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·Text: The 50 states and relevant United States Territories will develop and demonstrate Solar Power Satellites via Arbitrarily Large PHased Array
·Observation I: Competes ¨C Solves the case and avoids the disads linked to federal action
·Observation II: Solves: Energy policy should be a state responsibility ¨C they solve better than the federal government
David Brakke, Ph.D., Dean of the College of Science and Mathematics at James Madison University, “Federalism,” Association of Women in Science Magazine, Vol 30, No 1, 2001 (http://csm.jmu.edu/brakke/Asset/Publications/AWIS_columns/Federalism_/federalism_.html)
California is constructing new facilities ... resource management overall.
·States are a laboratory for new energy production programs ¨C their action gets modeled.
Lash ’07 (Jonathan, “Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy,” World Resources Institute, September, http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory, TGA)
America has a long ... economy of the future. |
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The affirmative perpetuates the commodification of energy, which only serves to fuel dependence on capitalist growth
David Korowicz, physicist and human systems ecologist. Member of Feasta’s executive committee and works as an independent consultant, 2011, “On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy,” Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse,” New Society Publishers, Online Edition, http://fleeingvesuvius.org/2011/10/08/on-the-cusp-of-collapse-complexity-energy-and-the-globalised-economy/
Like human beings and life ...they sell their services
·Economic growth and ecological sustainability are zero sum ¨C If the result of the aff is growth then it means the structural decay of the environment
Minqi Li, a PhD in economics from the University of Massachusetts, taught political science at York University, Toronto, Canada from 2003 to 2006, “Capitalism, Climate Change and the Transition to Sustainability: Alternative Scenarios for the US, China and the World,” 2009, (http://content.csbs.utah.edu/~mli/CV/Development%20and%20Change%201209.pdf date accessed 8/20/21)
It is no coincidence that ...sustainability (Huesemann, 2003; Trainer, 2001).
·Continued capitalist expansion risks extinction
Zizek 11 (Slavoj, senior researcher at the Institute of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, visiting professor at Columbia University, Princeton, Living in the End Times, Pages 334. London: Verso, 2011. Print.)
The December 2009 Copenhagen … any "pathological" obstacles.
·Our alternative-vote neg- Capitalism is immoral you have to reject it universally-this is the only strategy for breaking free
James Herod, author of several books on capitalism and social activist since 1968, 2004, ( http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm accessed 8/22/12)
It is time to try to describe … self-determine the shape of their social world. |
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First, CIGS growing now
Solar Server 10 Solar Server Online Portal to Solar Energy "Photovoltaic production in the CIGSfab: Integrated factories provide competitive solar electricity" 2010 http://www.solarserver.com/solar-magazine/solar-energy-system-of-the-month/photovoltaic-production-in-the-cigsfab-integrated-factories-provide-competitive-solar-electricity.html
To ensure future growth and … as well as the market share.
·Subsidies and incentives ensures low silicon prices¡ªGermany proves
Pauli ’10. "Solar without Subsidies" By Gunter Pauli The BlueEconomy 2010 http://www.unep.org/greeneconomy/Portals/88/documents/Case53_Solar_en.pdf
The German government, … percent below the 2010 level.
·Cheap Silicon pushes CIGS out permanently-- if they survive the recent cheap PV prices, will do great
Deign ’12. "Make or break time for CIGS" By Jason Deign Jan. 3, 2012. PV Insider http://news.pv-insider.com/thin-film-pv/make-or-break-time-cigs
It is probably fair to say that all … advantaged as it could be.”
·Traditional PV relies on silicone
Bullis ’10 "Making more solar cells from silicon" Kevin Bullis March 4, 2010 Technology Review published by MIT http://www.technologyreview.com/news/417891/making-more-solar-cells-from-silicon/
A new manufacturing process … both of which bring down costs.
