General Actions:
Wiki: openCaselist
▼:
Document Index
»
Space: James Madison
▼:
Document Index
»
Page: Brass-Lepp Neg
General Actions:
Brass-Lepp Neg
Last modified by bnhan on 2013/03/30 19:17
Cites
| # | Date | Entry |
|---|---|---|
| 11/10/2012 | T-Financial IncentiveTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: A. Interpretation – financial incentives must be targeted at energy generation B. Violation – research and development isn’t tied to energy production – the plan is an indirect incentive C. Vote negative – tons of bidirectional mechanisms impact energy technology in ways that could increase or decrease production – only direct financial incentives for increased production creates fair, predictable limits | |
| 11/10/2012 | DA-Fiscal CliffTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Fukushima and safety concerns have made federal support of nuclear controversial Fiscal cliff collapses the global economy- high risk of spillover Economic decline causes war – multiple warrants and the best research flows neg 1NR Long timeframe impacts are checked by intervening actors because we can always solve them later—you should default negative on our short timeframe The US is critical to the global economy means our impact would spill over Fiscal Cliff will be avoided now Republicans are willing to work out a deal- only question of Obama’s leadership Fiscal Cliff will pass now, but presidential influence and compromise is key Fiscal cliff gets resolved now, but only with Obama focus Fiscal cliff causes worldwide recession Fiscal cliff tanks dollar and causes credit downgrade Obama using his PC to solve fiscal cliff now- top of the agenda Republicans are willing to work with Obama if he commits the capital to compromise Empirically proven IFR’s face stiff opposition in congress Funding IFR’s is controversial and they will take forever to license Solyndra made loan guarantees politically expensive Even if expansions is popular- debate over implementation costs capital | |
| 11/10/2012 | CP-StatesTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: States can solve energy development and deployment 2NC- States solve commercialization Compacts solv certainty Compacts circumvent federal legislation No roll back 50 State fiat is legitimate Questions about energy …dense tangle. D) It’s real world – not utopian – the NGA proves The governors of the 50 … comes second in the list of 10 principles F) The CP is key to test the agent of the resolution which turns their [education / decision-making] – they should be responsible for the agent because lack of consideration of energy federalism destroys long term solvency New Yorkers are “…. stage for defeat in another. | |
| 11/10/2012 | Case-Russia AnswersTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Russia won’t cooperate Syria, Libya and Putin tank relations- no progress soon No nuclear terrorism Coherent policies to reduce the … on the topic is significantly flawed.”59 Their evidence is hype | |
| 11/10/2012 | Case-Uranium AnswersTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Uranium supplies will last a long time The uranium supply is practically limitless—anyone who says otherwise is an anti-nuclear hack Zero incentive for China – we’d crush them and it’d destroy their trade What about China, the most ….y going to war are quite different things). | |
| 11/10/2012 | Case-Warming AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Nuclear can’t solve global warming- construction times, global financing and supply bottlenecks prevent solvency Natural Gas killing coal now Recent government data proves it’s too late No impact to biodiversity loss – doesn’t collapse ecosystems and redundant species Biodiversity limits. The original …f somewhere down the road. Disease won’t cause extinction – genetics and modern medicine Yet the fact that | |
| 11/10/2012 | Case-Solvency-Nuclear AnswersTournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: | Judge: Plan fails – multiple barriers create a chilling effect on nuclear investment and construction PRISM reactors still 20 years away from the market and cause prolif Can’t solve costs- Nuclear industry has made this promise before | |
| 11/10/2012 | 1NC Lead Reactor CPTournament: Shirley | Round: 4 | Opponent: | Judge: The United States Federal government should fund research and development for Lead Fast Reactors including capital investment in a pilot plant. High risk of accidents and meltdowns with IFRs empirically proven Tanks solvency- constant fires prevent long term success Lead Cooled Reactors Solve | |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: T - ResolutionTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass A. Our interpretation is that the affirmative must conclude with a defense of increasing energy production or a reduction in restrictions by the United States federal government.
1. “Resolved” before a colon introduces a formal resolutionArmy Officer School 04 (5-12, “# 12, Punctuation – The Colon and Semicolon”, http:~/~/usawocc.army.mil/IMI/htm(% style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri" %)) The colon introduces the following: a. A list, but only after " AND resolved:" Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor. 2. “The United States federal government should” means the debate is solely about hypothetical policy action Ericson et al. 03 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts at California Polytechnic State University, 2003, “The Debater’s Guide,” Third Edition,” p. 7, accessed via Google Books on 3-29-12 //Bosley) The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains AND compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose.
3. “The United States federal government” is the legislative, judicial, and executive branches USA.gov 12 (Official US. Government Web Portal, “U.S. Federal Government, last updated 3-27-12, http:~/~/www.usa.gov/Agencies/shtml(% style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri" %), accessed 3-29-12 //Bosley) U.S. Federal Government The three branches of U.S. government—legislative, judicial, and executive—carry out governmental power and functions. C. Vote negative 1. Predictable Limits – there’s an infinite number of alternative frameworks outside of instrumental defense of the resolution – shifting the debate ensures one side is unprepared and destroys debate as an activity Galloway, Professor of Communications at Samford, 07 (Ryan, “Dinner And Conversation At The Argumentative Table: Reconceptualizing Debate As An Argumentative Dialogue”, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28 (2007), ebsco) Debate as a dialogue sets an argumentative table, where all parties receive a relatively AND substitutes for topical action do not accrue the dialogical benefits of topical advocacy.
2. Fairness – allowing the affirmative to defend vague alternative positions allows the aff to become a moving target – that makes it impossible to be neg because the aff can spike out of any links
3. Energy Politics – debating concrete details of energy policy is key to agency and political decision-making – the alternative is elitist takeoverKuzemko, Post-Doctoral Fellow at the CSGR University of Warwick, 12 (Caroline, “Security, the State and Political Agency: Putting ‘Politics’ back into UK Energy,” 3-5-12, http:~/~/www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2012/381_61.pdf(% style="font-size:7.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"" %), accessed 1-2-12 //Bosley) Both Hay (2007) and Flinders and Buller (2006) suggest that there AND cf. Kuzemko 2012b: 61-66; Wood 2011: 7).
4. Switch-side – divorcing ourselves to defend both sides of the resolution is necessary to produce tolerance of difference – if their affirmative is correct it’s a reason to vote negativeMuir, Professor of Communication at GMU, 93 (Star, “A Defense of the Ethics of Contemporary Debate,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 26:4) The role of switch-side debate is especially important in the oral defense of AND out advocates convinced of their rightness is not a position imbued with tolerance.
