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The aff’s ‘environmental geopolitics discourse determines nature as a new rogue state to be merely dealt with by means of science and industrialization. This reentrenches structures of power that perpetuate environmental degradation turning the case
Tuathail, prof at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Univ., 98
(Gearóid Ó, The Geopolitics Reader, 1998, pgs. 7) at
Co-existing with these discourses ...of environmental problems
The affirmative mobilizes ecological fears to expand the concept of security to include the environment, this framing of the environment spills over massively expanding government power and justifying militarism and the most authoritarian responses to environmental problems.
Waever, Senior Researcher at the Center for Peace and Conflict Research, 1995 (Ole, On Security, p. 63-64)
Central to the arguments ... in the name of the environment.50
Environmental security framing commodifies the environment – coopting discussions of sustainable ecology into sustainable development
Dalby, professor of geography and political economy at Carleton University in Ottawa, 2002
(Simon, Environmental Security, p. xxxi-xxxii)
This is not a matter ...for¬mulation of critique seriously.
The aff’s form of knowledge production makes war and escalation inevitable – it mandates violence rather than allowing it to be a political choice
Burke (Prof on Int’l Relations, University of New South Wales) 7
(Anthony, Ontologies of War: Violence, Existence and Reason, Theory and Event, 10:2, MUSE)
I am thinking of ontology in ...tends to break down in action.