·Silicon causes pollution
Pasternack '08 Pollution Casts Shadow Tree Hugger By Alex Pastermack http://www.treehugger.com/corporate-responsibility/pollution-casts-shadow-over-chinese-solar.html
With exports booming, government … turned white, like snow.
·Pollution causes extinction
American Chronicle, Human Extinction. April 14, 2007. http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/24238
The most common pattern of … Or worse, never born. |
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Silicon causes climate change
Cha ’08. The Washington Post "Solar Energy Firms Leave Waste Behind in China" By Ariana Eunjung Cha March 9, 2008 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/08/AR2008030802595_pf.html
GAOLONG, China -- The first … having unexpected consequences.
·Solar panel manufacturing causes air pollution and releases green house gases
Electronics Bazaar ’12. Are solar PV farms polluting the environment? Electronics Bazaar January 1, 2012 p. lexis
Manufacturing: Solar panel … to pollute the environment. |
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No Warming – lack of statistical evidence
Happer, March 27, 2012
William, Professor of Physics at Princeton University, Wall Street Journal – Opinion – “Global Warming Models are Wrong Again” http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304636404577291352882984274.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
What is happening to global temperatures … from preindustrial levels of about 280 ppm.
Observations since 98 show trend towards an ice age
Easterbrook, June 17, 2011
Don, Professor of Geology, Western Washington University, “The Demise of Sunspots – Deep Cooling ahead” http://myweb.wwu.edu/dbunny/pdfs/Easterbrook-potential-demise-of-sunspots.pdf In 1999, the year after the high temperatures … Time will tell!
New Research Validates That Clouds Counter Warming
Milloy, 07
(Clouds Mitigate Global Warming, New Evidence Shows, Steven Milloy, Environment and Climate News, 1/11/2007 The Heartland Institute, http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=22205) In a study published in … predict for the coming decades." CO2 is the lifeblood of plants – it increases their water use efficiency, enhances stomatas, allows for plants and animals to live in uninhabitable places, prevents soil erosion, solves all sorts of environmental stress, and solves worldwide starvation
All the Idsos Sherwood Idso, Keith Idso, and Craig Idso C02 science magazine Volume 6, Number 37 9/10/2003
In a broad review of … will be, sharing equally."
The impact is extinction
Sherwood B. Idso and Keith E. Idso. Anthropogenic CO2 Emissions Could Dramatically Increase Global Agricultural Production By Thwarting the Adverse Effects of Ozone Pollution. CO2 Science Vol 4, Number 43. October 24, 2001 http://www.co2science.org/articles/V4/N43/EDIT.php
Think about the … to feed itself (Tilman et al., 2001).
Economic decline doesn’t cause war
Morris Miller, economist, adjunct professor in the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Administration, consultant on international development issues, former Executive Director and Senior Economist at the World Bank, Winter 2000, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Vol. 25, Iss. 4, “Poverty as a cause of wars?” p. Proquest
The question may be reformulated … (thereby using one form of violence to abort another).
AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN REDUCES THE RISK OF WAR—politicians – not a turn, its not reverse causal
BOEHMER 07
Charles R. Boehmer. "The Effects of Economic Crisis, Domestic Discord, and State Efficacy on the Decision to Initiate Interstate Conflict" Politics and Policy 35.4 (2007): 774-809. Available at: http://works.bepress.com/charles_boehmer/8 Assistant Professor of Political Science at The University of Texas at El Paso. D.A. 7-15-10
A people suffering from … general sample of states.
The economy will always rebound
John Tamny is editor of RealClearMarkets, a senior economist with H.C. Wainwright Economics and a senior economic adviser to Toreador Research and Trading. Recessions Are Self-Correcting, Forbes.com March 3, 2009. http://www.forbes.com/2009/03/06/recession-correction-employment-opinions-columnists-john-tamny.html
Banking giant JPMorgan Chase ... recessions set the stage for economic recovery.