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: Chow KTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Glass, Casey The affirmative takes the position of the Maoist – their engagement the Otherness is parasitic and consumptive, naturalizing academic colonialism and oppression—you must reject their relationship with the Other on faceChow, Anne Firor Scott Professor of Literature at Duke, 93 (Rey, Writing Diaspora, Indiana University of Press, 1993, p.10-13, accessed via Google Books on 5-29-12, JDB) *Note – under erasure The Orientalist has a special sibling whom I will, in order to highlight her AND longer distinguishable from those of us who have had our consciousnesses “raised.”
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: Case - Ecofem BadTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Casey, Glass, Lemuel Heg is goodOwen 11 (John, associate professor of politics – University of Virginia, 2/11, “Don’t Discount Hegemony,” http:~/~/www.cato-unbound.org/2011/02/11/john-owen/dont-discount-hegemony/http://www.cato-unbound.org/2011/02/11/john-owen/dont-discount-hegemony/(%%) //shree) Andrew Mack and his colleagues at the Human Security Report Project are to be congratulated AND U.S. material and moral support for liberal democracy remains strong.
Debate is inherently masculinized—it’s competitive, there’s a winner and a loser, and you’re competing pretty hard for the ballot—especially at the NDT—means your impacts are inevitable
Extinction is inevitable—try or die to get off the rockAusten, 11 (Ben Austen, writer for POPSCI, “After Earth: Why, Where, How, and When We Might Leave Our Home Planet”, 3/16/2011, http:~/~/www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-02/com/science/article/2011-02/after-earth-why-where-how-and-when-we-might-leave-our-home-planet(%%)) NL Earth won’t always be fit for occupation. We know that in two billion years AND will be more human beings who live off the Earth than on it.”
Death outweighs—you can’t come back from it and you can’t experience when you’re deadWapner 3 (Paul, associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University. “Leftist Criticism of "Nature" Environmental Protection in a Postmodern Age,” Dissent Winter, http:~/~/www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/archives/2003/wi03/htm(%%)) All attempts to listen to nature are social constructions-except one. Even the AND , they deny their own intellectual insights and compromise their fundamental moral commitment.
Extinction comes first and turns casePaterson 3 Department of Philosophy, Providence College, Rhode Island Craig, “A Life Not Worth Living?”, Studies in Christian Ethics, http:~/~/com(% style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" %) //shree Contrary to those accounts, I would argue that it is death per se that AND the person, the very source and condition of all human possibility.82
Universities gladly permit leftist academic discourses, knowing the proliferation of these discourses in the academy get co-opted by the sign economy and are graveyards for radical potential | |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: Molten Salt Reactors Counter AdvocacyTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass Our counter-advocacy is for the United States federal government to use and mandate that all people use waste-annihilating molten salt reactors.WAMSR solves all waste issuesWile, 12 (Rob, Business Insider, "MIT Kids Think They've Solved How To Get Rid Of Nuclear Waste", Jun 7, www.businessinsider.com/com/waste-annihilating-molten-salt-reactor-2012-6(%%)) NL The House voted yesterday to restore html(%%) to Nevada's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage facility AND to be modular and rail-shippable, with a fast construction time.
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: 2NC FrameworkTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass The argument that our framework is systemically biased is a self-serving assertion to sidestep clash—all of their reasons not to defend the topic can be appropriated by actors with opposite goalsTalisse, Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt, 05 (Robert, “Deliberativist responses to activist challenges: A continuation of Young’s dialectic, ” Philosophy and Social Criticism 31:4, pp.423-444, accessed 1-2-13 //Bosley) *Evidence has been gender modified My call for a more detailed articulation of the second activist challenge may be met AND entails a politics based upon interest=based power struggles amongst adversarial factions.
Limits are key to innovation and creative thinkingIntrator, President of the Creative Organization, 10 (David, also an award-winning writer and filmmaker, and has written musical scores for film and television, “Thinking Inside the Box,” 10-21-12, http:~/~/www.trainingmag.com/article/com/article/thinking-inside-box(% style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Cambria; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-latin" %), accessed 11-3-12 //Bosley) One of the most pernicious myths about creativity, one that seriously inhibits creative thinking AND simply don’t fit into the rules you’re creating as you build your box.
Engaging the formal notion of the political is good – alternative frameworks breed narcissistic disengagement with political pragmatism – this means we produce the best pedagogyChandler, Professor of IR at Westminster, 2007 (David Chandler is Professor of International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster – “The Attraction of Post-Territorial Politics: Ethics and Activism in the International Sphere” – Inaugural Lecture – May – available at:http:~/~/ww.davidchandler.org/pdf/short_articles/Inaugural%20lecture.pdf)http://www.davidchandler.org/pdf/short_articles/Inaugural%20lecture.pdf%29(% style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-font-family:Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family:Arial" %) PE/JDB However, politics is no less important to many of us today. Politics still AND about how theory might be used to understand and engage with the world.
Particularly true for this topic—decisionmaking skills and engagement with the state energy apparatus prevents energy technocracy and actualizes radical politicsHager 92, professor of political science – Bryn Mawr College (Carol J., “Democratizing Technology: Citizen and State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990” Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70) During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement AND a space for a delibera-tive politics in modern technological society.61
Haskell 90 – history professor at Rice University (May, Thomas, History and Theory, 29.2, “Objectivity is Not Neutrality: Rhetoric vs. Practice in Peter Novick’s That Noble Dream”, p. 129-157) Detachment functions in this manner not by draining us of passion, but by helping AND , or editorially splitting the difference between them, irrespective of their perceived merits
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: 2NC Counter AdvocacyTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass Nuclear power solves global warmingLlanos, 05 (Miguel, MSNBC specialist in environmental issues, “Hot Idea: Fight Warming With Nuclear Power”, 7/7, http:~/~/www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8120563url:http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8120563) NL When it comes to global warming, President Bush's refusal to endorse mandatory action means AND American nuclear industry must be revitalized and permitted to grow," he said.
