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| 09/23/2012 | Oil DA 1NCTournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Prices are stable now but a decline collapses Putin’s regime – can’t maintain social spendingReguly, The Globe And Mail European Business Correspondent, 9-15-12 (Eric, “For Russia, high energy prices a necessity, not a luxury,” http://m.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/international-business/european-business/for-russia-high-energy-prices-a-necessity-not-a-luxury/article4546314/?service=mobile, accessed 9-16-12, ads)
The Kremlin does not take political … about three times its post-2008 low.
Plan drops oil prices – displaces massive amounts of oilOceana.org, 12 (February 2, “Could Offshore Wind Displace Oil?,” http://oceana.org/en/our-work/climate-energy/clean-energy/learn-act/could-offshore-wind-displace-oil, accessed 9-16-12, ads)
Wind power can directly offset … and gas resources combined.
Collapse forces Putin out – causes rampant nationalismFriedlander, UC Berkley College of Letters and Science, 2009 (Monica, May 13, “Ken Jowitt Offers New Perspective on Russian Politics,” http://www.ias.berkeley.edu/node/351, accessed 8-24-12, ads)
An expert in comparative politics …, it’s not at all a bad second-best.”
Nuclear warIrsraelyan, Former Soviet Ambassador, 98 (Victor, diplomat and arms control negotiator, “Russia at the Crossroads,” Lexis, accessed 8-30-12, ads)
The first and by far most …, until we all fall down together."
Oil DA – 1NR
3. US-Russia war is the only scenario for extinctionBostrom, Oxford philosophy faculty, March 2002 [Nick, “Existential Risks Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards,” Journal of Evolution and Technology, Vol. 9, http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html, mss]
A much greater existential risk … humankind’s potential permanently.
Oil DA – 1NR - Uniqueness
Oil prices will be high for the next decadeLewis, Investment Advisor SEC, 12 (Michael, “How the U.S. Can Eliminate Dependence on Foreign Oil by 2020”, http://www.moneycrashers.com/us-dependence-foreign-oil/, 04/30/12, accessed 08/02/2012, lmm)
World demand for petroleum will …a price of $4 U.S. for a gallon of gasoline.
Oil DA – 1NR – Links
Plan forces Saudi to flood the market – that devastates pricesERGO, Global Intelligence and Advisory Firm, 12 (February, “The Waning Era of Saudi Oil Dominance,” http://www.ergo.net/ErgoSpecialReport_Saudi_Oil_Feb2012.pdf, d/a 8-18-12, ads)
Saudi Arabia’s importance to …, helping to mitigate shocks to the oil market
2. Expectations of decline causes massive sell offs – that tanks pricesShiller, Yale University Economics Professor, 04 (Robert, November 8, “The perception of declining prices triggers a massive sell-off and price collapse,” Lexis, accessed 8-27-12, ads)
But what matters for oil prices … a speculative bubble: a collapse in prices.
Plan causes a drop in oil pricesStyles, Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, 11 (Geoffrey, January 19, “Displacing More Oil from Power Generation” http://energyoutlook.blogspot.com/2011/01/displacing-more-oil-from-power.html, accessed 9-7-12, ads)
That situation isn't representative … a significant emissions-reduction opportunity.
Oil DA – 1NR – Internal
Decrease in oil prices collapses Putin’s regimeTravin, European University Centre of Modernization Studies Research Director, 12 (Dmitry, July 25, “Only Low Oil Prices Will Oust Putin,” http://www.themoscowtimes.com/opinion/article/only-low-oil-prices-will-oust-putin/462567.html, d/a 8-14-12, ads)
The third contributing factor is … have no chance of remaining in power.
Putin is holding off nationalism now – his collapse would cause an outbreakMalaysian Insider, 8-25-12 (“Russia must counter nationalist threat, Putin says,” http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/world/article/russia-must-counter-nationalist-threat-putin-says/, d/a 8-27-12, ads)
President Vladimir Putin said yesterday … for an irreverent protest against Putin in a cathedral has also increased tension.
Oil DA – 1NR – Terrorism Impact
Russian economic decline causes nuclear terrorism and prolif causing extinctionSpeice, Marshall-Wythe School of Law Graduate Research Fellow, 06 (Patrick, JD from Marshall-Wythe School of Law at the College of William and Mary, February, “Negligence and Nuclear Nonproliferation” http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmlr/vol47/iss4/10/, accessed 8-31-12, ads)
Accordingly, there is a significant … to the use of nuclear weapons. n53
Terrorism risks world war and extinction, even if it doesn’t workSid-Ahmed, 04 (Mohamed Sid-Ahmed, Al-Ahram Weekly political analyst, ’04, Al-Ahram Weekly, "Extinction!" 8/26, no. 705, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/op5.htm]
What would be the consequences of a … the whole planet, we will all be loser
Oil DA – 1NR – World War
Triggers complete global war- draws in every major power Peimani, University of Bradford Department of Peace Studies Central Asia and Caucasus specialist, 02 [Hooman, Failed Transition, Bleak Future: War and Instability in Central Asia and the Caucasus, p. 142, accessed 2007ish, mss]
The impact of war and instability …any conflict in which they are involved. Oil production causes immediate price declines A major component ………. gas are wrong,” Gerard stated. | |
| 09/23/2012 | Elections DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Elections DA – 1NC
Obama will win but his lead is tenuousSilver, New York Times statistician and sabermetrician, 9-5-12 (Nate, “Sept. 4: The Simple Case for Why Obama Is the Favorite”, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/05/sept-4-the-simple-case-for-why-obama-is-the-favorite/?utm_source=twitterfeedandutm_medium=twitter, DOA: 9-5-12, ldg)
But if you look at the right-hand …president’s chances will be tenuous.
Everyone hates nuclear power-it is not clean or safe and no one wants to pay for it.Daily Kos 2012 (“Nuclear Power and Public Opinion: What the polls say”, 6-5, http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say, DOA: 9-1-12, ldg)
As DailyKos readers know, if not the … energy bank concept are bound to fail.
Romney will label China a manipulator-it is not saber rattling.Shobert, Rubicon Strategy Group managing director, 2012 (Benjamin, “Romney lays ground for China trade war”, 2-22, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/China_Business/NB22Cb01.html, DOA: 9-1-12, ldg)
It is a temptation to read … a currency manipulator is noteworthy.
That collapses the CCP, Asian and global economy and relationsYong, Peking International Studies professor, 2010 (Wang, “Avoiding a US-China Currency War: The Need for Rational Calculation”, 4-11, http://www.globalasia.org/Global_Asia_Forum/Avoiding_a_US-China_Currency_War.html?PHPSESSID=bca9831415838b4e550935c256837bf7, DOA; 8-28-12, ldg)
While the US could experience limited … of mishandling by the US of the exchange rate issue.
Asia collapse goes nuclear.Auslin, resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, 2009 (Michael, “Averting Disaster Preventing the worst case scenario in Asia”, 2-5, http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/115jtnqw.asp?page=2, ldg)
AS THEY DEAL WITH a collapsing world … have destroyed international systems in the past. | |
| 09/23/2012 | Green Banks CPTournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Green Banks CP – 1NC
The 50 state governments of the United States should create and capitalize green banks by re-programing existing state level support for renewable energy after December 31, 2012. We’ll clarify.
Establishment of state green banks creates sustainable low cost financing for renewable energy.Berlin, Coalition for Green Capital policy and planning vice president, 2011 (Kenneth, “Creating State Green Banks: How New Ways to Finance Clean Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects Can Reduce the Cost of Clean Energy and Replace Expiring Federal Credits and Subsidies”, http://www.stateinnovation.org/Events/Event-Listing/Policy-Directors-Annual-Meeting-2011.aspx, DOA: 9-11-12, ldg)
Transitioning to a clean economy … cost financing for energy efficiency projects. | |
| 09/23/2012 | Neoliberalism KTournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Neolib – 1NC
Aff’s logic of incentives presumes universal rationality and drives for profit-re-entrenches neoliberalism.Reno, Michigan anthropology PhD, 2011 (Joshua, “Motivated Markets: Instruments and Ideologies of Clean Energy in the United Kingdom”, Cultural Anthropology Volume 26, Issue 3, pages 389–413, August 2011, Wiley, ldg)
To grapple with these ongoing efforts of ,,, new and potentially alienating forms.
Globalization makes extinction inevitable- social and environmental factors build positive feedbacks create a cascade of destruction - only massive social reorganization of society can produce sustainable change and save the planetEhrenfeld, Rutgers biology professor, 2005 (David, “The Environmental Limits to Globalization”, Conservation Biology Vol. 19 No. 2, ebsco, ldg) Ehrenfeld ‘5,
The overall environmental changes brought … life-threatening problems exacerbated by globalization (Ehrenfeld 2003b).
The alt is to Embrace commons instead of enclosures
Discourse of the commons solves-creates space to challenge neoliberalismDe Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2003 (Massimo, “Reflections on alternatives, commons and communities”, Winter, http://www.commoner.org.uk/deangelis06.pdf, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)
This movement has posed the question …strengthening communities through the social fields.
Neolib – 2NC
Method first key-otherwise alternative modes of knowledge concerning neoliberalism are delegitimized..Gunder et al., Aukland University senior planning lecturer, 2009 (Michael, Planning in Ten Words or Less: A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning pgs 111-2, ldg)
The hegemonic network, ………... largely resulting in a zero-sum game (Blair and Kumar 1997).
Policy making isn’t grounded in objectivity but cherry picking. Means a residual link takes out the aff because the ideological underpinnings of their knowledge is inaccurate.Bristow, Cardiff University economic geographer senior lecturer, 2005 (Gillian, “Everyone's a ‘winner’: problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness”, Journal of Economic Geography, June, oxford journals, ldg)
This begs the question as ….. ideas of regional and national policy elites.
*Mary Note: evidence that supports plan being good idea was influences by the plan – the plan wasn’t supported by knowledge.