Your economy impact is empirically key to prevent inflation and in turn radical social unrest in China
Karen Maley. China's fleeting economic control, Business Spectator. November 26, 2010 http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/China-debt-crisis-interest-rates-commodities-infla-pd20101126-BJRW8?opendocument&src=rss
There’s also a fear that rising prices ... and maintain social stability.
And this social unrest will challenge the CCP
Richard Daughty, general partner and COO for Smith Consultant Group, serving the financial and medical communities, and the writer/publisher of the Mogambo Guru economic newsletter, an avocational exercise to better heap disrespect on those who desperately deserve it. Chinese Duality: Fast Economic Growth or Social Stability, The Daily Reckoning. September 22, 2010 http://dailyreckoning.com/chinese-duality-fast-economic-growth-or-social-stability/#ixzz170hBS6Yg
He probably heard me laughing ... about it! Hahaha! SMLOS!
That causes a desperate attempt to hold on to power ensures lash out and extinction
San Renxing,. The Epoch Times "The CCP's Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War. Hundreds of millions of deaths proposed", 8/5/05. http://en.epochtimes.com/news/5-8-5/30931.html
What, then, is the gist of this wild ... That is the main theme of the speeches. |
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A. Violation – The aff should specify its agent within the USFG--Government power is divided into 3 branches – the AFF FAILS TO SPECIFY THE AGENT OF ACTION IN THEIR PLAN
Rotunda, professor of law at the University of Illinois, 2001 Richard, 18 Const. Commentary
319, “THE COMMERCE CLAUSE, THE POLITICAL QUESTION DOCTRINE, AND
MORRISON”, l/n, (m7,06)
No one denies the importance ... Houses of Congress. n12
B. Voters
1) Solvency Deficit: 90% of solvency is dependent on implementation – The Government would not know who was responsible for doing the plan
Elmore, Professor of public affairs at U Washington, 1980 Political science quarterly, pg. 605,
(m7,06)
Analysis of policy ... realm of implementation. |
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Text: The United States Supreme Court should grant a Writ of Certiorari to a relevant test case and rule that all environmental review and comment provisions from Tribal Energy Resource Agreements are unconstitutional
The Counterplan Solves – The Courts have tremendous authority and poltical power to create policy change. Rulings have a societal impact of drastically changing national policy.
McGuire in 2004
Kevin, (Dept of Political Science at the University of North Carolina) “The Institutionalization of the U.S. Supreme Court” Political Analysis (2004) 12:128–142 http://faculty.washington.edu/jwilker/571/571readings/McGuire.pdf
In this study, I have ... and potency to their decisions.
Supreme Court Decisions do not effect the election – several reasons and historical data proves
Bernstein, June 25, 2012
Johnathan, “Why Supreme Court Decisions Don’t Decide Elections” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/post/why-supreme-court-decisions-dont-decide-elections/2012/06/25/gJQAD6CY2V_blog.html
I’ll say now what ... much difference in November
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Multiculturalism destroys critical values of the West
Glenn Woiceshyn, Freelance Writer, residing in Calgary, and studied philosophy and writing, full time, at the Objectivist Graduate Center of the Ayn Rand Institute as an auditing student, “Multiculturalism Breeds Terrorism,” Capitalism Magazine, June 24, 2006, http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4714, UK: Fisher
Multiculturalism is an ... indistinguishable from non-values.” 2
And, they can’t possibily solve for the entirety of colonialism, other regulations on native American land will exist that are not energy related means they can’t have a enough of an advantage for you to vote for.
Their genealogy of colonialism is conveniently selective—connecting all violence to colonialism denies native diversity and agency by exoticizing and totalizing indigenous history
Arjun Appadurai, February 1988 (Professor at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania, Cultural Anthropology, Volume 3, No.1, Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory,pp. 36-49, Putting Hierarchy in Its Place, JSTOR)
The recent wave of ... conception of histoire totale.
