Tournament: UMKC | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Their imagination of a better world is a continuation of the ascetic ideal. This association of all that is good as not of this world expresses a hatred for the only one we’ve got—turns case. Fantasizing about a world without suffering produces creative impotence---only our relationship to life can escape this paradox of resentment
Aydan Turanli, Humanities and Social Sciences @ Istanbul University, 2k3
(“Nietzsche and the Later Wittgenstein” Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 p. 55-63)
The craving for …
the fly-bottle" (PI §309).

Suffering is inevitable-the drive to abolish it holds life in contempt. The tension of the should in misfortune is what cultivates human greatness
Freidrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, 1886
(Beyond Good and Evil P.153-154)
225. Whether it be hedonism…  these are naivetes.

The ultimate result of this negative orientation toward life is the inability to live life to its fullest. Instead, the affirmative holds life in contempt for its pains, never understanding that life is suffering, starvation, and dying. The desire to seek redemption from life through the creation of a future moral order annihilates life in the present. This is the worst possible danger: our existence becomes a dreary perpetuation of biological life, devoid of meaning, waiting only for passive death.
Freidrich Nietzsche, Philosopher, 1872
(The Birth of Tragedy. Translated Golffing, 1956. p. 9-11)
In the preface …
Grek god, Dionysos.

The alternative is to embrace suffering as something positive and necessary to life. Reject the idea that suffering is something to be avoided.
Wrisley-University of Iowa Philosophy Department- No Date Given
(George, “What Should Our Attitude Towards Suffering Be,” Nietzsche and Suffeirng- A Choice of Attitudes and Ideals, pg 4-5,  http://www.georgewrisley.com/Nietzsche%20Paper%20Draft%20II.doc)

Taking Nietzsche seriously … in Nietzsche’s writings.

Tournament: UMKC | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
The way energy is distributed and incentivized ignores the particular needs of women in the energy sector – hierarchizing male needs over female needs.
Gaynor and Jennings 03 Cathy and Mary “Annex on Gender and Infrastructure” http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp/Resources/HTML/Gender-RG/Source%20%20documents/Issue%20and%20Strategy%20Papers/GandT%20Rationale/ISGT11%20%20Gender%20and%20Infrastructure%20WEDC.pdf
Gender Related Issues … increased economic opportunities.

This patriarchal mindset is a type of colonialism that marginalizes Native women and seeks to control nature. Operating under the current ideologies ties the US to a permanent social war with the Natives that only breeds racism, sexism and xenophobic future politics—SMITH 3 Andrea. Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at University of California, Riverside. Not an Indian Tradition: The Sexual Colonization of Native Peoples. Hypatia, Vol. 18, No. 2, Indigenous Women in the Americas (Spring, 2003), pp. 70. Accessed August 13, 2012
The connection between … are on the ground."

Our alternative is to adopt a critical ecofeminist pedagogy within this debate that seeks, at every level, to refuse hierarchy and domination. This means we must embrace the human learner in the context of the nonhuman and nature, paying particular attention to the diversity of knowledge production through language, teaching, and learning.
Kamrar 8 Jenn: writing professor at Portland Community College “Toward An Ecofeminist Pedagogy” Conference Proceedings: Masters in Teaching Program 2006-2008 Teaching the Child in Front of You in a Changing World January 28 and 29, 2008 Chapter p. 128
To teach through … and natural world.

Tournament: UMKC | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Obama and Romney are in a dead heat
Marin 9/20 Alex, staff writer for policymic. Obama vs Romney polls: Why the race is still a dead heat. Accessed September 21, 2012
Despite President Obama's … nationally -- 47% to 46%.   

Plans popular
Our Energy Policy 12 Public Support for climate and Energy policies. May 2012. Accessed August 22, 2012
On April 26th, the … to environmental problems.”

Obama strength before the election guarantees an Israel first strike on Iran – Obama would be forced to back Israel
Hart 8/19 Alan, staff writer for Arab News. Netanyahu versus Obama and Iran. August 19th, 2012. Accessed August 22nd, 2012.
Netanyahu’s real fear … and far beyond.
 

A strike on Iran causes global nuclear war and extinction
Hirsch 5Jorge CAN A NUCLEAR STRIKE ON IRAN BE AVERTED, NOVEMBER 21, 2005, HTTP://WWW.ANTIWAR.COM/ORIG/HIRSCH.PHP?ARTICLEID=8089
The Bush administration … population many times over.  

Tournament: Kentucky | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Success in US solar industry trades off with Chinese solar development
Bradsher, , 11 Keith New York Times Asian business Writer, September 1, China Benefits as U.S. Solar Industry Withers
The bankruptcies of three...United States and Europe.