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: 1NR Counter AdvocacyTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass Risk of meltdown in New Reactor is once in a million years NEI, 11 (Nuclear Energy Institute, NEI is governed by a 49-member board of directors. The board includes representatives from the nation's 26 nuclear utilities, plant designers, architect/engineering firms and fuel cycle companies. Eighteen members of the board serve on the executive committee, which is responsible for NEI's business and policy affairs; President and Chief Executive Officer Energy Future Holdings Corporaiton Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, John F. Young is president and chief executive officer of Energy Future Holdings Corporation, a Dallas-based energy holding company with a portfolio of competitive and regulated energy subsidiaries primarily in Texas, including TXU Energy, Luminant and Oncor. Before joining EFH, Young was Exelon's executive vice president of finance and markets, responsible for Exelon's entire financial organization including the controller, treasury, planning, investor relations, corporate development, risk management, tax, audit and controls functions, and Exelon's trading and marketing organization, the Power Team. Young's previous leadership responsibilities at Exelon included the role of president of Exelon Generation, where he managed the company’s nuclear, fossil and hydro operations. In both of these leadership roles, Young oversaw the power trading and marketing operations of Exelon's Power Team. The Power Team was responsible for portfolio optimization, fuels management, wholesale marketing and Exelon Energy, the corporation's unregulated retail energy marketing entity in the Midwest. Young joined Exelon Power in March 2003 as chief operating officer and was named president of the operating unit in May 2003. Young joined Exelon from Sierra Pacific Resources Corporation, where he was senior vice president with responsibilities for the operation of the company's fossil and hydro facilities. From 1983 until 2000, Young rose through the ranks at Southern Company, then America's largest electric utility. His last position at Southern Company was executive vice president of Southern Generation, the largest wholesale energy provider in the Southeast. Young joined Southern after serving five years in the Navy, including a tour as engineering officer of the guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga; President and Chief Executive Officer Exelon Corporation Vice Chairman, Nuclear Energy Institute, Christopher M. Crane is president and chief executive officer of Chicago-based Exelon Corporation, the nation’s number one competitive energy provider. He oversees a family of companies representing every stage of the energy value chain, with more than 35,000 megawatts of owned generating capacity and 6.6 million electric and natural gas customers in Illinois, Maryland and Pennsylvania. Crane previously served as president and chief operating officer of Exelon Corporation. In that role, he oversaw one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach and the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants. He directed a broad range of business including major acquisitions, transmission strategy, cost management initiatives, oversight of major capital programs, generation asset optimization and generation development. Crane is an acknowledged leader in the electric utility and nuclear industries. He is a member of the executive committee of the Edison Electric Institute and the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Vice Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.,Marv Fertel is president and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Energy Institute. He has 35 years of experience consulting for electric utilities on issues related to designing, siting, licensing and managing both fossil and nuclear plants. He has worked in executive positions with such organizations as Ebasco, Management Analysis Company and Tenera. In November 1990, he joined the U.S. Council for Energy Awareness as vice president of Technical Programs. With the formation of NEI in 1994, he became NEI’s vice president of Nuclear Economics and Fuel Supply. Mr. Fertel was named senior vice president and chief nuclear officer in 2003. In that role, he was responsible for leading NEI’s programs related to ensuring an effective and safety-focused regulatory process. He directed industrywide efforts to ensure adequate security is provided at nuclear power plants and to address generic technical issues related to commercial nuclear facilities. He also led NEI’s activities related to the long-term management of used nuclear fuel, including achieving success in the U.S. government’s program for the storage and ultimate disposal of used nuclear fuel. ..March 2011, http://inst.nuc.berkeley.edu/NE104/Final_Myths%20%20Facts_030711.pdf) Fact: The probability of fuel melting, or core damage, in a U AND each must maintain high levels of performance and emergency preparedness to continue operations.
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: 1NR Chow KTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass The affirmative takes the position of the Maoist – like Mao Zedong who saw the plight of the Chinese poor as fuel for his own political gain at the expense of their material depravation, the affirmative elevates their position in debate through highlighting the depravation of womyn – the rhetorical act of the 1AC serves to hide the material power and privilege that undergrids their criticism and turns the oppressed into objects of study and consumption – that naturalizes an epistemology of colonialism through establishing academic hierarchies and denying the oppressed even the vocabulary of demands as their words and testimony become weapons in the affirmative’s arsenal – that’s the first Chow evidence
You should reject the affirmative’s parasitic engagement with oppression – our first obligation as intellectuals is to struggle against becoming the objects and instruments of power as it manifests in the upward mobility we get from consuming oppression – this is a methodological question of how we orient scholarship which is a pre-requisite to evaluating the substance of the affirmative – that’s the second Chow evidence
Men in feminism cannot participate because they have not experienced the historical oppression on the basis of sex-results in metaphysical cannibalism in which men become subversive at the expense of the subjectivity of woman Braidotti 11 Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects : Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (2nd Edition). New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press, 2011. p 5. http:~/~/site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453andppg=16url:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453andppg=16(% style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:Arial;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"" %) Copyright © 2011.Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Uwyo//amp In spite of my commitment to joyful, positive affirmation of alternative values, according AND . I am sure “they” know this, don’t “they”?
| |
| 03/29/2013 | NDT Round 1: 1NR Case - Ecofem BadTournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC BS | Judge: Lemuel, Casey, Glass YOU DROPPED HEG They deconstruct the ideology and values that are the foundation of our hegemony, and renders our population blind and complacent toward emerging threats to world peace. Reject their methodology in favor of unwavering support for US dominance—only this can preserve international stability and guarantee that we take academia back from crazy hippies like this—that’s Kristol and Kagan
Role of the ballot is to maximize the lives saved (ALSO CONCEDED).
Self-satisfying role of the ballots make clash impossible—framing the role of the judge as somebody who merely affirms individualized politicization or resistance against violence makes it impossible to be negative because the affirmative will always win that they have written their aff in a way that touches upon the impacts that they chose. Debating about whether the 1AC speech act is good requires a fruitful discussion over whether their scheme of justifications is valid or whether criticizing US interventionism actually prevents violence, which leads to good education and is a prior question to the affirmative. (B) Hegemony solves violence and is the root cause of peace because it creates the economic and political conditions for openness and stability around the world—that’s Owen 11. You should prefer our claim over assertions to the contrary—it’s the only evidence based on years of empirical and quantifiable data—their evidence is more likely to be ideologically biased because their impact claims have no verifiable studies to back it up. Coyne, 06 (Jerry A., reviewing FOLLIES OF THE WISE by Frederick Crews, September 6, 2006. http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25347-2345445,00.html) Crews includes three final essays on deconstruction and other misguided movements in literary theory. AND debased by politics and religion, we desperately needto heed Crews’s plea forempiricism.