Nonpromotion of western culture of rationalism destroys truth value and threatens to unmake western civilization and ensures totalitarianism
Kors 1 (Alan, professor of history at University of Pennsylvania and senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, Orbis, Summer, ebsco)
What often denies us both ... rejoin the intellectual struggle. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 3 | Opponent: KCKCC MR | Judge: Derek Ziegler
Boehner concession opened the door for a deal on the fiscal cliff Potter 11/9 (Ben, AFR Chicago Correspondent, “Republicans open door to tax deal Australian Financial Review November 9, 2012 Friday,” Australian Financial Review Lexis,) One of President Barack Obama's … energy stocks were hit hardest. It will pass but capital is key Shatney and Harris 11/7. "Election's over: what it means for your investments" By Joanna Shatney and David Harris of Schroders Nov. 7, 2012. Fox Business. http://www.foxbusiness.com/investing/2012/11/07/election-over-what-it-means-for-your-investments/ Obama’s victory in the … toll on consumer confidence. Congress can block unpopular energy Kemp, Nov.7 2012 John “Election Gamble Backfires for financial, Energy Firms: Commentary”www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2012/11/07/269740/election-gamble-backfire-for-finanical-enery-firms. Wall Street and … industries do not like. Fiscal cliff causes double dip recession RTE News 11/7. "America's long stumble toward the "fiscal cliff"" 11/7/2012. http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1107/americas-long-stumble-toward-the-fiscal-cliff-business.html The abrupt onset of such … will they delay again?
Economic collapse causes extinction Kerpen 8
Phil, National Review Online, October 29, , Don't Turn Panic Into Depression, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/29/opinion/main4555821.shtml It’s important that … be any higher. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 3 | Opponent: KCKCC MR | Judge: Derek Ziegler
The United States federal government should pass the topically relevant portions of the pre-Young amendment Native American Energy Act (H.R. 3973) except for the part of section 8 that allows projects undertaken in partnership with an Indian Tribe on any lands and instead have section 8 only apply to Indian Lands. The plan ensures non native land has limited judical review US Climate Network et al, 2012
Alaska Wilderness League * ConservAmerica * Defenders of Wildlife * Earth Day Network On behalf of our millions … the purpose of limiting judicial review. Judical Review is critical to protecting the environment Eric Biber. Comparing Canadian and US Environmental Law: Judicial Review, Legal Planet; The Environmental Law and Policy Blog. MAY 13, 2012 http://legalplanet.wordpress.com/2012/05/13/comparing-canadian-and-us-environmental-law-judicial-review/ US environmental law … exist as words on paper. This will cause ecosystem destruction and loss of human life Tara Lohan is a senior editor at AlterNet and editor of the new book Water Matters: Why We Need to Act Now to Save Our Most Critical Resource. The 5 Most Toxic Energy Companies and How They Control Our Politics, AlterNet. November 20, 2011. http://www.alternet.org/story/153103/the_5_most_toxic_energy_companies_and_how_they_control_our_politics Four days after … (CRP) has found that, Studies prove that biodiversity must be protected to avoid extinction Science Daily, Biodiversity Key to Earth's Life-Support Functions in a Changing World. August 11, 2011 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084513.htm In an international … Earth's life-support functions. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 6 | Opponent: | Judge:
Even with subsidies wind industries won’t grow because lack of transmission lines
Dave Englander, Waiting on Transmission-line Boom, Green Tech Media, 2008,http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/wind-power-waiting-on-transmission-line-boom-1181/N3/
But wind developers – … they did in 1975.
Can’t Solve - capacity is already outstripping demand
EILPERIN 9/21/12 (Juliet; Washington Post, “Tempest Brews Over Tax Credit for Wind Power,” l/n)
Even if the tax credit is extended … approximately 13 gigawatts per year."