Solar is key to China’s economy – massive investments and restructuring now
Xinhua News 12 July 9, “Slowdown spurs restructuring of China's economy
The amount of...measures to stabilize growth.

Chinese growth key to prevent CCP lashout
Shirk 7 Susan, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, responsible for U.S. relations with China, professor at UC-San Diego's Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, , Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation Director, “CHINA: FRAGILE SUPERPOWER
As China’s leaders well...might endanger Party rule.”

Nuclear and biological war
Renxing 5 San, Epoch Times Staff Writer, August 05, “The CCP’s Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War Hundreds of millions of deaths proposed
Since the Party’s...theme of the speeches.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
US air quality is improving now but pollution is on the brink
Mitka 2012 (Mike Mitka, April 25, 2012, “US Air Quality Improves, But Polluted Air Still Threatens Millions,” JAMA, http://newsatjama.jama.com/2012/04/25/us-air-quality-improves-but-polluted-air-still-threatens-millions/)
Air quality has improved...pollution—are at unsafe levels.

Wind/solar energy increases pollution
Proctor 2010 (Cathy Proctor, May 21, 2010, “Wind giveth, but power plants may be taking away,” Denver Business Journal,  http://www.bizjournals.com/denver/stories/2010/03/22/story3.html?b=1269230400^3055241ands=industryandi=green)
cites industry study
Wind energy is seen...and improved air quality.

Extinction
Driesen 2003 (David Driesen, Associate Professor at Syracuse University Law, 10 Buffalo Environmental Law Journal, Fall/Spring, Lexis)
Air pollution can...both of these concerns.

Tournament: Emporia | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Alternative energy is used to perpetuate the industrial society and western civilization
Green Anarchist 3 Anonymous authors. Autumn 2003. From Green Anarchist #70. Alternative Energy Technology?: Articles from the “Green Anarchist.” Accessed August 8, 2012
Though the reality...that it’s a good idea.

The impact is extinction. Civilization isn’t sustainable but the attempts to sustain it will inevitably cause extinction.
McPherson 7 Guy. Keynote address for a conference organized and for students in the University of Arizona Master of Public Health program. August 29th 2007. The end of civilization and the extinction of humanity. Accessed August 18, 2012
Obviously, this is a...the home team, Nature bats last.  

The alternative is to destroy civilization. The alternative allows us to return to our original hunter-gatherer mentality which is key to eliminating all systems of oppression and gain true human freedom.
Willful Disobedience 5 Willful Disobedience; “Destroy Civilization?”; 2005; Vol. 3 No. 3; http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/destroycivilization.htm
To put it another way,...the unknown that is freedom. 

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Text: The appropriate and relevant bureaucrats and politicians should

1) The affirmative’s use of the words “federal government” create the illusion of an all powerful god – the CP solves this by recognizing “government” as nothing more than an amalgamation of individuals
Frederick Mann, NSPIC DEBATE, 1994 “THE NATURE OF GOVERNMENT,” TERRA LIBRA, http://www.apfn.org/apfn/nature_gov.htm
All these people, structures...you - individualistic thinking. 

2) Monolithic depictions of the government guarantee extinction
Louis Rene Beres, Ph.D., Professor of International Law, Purdue University – SPRING 1994, 11 Ariz. J. Int'l and Comp. Law 1 “SELF-DETERMINATION, INTERNATIONAL LAW AND SURVIVAL ON PLANET EARTH”
With Hegel's characterization of...badge of modern humankind.

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Make an ethical evaluation of the 1AC.
You CANNOT Objectively Survey Existence, but must Attune Your Decision to the Creative-Destructive Flows of the Cosmos.
Henning 2k9, (Brian, ‘TRuSTINg IN THE ‘EffICaCy Of BEauTy: A KAlocentric ApproAch to MorAl  philosophy’, Ethics and the Environment)
Final truths (whether in...for the whole of reality.

The 1AC projects a moral universe organized for the good of the “global human”—Their assistance is a tool to maximize the sustainability of anthropocentric values.
Narkunas, Prof of English at CUNY, 2007
J. Paul, "Utilitarian Humanism: Culture in the Service of Regulating 'We Other Humans,'" Theory and Event, Vol 10, Issue 3, Project Muse
Throughout this essay, I presume...structure of the "global human." 

Escape the Despair of the Humans.
You are Apes and Dirt; Stars and Rocks; Dinosaurs and Bacteria—Billions of Years of Cosmic Creativity.
Value the Wonderful Aliveness of the Universe Beyond Your Capacity to Destroy.
Seed, 1995 (John, “Beyond Anthropocentrism”, http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/deep-eco/Anthropo.htm
"Anthropocentrism" or "homocentrism" means...in harmony with life again.  