Questioning underlying structure of neoliberalism first is key-otherwise policy analysis is predetermined in favor of the market.Murphy, Miami sociology professor, 2005 (John, Globalization with a Human Face, pg 11-13, ldg) Murphy 4
The process of development, now ……… with rationality and general improvement.
3. Discount all their answers-accepting the frame of neoliberalism gears solutions to be watered down or delegitimizedFaber and McCarthy, Northeastern University Philanthropy and Environmental Justice Research Project, 2003 (Daniel R Faber Director; Deborah McCarthy Research Associate, College of Charleston Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. “Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Ecological Democracy Linking Sustainability and Environmental Justice.” Pg 56-7, ldg)
As we move further into the ………. environmental politics (Faber and O’Connor, 1993)./
Expertise is not objective but leveraged to create the presence of rationality and neutrality-empirically this only furthers neoliberal globalization.Faber, Northeastern sociology professor, 2008 (Daniel, Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization, pg 103-106, ldg)
As we have seen, owners……..associated with pollution.123
3. Try or die for the alternative alone.De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2009 (Massimo, “The tragedy of the capitalist commons”, December, http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/capitalist-commons/, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)
This platform of …… for the reproduction of their livelihoods.
Alt doesn’t eliminate capitalism-but rather creates social forms in spite of capitalism.De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2004 (Massimo, “Separating the Doing and the Deed: Capital and the Continuous Character of Enclosures”, Historical Materialism; 2004, Vol. 12 Issue 2, p57-87, ebsco, ldg)
Globalization causes war-exacerbates all the proximate causes.Staples, International Network on Disarmament and Globalization chair, 2000 (Steven, “The relationship between globalization and militarism”, Social Justice, 27.4, proquest, ldg)
Economic inequality is growing…….. violent effects of globalization.
Aff’s quest for energy security represents the final enclosure-this commodification of nature culminates in extinction The emergence of counterhegemonic … we be rethinking the status of all from the standpoint of the right to inhabitancy? DEREGULATION LINK Plan’s deregulation is the mantra of neoliberalism. Deregulation is a ……… life on this planet. | |
| 09/23/2012 | Wind Case (vs. UMW PL)Tournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Wind - Solv
No wind growth regardless of PTCLinowes, Industrial Wind Action Group Executive Director, 12 (Lisa, holds Bachelor of Science in Software Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University, April 19, “Impact of Tax Policies on the Commercial Application of Renewable Energy Technology,” http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/hearings/HHRG-112-SY21-WState-LLinowes-20120419.pdf, d/a 7-23-12, ads)
In a press reports this month, … of what happens with the PTC.
Wind – Solv – 2NC
Energy tax incentives allow for windfall gains, limiting marginal projects and funding inevitable onesSherlock, CRS economics analyst, 11 (Molly, Analyst in Economics at the Congressional Research Service, "Alternative Energy Tax Incentives; Committee: Senate Finance; Subcommittee: Energy, Natural Resources And Infrastructure," CQ Congressional Testimony, December 14, 2011, lexis, accessed 8-26-12, mtf)
Cost-effective incentives ………..as well as purchasers of blended fuel.23
Wind – A2: Warming
Best studies conclusively prove no C02 reductionBusiness Wire, 11 (July 19, “The Wind Power Paradox: BENTEK Analysis Shows CO2 Savings Through Wind Power Are Either So Minimal As To Be Irrelevant or Too Expensive To Be Practical,” http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20110719007251/en/Wind-Power-Paradox-BENTEK-Analysis-Shows-CO2, d/a 6-24-12, ads)
Government tax breaks and state … in response to wind generation.
China and India overwhelmFirst Post. India, 12 (“Emissions set to raise in India and China: UN report”, 6-7-12, Firstpost. India, http://www.firstpost.com/india/emissions-set-to-raise-in-india-and-china-un-report-334911.html, accessed 6-9-12 wdw)
Beijing: Emissions in India and … 60 percent by 2100, the report said.
*Dangerous climate change inevitable-most comprehensive accounts.Anderson et al., Tyndall Centre for Climate Change research professor, 2011 (Kevin, “Beyond ‘dangerous’ climate change: emission scenarios for a new world”, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A January 13, 2011 369 20-44, DOA: 6-5-12, ldg)
In relation to the first two issues…, particularly those directly informing policy.
Warming is not catastrophic now but reducing aerosols reverses thatMeyer, Princeton mechanical engineer, 2012 (Warren, Harvard MBA, “Understanding the Global Warming Debate”, 2-9, http://www.forbes.com/sites/warrenmeyer/2012/02/09/understanding-the-global-warming-debate/3/, DOA: 6-1-12, ldg)
This is the problem scientists face ... Skeptics call this their “plug variable.”
Wind – A2: Warming – 2NC
Doesn’t solve C02 – low load factors and inefficient backup capacityWhite, Former Institution of Chemical Engineers Gasification Conference Steering Committee Chairman, 04 (David, energy consultant, has directed courses on “Advanced Power Generation Technologies” and “Under-standing the Refinery-Petrochemical Interface” for the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Oxford, and has held a range of senior management posts with Esso Petroleum Co. and the Exxon Group over a 30 year period, December, “Reduction in carbon dioxide emissions: Estimating the potential contribution From wind-power,” http://www.ref.org.uk/Files/david.white.wind.co2.saving.12.04.pdf, d/a 7-18-12, ads)
The encouragement of renewable energy ……., firm generation capacity.
Multiple countries prove C02 reduction is minimal – models overestimate the benefitsWhite, Former Institution of Chemical Engineers Gasification Conference Steering Committee Chairman, 04 (David, energy consultant, has directed courses on “Advanced Power Generation Technologies” and “Under-standing the Refinery-Petrochemical Interface” for the College of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Oxford, and has held a range of senior management posts with Esso Petroleum Co. and the Exxon Group over a 30 year period, December, “Reduction in carbon dioxide emissions: Estimating the potential contribution From wind-power,” http://www.ref.org.uk/Files/david.white.wind.co2.saving.12.04.pdf, d/a 7-18-12, ads)
In fact, analysis of data ….. renewable electricity by 2010). 16
Wind – A2: Econ
Doesn’t solve the economy - their evidence doesn’t assume additional costsLea, Arbuthnot Banking Group Director, 12 (Ruth, Former Chief Economist at Mitsubishi Bank, former Chief UK Economist at Lehman Brothers, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies from 2004 to 2007, and Director of Global Vision from 2007 to 2010. She is also a former Governor of the London School of Economics, and has Honorary Doctorates from the University of Greenwich and BPP University College, January, “Electricity Costs: The folly of wind-power,” http://www.civitas.org.uk/economy/electricitycosts2012.pdf, d/a 6-23-12, ads)
Onshore wind looks a relatively …the near-term and the medium-term projects.
Economy resilient- multiple economic crashes prove no risk of violence Zakaria, Newsweek International editor, 12-12-2009 [Fareed, former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, "The Secrets of Stability," Newsweek, http://www.newsweek.com/id/226425, accessed 12-18-9, mss]
One year ago, the world seemed … the other and each historical in nature.
Manufacturing and construction jobs aren’t sustainableLinowes, Industrial Wind Action Group Executive Director, 12 (Lisa, holds Bachelor of Science in Software Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology and a Masters in Business Administration from Southern New Hampshire University, April 19, “Impact of Tax Policies on the Commercial Application of Renewable Energy Technology,” http://science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/hearings/HHRG-112-SY21-WState-LLinowes-20120419.pdf, d/a 7-23-12, ads)
In 2007, the AWEA touted that the … where job growth is sustainable.
No growth now – Eurozone and ChinaSchwartz, New York Times Staff Writer, 9-16-12 (Nelson, “Earnings in United States Are Beginning to Feel a Pinch,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/business/earnings-outlook-in-us-dims-as-global-economy-slows.html?_r=0, accessed 9-19-12, ads)
The causes of the expected decline are … earnings guidance leaned so heavily to the downside.
Winds – A2: Econ – 2NC
Job creation is negligible – manufacturing is done overseasKarl, ABC News Staff Writer, 10 (Jonathan February 9, “New Wind Farms in the U.S. Do Not Bring Jobs,” http://abcnews.go.com/WN/wind-power-equal-job-power/story?id=9759949, d/a 7-19-12, ads)
One reason so much money …………….. in China.
Stimulus proves job creation will be less than 1% of estimatesHughes, Washington Examiner Staff Writer, 12 (Brian, May 26, “Green energy jobs far short of Obama goal,” http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/1314901, d/a 7-19-12, ads)
The wind industry has …………………. occasional stump speech." | |
| 09/23/2012 | Nuclear Case (vs. NW KM)Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Nuclear Power - Solv
No construction – lack of workforce and difficult to attain equipmentMez, Freie Universität, Berlin, Professor of Political Science and Social Sciences, 12 (Lutz, May 7, 2012, “Nuclear energy–Any solution for sustainability and climate protection?” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512003527, 6/29/12, atl)
The nuclear industry ……………. found for nuclear waste.
Means to no investmentKessides, World Bank's Development Research Group Lead Economist, 09 (Ioannis, “Nuclear Power and Sustainable Energy Policy: Promises and Perils” Advance Access publication July 30, 2009 25:323–362, 6/28/12, atl)
Until recently, ………….. in the cost of nuclear power.
No skilled employees and baby boomer retirementMez, Freie Universität, Berlin, Professor of Political Science and Social Sciences, 12 (Lutz, May 7, 2012, “Nuclear energy–Any solution for sustainability and climate protection?” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512003527, 6/29/12, atl)
According to a 2008 Bechtel estimate…………. construction workers.
Multiple avenues for delays inevitably takes out solvencySeverance, Grand Junction CPA in natural gas markets, 09 (Craig A., former Assistant to the Chairman and to Commerce Counsel, Iowa State Commerce Commission, "Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power”, http://www.nirs.org/neconomics/nuclearcosts2009.pdf, 7/5/12, atl)
If the project were to abe …….. project schedules.