Wind decline inevitable – electricity demand, natural gas prices, and foreign competition
CARDWELL 9/21/12 (Diane; International Herald Tribune, “U.S. Wind Industry Fading Fast,” l/n)
Last month, Gamesa, … than the cost of production.
Government financial intervention causes corruption, dependency, price instability and distorts private investment away from more promising solutions – turns the case
Loris and Spencer, 11 - Nicolas D. Loris is a Policy Analyst and Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation (“Obama's Department of Energy Should Not Be the Green Banker”, 10/11, http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=52893pageid=16pagename=Opinion)
Although the status of … companies looking to move ahead.”
Wind power kills Birds of Prey
Fox News; 8/16/2011; www.foxnews.com; “Energy in America: Dead Birds Unintended Consequence of Wind Power Development”; http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/08/16/energy-in-america-dead-birds-unintended-consequence-wind-power-development/
As California attempts to … if not wipe them out."
Top of the food chain predators are key to their ecosystems
LiveScience; 7/19/2006; www.livescience.com; “Top Predators Key to Ecosystem Survival, Study Shows”; http://www.livescience.com/4171-top-predators-key-ecosystem-survival-study-shows.html
The top predators play their … difficult getting back," he said.
Studies prove that biodiversity must be protected to avoid extinction
Science Daily, Biodiversity Key to Earth's Life-Support Functions in a Changing World. August 11, 2011 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/08/110811084513.htm
In an international research … Earth's life-support functions. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC JW | Judge: Matt Munday
The cold war never ended, Russia only pretended to lose – Nyquist ‘9
J.R. Nyquist, 8/28/09, Financial Sense, "The Sequence," http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0828.html
Given the obstacle presented … energy dependence, and more.
The Soviet Union intends to first strike the United States – they are waiting for any sign of strategic superiority
Nyquist 99
(J.R. Nyquist, a WorldNetDaily contributing editor and a renowned expert in geopolitics and international relations, is the author of "Origins of the Fourth World War." http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19774)
The greatest danger facing … test the Americans." Criticisms of the current system are all a way for the communist to take over
Rogue, is a political analyst and opinion-editorialist, with articles published at AmericanThinker. He holds a Master’s degree in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and is a PhD. student in Political Science, with specializations in International Relations and Comparative Politics. THE OCCUPY CROWDS’ VAGUE GOALS AND MARXIST CRITICAL THEORY, Political Crush. October 7, 2011 http://www.politicalcrush.com/blog/886
Such a project is encapsulated … It is crucial that we do not join them. Every other issue in this debate is just a reshuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic – dealing with the strategic discord between Russia and the US is the only way to avoid impending extinction
NYQUIST, JUNE 19TH 2009
J.R., Why Most Things Do Not Matter, http://www.financialsense.com/stormwatch/geo/pastanalysis/2009/0619.html
Imagine you are on … matter of life and death. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: Wake | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC JW | Judge: Matt Munday - Affirm means to assert as valid
Merriam Webster – definition of affirm- http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/affirm
a : validate, confirm b : to state positively he affirmed his innocence 2 : to assert (as a judgment or decree) as valid or confirmed 3 : to express dedication to affirm life
“Reduce” means to make smaller in size, amount, or degree
Cambridge-Dictionaries Online, “Reduce,” No Date, (http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/reduce accessed 9/19/12) to make something smaller in size, amount, degree, importance, etc
“Increase” means a net increase
Rogers 5 (Judge – 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 Interpretation. … engine was in perfect condition. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: Wake Forest | Round: 1 | Opponent: UMKC JW | Judge: Matt Munday
Extinction comes first the right to life is the highest value to uphold in extreme situations based upon a consequentialist loose utilitarianism Kateb 1992
George, professor of politics @ Princeton University. "The Inner Ocean: Individualism and Democratic Culture."
What does a theory of rights leave … attempt to end the threat.)