Turn—associating women with care dangerously limits the ethico-political possibilities for women MacGregor 4 (Sherilyn MacGregor is a postdoctoral fellow in the Institute for Environment, Philosophy and Public Policy at Lancaster University, UK. “From Care to Citizenship Calling Ecofeminism Back To Politics,” Ethics and the Environment 9.1 (2004) 56-84//shree) One of the themes in contemporary ecofeminist literature is that women's care-related perspectives AND of the language of care to understand and theorize women's engagement in ecopolitics.
| |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: T vs ReprocessingTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: A. Interpretation – financial incentives must be targeted at energy generationO’Brien, Minister of State – Department for Energy and Climate Change in the UK Parliament, 08 I have quite a lot still to say, so I shall try to give as … with payments to small-scale generators. What is proposed will be a real feed-in tariff scheme. For is used to indicate purposeMerriam-Webster, ND Energy production is the conversion of energy from an energy source to energy B. Violation – research and development isn’t tied to energy production – the plan is an indirect incentiveEIA, Energy Information Administration of the US DOE, 92 Research and development. The budgetary cost of … so could be considered an indirect subsidy. C. Vote negative – tons of bidirectional mechanisms impact energy technology in ways that could increase or decrease production – only direct financial incentives for increased production creates fair, predictable limitsEIA, Energy Information Administration of the US DOE, 92 In some sense, most Federal policies have …, or research and development. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: States CPTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: 1NCThe 50 states should create a states compact to substantially increase its applied research and development for nuclear reprocessing in the United States.A compact is the best means for interstate energy action and it avoids federal preemptionCraig, 2010 While substantive and procedural considerations … their multistate renewable energy programs. 2NCStates can solve incentives- carried renewable through the bush era.Sinclair, 10 (JD-Cornell %26 Executive Director of Clean Energy States Alliance, "Federal Climate and Energy Legislation and the States: Legislative Principles and Recommendations for a New Clean Energy Federalism," April http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEGCleanEnergyFederalismv3April2010.pdf) Over the past decade loan programs can be of particular value. States solve commercializationSinclair, 10 (JD-Cornell %26 Executive Director of Clean Energy States Alliance, "Federal Climate and Energy Legislation and the States: Legislative Principles and Recommendations for a New Clean Energy Federalism," April http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEGCleanEnergyFederalismv3April2010.pdf-http://www.cleanegroup.org/assets/Uploads/2011-Files/Reports/CEGCleanEnergyFederalismv3April2010.pdf) As is so often the case, of these already successful programs. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: CIR Politics DATournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: 1NCCIR will pass – momentum overwhelms thumpers but delay wrecks the billBerman and Lillis 3-20-13 Leaders in both parties voiced confidence … its principles for reform in January and it is hoping to introduce legislation in April following the two-week Easter recess. Nuclear power sparks Congressional oppositionAdams, Founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., 12 We talked quite a bit about my solidifying theory that a … remotely level playing field. CIR key to the economyReuters 1-29 (Reuters) - The sluggish U.S. economy could … "The current system doesn’t seem to work for anyone," Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said. Economic decline causes warRoyal, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010 Less intuitive is how periods of economic declinemay … created by economic crises. As such, the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views. 1NREconomic decline short-circuits every affirmative impact – creates feedback loops which destroys global cooperation and international stabilityBrzezinski, National Security Advisor under President Carter, 12 While a sudden, massive crisis of the American system — … where there would normally be conflict. Econ weak now – continuing trend of slow developmentRasmus 2/17 US key to global econKohn, 08 Obama taking backseat to congress now on immigration- key to it’s passageThe Hill, 3/27 2013 "After taking hit in the polls, Obama pivots back to immigration reform" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/290249-after-taking-hit-in-the-polls-obama-pivots-back-to-immigration~~%23ixzz2OoTz1Kp1 Obama faces a delicate high-wire … involvement drives away support." Will pass and Obama letting congress leadFNL,3/27 2013 (Foxnews Latino) "Obama: Immigration Reform Expected By End Of Summer" "If we have a bill introduced at the … influenced by the president. Must pass now or fails—momentum is waningHesson, 3/27
Negotiations back on track between key groupsFNL, 3/28 2013 (Foxnews Latino) "Obama: Immigration Reform Expected By End Of Summer" The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the …, a lead AFL-CIO negotiator, said Wednesday. Obama CAN’T XO immigration reformJason Marczak, 1/11/2013 (director of Policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas, "New waiver shows immigration reform remains top priority for Obama," http://www.voxxi.com/new-waiver-immigration-reform-obama/-http://www.voxxi.com/new-waiver-immigration-reform-obama/, Accessed 1/24/2013, rwg) The new rule also serves as a reminder to Congress … a favored Obama tool to get around the divisions on Capitol Hill. Obama won’t XO immigration reformThe Atlantic 3.26.13http:www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/how-obama-could-but-probably-wont-stop-deporting-illegal-immigrants-today/274352/-http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/how-obama-could-but-probably-wont-stop-deporting-illegal-immigrants-today/274352/ PM Reform is top of the docketRotorNews, 3/27 No link turns – opposition comparatively outweighs supporting constituencySkutnik, Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee, 12 Rather, I am inclined to wonder if this is a case of where … finds itself politically homeless. Gridlock swamps – even popular energy legislation gets drawn into broader partisan energy debateHarder, National Journal Energy and Environment Reporter, 12 Which energy and environment … climate change andoffshore oil and gas drilling? Fights mean there’s only a risk of a link and swamps their turns – even if some in Congress like the plan, there’s always opposition to overcome which drains capital – means the link outweighs any turnWhitman, CASEnergy Co-Chair and Former EPA Administrator, 12 —-Nuclear is uniquely unpopular now – broader spending concerns- References SMRs Likewise, top energy officials in the … Center. "I can’t stand here and tell you that I know how to do that." —-The aff incites Congressional backlash — post-Fukushima safety concerns.Holt, CRS Specialist in Energy Policy, 12 NRC on March 12, 2012, issued its first nuclear plant safety … nuclear safety agreements (S. 640, H.R. 1326). —-Plan drains capital and causes an immediate fightSzondy, Freelance Writer, 12 The problem is that nuclear energy is … regarding the atom. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: Heidegger KTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: By attempting to falsely separate humans from the world around them they enable, the aff enables domination and exploitation of nature believing that technology will set them freeJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" We live in a highly complex and dynamic … physics that there is, in fact, no such separation. Technological thought leads to extinctionJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" The extent of negative effects of modern … collapse of human civilization (see Chapter 6). The alt is the rejection of the aff’s technological quick fix- this is the only way to recognize the complexity and interconnectedness of beingJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" Our current worldview is based on the illusion … necessarily force us to change our view of the economy. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: International CPTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: The United States federal government should initiate an international applied research and development reprocessing program.That solves caseAPS 2005 "Nuclear Energy Study Group of the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs" http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/proliferation-resistance/upload/proliferation.pdf If such fuel cycle R%26D is to have impact … This will require close collaboration between nuclear energy R%26D and non-proliferation offices. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: Solvency vs ReprocessingTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: Reprocessing still requires massive amounts of waste management and is years offUCS 2011 (Union of Concerned Scientist) "Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive" http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/nuclear-reprocessing.html Second, reprocessing does not reduce the need for storage and disposal of radioactive waste, and a geologic repository would still be required. …—an extremely difficult endeavor that would likely take centuries to accomplish. Ignore their analysis of cost- every new generation is more expensive despite claims of cost competitivenessAmory B Lovins 2009 "New" Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story "v(Two years at Harvard, Mr. Lovins transferred to Oxford, and two years later became a don at 21, receiving in consequence an Oxford MA by Special Resolution (1971) and, later, 11 honorary doctorates of various U.S. and U.K. universities, He has been Regents’ Lecturer at the U. of California both in Energy and Resources and in Economics; Grauer Lecturer at UBC; Luce Visiting Professor at Dartmouth; Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Colorad) http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory No new kind of reactor is likely to …disadvantages and costs that advocates assume away, contrary to all experience. Can’t solve- don’t lift commercial banHertel ’11 – professor of nuclear and radiological engineering at Georgia Tech (Nolan E. Hertel, "Pro %26 Con: Should U.S. lift ban on reprocessing nuclear fuel?", AJC, 5-16-2011, http://www.ajc.com/news/news/opinion/pro-con-should-us-lift-ban-on-reprocessing-nuclear/nQtYg/) The solution lies with the U.S. Department of Energy. It needs to move the spent fuel from nuclear power plants to a central location for interim storage, as Congress has directed it to do. But in the meantime, the government needs to lift a decades-old ban on the use of reprocessing technology to recycle spent fuel. Reprocessing stance halts prolifAPS 2005 "Nuclear Energy Study Group of the American Physical Society Panel on Public Affairs" http://www.aps.org/policy/reports/popa-reports/proliferation-resistance/upload/proliferation.pdf The US adopted a no-… example demonstrated that reprocessing is not required to have a robust nuclear-power program. Certification will take 10 years- no solvencyARJUN MAKHIJANI and MICHELE BOYD 2010(Arjun Makhijani is an electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, He holds a Ph.D. in engineering (specialization: nuclear fusion)" Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power" http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/small-modular-reactors.pdf-http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/small-modular-reactors.pdf Efficiency and most renewable … as well as new waste disposal problems No solvency – citingKing et al, 11 – Research Analyst and Project Director at CNA Corporation’s Center for Naval Analyses (Marcus, with LaVar Huntzinger and Thoi Nguyen, March. "Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations." http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf-http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear Power on Military Installations D0023932 A5.pdf) Finding specific sites for nuclear power ... of the installation near the nuclear power plant can be used. Trade-offs will be required. Plan fails – multiple barriers create a chilling effect on nuclear investment and constructionAP, Associated Press, 12 Multiple barriers to expanding nuclear powerMez, Professor of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, 12 The nuclear industry has been … down and solutions finally found for nuclear waste. Here are even more barriers to prevent deploymentNEI 10, National Export Initiative, September ("REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ON THE NATIONAL EXPORT INITIATIVE: The Export Promotion Cabinet’s Plan for Doubling U.S. Exports in Five Years") Expand opportunities for the U.S. nuclear energy … state-owned competition.74 | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: AT: Prolif AdvantageTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: No risk of prolif – empirically denied, slow, no chain reaction, and their evidence is expert alarmismGavin, Professor of International Affairs at UTA, 10 Fears of a tipping point were especially … as Germany, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Your authors exaggerateFarley, Assistant Professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, 11 No impact to prolifMueller, Professor of Political Science at Ohio State, 10 The fearsome destructive power of nuclear …about the Hiroshima-Nagasaki levels, or higher.) US won’t exert nonproliferation leadershipCleary 12 (Richard Cleary, American Enterprise Institute Research Assistant, 8/13/12, Richard Cleary: Persuading Countries to Forgo Nuclear Fuel-Making, npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1192%26tid=30) The cases above offer a common lesson: … about future U.S. efforts at persuading countries to forgo nuclear fuel-making. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT R4: AT:Russia AdvantageTournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Wake BM | Judge: Russia’s economy is great nowAslund 12/28Anders Åslund is senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics. Foreign Policy, DECEMBER 28, 2012, You’re a Mean One, Mr. Putin, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/28/Putin_orphans_Russia_crackdown-http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/12/28/Putin_orphans_Russia_crackdown Paradoxically, Russia is doing very well … international currency reserves. Admittedly, Russia thrives on large energy exports, but oil prices are high and likely to stay there. Kerry’s visit solvesChina Daily 2/5/13, Visits may improve US-Russia relations, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-02/05/content_16200592.htm-http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2013-02/05/content_16200592.htm US Secretary of State John … vision for strengthening its influence on the world stage, Reuters reported. Russian nukes and fissile material safe – CTR, security, detectionTobey 12, 10/19/12 (William, senior fellow at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a deputy administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration from 2006-2009, "Boost Phase," http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/10/19/boost_phase) The CTR Agreement was … signal achievements Alt cause—Putin and SyriaBaker, 12 Reprocessing increases risk of nuclear terrorismUCS 2011 (Union of Concerned Scientist) "Nuclear Reprocessing: Dangerous, Dirty, and Expensive" http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear_power/nuclear_power_risk/nuclear_proliferation_and_terrorism/nuclear-reprocessing.html Less than 20 pounds of plutonium is … could go undetected for years. US-Russian coop over nuclear nowUPI.com, 11 No risk of Russia warPerkovich, 09 | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NC Immigration DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Leaders in both parties voiced confidence inan emerging House immigration agreement, giving momentum to Nuclear power sparks Congressional opposition We talked quite a bit about my solidifying theory that a major part of the CIR key to the economy (Reuters) - The sluggish U.S. economy could get a lift Economic decline causes war Less intuitive is how periods of economic declinemay increase the likelihood of external conflict. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NC States CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The 50 states should create a states compact to require small modular nuclear reactors for military installations in the United States.A compact is the best means for interstate energy action and it avoids federal preemptionCraig, 2010 While substantive and procedural considerations may influence the design as well as the content of a multistate renewable energy program, the most important structural issue facing the states designing such a program is whether to proceed through an interstate compact. As this Part explains, the Interstate Compact Clause may well require a compact for a multistate renewable energy program. If so, a program proceeding without a compact would simply be illegal. | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NC KTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: By attempting to falsely separate humans from the world around them they enable, the aff enables domination and exploitation of nature believing that technology will set them freeJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" We live in a highly complex and dynamic world where, according to Barry Commoner’s Technological thought leads to extinctionJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" The extent of negative effects of modern technology is directly related to the scale of The alt is the rejection of the aff’s technological quick fix- this is the only way to recognize the complexity and interconnectedness of beingJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" Our current worldview is based on the illusion of separateness, that our interests and | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NC SolvoTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Certification will take 10 years- no solvencyARJUN MAKHIJANI and MICHELE BOYD 2010(Arjun Makhijani is an electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, He holds a Ph.D. in engineering (specialization: nuclear fusion)" Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power" http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/small-modular-reactors.pdf-http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/small-modular-reactors.pdf Efficiency and most renewable technologies are already cheaper than new large reactors. The long Not on bases means they arne’t able to sovle—all their solvency ev says needs to be on bases Low gas prices kill SMRsMcMahon 12, energy contributor – Forbes, 5/23/’12 (Jeff, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/23/small-modular-reactors-by-2022-but-no-market-for-them/-http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/05/23/small-modular-reactors-by-2022-but-no-market-for-them/) Small Modular Nuclear Reactors By 2022 — But No Market For Them. The Department No solvency – citingKing et al, 11 – Research Analyst and Project Director at CNA Corporation’s Center for Naval Analyses (Marcus, with LaVar Huntzinger and Thoi Nguyen, March. "Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations." http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear%20Power%20on%20Military%20Installations%20D0023932%20A5.pdf-http://www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear Power on Military Installations D0023932 A5.pdf) Finding specific sites for nuclear power plants on or near military installations will be challenging Plan fails – multiple barriers create a chilling effect on nuclear investment and constructionAP, Associated Press, 12 Multiple barriers to expanding nuclear powerMez, Professor of Political and Social Sciences at Freie Universität Berlin, 12 The nuclear industry has been battling a host of problems for three decades. A Too much uncertainty regarding SMR productionDylan Ryan 11,( Masters in Mechanical Engineering, expertise in energy, sustainability, Computer Aided Engineering, renewables technology; Ph.D. in solar energy systems, 2011) "Part 10 – Small modular reactors and mass production options," http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-10-smallreactors-mass-prod/ But the key question is, could we mass produce nuclear reactors cheaply? Could SMR’s aren’t cheaper and take decadesDylan Ryan 11,( Masters in Mechanical Engineering, expertise in energy, sustainability, Computer Aided Engineering, renewables technology; Ph.D. in solar energy systems, 2011) "Part 10 – Small modular reactors and mass production options," http://daryanenergyblog.wordpress.com/ca/part-10-smallreactors-mass-prod/ NRC blocks solvencyWilliam Tucker 2011(the author of Terrestrial Energy: How Nuclear Power Will Lead the Green Revolution and End America’s Energy Odyssey) http://spectator.org/archives/2011/03/21/americas-last-nuclear-hope/print Instead, the great impediment to all this is the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the gargantuan Alt causes prevent deploymentColvin 11, (president – American Nuclear Society,Joe, "NUCLEAR AND ALTERNATIVE FUELS; COMMITTEE: SENATE ENERGY AND NATURAL RESOURCES," CQ Congressional Testimony) 3. Other challenges to SMR development/deployment. ANS encourages Congress to consider Here are even more barriers to prevent deploymentNEI 10, National Export Initiative, September ("REPORT TO THE PRESIDENT ON THE NATIONAL EXPORT INITIATIVE: The Export Promotion Cabinet’s Plan for Doubling U.S. Exports in Five Years") Expand opportunities for the U.S. nuclear energy industry. Nuclear energy is | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NC HegTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Microgrids solvePike Research 11, market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets, 9/16/’11 (http://www.pikeresearch.com/newsroom/military-microgrid-capacity-to-experience-more-than-700-growth-by-2017-http://www.pikeresearch.com/newsroom/military-microgrid-capacity-to-experience-more-than-700-growth-by-2017) Military Microgrid Capacity to Experience More than 700% Growth by 2017 September 16, Grid is resilient and sustainableClark 12, MA candidate – Intelligence Studies @ American Military University, senior analyst – Chenega Federal Systems, 4/28/’12 (Paul, "The Risk of Disruption or Destruction of Critical U.S. Infrastructure by an Offensive Cyber Attack," American Military University) In 2003, a simple physical breakdown occurred – trees shorted a power line and caused a No risk of cyber-attacks on the grid The risk posed to CIKR from cyber-attack can be evaluated by measuring the No impact to hegFettweis, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Tulane, 11 It is perhaps worth noting that there is no evidence to support a direct relationship Hegemony is dead and unsustainable – other nations are already ignoring or challenging the US and fiscal troubles trumpKanin and Meyer 12 – Adjunct Professor of International Studies at John Hopkins and Fellow at the Center for Public Justice (respectively) In the latter half of the twentieth century, the Soviet Union proved a robust Deterrence and rationality prevent