Industry bottlenecks make your aff impossibleRomm, Fellow at American Progress, 11 (Joe, Ph.D. in physics from MIT, editor of Climate Progress, Time named him a "Hero of the Environment″ and “The Web’s most influential climate-change blogger, “The Self Limiting Future of Nuclear Power”, Center for American Progress Action Fund, June 2011, 7/6/12, atl)
Then there are the industry ……… in the past decade.25
No solvency – cost overruns mean a lack of investment – Kessides ‘9
No investment – massive costs and shale gasThe Economist, 12 (February 18, 2012, “The 30-year itch”, http://www.economist.com/node/21547803, 6/29/12, atl)
Safety, then, may well …….. renaissance at 5:4 against. . There are always unexpected costs – no reactor has ever gone without themSmith, Project Censored Award-winning journalist, 11 (Gar, co-founder of Environmentalists Against War, editor of Earth Island Journal, “Nuclear Roulette The Case Against A “Nuclear Renaissance”, No.5 in the International Forum on Globalization series focused on False Solutions to the global climate crisis, June 2011, 7/22/12, atl)
Taxpayer-backed nuclear ……….. research and construction of “advanced” reactors.
Federal loan guarantees drive up the cost to 15 billionUnion of Concerned Scientists, 11 (Leading science-based nonprofit working for a healthy environment and a safer world, “NUCLEAR POWER: Still Not Viable without Subsidies”, Union of Concerned Scientists: Executive Summary February 2011, 6/29/12, atl)
Federal loan guarantees. ……… life of the guarantee.
Nuclear power destroys its own demandSeverance, Grand Junction CPA in natural gas markets, 09 (Craig A., former Assistant to the Chairman and to Commerce Counsel, Iowa State Commerce Commission, "Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power”, http://www.nirs.org/neconomics/nuclearcosts2009.pdf, 7/5/12, atl)
Electric customers from ………, can do nothing about it..
Multiple negatives to loan guarantees – government reneging and investment failureIrwin et al., World Bank economist, 99 (Timothy, economist in the Private Participation in Infrastructure section, World Bank; Michael Klein is chief economist of Shell International; Guillermo E. Perry is chief economist at Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank; and Mateen Thobani is principal economist in the Latin America and the Caribbean Region, World Bank, "Managing Government Exposure to Private Infrastructure Risks," World Bank Research Observer 14.2, 1999, Oxford Journals, http://wbro.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/2/229.short, accessed 8-16-12, mtf)
Infrastructure subjects ………. (Akerlof and Romer 1993; McKinnon and Pill 1995).
Nuclear – A2: Econ
Credit downgrades now but banks are able to copeEavis, writer for Deal Book NY Times, 12 (Peter, June 22, 2012, “A Sober New Reality in Credit Downgrades for Banks”, http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/06/22/a-sober-new-reality-in-credit-downgrades-for-banks/, 8/15/12, atl)
When a ……… help the insurgents. For instance, Moody’s rates BlackRock A1, two notches above Goldman, and one level higher than JPMorgan.
Nuclear power construction causes business credit downgradeMez, Freie Universität, Berlin, Professor of Political Science and Social Sciences, 12 (Lutz, May 7, 2012, “Nuclear energy–Any solution for sustainability and climate protection?” http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421512003527, 6/29/12, atl)
In contrast to other ………….. democratic industrialized countries.
Even link turns the case – companies are deterred from investmentCarrington, head of environment at the Guardian, 12 (Damian, May 15, 2012, “Energy companies blame abandonment of nuclear plans on lack of cash”, http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/15/energy-companies-abandonment-nuclear-plans, 8/15/12, atl)
Investing billions in new ….. challenge we have to take on."
New nuclear projects lead to credit downgradeSeverance, Grand Junction CPA in natural gas markets, 07 (Craig A., October 3, 2007, “Business Risks and Costs of New Nuclear Power”, http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2009/01/05/202859/study-cost-risks-new-nuclear-power-plants/, 7/5/12, atl)
It has been an entire generation …… are developing lower-cost electricity.
This means they become “toxic assets” – takes out solvencySmith, Project Censored Award-winning journalist, 11 (Gar, co-founder of Environmentalists Against War, editor of Earth Island Journal, “Nuclear Roulette The Case Against A “Nuclear Renaissance”, No.5 in the International Forum on Globalization series focused on False Solutions to the global climate crisis, June 2011, 7/22/12, atl)
Meanwhile, the ongoing global ….. and never went operational.10
*Manufacturing isn’t coming back-outdates factories and workforceDileo, MFG News, 2012 (Pete, “What Will It Take to Revive US Manufacturing?”, 3-9, http://d2pnews.com/index.php/2012/03/09/what-will-it-take-to-revive-us-manufacturing/, DOA: 9-17-12, ldg)
There are a couple …… manufacturing in the US.
No growth now – Eurozone and ChinaSchwartz, New York Times Staff Writer, 9-16-12 (Nelson, “Earnings in United States Are Beginning to Feel a Pinch,” http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/17/business/earnings-outlook-in-us-dims-as-global-economy-slows.html?_r=0, accessed 9-19-12, ads)
The causes of the expected ………….leaned so heavily to the downside.
Nuclear - A2: Dem Peace Add On
Democratic peace flawed - alternative explanations and instances of war between democracies disprove Friedman, University of Wisconsin Political Science chair, 2000 (Edward, congressional China specialist, What If China Doesn’t Democratize? pg. 227-8, ldg)
Democratic India has been ………… other is unpersuasive.
Nuclear - A2: Chem Industry Add On
$3 gas for the forseeable futureHurdle, AOL energy, 8-14-12 (Jon, “What Is Set to Drive Natural Gas Prices Lower?”, http://energy.aol.com/2012/08/14/what-is-set-to-drive-natural-gas-prices-lower/, DOA: 9-16-12, ldg)
Prices for natural gas are ….. demand for air conditioning.
The chemical industry will fix itself without additional energy.Jerrentrup, PHD Life Science, 09 (Rudolf Jerrentrup PHD Life Sciences, “COMMENTARY: The effects of the financial crisis on the future of the Chemical Industry,” January 2009, Journal of Business Chemistry, http://www.businesschemistry.org/article/?article=28, accessed 5-31-2012, dcs) The chemical industry ……. important market players in Germany.
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| 09/23/2012 | Elections DA BlockTournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
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2. Magnitude-Alliances means the US gets draw in-only true scenario for global conflictOgura and Oh, Toyama University Political Economy Professor and West England University Bristol Business School International Business Senior Lecturer, 1997 [Toshimaru and Ingyu, April, “Nuclear clouds over the Korean peninsula and Japan,” http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n11_v48/ai_19693242/?tag=content;col1, DOA: 9-4-12, ldg)
North Korea, ……… a global conflagration.
3. Triggers internal Chinese instability-causes WMD lash outRenxing, Epoch Times staff, 2005 (San, "The CCP’s Last-ditch Gamble: Biological and Nuclear War," Epoch Times, 8-5, http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-8-5/30931.html, DOA: 9-4-12)
Since the Party’s life …………. their lives.
4. Collapses relations-that turns all global problemsCohen et al., former secretary of defense, 2009 (William, “Smart Power in U.S.-China Relations”, March, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/090309_mcgiffert_uschinasmartpower_web.pdf, DOA: 9-4-12, ldg)
The evolution of …………………. between the two countries.
UniquenessObama’s winning now even without the convention-only external events can save RomneySilver, NYT statistician, 9-21-12 (Nate, “Sept. 20: Obama’s Convention Bounce May Not Be Receding”, http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/21/sept-20-obamas-convention-bounce-may-not-be-receding/?hp, DO:A 9-21-12, ldg)
President Obama’s position inche………………advantage in the race
Romney’s base is fracturingAP 8-29-12 (Associated Press, “Analysis: Lagging faith in Romney is GOP challenge”, http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/29/3785659/analysis-lagging-faith-in-romney.html, DOA: 9-5-12, ldg)
Mitt Romney may hav…………..should be concerned.
Obama win now because of key demographics but it will be closeWalsh, US News chief white house correspondent, 9-4-12 (Kenneth, “Pollster: Obama Holds Clear Advantage With Key Voting Blocs”, http://www.usnews.com/news/blogs/Ken-Walshs-Washington/2012/09/04/pollster-obama-holds-clear-advantage-with-key-voting-blocs, DOA: 9-5-12, ldg)
President Obama has an …………..four-point lead."
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American’s don’t support big Oil they want clean energyRowell, Marketing and Communications Manager, 7-1-12 (Andy Rowell, Marketing and Communications Manager London Royal Society for the Blind, “Voters Demand Clean Energy as Big Oil Squabbles Over Spill”, July 1, 2012, http://priceofoil.org/2010/05/11/voters-demand-clean-energy-as-big-oil-squabbles/, 7-30-2012, dcs)
New research by the influential pollster ……………. works for America.”
Americans hate big oil – they want clean energy. Gulf spill made them vehemently oppose – 60 percent say it’s a political voting issue
Pushing increased drilling will offend Obama’s base in key swing states – protests proveCowley, Executive Director Energy Action Coalition, 2012 (Maura Cowley, Executive Director Energy Action Coalition Grassroots movement for energy reform, “Thousands of Young Bonnaroo Attendees Join Bands to Demand Candidates Stop Taking Dirty Money and Stand up for Clean Energy and Climate”, 6-12-2012, http://ecowatch.org/2012/activists-launch-youth-power-vote-campaign-to-turn-out-climate-and-clean-energy-voters-in-8-key-states/, 8-1-2012) dcs
Over the weekend, musicians ……………….. like the Southern Energy Network to national environmental and voter registration organizations.
Impacts
Collapses consumer spending, causes stagflation and treasury dumpingRoach, Yale School of Management and Jackson Institute for Global Affairs lecturer, 2012 (Stephen, “A Nightmare Scenario”, 8-20, http://english.caixin.com/2012-08-20/100426182_1.html, DOA: 8-29-12, ldg)
Taking the cue from the new premier, …………And globalization, itself, teeters on the edge.