Everyone has a desire to find meaning to life and they can and will find it even in the worst of circumstances Oral Cancer Foundation, The Last Taboo (Part 1). March 02, 2009 http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/emotional/last_taboo.htm
The concepts of Viktor Frankl … Death ends a life, not a relationship." Debates by non-government actors about future crises are critical distopian visions that can mobilize transnational movements that are effectively pressuring governments into preventing nuclear annihilation Kurasawa, 04 (Professor of Sociology, York University of Toronto, Fuyuki, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, 2004).
In the twenty-first century, the lines of … genetic engineering, and mass human rights violations). Any problem that they identify about futurism will only be worse in a world where we give up. Either others will decide for us or we will be overwhelmed by crises. Futurism may have flaws but scenario planning by citizens is the best hope that we have. Kurasawa, 04 (Professor of Sociology, York University of Toronto, Fuyuki, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, 2004).
None of this is to … in the here and now
Just because we cannot predict the future with total certainty does not mean that we cannot make educated guesses. And, scenario planning is key to making responsible choices. We are obligated to take care of the planet if we have a significant role to play. Kurasawa, 04 (Professor of Sociology, York University of Toronto, Fuyuki, Constellations Volume 11, No 4, 2004).
A radically postmodern line of thinking … preventive action on the global stage.
No Solvency – The justification for the decision by the court was based on redundancy – The terror threat is incorporated into the other parts of the EIS – affirming the decision does not change the way we relate to trauma because status quo relationship would still be part Nuclear Power licensing procedures.
Briggs in 11 (Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis)
The NRC is the wrong … would add nothing new to the environmental discussion.
The decision was based on the grounds that it had already been considered in the Generic EIS and Site Specific EIS - The plan does not remove those restrictions
Environmental Appeals Blog, April 1 2009
Environmental Decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, all Circuits. Summaries provided by Waste Information and Management Services, Inc. (WIMS) from the pages of the WIMS Daily Environmental Briefing Report. This Blog Named to LexisNexis' 2011 Top 50 Listhttp://environmentalappealscourt.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-jersey-dep-v-us-nuclear-regulatory.html NJDEP petitioned for … denied the petition for review.
Third Circuit ruled on the grounds of redundancy – Other restrictions in other documents solved the issue and thus were not necessary – This means removing this case solves nothing
Environmental Appeals Blog, April 1 2009
Environmental Decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals, all Circuits. Summaries provided by Waste Information and Management Services, Inc. (WIMS) from the pages of the WIMS Daily Environmental Briefing Report. This Blog Named to LexisNexis' 2011 Top 50 Listhttp://environmentalappealscourt.blogspot.com/2009/04/new-jersey-dep-v-us-nuclear-regulatory.html
The Third Circuit explained its … NJDEP has not met its burden here.
The NRC security requirements for what happens in a terrorist attack are still in place post the plan. The aff only removes the licensing requirement. Does nothing to solve trauma
Briggs in 11 (Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis)
When the Ephrata, … issue into the national spotlight.
The grounds of the decision were based on the decision that terrorism planning was not under the NRC jurisdiction – affirming this case does nothing to solve trauma.
Briggs in 11 (Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis)
After the 2001 attacks on Washington D.C … analyze this
potential threat.
Turn – the decision to exclude is based on a desire to avoid trauma. The third circuit decision was based on national security because disclosing a plan for a terrorist attack would expose the United States
Briggs in 11 (Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis)
“The public aspect of … potential health and safety consequences.18 Turn - Disclosure of terrorist considerations hurts national security
Briggs in 11 (Alexander T; J.D. Candidate 2012, Seton Hall University School of Law; “Managing the Line Between Nuclear Power and Nuclear Terror: Considering the Threat of Terrorism as an Environmental Impact,” Seton Hall Circuit Review; 8 Seton Hall Cir. Rev. 223; Lexis)
Not only would … critical concerns, in violation of |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: UNLV | Round: Semifinals | Opponent: | Judge:
HUMANS CANNOT PROCREATE IN SPACE O’Neill Solar Physics Doctor July 12, 2008
Universe Today, 7-16-08, http://www.universetoday.com/2008/07/12/nasa-needs-to-take-space-sex-seriously/
The fact remains however … during missions to the Moon or Mars).