nuclear war And the only conclusive empirics go negative – their studies are flawed in ignoring wars between major and minor states which cause draw-inMonteiro, Assistant Professor of Political Science at NYU, 12 I agree with Wohlforth on these two points, but they are only part of No hegemonic transition warsMacDonald and Parent 11 Some observers might dispute our conclusions, arguing that hegemonic transitions are more conflict prone | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NC RadarTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: RadarAlready have SBR CSIS 2011 "The History of Space Radar - A Brief Survey of Radar Capabilities" http://csis.org/blog/history-space-radar-brief-survey-radar-capabilities Following cancellation in March 2008, DOD has announced to move forward with its own Sequester tanks case General Wolfenbarger 3/18 2013 "Air Force Materiel Command." http://www.standard.net/stories/2013/03/18/sequestration-impacts-our-mission-people-and-bases It is impossible at this point to estimate AFMC cuts beyond Fiscal Year 2013 over SBR fails: Dinerman 5(Taylor, author and journalist based in New York City, Space Based Radar: the dilemma, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/344/1-http://www.thespacereview.com/article/344/1 shree. Note by Shree: SBR = "Space Based Radar") There is also the problem of imagery distribution. The new national intelligence structure is Tirpak 2(John A, Executive Editor of the Air Force Magazine, the Space Based Radar Plan, http://www.airforcemag.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2002/August%202002/0802radar.aspx shree) Airborne moving targets pose a special problem for a space radar. Shofner explained: GAO 4(Government Accountability Office, Defense Acquisitions: Space-Based Radar Effort Needs Additional Knowledge before Starting Development, Julyshree) DOD officials reported to us that the oversight groups have achieved informal consensus on requirements D) Earth rotation, varied terrain, and internal clutter motion Li et al 7(Ke Yong, staff engineer at C%26P Technologies, Inc, Mangiat, Stephen; Zulch, Peter A.; Pillai, UnnikrishnaUnnikrishna, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Polytechic University, Clutter Impacts on Space Based Radar GMTI: A Global Perspective, March 10, Aerospace Conference, 2007 IEEEshree) Space based radar has long been considered as a solution to the Department of Defense’s Developing space radar triggers war, risks miscalculation. No Taiwan war From an international trade perspective, all of East Asia has recently become a Chinese No Paki loose nukes The terrorist group might also seek to steal or illicitly purchase a "loose nuke No impact to bioterrorEasterbrook 03 Like chemical agents, biological weapons have never lived up to their billing in popular You don’t solve space debris you just detect it and your impact ev says that it has to be international to solve No warrant for why space debris causes extinction—just knocks a few satellites around Space fence solve debris Lockheed Martin November 2012 "Lockheed Martin Submits Space Fence Radar Proposal to U.S. Air Force to Detect and Track Orbital Objects" http://www.lockheedmartin.com/us/news/press-releases/2012/november/lockheed-martin-submits-space-fence-radar-proposal-to-u-s—air-f.html Lockheed Martin ~NYSE: LMT~ has submitted its final contract proposal to build Can’t solve space debris | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 2NC StatesTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: At: No AuthorityCompacts circumvent federal legislationDavis and Branson, 1998 n42 See id. at 766. While states have never explicitly used the interstate Even if plan is federal authority- compacts can override itPincus, 2009 Any replacement for the U.S. Steel test must recognize that interstate compacts Congress won’t roll it backPincus, 2009 Thus, the institutional bias against taking action is a deliberate and important facet of At: State FiatFirst compacts are predictable- the first source of restrictions on energy productionKevin J. Heron 1985 ST. JOHN’S LAW REVIEW (J.D., 1983, The National Law Center, George Washington University; B.S. in Economics, 1980, Villanova University During the 1930’s, interstate compacts continued to emerge with relative frequency. Simultaneously, Third is education- these debates are heart of the topicKay, 12 Questions about energy production and consumption are acquiring renewed urgency in the 21 st Century | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 2NC KTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 2NC FrameworkQuestions of values and goals are a pre-req to applying science in the first place- the K has to come before questions of solvencyJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" Efficiency improvements, by themselves, can become counterproductive. What is needed is a Uniquely a paradigm shift within our generation is key, as we near the end of our education, the window for change closes as we risk complete collapseJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" There will always be people who cannot change their mental models, who will resist Waste is being ignoredANA June 8th 2012 "Documents Reveal Time-line and Plans for "Small Modular Reactors" (SMRs) at the Savannah River Site (SRS) Unrealistic and Promise no Funding" https://www.google.com/search?q=SMR~’s+produce+waste%26aq=f%26oq=SMR’s+produce+waste%26aqs=chrome.0.57j0l3.3553%26sourceid=chrome%26ie=UTF-8 As SMRs are being promoted for overseas markets, SRS officials will not say what plans are for used reactor vessels or highly radioactive spent fuel which would be taken back to the production site. "If SRS would become a nuclear waste dumping site due to involvement in SMR programs, this is something that the public in South Carolina will soundly reject," said Clements. Generational Slavery DA- Justifying todays needs at the expense of future generations is ethically repulsive and feeds into the consumption ideology where short term benefits are always prioritized over long term costsJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" Because the use of any technology results in a spatial and temporal separation of costs Winning the benefits outweighs the costs just means available research and evidence isn’t sufficient- there is a bias in favor of commercializing technology and it often takes decades to realize all the negative consequencesJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" As was discussed in Chapter 1, the prediction of all possible consequences is impossible Claims that the affirmative have achieved and insumoutable deterrent to future conflict should be rejected, this logic drive the creation of more destructive technologies that will eventually be used.Joyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" Most nations claim that military technologies are needed for defense against international threats, so Every action has equal reaction- Technological interventions into nature attempting to derive human benefit cause equally atrocious consequences, only a risk of offense for the neg.Joyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" Because the negative consequences of science and technology often occur in unanticipated forms and in Attempting to innovate ourselves to happiness kills value to lifeJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" As Aristotle pointed out more than 2,000 years ago, human desires, None of their evidence has a warrant for how technological advancement is a natural progress that occurs outside of human action and decision makingThe idea that tech is inevitable is a myth, undermining democratic accountability of technology and enable further technological destructionJoyce Huesemann and Michael Huesemann 2011 (Michael; M.B.A., WP Carey School of Business, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, Ph.D., M.S., Biochemical Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas,Joyce; Ph.D. in