Spills over to shooting war and collapses relationsFerguson, Harvard history professor, 2010 (Niall, “The End of Chimerica: Amicable Divorce or Currency War?”, 3-24, http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/publication/20029/end_of_chimerica.html, DOA: 8-28-12, ldg)
These are questions of the utmost historical significance………….revaluation that might be forthcoming.
Romney will do it-appeals to the base and distinguishes him from ObamaRoarty, National Journal politics writer, 2012 (Alex, “The Risks of Romney's Anti-China Rhetoric”, 2-21, http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/02/the-risks-of-romneys-anti-china-rhetoric/253362/, DOA: 8-29-12, ldg)
Unless China changes its ways, ………….." in that direction, he said. | |
| 09/23/2012 | Neoliberalism Block - GSUTournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Plan’s deregulation is the mantra of neoliberalism.Wasserman, Nuclear Information Resource Service senior advisor, 2001 (Harvey, “Deregulation: The mantra of corporate globalization”, http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Economics/Deregulation_mantra.html, DOA: 6-23-12, ldg)
Deregulation is a … of economic life on this planet.
2. Premeption-energy security forces it to defend against constructed scarcity and threats.Labban, University of Miami assistant professor of Geography, 2011 (Mazen, “The geopolitics of energy security and the war on terror: the case for market expansion and the militarization of global space.” Global Political Ecology, pg 340-1, ldg)
Energy security is a global question. ………. of this act of preemptive aggression.
2. Multiple negative vectors. Haque, Singapore political science professor, 1999 (M. Shamshul, “The Fate of Sustainable Development Under Neo-Liberal Regimes in Developing Countries”, International Political Science Review April 1999 20.2, Sage, ldg)
As discussed above, under neo-liberal regimes in … the consumption of nature.
Globalization causes war-exacerbates all the proximate causes.Staples, International Network on Disarmament and Globalization chair, 2000 (Steven, “The relationship between globalization and militarism”, Social Justice, 27.4, proquest, ldg)
Economic inequality is ……… insulating them from the violent effects of globalization.
Method first key-otherwise alternative modes of knowledge concerning neoliberalism are delegitimized..Gunder et al., Aukland University senior planning lecturer, 2009 (Michael, Planning in Ten Words or Less: A Lacanian Entanglement with Spatial Planning pgs 111-2, ldg)
The hegemonic network, or bloc, initially …… resulting in a zero-sum game (Blair and Kumar 1997).
Policy making isn’t grounded in objectivity but cherry picking. Means a residual link takes out the aff because the ideological underpinnings of their knowledge is inaccurate.Bristow, Cardiff University economic geographer senior lecturer, 2005 (Gillian, “Everyone's a ‘winner’: problematising the discourse of regional competitiveness”, Journal of Economic Geography, June, oxford journals, ldg)
This begs the question as to why a ………… the ideas of regional and national policy elites.
Questioning underlying structure of neoliberalism first is key-otherwise policy analysis is predetermined in favor of the market.Murphy, Miami sociology professor, 2005 (John, Globalization with a Human Face, pg 11-13, ldg) Murphy 4
The process of development, ……… with rationality and general improvement.
3. Discount all their answers-accepting the frame of neoliberalism gears solutions to be watered down or delegitimizedFaber and McCarthy, Northeastern University Philanthropy and Environmental Justice Research Project, 2003 (Daniel R Faber Director; Deborah McCarthy Research Associate, College of Charleston Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology. “Neo-Liberalism, Globalization and the Struggle for Ecological Democracy Linking Sustainability and Environmental Justice.” Pg 56-7, ldg)
As we move further into the new millennium, ………. environmental politics (Faber and O’Connor, 1993)./
3. Try or die for the alternative alone.De Angelis, East London political economy professor, 2009 (Massimo, “The tragedy of the capitalist commons”, December, http://turbulence.org.uk/turbulence-5/capitalist-commons/, DOA: 7-2-12, ldg)
This platform of management ……… for the reproduction of their livelihoods. | |
| 09/23/2012 | Renewable Tradeoff DATournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Renewable investments at all time high now – billions in investmentMcGinn, ACORE, 9-12 (Dennis, President of the American Council on Renewable Energy, international security senior fellow at the Rocky Mountain Institute, co-chairman of the CNA Military Advisory Board advising policy makers on the nexus of energy and national security, “Ending renewable energy’s villainy,” 9-12-12, http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2012/09/12/ending-renewable-energys-villainy/, accessed 9-13-12, ara)
The fact is that the U.S. renewable … and other major financial institutions.
Oil price decrease causes decline of renewables – best studiesBullis, Senior Editor, Technology Review, 12 (Kevin, Senior Editor of the Technology Review, a media company owned by the Massachusetts Institute for Technology, “Could New Oil Production Cause Oil Prices—and Energy Innovation—to Collapse?” 6-26-12, http://www.technologyreview.com/view/428343/could-new-oil-production-cause-oil-pricesand/?nlid=nldlyandnld=2012-06-27, accessed 7-30-12, ara)
A new report out of Harvard … shame if energy innovation collapses again.
Renewables key to global food production – solve price fluctuations AND now is keyFAO, 11 (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, “’Energy-smart’ agriculture needed to escape fossil fuel trap,” 11-29-11, http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/95161/icode/, accessed 8-3-12, ara)
The global food system needs …, and needs to start now, FAO says.
Food price shocks lead to state failures – outweighs and turns all your impacts AND no risk of defense – best sourceBrown, President, EPI, 9 (Lester R, President of the Earth Policy Institute, Masters degrees in agricultural economics from the University of Maryland, founded the Worldwatch Institute, the first research institute devoted to the analysis of global environmental issues, formerly worked at the USDA Foreign Agricultural Service as an international analyst, later appointed Administrator of the department's International Agricultural Development Service, author or coauthor of over 50 books, recipient of many prizes and awards, including 25 honorary degrees, a MacArthur Fellowship, the 1987 United Nations' Environment Prize, the 1989 World Wide Fund for Nature Gold Medal, and the 1994 Blue Planet Prize for his "exceptional contributions to solving global environmental problems, “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” May 2009, http://biomass.age.uiuc.edu/images/c/cd/FoodShortageBrown.pdf, published by Scientific American, accessed 8-3-12, ara)
For many years I have studied … of U.S. grain to ethanol-fuel distilleries.
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| 09/23/2012 | HIA CPTournament: GSU | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The United States Federal Government should initiate a binding substantive environmental impact statement, including but not limited to a health impact assessment regarding the consequences of [passing HR 4382 and 4383] and adopt such measure only if it can be made consistent with the results of the statement. We’ll clarify.
CP solves-public participation is key and equity norms make the plan more sustainable Bratspies, CUNY law professor, 2010 (Rebecca, “The Intersection Of International Human Rights And Domestic Environmental Regulation”, 8-20, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1662576, DOA: 8-18-12, ldg)
There are many lessons to draw from the Chukchi Sea saga. For now, … like the Chukchi Sea leases less likely. Domestic change spills over to international environment leadership U.S. leadership (or ……….. it the incentive to do so. US leadership key to multilateral cooperation on environmental destruction-it is the litmus test What has confused analysts ……… even openly hostile attitude. Extinction Why, exactly, should we care……. at its current pace. BLOCK 2. Signal-sends a clear prioritization of the environment What Washington Should Do. ……….., pragmatic, entrepreneurial, and daring. 3. Other countries will follow suit. Environmental leadership solves-spurs fence sitters into action A rejuvenated America, with a …………, agriculture and transport systems.
In the example case of the IPWA (……….. the level of Germany for example (Agterbosch and Breukers, 2008). CP solves inevitable delays by incorporating the public HIA can build community …….. permitting decisions. 6 Education- their interpretation forces us to ignore the role of policy formulation- that’s utopian and destroys education One of Elhauge's most significant ………… and normative justifications. 4. Big lit base on the CP-solves their offense. Since NEPA’s passage ........ are particularly instructive. 3. Binding key-ad hoc voluntary measures doesn’t cause a spillover Some degree of institutionalization ………… HIA is even conducted in a particular situation. 3 4. Corporate interests co-opt non bindng measures. Industry proponents should also be viewed ………..sustainable development planning. 5. Perm’s assessment would be useless-doesn’t solve net benefits. The committee emphasizes that ……… needs of the advantaged. Resolved means firm in purpose –adjective Mechanism mandates certainty – “increase” must be a mandate 9.1 The Draft Bill creates an ……….. could be considered to be ever-increasing. “Substantial” mean unconditional The words “outward, ……………; undivided; sole; opposed to inclusive. 3. Severs immediacy – “should” means done now 4 The legal question to be …………. 1 S.Ct. 336, 337, 27 L.Ed. 201 (1882). 4. Severs normal means- current impact statements rubber stamp environmental issues The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) …. protection enterprise. | |
| 11/05/2012 | ITA CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The United States federal government should enter into negotiations at the World Trade Organization for the purpose of expanding the coverage of the Information Technology Agreement to include all consumer electronics and their peripheries and a disqualification clause. We’ll clarify.
The CP results in the elimination of tariffs on IT products-that boosts productivity, innovation and jobs.Ezell, Information Technology and Innovation Foundation senior analyst, 2012 (Stephen, “Boosting Exports, Jobs, and Economic Growth by Expanding the ITA”, March, http:~/~/www2.itif.org/2012-pdf, DOA: 9-13-12, ldg)
Information and communications ……. its expansion are so important. | |
| 11/05/2012 | FrameworkTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
B. Our interpretation is Grounded in the Resolution1. The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon—the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debatersWebster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing 2k
Use of a colon before a …………. with a capital letter.
2. The United States Federal Government is the one in D.C.ENCARTA WORLD ONLINE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 2006, p. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_1741500781/United_States_(Government).html
United States Government, ………. in Washington, D.C.
3. Should implies policy – it expresses that the government has a duty or obligationAmerican Heritage Dictionary of the English Language04 ("should." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. 20 Sep. 2006. Dictionary.com http:~/~/dictionary.reference.com/search?q=com/search?q=should)
should (…………… should send her a note.