Alternate Causality- Bone loss prevents long space voyages
Miller, 01
Karen Miller, “The Zero G Battle: How Astronauts and Cosmonauts Cope”, 8-31-01, http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/generalscience/gravity_adapt_010831-1.html
Bone recovery, though, has …for long periods of rehabilitation," he says.
Long space voyages impossible anytime soon- Multiple reasons
Krueger 2-18-08
Curtis Krueger, “Dangers of Space,” St. Petersburg Times, February 18, 2008, LexisNexis
An undisclosed medical …2018, and eventually on to Mars. |
| 11/14/2012 | Tournament: UNLV | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Presidential Directive 8 prevents breeder reactors
A. David Rossin, Center for International Security and Coorperation, Stanford University. U. S. REPROCESSING AND NONPROLIFERATION POLICY, WM'99 CONFERENCE, FEBRUARY 28 - MARCH 4, 1999. 1999 http://www.wmsym.org/archives/1999/20/20-1.pdf On April 7, 1977, President Jimmy … from old weapons programs
Thorium reactors are breeder reactors – means no investors due to legal risk James R. Fromm. The Breeder Reactor, 3rd1000.com. 1997 http://www.3rd1000.com/nuclear/nuke101g.htm Two Types of Traditional Breeder … neutron capture and beta decay. Can't solve - Congress Must remove NRC mandate that specific technology be wedded to specific plant designs-- this is key to new nuclear tech
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Pitts Bill Could Be Nuclear Energy Game Changer, Heritage Foundation. July 31, 2009 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/07/pitts-bill-could-be-nuclear-energy-game-changer It Would Open the Marketplace to New Technologies … building a more diverse and competitive nuclear industry. The NRC is customer driven, regulatory uncertainty prevents nuclear development because companies can't predict results
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Nicolas D. Loris is a Research Associate in the Roe Institute, at The Heritage Foundation. A Big Future for Small Nuclear Reactors?, Heritage Foundation. February 2, 2011 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/02/a-big-future-for-small-nuclear-reactors#_ftnref16 Establish a new licensing pathway … commercialization ultimately depends.14 Thorium doesn’t solve proliferation—No distinction from Uranium fueled reactors
Amory Lovins, a student of nuclear issues since the 1960s, is Chairman and Chief Scientist of RMI. “New” nuclear reactors, same old story, Rocky Mountain Institute. MARCH 21, 2009 http://www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory Some enthusiasts … differ only in detail from current versions. Without effective waste policies States will prevent nuclear power – Includes your aff
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes, Heritage Foundation. November 15, 2007 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/competitive-nuclear-energy-investment-avoiding-past-policy-mistakes#_ftnref16 Today, many states … referenda can impose additional restrictions. Plan can’t solve state regulations
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in Nuclear Energy in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies at The Heritage Foundation. Competitive Nuclear Energy Investment: Avoiding Past Policy Mistakes, Heritage Foundation. November 15, 2007 http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/competitive-nuclear-energy-investment-avoiding-past-policy-mistakes#_ftnref16
At the same time, … anti-nuclear activists to exploit. No quick deployment of nuclear reactors – No infrastructure
David Biello. Is Reprocessing the Answer to Eliminating Fissile Materials from Bombs and Nuclear Waste?, Scientific American. April 15, 2010. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=is-reprocessing-the-answer-to-eliminating-fissile-materials
Reprocessing may reduce the … 100 years of supply? I wouldn't if I was an investor." Nuclear power not possible, not enough workers
AMORY B. LOVINS AND IMRAN SHEIKH. The Nuclear Illusion, Rocky Mountain Institute. May 27, 2008 http://www.nirs.org/alternatives/e0801ambionucillusion.pdf
Nuclear workers are becoming … hard enough without staffing new ones.