statistics from Rice University and holds an M.A. in anthropology )"TECHNO-FIX Why Technology Won’t Save Us or the Environment" One reason technological progress may appear autonomous is that many technological systems, because of | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT RD 6 1NR PoliticsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Only way to get the workers to do your aff In my interviews with employers across the nation, I hear the same story: Economic decline short-circuits every affirmative impact – creates feedback loops which destroys US primacy, global cooperation, and international stability While a sudden, massive crisis of the American system — for instance, another CIR will pass now –momentum in both houses is clinching the deal now because focus in waning from gun control and deficit-reduction – the timeframe is April – that’s 1NC Berman and Lillis Obama taking backseat to congress now on immigration- key to it’s passage The Hill, 3/27 2013 "After taking hit in the polls, Obama pivots back to immigration reform" http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/290249-after-taking-hit-in-the-polls-obama-pivots-back-to-immigration~~%23ixzz2OoTz1Kp1 Obama faces a delicate high-wire act on guns and immigration: Claim too Will pass and Obama letting congress lead FNL,3/27 2013 (Foxnews Latino) "Obama: Immigration Reform Expected By End Of Summer" "If we have a bill introduced at the beginning of next month as these Must pass now or fails—momentum is waningHesson, 3/27
Will pass nowGaynor, 3/28 Reform is top of the docketRotorNews, 3/27 XO’s will be highly controversial – Republicans are on high-alertCohen, CNN Wire News Editor, 11 Republicans reject the premise of the White House position, arguing that Obama chooses to Political gridlock means normal means is for Obama to push the plan – even bipartisan issues will drain capitalIzadi, National Journal staff writer, 12 In a climate where everything from transportation issues to the farm bill have gottencaught in No shielding – velcroNicholas and Hook, Staff Writers for the LA Times, 10 If Ronald Reagan was the classic Teflon president, Barack Obama is made of Velcro No link turns – opposition comparatively outweighs supporting constituencySkutnik, Professor of Nuclear Engineering at the University of Tennessee, 12 Rather, I am inclined to wonder if this is a case of where nuclear SMR debates are polarizingCarper and Schmid 11 Historically, nuclear energy has been entangled in one of the most polarizing debates in And SMRs politically "nuclear"Fairley, IEEE Spectrum energy writer, 10 However, there are political objections to SMRs.Precisely because they are more affordable Gridlock swamps – even popular energy legislation gets drawn into broader partisan energy debateHarder, National Journal Energy and Environment Reporter, 12 Which energy and environment policies garner bipartisan support? And what’s holding Washington back from Fights mean there’s only a risk of a link and swamps their turns – even if some in Congress like the plan, there’s always opposition to overcome which drains capital – means the link outweighs any turnWhitman, CASEnergy Co-Chair and Former EPA Administrator, 12 —-Nuclear is uniquely unpopular now – broader spending concerns- References SMRs Likewise, top energy officials in the Obama administration have hailed the promise of the —-The aff incites Congressional backlash — post-Fukushima safety concerns.Holt, CRS Specialist in Energy Policy, 12 NRC on March 12, 2012, issued its first nuclear plant safety requirements based —-Plan drains capital and causes an immediate fightSzondy, Freelance Writer, 12 The problem is that nuclear energy is the proverbial political hot potato - even in Compartmentalization wrong— energy is the only thing that can derail talksHarder, National Journal, 2-6-13 At a news conference where TV cameras in the back were nearly stacked on top Winner’s win doesn’t apply to energy – backlash guaranteedSilverstein, EnergyBiz, 12 "It is never just about money and political lobbying," says Bronstein-Moffly 4. Health care proves Obama losesHarrison 09 5. Winners win not true for ObamaGalston, 10 Obama CAN’T XO immigration reformJason Marczak, 1/11/2013 (director of Policy at Americas Society/Council of the Americas, "New waiver shows immigration reform remains top priority for Obama," http://www.voxxi.com/new-waiver-immigration-reform-obama/-http://www.voxxi.com/new-waiver-immigration-reform-obama/, Accessed 1/24/2013, rwg) The new rule also serves as a reminder to Congress that in the face of continued impasse, the White House will use executive authority to make whatever tweaks it can to improve the U.S. immigration system. Of course,comprehensive, long-term changes can only be made by Congress. But short-term, piecemeal modifications are increasingly a favored Obama tool to get around the divisions on Capitol Hill. Obama won’t XO immigration reformThe Atlantic 3.26.13http:www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/how-obama-could-but-probably-wont-stop-deporting-illegal-immigrants-today/274352/-http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/03/how-obama-could-but-probably-wont-stop-deporting-illegal-immigrants-today/274352/ PM SMR’s more expensiveARJUN MAKHIJANI and MICHELE BOYD 2010(Arjun Makhijani is an electrical and nuclear engineer who is President of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research, He holds a Ph.D. in engineering (specialization: nuclear fusion)" Small Modular Reactors No Solution for the Cost, Safety, and Waste Problems of Nuclear Power" http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/small-modular-reactors.pdf-http://www.psr.org/assets/pdfs/small-modular-reactors.pdf SMR proponents claim that small size will enable mass manufacture in a factory, enabling |
"The Interstate Compact in Transition: From Cooperative State Action to Congressionally Coerced Agreements"Round Reports
| Tournament | Round | Report |
|---|
Open Source
| Filename | Date | Uploaded By | Delete? |
|---|---|---|---|
10/16/2012 | |||
10/16/2012 | |||
02/23/2013 | |||
10/16/2012 |
Tags:
Created by Jacob Bosley on 2012/09/15 09:18
Quick Links
Schools
Air Force
Amherst
Appalachian State
Arizona State
Army
Augustana
Bard
Baylor
Binghamton
Boston College
CSU Northridge
CSU Sacramento
CUNY
Cal Berkeley
Cal Lutheran
Cal Poly SLO
Case Western
Central Florida
Central Oklahoma
Chico
Clarion
Columbia
Concordia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Denver
Drexel-Swarthmore
ENMU
East Los Angeles College
Eastern Washington
Emory
Emporia
Fayetteville State
Florida
Florida Int'l
Florida State
Fordham
Fort Hays
Fresno State
Fullerton
Gainesville State
George Mason
George Washington
Georgetown
Georgia
Georgia State
Georgia Tech
Gonzaga
Harvard
Houston
Idaho State
Illinois
Illinois State
Indiana
Iowa
James Madison
John Carroll
Johns Hopkins
Johnson County CC
KCKCC
Kansas
Kansas State
Kentucky
LA City College
Lafayette
Lewis-Clark State College
Liberty
Lindenwood
Los Rios
Louisiana-Lafayette
Louisville
Loyola
Macalester
Marist
Mary Washington
Mercer
Methodist
Miami FL
Miami OH
Michigan
Michigan State
Minnesota
Mission
Missouri State
NYU
Navy
New School
North Texas
Northern Iowa
Northwestern
Notre Dame
Ohio Wesleyan
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pepperdine
Piedmont
Pittsburgh
Portland State
Princeton
Puget Sound
Redlands
Richmond
Rochester
Rutgers
Samford
San Diego State
San Francisco State
Santa Clara
South Florida St Pete
Southern Methodist
Southwestern
Stanford
Texas State
Texas-Austin
Texas-Dallas
Texas-San Antonio
Texas-Tyler
Towson
Trinity
UCLA
UDC-CC
UMKC
UNLV
USC
Utah
Vanderbilt
Vermont
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Washington
Wayne State
Weber
West Georgia
West Virginia
Western Connecticut
Whitman
Wichita State
Wisconsin Oshkosh
Wyoming
Copyright 2004-2013 XWiki
4.2