C. Implementation-the aff will always win the principles of their advocacy are good in the abstract- we can only debate the merits of arguments if they defend the specific consequences of political implementationMichael Ignatieff, Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy director and human rights practices professor, 04 (The Lesser Evil: Political Ethics in an Age of Terror, 20-21) There are two problems with …….. for one right might lead us to betray another.
D. Unpredictable or unfair debates preclude an informed discussion that allows us to critically examine their approach- this prevents informed clash which outweighs all other impacts - fairness is a prerequisite because we can’t test the truth-value of an argument or advocacy without rigorously examining it.
E. The resolution presents an agreed question which is the focus of the debate. Debate is worthless without the predictability that is necessary to generate a starting point for discussionRuth Shively, former professor of political science at Texas AandM, 2000 (Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 181-2)
The requirements given thus far …………… basic agreement or harmony.
2. Education- our framework solves fundamentalism and orthodoxy. Debate is progressive and not committed to an unethical ideologyEnglish et al, Schenley Park Debate Authors Working Group scholar, 7 (Eric, Stephen Lano, Gordon Mitchell, University of Pittsburg communications professor, Catherine Morrison, John Reif, and Carly Woods, “Debate as a Weapon of Mass Destruction,” June 2007, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, www.pitt.edu/~~gordonm/JPubs/pdf) atw
It is our position, however, ……… in the face of fundamentalism.
B. Exploding predictable limits neutralizes the discursive benefits to debate and renders their advocacy meaningless—only our interpretation preserves the revolutionary potential of a deliberative activity Ruth Shively, former professor of political science at Texas AandM, 2000 (Political Theory and Partisan Politics p. 180)
Thus far, I have argued that ………… reject civility and democracy.
C. Policy debate strategies are necessary to solve oppression- voting affirmative would be an empty symbolGrossberg, University of Illinois communications research, speech and critical theory professor, 92 (Lawrence, we gotta get out of this place; popular conservatism and postmodern culture, 1992, 390-391) atw
But this would mean that …… condition people’s everyday practices.
D. Role-playing the government is the only way to assess state action and acquire the knowledge to challenge itRyan Galloway, University of Georgia Debate Coach, February 21, 2001 Debate as a Dialectic, p. http:~/~/www.ndtceda.com/archives/200102/0588.html||target="_blank"
Second, dialectics ……. "We've found cold fusion! Viva le Revolution." | |
| 11/05/2012 | Speciesism KTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
The affirmative’s quest for equality is premised on a constructed notion of humanity that perpetuates specieism.Deckha, Victoria University law professor, 2006 (Maneesha, “THE SALIENCE OF SPECIES DIFFERENCE FOR FEMINIST THEORY”, 17 Hastings Women's L.J. 1 (Winter 2006), http:~/~/www.animallaw.info/articles/htm, ldg)
Cultural critics have …………., classes, cultures, etc.
Speciesism is root cause of oppression –domination of animals is origin of human hierarchyBest 8 Steve, Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, USA, “Total Revolution: Revolution for the 21st Century,” March 2008, http:~/~/www.animalrightsafrica.org/onestruggle/php ara
In the fourth century BCE, ………. dispose the oppressed.
The alternative is to embrace the standpoint of the animal—this overcomes the humanist bias of the affirmative scholarship, connects the experiences of human and non-human animals and allows for total liberation by providing understanding of all oppressionBest, UT El Paso philosophy professor, 2009 (Steven, “The Rise of Critical Animal Studies: Putting Theory into Action and Animal Liberation into Higher Education “, Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Volume VII, Issue 1, 2009, http:~/~/www.criticalanimalstudies.org/JCAS/Journal_Articles_download/issue_9/JCAS%20VII%20Issue%201%20MAY%20ISSUE%20The%20Rise%20of%20Critical%20Animal%20Studies%20pgs%209-52.pdf, ldg)
Postmodern critiques have been ………, and ecological healing and balance. ****BLOCK**** Alt is pre-req to the aff – any action short of the alt is superficialBest 8 Steve, Associate Professor of Humanities and Philosophy at the University of Texas, El Paso, USA, “Total Revolution: Revolution for the 21st Century,” March 2008, http:~/~/www.animalrightsafrica.org/onestruggle/php ara
Amidst the violence, racism, ……….. Humanism is just tribalism writ large.
Aff is essentialist-presuposes a universal human body that white supremacy devalues—re-entrenches specieism.Deckha, Victoria University law professor, 2006 (Maneesha, “THE SALIENCE OF SPECIES DIFFERENCE FOR FEMINIST THEORY”, 17 Hastings Women's L.J. 1 (Winter 2006), http:~/~/www.animallaw.info/articles/htm, ldg)
All of this is not to say …………….. it as such and choose to “see” the difference.
1. Specieism has to be at the center of analysis-otherwise diminishing returns takes out solvency.Rowe, Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Saskatchewa, 1990 (Stan, “Environmental Ethics - Ethical Ecosphere”, Trumpeter Vol 7, No 3,http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/498/841, ldg)
Ethics-by-extension soon ……….. guides human goals.
3. The perm reasons from the inside out, undermining our stance against SpeciesismRowe, Professor of Plant Ecology at the University of Saskatchewa, 1996 (Stan, “From Shallow To Deep Ecological Philosophy”, Trumpeter Vol 13, No 1, http:~/~/trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/278/413url:http://trumpeter.athabascau.ca/index.php/trumpet/article/view/278/413, ldg)
As heirs to several ……… and all its contents (Rowe 1990).
4. Their ad hoc inclusion of non-humans ensures failureFoucault, Professor of Philosophy at the College of France, 1980 (Michel, “Is It Really Important to Think?” Foucault: Politics, Philosophy, and Culture, 1997, pp. 155-156, ldg)
To say to oneself at the ………… have remained the same.
The altenrative’s counter history is key to show that the standpoint of animals has been excluded to perpetuate oppression AND is not based off a single universal standpoint which makes it methodologically superior the AFF.Kahn, North Dakota Educational Foundations professor, 2008 (Richard, “Towards an Animal Standpoint: Vegan Education and the Epistemology of Ignorance”, http:~/~/www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/pdf, ldg)
In this way, I was led to follow ……..on animal standpoint theory. | |
| 11/05/2012 | Renewable Tradeoff DA - WarmingTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Only renewables can solve warming – no alternativesFripp Research fellow, Environmental Change Institute and Exeter College, Oxford University, 11 (Matthias, Research fellow at the Environmental Change Institute and Exeter College, Oxford, PhD from Energy and Resource Program @ UC Berkeley, “Renewables”, 11-8-11, http://www.economist.com/debate/files/view/Renewbles_debate_artifact0.pdf, accessed 7-31-12, ara)
We must reduce global ………. at current growth rates.
Warming causes extinction – ocean patternsHoegh-Guldberg and Bruno, GCI director and marine science professor at UNC, 10 (cited by SciFi News, “Could unbridled climate changes lead to human extinction?” 6-20-10, http://www.sify.com/news/could-unbridled-climate-changes-lead-to-human-extinction-news-international-kgtrOhdaahc.html, accessed 8-2-12, gender modified, ara)
Scientists have sounded ………. in nearly a million years'. | |
| 11/05/2012 | States CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: States solve-better innovation and flexibility Carley, Graduate Fellow, Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economic Development, UNC, 10 (Sanya, Graduate Fellow, The Center for Sustainable Energy, Environment, and Economic Development, UNC Chapel Hill, Energy Program Specialist, The Wisconsin Public Utility Institute, 2005-06, “Electricity Diversification, Decentralization, And Decarbonization: The Role Of U.S. State Energy Policy” 2010, https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/record;jsessionid=77C109DBD786C00A749A6D1236696A50?id=uuid%3A4c318329-cbdd-4fd4-b791-90182e820062, accessed 8-13-12, ara)
Have developments in the …….., fiscal resources, or generation assets. | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC DOD SMR CASETournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NC – Case – Nuclear – DOD SMR – Solvency
Military personal don’t have the knowledgeParthemore et al., CNAS Bacevich Fellow, 2010 (Christine, “Broadening Horizons: Climate Change and the U.S. Armed Forces”, April, http:~/~/www.cnas.org/files/documents/publications/CNAS_Broadening%20Horizons_Carmen%20Parthemore%20Rogers.pdf, DOA: 9-23-12, ldg)
Many serious complications must be weighed as ……………. of what types of reactors are most suitable for these purposes.
Multiple barriers to SMRs on military bases and risk theft overseasAndres, NWC national security strategy professor, 2011 (Richard, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications”, February, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF%20262%20Andres.pdf, DOA: 9-23-12, ldg)
Small reactors used on domestic ……………. fall into enemy hands.
1NC – Case – Nuclear – DOD SMR – Prolif
US leadership on prolif-resistant nuclear energy cooperation fails, causes backlash that undermines nonproliferationHibbs, Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program Senior Associate, 2012 (Mark, “Negotiating Nuclear Cooperation Agreements”, 8-7, http:~/~/www.carnegieendowment.org/2012/08/07/negotiating-nuclear-cooperation-agreements/org/2012/08/07/negotiating-nuclear-cooperation-agreements/d992, DOA: 9-26-12, ldg)
U.S. resolve to include ……………. U.S. leverage on nuclear trade is declining.
Maintaining trade through weak nuclear agreements solves prolif—shift to restrictive agreements scuttles everythingNEI 2012 (Nuclear Energy Institute, “Issues in Focus: Nuclear Energy Exports and Nonproliferation”, May, www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/newplants/whitepaper/org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/newplants/whitepaper/issues-in-focus-nuclear-energy-exports-and-nonproliferation, DOA: 9-27-12, ldg) . A Section 123 Agreement is a ………….. over nonproliferation policy.
Kills the Vietnam agreementNEI 2012 (Nuclear Energy Institute, “A Misguided Attempt to Control Enrichment and Reprocessing Technologies”, June, http:~/~/www.nei.org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/newplants/whitepaper/white-paper~-~-org/resourcesandstats/documentlibrary/newplants/whitepaper/white-paper~-~-hr-1280-a-misguided-attempt-to-control-enrichment-and-reprocessing-technologies, DOA: 9-27-12, ldg)
The H.R. 1280 report states that there is “………….. Japan for the supply of two additional reactors.