No nuclear power-- the parts are too hard to acquire International Trade Administration, The Commercial Outlook for U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors. February 2011 http://trade.gov/publications/pdfs/the-commercial-outlook-for-us-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.pdf One obstacle is diminished manufacturing capacity … a significant trade barrier in key foreign markets. Length of time for licensure ensures companies will abandon the process
Rod Adams, Pro-nuclear advocate with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. Former submarine Engineer Officer. Founder, Adams Atomic Engines, Inc. Is the NRC the “gold standard” of nuclear regulation or the “DMV standard”?, Atomic Insights. October 15, 2011 http://atomicinsights.com/2011/10/is-the-nrc-the-gold-standard-of-nuclear-regulation-or-the-dmv-standard.html
Though the allusion may be lost on Atomic Insights … governments and fossil fuel suppliers. |
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Text: United States Congress should abandon the waste confidence rule, remove the mandate that specific nuclear technologies be wedded to specific plant design, and pass legislation voiding the part of Presidential Directive 8 that indefinitely defers the commercial reprocessing and recycling of plutonium in the United States and reduce restrictions on crude oil, natural gas, nuclear power, solar power, and wind power Net Benefit: Warming is real and human induced – drastic emissions reductions are key to avoid dangerous climate disruptions
Somerville 11 – Professor of Oceanography @ UCSD
Richard Somerville, Distinguished Professor Emeritus and Research Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego, Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group I for the 2007 Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 3-8-2011, “CLIMATE SCIENCE AND EPA'S GREENHOUSE GAS REGULATIONS,” CQ Congressional Testimony, Lexis
1n early 2007, at the … reaching near zero well within this century.
If SMRs make it to market they will replace Coal power plants
Mr. John J. Licata, Founder and Chief Energy Strategist, Blue Phoenix Inc. America, It’s OK to favor Small Modular Reactors and phase out coal, Blue Phoenix. April 16, 2012. http://www.cmegroup.com/education/files/america-its-ok-to-favor-small-modular-reactors-and-phase-out-coal.pdf
A case can be made that … smarter choice over coal-fired plants.
Replacing Coal is most important – without solving coal warming is ensured – nuclear can do that
Steve Kirsch. The Integral Fast Reactor (IFR) project, skirsch.com. August 10, 2008 http://www.skirsch.com/politics/globalwarming/ifr.htm
I first heard about the IFR … figure out how to get rid of.
Tipping points coming soon – risk extinction
Hamilton 10 – Professor of Public Ethics @ ANU
Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics in Australia, 2010, “Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change,” pg. 1-2
One of the most … struggle just to survive. |
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The Affirmatives attempt at micropolitical struggles fails to confront the root cause of oppression which is global capital. These single issue struggles allow the global process of capital to thrive unchallenged.
Zizek 97 Slavoj, Senior Researcher, Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, 1997, “Multiculturalism, or, the Cultural Logic of Multinational Capitalism.” http://libcom.org/library/multiculturism-or-the-cultural-logic-of-multinational-capitalism-zizek
What these leftist …suspend the neutral space of Law.
Challenging global capitalism is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current 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 …glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix.
Our alternative-vote neg- Capitalism is immoral you have to reject it universally-this is the only strategy for breaking free
James Herod author of several books on capitalism and social activist since 1968 Getting Free 2004 http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm
It is time to try to describe …the shape of their social world.
The aff’s social movement only reforms that capitalist system, only outright rejection can solve for the segregation they try to stop – Proves the alternative is better than the affirmative or any permutation.
Herod 4, Writer, Lecturer, and Non-Sectarian Social Critic, (James, “Getting Free” 4th Edition online, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/4thEd/4-index.htm,)
12. New Social Movements …the system, not abolish it. |
