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Incentives are negotiated offers linked to a particular outcome – simply motivating behavioral change is not enough
Grant, 02
- professor of political science at Duke University (Ruth, “THE ETHICS OF INCENTIVES: HISTORICALORIGINS AND CONTEMPORARY UNDERSTANDINGS,” Economics and Philosophy, 18 (2002) 111, proquest)

We are now in a position to identify... social control is illustrative of this point

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. Interpretation – The affirmative must affirm the topic instrumentally. The 1AC must include a topical plan that is justified with a normative defense of federal government adoption of such a policy. 

B. Definitional Support:

1. The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon – the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters
    Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing – 2000
   http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm
   Use of a colon before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a clause that can stand by itself. Think of the colon as a gate, inviting one to go on… If the introductory phrase preceding the colon is very brief and the clause following the colon represents the real business of the sentence, begin the clause after the colon with a capital letter.

2. Should denotes an expectation of enacting a plan
 American Heritage Dictionary – 2000 www.dictionary.com
 3 Used to express probability or expectation

3. The USFG is the government in Washington D.C.
 Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com
 “The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC.”

C. Violation – The affirmative is not an instrumental affirmation of the resolution 

D. Reasons to Prefer

1. Ground – Refusing to defend the implementation of the plan/resolution erases all predictable negative counterplan, disadvantage and case ground. While we may have arguments indicting the idea of the plan or personal advocacy, we’ll never have evidence saying their specific advocacy of the plan is bad. This eliminates all of our resolutionally-based offensive arguments.

2. Topical Education – By manipulating the topic to access a political project they destroy discussion of the important question asked by the resolution. This tactic promotes debate that is either stagnant or shallow

Framework 1NC

3.  Extra Topicality – Even if they claim to “defend” their plan – they skirt discussion of its merits by arguing the benefits derived from their advocacy outweigh. This is a voting issue because we’re forced to win framework just to get back to equal footing – extra topicality also proves the resolution insufficient and explodes aff ground.

4. Bad Policymaking – The affirmative subverts discussion of the merits of specific policies, which negates our ability to compare the effects of the plan to the status quo. This ruins a critical function of this activity which is to test the desirability of policy implementation.

E. Voting Issue – If we demonstrate the affirmative does not meet the best interpretation of the topic they have failed to justify the resolution and should be rejected. This is the best way to preserve competitive equity by ensuring predictable ground for the negative. 

Also, instrumentality is a jurisdictional voting issue
Ruth Lesl Shively, Professor of Politics at Texas AandM, 2000 Partisan Politics and Political Theory, p. 181-2
In most cases, however, our agreements... basic agreement or harmony.

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The 1AC is a paradigmatic example of humanist cultural criticism - this perpetuates speciesism and dooms them to failure

Deckha 6 – Maneesha, UC Hastings College of the Law
http://www.animallaw.info/articles/arus17hstwlj1.htm
Cultural critics have painstakingly demonstrated the social constructedness... a property status of non-human animals.

The affirmative frames existence in terms of human value – this ethic creates the world as standing reserve and legitimizes endless genocide

Introna 9 – Professor of Organization, Technology and Ethics at Lancaster University
(Lucas, “Ethics and the Speaking of Things,” Theory, Culture and Society 2009 vol 26 no 4, 25-46, dml)

In the ethics of hybrids our ethical relationship with things... everything is potentially equally valuable/valueless; 

The alternative is to vote negative to reject speciesism by critically reorienting ourselves against the 1AC. Our creation of a space for reflection is a key step in ending non-human oppression.

Williams 8 – Nancy, Philosopher at Wofford College

“Affected Ignorance and Animal Suffering” Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics (2008) 21:371-384

Epistemological and moral tensions such as these, however, can be the impetus for social critique: a “place”... factory farming practices (and subsequent animal suffering).

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CP: The United States Federal Government will expand subsidies for manufacturers of solar panels in coalfield communities 

The People of the apps don't want wind energy-cultural imperialist

Pitkin 5-19-2012 Wind Energy Opposition in Vermont: Perspectives on the State's Energy Future William R. Pitkin IV Pomona College http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1077andcontext=pomona_theses (ML)

Wind opponents argue that the aesthetic changes to Vermont’s mountaintops... our unique identity as a state and a people.

Windmills increase fossil fuels-
http://theatheistconservative.com/tag/wind-turbines-bad-for-the-economy/ Don Quixote de la Mancha  May 15, 2012 (ML)

It is impossible to have wind turbines without fossil fuels...and prevent icing during periods of winter calm.

Fossil Fuels lead to unleashed warming-

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 (ML)

1n early 2007, at the time of the publication of WG1 of AR4,... well within this century.

Global warming is real and anthropogenic- extinction of species will be seen within the next 80 years-

John Anderson-Director of Siting Policy, Tom Vinson-Senior Director of Federal Regulatory Affairs, Gene Grace-Senior Counsel American Wind Energy Association 2011 http://www.fws.gov/windenergy/eagle_comments/john_anderson.pdf (ML)

The United Nation‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC . . . will be committed to extinction.‖

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Tech innovation organizes a flooded economy of speed that becomes instable and likens and inevitable financial collapse—Goldman et. Al No Date 

Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson, and Noah Kersey—Ph.D. Economics UTA, Landscapes of the Social Relations of Production in a Networked Society, Fast Capitalism, http://www.uta.edu/huma/agger/fastcapitalism/2_1/SocialRelations.html KR

The formula for success is knowledge, power, mobility, and determination... The landscape of risk is omnipresent.

And, our worship of that acceleration makes a catastrophic accident inevitable—the politics of speed turns the case and guarantees war and extinction—Sykes 9 

Jason Sykes,  Economics—UNT, “Paul Virilio’s critique of speed, technology, and institutions,” April 19, 2009, Lexis KR

In Virlio’s view, the war machine is the demiurge of technological development... Our escape lies in slowing down. “We must politicize speed. (Virilio, 1983, pg. 35)”

The alternative is to brake—academic discussions must slow down and critically investigate the politics of speed before we come to a decision.  Your responsibility as an intellectual and the roll of the ballot is to vote negative to foster engagement that doesn’t rush engagement—Glezos 9

Simon Glezos is a Ph.D. in political theory and international relations from Johns Hopkins University, now works in the department of political science at University of Regina“The politics of speed: Capitalism, the state and war in an accelerating world” dissertation pg. 93-94, 2009 KR

The goal then is thus to politicize the military, to politicize war... war and the (Globalitarian) state