaten

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called upon for transportation and perhaps military missions in a very demanding environment.

Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 2 | Opponent: Concordia NeWa | Judge: Max Archer