123 agreement key to strategic cooperation—key to check China flare-ups in the South China SeasJha, World Politics Review contributor, 2010 (Saurav, “Why a US-Vietnam Nuclear Deal?”, 9-15, thediplomat.com/2010/09/15/why-a-us-vietnam-nuclear-deal/?all=true, DOA: 9-27-12, ldg)
But the engagement with Vietnam …………… in any possible regional flare-up.
ExtinctionWittner, New York state history professor, 2011 (Lawrence, “Is a Nuclear War With China Possible?”, 11-28, www.huntingtonnews.net/14446url:http://www.huntingtonnews.net/14446, DOA: 9-27-12, ldg)
The gathering tension between the United States and ……….. and nuclear production facilities over the next decade.
Civilian cooperation is the only way non weapons states can proliferateFuhrmann University of South Carolina Political Science Assistant Professor, 09 (Matthew, “Spreading Temptation Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreements”, International Security, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Summer 2009), pp. 7–41, 9/20/12, atl)
Decades ago scholars offered ………… the acquisition of nuclear weapons.
No widespread proliferationHymans, USC IR professor, 2012 (Jacques, “North Korea's Lessons for (Not) Building an Atomic Bomb”, 4-16, www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/137408/jacques-e-c-hymans/north-koreas-lessons-for-not-building-an-atomic-bomb?page=com/articles/137408/jacques-e-c-hymans/north-koreas-lessons-for-not-building-an-atomic-bomb?page=show, DOA: 9-26-12, ldg)
Washington's miscalculation is ………… North Korea has a lot of company.
DOD domestic purchases don’t spill overMarquesee, DOD strategic environmental research and development program executive director, 2012 (Jeffrey, “Military Installations and Energy Technology Innovations,” in Energy Innovation at the Department of Defense: Assessing the Opportunities”, March, online pdf, DOA: 9-26-12, ldg)
Decisions on implementing these …….. that create other barriers.
1NC – Case – Nuclear – DOD SMR – Grid
Microgrids solve DOD vulnerabilityPike Research 2011 (market research and consulting firm that provides in-depth analysis of global clean technology markets, “Military Microgrid Capacity to Experience More than 700% Growth by 2017”, 9-16, http:~/~/www.pikeresearch.com/newsroom/com/newsroom/military-microgrid-capacity-to-experience-more-than-700-growth-by-2017, DOA: 9-16-12, ldg)
Military Microgrid Capacity ……………. Martin, GE, Honeywell, Boeing, and Eaton.
Doomsday scenarios are false-government is miles ahead.Green, Washington Monthly editor, 2002 (Joshua, “The Myth of Cyberterrorism”, November, http:~/~/www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.html, ldg) Green ‘2 (Joshua, Editor, Washington Monthly, “The Myth of Cyberterrorism”, November, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0211.green.html)
When ordinary people imagine ……………. it comes to cybersecurity,"
China won’t attack TaiwanRosecrance, Berkeley political science professor, 2010 (Richard, “Delicately Poised: Are China and the US Heading for Conflict?” Global Asia 4.4, http:~/~/www.globalasia.org/l.php?c=php?c=e251, DOA: 10-2-12, ldg)
Will China and the US Go to War………………… even wireless or infrared copiers and faxes | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC OIL CASE - MinnesotaTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NC – Case – Oil – Minnesota - Solvency
Offshore oil drilling fails – 10 reasonsCenter for American Progress, ‘8 (“Ten reasons not to expand offshore drilling” 10-15-08 http:~/~/www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/09/10_html accessed: 8-3-12 mlb)
1. We can’t drill our way out of the ………….. in a fuel price “relief bate” program.
1NC – Case – Oil – Minnesota - Dependence
Offshore production has no impact on foreign dependence or economic strategyCarney, Green Earth Bamboo, 11 (Edward Carney is a Green Earth Bamboo Correspondent, “Offshore Drilling: Risks Without Benefits”, 4-18-11, http:~/~/blog.greenearthbamboo.com/20110418/bamboo-the-environment/offshore-drilling-risks-without-benefits/http://blog.greenearthbamboo.com/20110418/bamboo-the-environment/offshore-drilling-risks-without-benefits/, accessed 8-3-12, srg)
It’s extremely doubtful that ………… permit applications within thirty days.
No impact – requires too much production, squo solves, and future increases delayedLewis, Investment Advisor SEC, 12 (Michael, “How the U.S. Can Eliminate Dependence on Foreign Oil by 2020”, http:~/~/www.moneycrashers.com/us-dependence-foreign-oil/http://www.moneycrashers.com/us-dependence-foreign-oil/, 04/30/12, accessed 08/02/2012, lmm)
As politicians are fond of saying, “……….. “friendly allies” in the Western Hemisphere.
U.S. can’t deploy heg to solve conflicts – public restraint, international relations, and deployment capabilitiesTalmadge, Staff Writer for the Harvard International Review, 2006 (Caitlin, Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Restrained Hegemon," 5-6-06, Harvard International Review, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://hir.harvard.edu/intelligence/the-restrained-hegemon, accessed 3-17-11, mtf)
First, the domestic politics ………….. acting like one.\
Heg doesn’t solve warMastanduno, professor of government, 09 (Michael, associate dean for social sciences at Dartmouth College, “System Maker and PrivilegeTaker”, World Politics, Vol. 61, Issue 1, January, Project Muse) NJR
During the cold war the ………… on getting its own way.
Iran prolif doesn’t snowballMueller, Ohio State political science professor, 2-18 (John, "False nuclear fears cloud judgment on Iran," The Hindu, 2-18-12, www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/article2904355.ece, accessed 3-12-12, mss)
Nor is an Iranian bomb …………… dysfunctional countries like Iran.
Iran is a rational actor and will back down to existential threatsPillar, Professor - Security Studies Program at Georgetown University, 12 (Paul, March, 2012, “We Can Live with a Nuclear Iran”, http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/marchapril_2012/features/we_can_live_with_a_nuclear_ira035772.php?page=all#, 3/12/12, atl)
The simple argument is ……….. engagement with Beijing.
1NC – Case – Oil – Minnesota - Economy
No impact to price shocks- market adaptationGholz and Press, associate professor Public Affairs at the U of Texas Austin and associate professor government Dartmouth, 10 (Summer, Eugene and Daryl, “Protecting “The Prize”: Oil and the U.S. National Interest,” Security Studies, 19:453–485 vol 3) atw
Each day, twenty-four million ………… on consumers
Economy resilient- multiple economic crashes prove no risk of violence Zakaria, Newsweek International editor, 12-12-2009 Fareed, former managing editor of Foreign Affairs, "The Secrets of Stability," Newsweek, http://www.newsweek.com/id/226425, accessed 12-18-9, mss
One year ago, the world ……….. reinforcing the other and each historical in nature.
Eurozone collapse inevitable – that kills global growthOlson, Trib Total Media Staff Writer, 8-27-12 (Thomas, “Euro's Collapse Could Bring Crisis for American Economy,” http:~/~/www.hispanicbusiness.com/2012/8/27/euros_collapse_could_bring_crisis_htm, accessed 9-19-12, ads)
But if the euro were to collapse ………. companies and banks," Kersting said.
2. The oil sector can only produce a maximum of 289,000 jobs by 2020- no significant impact on economyCalhoun, Alhambra Investment Partners Correspondent, 12 (Joseph, “We Don’t Need No Stinking Oil Jobs”, http:~/~/www.alhambrapartners.com/2012/06/14/we-dont-need-no-stinking-oil-gas-jobs/http://www.alhambrapartners.com/2012/06/14/we-dont-need-no-stinking-oil-gas-jobs/, 06/14/2012, accessed 7/31/2012, lmm)
Spencer England has a post …………. bring the unemployment rate under 5%.
Manufacturing can’t sustain the recovery-bad jobsReich, Berkeley public policy professor, 2012 (Robert, “The factory jobs aren’t coming back”, 2-17, http:~/~/www.salon.com/2012/02/17/the_factory_jobs_arent_coming_back/http://www.salon.com/2012/02/17/the_factory_jobs_arent_coming_back/, DOA; 9-17-12, ldg)
But American manufacturing ………… gains of the American economy.
Trade Deficits offset by foreign investment – only positive economic impactGriswold, Cato Institute Trade Policy Studies former director, 11 (Daniel, Masters in the Politics of the World Economy from the London School of Economics, “Truth about trade deficits and jobs” 6-14-11 Cato Institute http:~/~/www.cato.org/publications/commentary/org/publications/commentary/truth-about-trade-deficits-jobs accessed: 7-29-12 mlb)
The commentators' flawed critique suffers ………… assets in global markets for mutual gain.
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Infrastructure, workforce, tax policy and lack of national strategy doom manufacturingButcher, Customer Interaction Magazine assistant editor, 8-28-12 (David, “4 Key Roadblocks to U.S. Manufacturing Competitiveness”, http:~/~/news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2012/08/28/4-key-roadblocks-to-u-s-manufacturing-competitiveness/http://news.thomasnet.com/IMT/2012/08/28/4-key-roadblocks-to-u-s-manufacturing-competitiveness/, DOA: 9-17-12, ldg)
American manufacturing is at a ……the expense of Europe and Japan. | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC Rutgers RS CaseTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The affs re-entrenchment of heteronormativity through the use of a specific politic is not blind – rather it is a form of social organization that gives meaning to heterosexuality as natural and good while queer is tied to evil. Their form of politics divides groups because of specificity, destroying coalition building – allowing heteronormativity to perpetuate Dean 03 (Tim, Professor of English at University of Buffalo, Cambridge Companion to Lacan, “Lacan and Queer Theory,” p. 238-41, CW, accessed on 2/27/11)
The term “heteronormativity” designates ………… that explores those promises and risk
Heteronormativity perpetuates the elimination of the queer Yep, Professor of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University, 2004. (Gust A., Ph.D. in Communication., Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s), pg. 18). Jt
In this passage, Simmons ……..gender, and sexuality.
sustaining the narcissism that elevates whiteness to a spectacle- this fixation makes “whiteness” more powerfulAhmed, University of London Race and Cultural studies reader, 2004 Sara, "Declarations of Whiteness: The Non-Performativity of Anti-Racism," Borderlands, Vol 3 No 2, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol3no2_2004/ahmed_declarations.htm, accessed 2-18-10, mss
3. Whiteness studies is after all …………….. an object that could be loved.
Criticisms of whiteness demonize all white people rather than social domination and white racism- this guarantees failure- their strategy devolves into white-washing and political nihilismNewitz, journalist, former U.S. Berkeley professor, 1997 Annalee, White Trash: Race and Class in America, "White Savagery and Humiliation, or a New Racial Consciousness in the Media," edited by Matt Wray and Annalee Newitz, pg 149-150, transcribed 2008ish
Rather than offering a ……….. abolish racist practice.