Tournament: Illinois State | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Notions of preserving some sort of future for our species valorize heteronormative power structures – imbuing heternormative relations with meaning for existence while subordinating queer sex to “meaningless acrobatics.”  impregnates heterosexuality within the future of signification, necessitating violence against queerness.
Edelman 2004 (Lee Edelman, Prof. English at Tufts University, “No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive,” 2004, pp. 11-13)

Charged, after all,...that “meaning,” despite itself, means.

Heteronormativity instills a fundamental fear of impurity in society; this amplifies systemic violence against queerness and places our species on a trajectory towards omnicide.
Sedwick 1990 (Eve Sedgwick, Professor of English CUNY, “Epistemology of the Closet,” 1990, pp. 127-130.)

From at least the biblical...opened and opened and opened?

Our alternative is queer apocal(o)ptic/ism: this is the relentless problematization of the Symbolic, and all imagery and idolatry associated with reproductive futurism. Apocal(o)ptic/ism begins at the level of the self and branches out to capture the apocalyptic moments of destruction wherein the underlying structures of heteronormative hegemony are disrupted.
Giffney 2008 (Noreen Giffney, Proffessor at University College Dublin Ireland, “Queer Apocal(o)ptic/ism: The Death Drive and the Human,” Published in “Queering the Non/Human, 2008, pp 57-58)

What characterises queer apocal(o)ptic/ism?...ever disturb one' (Edelman 2004,17).

Tournament: UNT | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
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...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...“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...and the (Globalitarian) state.

Tournament: UNT | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
FIRST, THE NEWEST EVIDENCE CONCLUDES THAT PRIOR STUDIES ONLY UNDERESTIMATE THE PROBLEM. WITHOUT COERCIVE POPULATION CONTROL; THE EARTH WILL BE DEAD BY 2050.
MCDOUGALL, Co-Chair of the Optimum Population Trust, AND GUILLEBAUD, Professor of Family Planning and Reproductive Health at University college of London, 2007
Rosamund, an environmental research and campaigning group; John, “Too many people: Earth’s population problem, Optimum Population Trust, http://www.optimumpopulation.org/opt.earth.html, June 7

The Earth faces a...than conflict and suffering.

Our obsession with the fuel of the future is the root cause to all our problems
Bill Siverly 05 and Michael McDowell Afterword Peak Oil and Poetry of Place  He holds a Master of Arts degree from San Francisco State University, and he taught literature, composition, and creative writing at Portland Community College for twenty-five years.  Bill has published four books of poems: http://www.hevanet.com/windfall/wf7/peakoil.pdf
A change is coming...political instability, and war.

THE IMPACT IS EXTINCTION
Brown, 06  professor of physiology at West Virginia University (Paul, Notes from a Dying Planet, p. 3-4)

The threats we face...before it’s too late.

Tournament: UTD | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Immigration has the best chance of passage -- but Obama will need political capital
McGregor 1/3 Richard McGregor, 1/3/13, Financial Times, Fiscal fights threaten US policy goals, http://www.cnn.com/2013/01/03/business/us-fiscal-fight/index.html?utm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=feedandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fcnn_latest+%28RSS%3A+Most+Recent%29

Of all the issues crowding...to shift their views.

The GOP will crack on immigration reform but Obama is key to Comprehensive Reform vs a piecemeal approach
Lillis 1/4 Mike Lillis, Rep. Gutierrez shifts to Judiciary panel to help tackle immigration reform, The Hill, http://thehill.com/homenews/house/275719-gutierrez-shifts-to-judiciary-panel-to-tackle-immigration-reform
The issue of immigration reform...we should get done."

Renewables are massively unpopular –Budgetary concerns
Von Schirach, International Economic Development Consultant, 12
(Paolo, International Affairs Commentator and Writer, May 11, “Renewable Energy In The US – Subsidies Politically Unpopular – Natural Gas A Much Cheaper Alternative – USG Should Focus On RandD,”
http://schirachreport.com/index.php/2012/05/11/grim-prospects-for-renewable-energy-in-the-us-subsidies-politically-unpopular-natural-gas-a-much-cheaper-alternative-usg-should-focus-on-rd/, d/a 7-20-12, ads)
American enthusiasm... fossil fuels may be.

Immigration reform expands skilled labor --- spurs relations and economic growth in China and India.
Los Angeles Times, 11/9/2012 (Other countries eagerly await U.S. immigration reform, p. http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/11/us-immigration-reform-eagerly-awaited-by-source-countries.html)
"Comprehensive immigration reform will...than not," he said.