Alternative alone fails and cedes the political. Rabinowitch, University of Illinois Botany professor, 1971 (Eugene, “The Stoning of America”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Volume 27 Issue 9, ebsco, ldg)
This appeared to many Americans as ………….. real and important achievement.
Makes the K impacts inevitable Boggs, professor of social sciences at National University, 1997 (Carl, “The great retreat: Decline of the public sphere in late twentieth-century America”, December, Volume 26, Number 6, http://www.springerlink.com.proxy.library.emory.edu/content/m7254768m63h16r0/fulltext.pdf, ldg)
The decline of the public sphere ………. from civil society. 75 | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC JMU Settlerism CaseTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The affirmative's use of the term “natives” reifies an anthropological abstraction that conflates geography and culture incarcerating the folk as the primitive other.Arjuan Appadurai, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, 1988 (“Putting Hierarchy in Its Place”, Cultural Anthropology, Vol. 3, No. 1, Place and Voice in Anthropological Theory (Feb., 1988), pp. 36-49, JSTOR) RKB
On the face of it, an exploration ……….. history of anthropological discourse.
Alt cedes the political-people don’t think criticism is useful.Gitlin, PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley, 2005 (Todd, The Intellectuals and the Flag, pg 1-2, ldg)
This book assumes that political thinking ……..resistance is its negative pole.
Moving away from anti politics is vital to check the everyday problemsSmall, editorial director of Break Media, 2006 (Jonathan, “Moving Forward”, 6-5, http:~/~/www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/Journal/Issue7/pdf, ldg)
What will be the challenges …….. to do just that.
No solvency – radical utopian actions fail to create progressive changePommersheim, South Dakota Law Professor, 1999 (Frank, 31 Arizona state Law Journal 439 p. Lexis) language modified
Neither of these responses-in their purist …….. proposal to decolonize federal Indian law. n33 | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC SOLAR - George WashingtonTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Solar industry will never take off – not competitive and extremely small despite massive subsidizationZycher, Pacific Research Institute Senior Fellow, 12 (Benjamin, Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics adjunct professor, associate in the Intelligence Community Associates Program of the Office of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, former senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, April 19, “Zycher testimony to joint House subcommittee hearing on subsidies for renewable energy,” http:~/~/www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/alternative-energy/zycher-testimony-to-joint-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-subsidies-for-renewable-energy/http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/alternative-energy/zycher-testimony-to-joint-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-subsidies-for-renewable-energy/, d/a 8-1-12, ads)
Public policy support for ………. associated costs sharply.
Low NG prices kill investment Goffman, The Environmental Magazine Associate Editor, 12 (Ethan, Associate Editor of The Environmental Magazine http://www.emagazine.com/author/egoffman/“Fracking, For and Against , If Better Safeguards Were in Place, Could Fracking Provide at Least a Temporary Solution?”, September 4, 2012, http:~/~/www.emagazine.com/blog/com/blog/fracking-for-and-against, accessed 9/12, vc)
Natural gas is good for the environment! ……. became plentiful and cheap). No solvency – limited siting optionsPerry is a scholar at American Enterprise Institute, 12 (Mark, January 17, “Are 'green energy' policies thwarting job growth? Yes: Strategy sabotages economic recovery,” http:~/~/www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/conventional-energy/fossil-fuels/are-green-energy-policies-thwarting-job-growth-yes-strategy-sabotages-economic-recovery/http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/conventional-energy/fossil-fuels/are-green-energy-policies-thwarting-job-growth-yes-strategy-sabotages-economic-recovery/, d/a 8-1-12, ads)
In short: Transformation of the ………¶ increasingly unfavorable sites.
Tariffs will crush the industry – makes it uncompetitive and kills investmentBensinger, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer, 12 (Ken, April 23, “U.S. tariffs on Chinese solar cells fuel debate about green jobs,” http:~/~/articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/23/business/com/2012/apr/23/business/la-fi-solar-jobs-20120423, d/a 8-2-12, ads)
A simmering trade dispute is highlighting a ……….. costs through lower electricity bills.
Ethical policymaking must be grounded in consequences Isaac, political science professor Indiana University, 2002 (Jeffrey, “Ends, Means, and Politics, Dissent Magazine, Spring 2002, ldg)
Power is not a dirty word or an ……. political effectiveness. | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC - OIL - Georgia Tech - Solvency/EconTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NC – Case – Oil – Georgia Tech - Solvency
Government policies aren’t key Yergin, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates Chairman, 2011 (Daniel, PhD in International Relations from Cambridge, former lecturer at Harvard Business School and Harvard’s Kennedy school of government “Oil’s new world order” Washington Post 11-28-11 http:~/~/www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/daniel-yergin-for-the-future-of-oil-look-to-the-americas-not-the-middle-east/2011/10/18/gIQAxdDw7L_html(%%) accessed: 8-1-12 mlb)
Forget all those speeches about energy independence, … mean by a Western hemispheric energy policy?”
Fed lands not key - market decisions determine drilling – not permits Geman, The Hill, 12 (Ben “Interior official defends oil program amid federal lands production dip” 3-14-12 http:~/~/thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/216023-com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/216023-blm-chief-defends-oil-program-amid-federal-lands-production-dip(%%) accessed: 3-14-12 mlb)
But Abbey on Wednesday said the decline …country,” Abbey told lawmakers
1NC – Case – Oil – Georgia Tech - Econ
Drilling on federal lands displaces the more economically beneficial outdoor industries Goldfuss, Center for American Progress Public Lands Project director, et al. 12 (Christy, former legislative staffer for the House Committee on Natural Resources, Tom Kenworthy, former senior fellow at Western Progress, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, and Jessica Goad, the manager of research and outreach for the Center’s Public Lands Project. “A New Strategy for Managing Public Lands” 6-21-12 http:~/~/www.americanprogress.org/issues/2012/06/public_lands_html(%%) accessed: 8-3-12 mlb)
But there is an even deeper … industries employ only 2.1 million people.
1. Production can’t solve trade deficit, shocks, or prices Luft and Korin, IAGS Executive Director IAGS Co-director, 12 (Gal, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Associate fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, doctorate in strategic studies from the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Johns Hopkins University. and Anne, adviser to the United States Energy Security Council, “The Folly of Energy Independence” July/August 2012 The American Interest http:~/~/www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1266url:http://www.the-american-interest.com/article.cfm?piece=1266(%%) accessed: 8-3-12 mlb)
To understand more fully what the problem … What is needed is a new energy paradigm. | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NC SOLAR - USC - Solvency/Grid/EconTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NC – Case – Solar – USC PL – Solvency
No solvency – natural gas undercuts pricesHarris, NPR, 12 (Richard, “Could Cheap Gas Slow Growth Of Renewable Energy?” 2-2-12, http:~/~/www.npr.org/2012/02/02/146297284/org/2012/02/02/146297284/could-cheap-gas-slow-growth-of-renewable-energy, accessed 8-23-12, ara)
The boom in cheap natural gas ……….. incentives for renewable energy?" Renewables can’t solve – can’t solve demand, no storage, a limited grid applicationLoudermilk, Energy and Environmental Security Policy Research Associate, National Defense University, 11 (Micah, Master degree in International Relations from the University of Akron, “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs,” 5-31-11, http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=314:small-nuclear-reactors-and-us-energy-security-concepts-capabilities-and-costsandcatid=116:content0411andItemid=375, published by the Journal of Energy Security, accessed 8-12-12, ara)
When discussing the energy ………… nuclear energy portfolio.
1NC – Case – Solar – USC PL – Grid
Can’t integrate solar into the gridedu/profile/rob-heidrick, McCombs School of Business Writer, 12 (Rob, June 7, “Alternative Energy Grid Faces Logistical Challenges,” http:~/~/www.texasenterprise.utexas.edu/article/edu/article/alternative-energy-grid-faces-logistical-challenges, accessed 9-15-12, ads)
Even if alternative …………. sources like solar.”
No blackouts-compartmentalized grid, power reserves and new oversight.Leger, USA Today, 2012 (Donna, “Energy experts say blackout like India's is unlikely in U.S.”, 7-31, http:~/~/www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-31/usa-india-power-outage/56622978/1url:http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-07-31/usa-india-power-outage/56622978/1, DOA: 9-15-12, ldg)
WASHINGTON – A massive, countrywide …… for bulk electricity generation
Turn- renewables increase odds of blackouts, strains gridsPopp, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology physics professor, 6-3 (Manfred, physics degree from Bonn, "What happens during an extended power outage?”, 6-3-12, http://www.sealnet.org/2012_06_01_archive.html, accessed 8-8-12, AT)
Due to the strong expansion of ………. - while still low - is increasing. The consequences are so serious that a study by the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag recommended last year to take precautions against extended blackouts, despite their low probability.
No grid impact-resiliency is categorically underestimatedScienceDaily 2010 (“Why It's Hard to Crash the Electric Grid”, 10-12, http:~/~/www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101012121443.htm, DOA: 9-15-12, ldg)
Using real-world data from a 2005 ………… get much of a blackout."