US/India relations averts South Asian nuclear war.
Schaffer, Spring 2002 (Teresita – Director of the South Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Security, Washington Quarterly, p. Lexis)
Washington's increased interest...with the United States.

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Our alternative is to engage in eschatology of the accident – when faced with catastrophe, we should step back and acknowledge our powerlessness, breaking the endless cycle of invention and destruction that has characterized the 21st century—Virilio 07 Paul, Professor of Philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, “The original accident,” trans. by Julie Rose, Polity, available online 

Faced with this state...post-industrial eschatology.

Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: Towson HW | Judge:
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...property status of non-human animals.

Speciesism makes possible "systematic beastilization," which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the Other - this is the root cause of all oppression.
Rossini 6 – Manuela, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
Sept, “To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism,” Kritikos, Volume 3, http://intertheory.org/Rossinicn
What is equally sobering...disproportionate effects on animals.26

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...and subsequent animal suffering).

Tournament: NDT | Round: 1 | Opponent: Mary Wash LP | Judge:
The affirmative tries to shape the world by escaping suffering and chaos. Thus our alternative is to reject the affirmatives attempt at mastering the world by embracing uncertainty with a simple roll of the dice.
Deleuze 83, Giles Deleuze, Prof of Philosophy @ U of Lyon, Paris, and Lycees, Nietzsche and Philosophy, p. 25-27, 7/04/12, AR

The game has two moments...nature of the fatally obtained number.

1NC
Dedev
Heg bad
Elections
EcoFem
"The" PIC

2NC
EcoFem

1NR
Dedev
Heg Bad

2NR
Dedev
Heg bad

1NC
Elections
Nietzsche
"The" PIC
States CP
Ice age
Heg bad
Solar panels offense

2NC
Nietzsche

1NR
Ice age
Heg bad

2NR
Nietzsche

1NC
Salmon Runs CP
Consult Tribes CP
Sovereignty K
Elections
Nietzsche
Case D

2NC
Nietzsche

1NR
Case D
Sovereignty K

2NR
Nietzsche

1NC
Nietzsche
Ice age
Prolif good
Prolif Orientalism K
"Image of Prolif" K
IFR case D

2NC
Nietzsche

1NR
Nietzsche

2NR
Nietzsche

1AC - SMRs

1NC - T- RandD
Nietzsche
Civilization K
Consult India
Thorium PIC
Pollution DA
Heg bad

2NR - Civilization K

1AC - Bataille

1NC - Doubling

1AC- Irigary

1NC - Nietzsche
Framework
Pollution DA
Deep Ecology

2NR - Deep Ecology

1AC - SMRs

1NC -  Thorium PIC
Consult India CP
Overpopulation
Virillio
Case

2NC - Virillio
Consult India

1NR - Thorium PIC
Case

2NR - Thorium PIC 

1AC - Offshore Wind

1NC - T - "In the United States"
Virillio
Anthropocentrism
Overpopulation
Case

2NC - Virillio
Anthropocentrism

1NR - Case

2NR - Virillio

1AC - SMRs

1NC - Virilio
Consult India
Thorium PIC w/ reactor spec
Overpopulation
Case

2NC - Virilio
Consult India

1NR - Reactor spec
Case

2NR - Virilio 

1AC - SMR's

1NC - Virilio
Thorium PIC
Consult India
CIR Ptix
Case

2NC - Virilio
Consult India

1NR - CIR
Case

2NR - Virilio

1AC - Solar

1NC - Virilio
CIR Ptix
China Econ DA
Ice age

2NC - Virilio

1NR - Ice Age

2NR - Ice Age

1AC - SMR's

1NC - Virilio
Civilization K
Consult India
Thorium PIC
Terrorism good
China war good

2NC - Virilio
Consult India

1NR - China war good

2NR - China war good

1AC - Subjectivity 

1NC - Doubling

2NC - Doubling

1NR - Doubling

2NR - Doubling

1AC - IFR's

1NC - Wipeout

1AC - Reprocessing

1NC - Consult India
Civ K
Virilio
Russia relations bad
Impact D

2NC - Virilio

1NR - Civ 

2NR - Virilio 

1NC - FIT's

1NC - T - Incentives must be direct
Virilio
Civ K
Case

2NC - Virilio

1NR - Civ

2NR - Virilio

1AC - SMR's get off the rock/transhumanism

1NC - Virilio
Consult India
Thorium PIC
Transhumanism case turns

2NC - Virilio

1NR - Thorium PIC

2NR - Thorium PIC

1AC - Nature aesthetics Morton poetics

1NC - T - Restrictions
Doubling

2NC - Doubling

1NR - T

2NR - T