Status quo solvesEPRI 2012 (Electric Power Research Institute, “New transformer might help prevent long-term outages”, 4-12, http:~/~/www.electricityforum.com/news/apr12/html, DOA: 9-15-12, ldg)
A consortium consisting of the U.S. Department ………… once the transformer is set.
1NC – Case – Solar – USC PL – Econ
No resource wars – to many alt causesBier, Competitive Enterprise Institute policy analyst, 11 (David, “Steven Pinker: Resource Scarcity Doesn’t Cause Wars,” GlobalWarming.org, 11-28-11, http:~/~/www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/28/steven-pinker-resource-scarcity-doesnt-cause-wars/http://www.globalwarming.org/2011/11/28/steven-pinker-resource-scarcity-doesnt-cause-wars/, 06-05-12, hgh)
A 2007 New York Times op-ed warned…………., even in a climate-changed world.
Allowing market principles to dictate the transition to renewables short circuits it—Turns caseAbramsky, former Institute of Advanced Studies in Science, Technology and Society fellow, 2010 (Kolya, Sparking a Worldwide Energy Revolution: Social Struggles in the Transition to a Post-Petrol World, pg 26-7, ldg)
The fact that coal and oil are …………. straitjacket of the international patent regimes.
Solar industry will never take off – not competitive and extremely small despite massive subsidizationZycher, Pacific Research Institute Senior Fellow, 12 (Benjamin, Martin V. Smith School of Business and Economics adjunct professor, associate in the Intelligence Community Associates Program of the Office of Economic Analysis, Bureau of Intelligence and Research, U.S. Department of State, former senior staff economist for the President's Council of Economic Advisers, April 19, “Zycher testimony to joint House subcommittee hearing on subsidies for renewable energy,” http:~/~/www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/alternative-energy/zycher-testimony-to-joint-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-subsidies-for-renewable-energy/http://www.aei.org/article/energy-and-the-environment/alternative-energy/zycher-testimony-to-joint-house-subcommittee-hearing-on-subsidies-for-renewable-energy/, d/a 8-1-12, ads)
Public policy support …………associated costs sharply.
Solar doesn’t solve production – rare earth dependency and strategic tradeoffsBurnett, NCPA senior fellow, 11 (H. Sterling, senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, "Will Green Energy Make the United States Less Secure?," NCPA, 11-1-11, http://www.ncpa.org/pub/ib103, accessed 7-20-12, mtf)
Needed Response: Reducing ……. fiscal hawks and green doves.
Little economic effect empirics prove predictions overestimated infrastructure vulnerabilityLewis, CSIS Technology and Public Policy Director, 06 (James, Department of Commerce Senior Executive Service, Ph.D. U of Chicago, "Cyber security and Critical Infrastructure Protection", 1-1-06, http://csis.org/files/media/csis/pubs/0601_cscip_preliminary.pdf, accessed 7-30-12) AT
The term “Digital Pearl Harbor” ………… increasing the chances of detection.
No impact, US economy too complexLewis, Center for Strategic and International Studies Fellow, 10 (James, James, Ph. D, U of Chicago "The Electric Grid as a Target for Cyber Attack", 3-1-10, http://csis.org/files/publication/100322_ElectricalGridAsATargetforCyberAttack.pdf, accessed 7-29-12, AT)
This constraint, which brings ……. determined opponent. | |
| 11/05/2012 | 1NR Case - Neolib Aff - FloridaTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
U.S. hegemonic decline causes global great-power war, collapses trade and spreads economic nationalism and protectionismZhang et al., Carnegie Endowment researcher, 2011 (Yuhan, “America’s decline: A harbinger of conflict and rivalry”, 1-22, http:~/~/www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/22/americas-decline-a-harbinger-of-conflict-and-rivalry/http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2011/01/22/americas-decline-a-harbinger-of-conflict-and-rivalry/, DOA: 9-21-11, ldg)
This does not necessarily mean that ………….be devoid of unrivalled US primacy.
We must solve large-scale violent conflicts before we can ever hope to solve for everyday forms of violence—they’re a key barrier to global peace Goldstein 03 (Joshua, Prof of Int'l Relations @ American University, War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa, p. 412)
First, peace activists face a ………. war seems to be empirically inadequate.
Scarcity and environmental degradation are self-correcting-but maintaining the profit motive is keyDesrochers, Toronto geography professor, 2010 (Pierre, “The environmental responsibility of business is to increase its profits (by creating value within the bounds of private property rights)”, Industrial and Corporate Change. Feb2010, Vol. 19 Issue 1, ebsco, ldg)
Resources are limited, ……….. will now be examined in more detail.
Every credible measure of study shows violence is down because of everything consistent with the aff-~--heg, democracy, liberal trade-~--it’s only a question of sustaining current dynamics and preventing shocks to the systemPinker, Harvard psychology professor, 2011 (Steven, “Violence Vanquished”, 9-24, http:~/~/online.wsj.com/article/html, DOA; 10-9-11, ldg)
Believe it or not, the world of the past …………. coincided with the electronic global village.
Extinction inevitable without politics – must have political participation to solveBoyte, PhD in political and social thought the Union Institute, 2003 (Harry, “A Different Kind of Politics John Dewey and the Meaning of Citizenship in the 21st Century”, The Good Society 12.2 (2003) 1-15, project muse, ldg)
Sometimes there is an intractable ……… can transform the equation.21http://muse.jhu.edu.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/journals/good_society/v012/12.2boyte.html#FOOT21(%%)
Moving away from anti politics is vital to check the everyday problemsSmall, editorial director of Break Media, 2006 (Jonathan, “Moving Forward”, 6-5, http:~/~/www.mesacc.edu/other/engagement/Journal/Issue7/pdf, ldg)
What will be the challenges …. of a project that seeks to do just that.
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| 12/15/2012 | Geo engineering CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Counterplan: The United States Federal Government should:· release sulfate aerosols sufficient to increase Earth’s albedo by two percent, distributed over time, near the tropical upward branch of the stratospheric circulation system,· adjust albedo enhancement as necessary as data becomes available based on the results,· and should not stop abruptly without taking into account the effect on carbon sinks, or without the ability to quickly restart if necessary.
Counterplan solves warming- natural albedo enhancement and best climate science proveIkle, CSIS distinguished scholar, and Wood, Hoover Institute research fellow, 2008 Fred, undersecretary of defense for policy for President Ronald Reagan and director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency for Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, and Lowell, "Climatic Engineering," The National Interest, l/n, accessed 9-6-10, mss
Moreover, climate scientists now warn us we cannot ............Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption in 1991.
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| 12/15/2012 | Futurism KTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Society is haunted by the death drive – a drive towards nonexistence and death. The necessity intervention to save us from impending doom and fear of death is a fantasy of self-fulfillment that denies the existence of the death drive and projects anxiety onto queer bodies that are deemed futureless. Giffney 08 (Noreen, Professor of Queer Theory at University College of Dublin, Queering the Non/Human, p. 65, CW, accessed on 2/22/11)
For Edelman, reproductive futurism ……………. defence mechanisms in motion’ (69).
Futurism necessitates the elimination of the queer in hopes of reaching perfection Stavrakakis 99 (Yannis, Lacanian Psychoanalyst, Lacan and the Political, p. 99-101, Questia, CW, accessed on 2/26/11)
Our age is clearly an age ……….. functioning society as a highly problematic area (seminar of 18 June 1958).
The alternative is to vote negative. This is not mere word play – we are at war with the entire system that makes their aff meaningful. Use the ballot to identify with death, queerness, and negativity in the face of a politics that is only valuable through some reconciled, future order. Aligning oneself with negativity is the only way to reclaim life from constant deferral to the future. Schotten 09 (C. Heike, Professor of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, Nietzsche’s Revolution: Decadence, Politics, and Sexuality, p. 203-6, CW, accessed on 2/27/11)
Instead of falling prey to …….. he knew the choice was a setup—like all dichotomies, false. | |
| 12/15/2012 | 1NC Case - NYU AGTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Collapse is worse for all their impacts-~--causes extinction of every other species and then humansMonbiot, visiting Environmental Policy professorship at Oxford, 2009 (George, “Is there any point in fighting to stave off industrial apocalypse?”, 8-17, http:~/~/www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2009/aug/17/environment-climate-change, DOA: 8-16-12, ldg)
The interesting question, and the one ………..worth having; you, because you think it isn't.
“Man” words subsume womyn into the male category making it possible to do violence against them and to treat them as unequals.Kleinman, professor of sociology at UNC Chapel Hill, 2007. (Sherryl., Ph.D. in sociology., "Why Sexist Language Matters", 3-12-07, http://www.alternet.org/story/48856/?page=1). jt
I'm not saying …….. human beings otherwise?
Sexist language causes of patriarchy and causes loss of female agency.Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy 10 (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. “Feminist Philosophy of Language” http:~/~/plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-language/http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminism-language/(%%).). Jt
1Sme feminists (e.g. Penelope 1990; Spender 1985) …………. unable to communicate important aspects of their thoughts.
Impact is wrong-environment has improved in the last 40 yrs.Goklany, Assistant Director for Science and Technology Policy, 2007 (Indur, “IS A RICHER-BUT-WARMER WORLD BETTER THAN POORER-BUT-COOLER WORLDS?”, http:~/~/www.ce.cmu.edu/~~gdrg/readings/2006/02/14/Goklany_160.pdf, DOA: 8-17-12, ldg)
One of the conundrums facing the world…………….. impacts of climate change (Goklany, 2007a).
Resource scarcity is self-correctingHaynes, BYU economics professor, 2008 (Beth, “Finite Resources vs. Infinite Resourcefulness”, 8-19, http:~/~/wealthisnottheproblem.blogspot.com/2008/08/html, DOA: 1-13-12, ldg)
It’s common sense. Save today in order ………. consistently been proven wrong.
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| 12/15/2012 | Futurism 2NCTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
The future we desire is always outside of our grasp - it is merely a fantasy to coerce people to constantly maintain the controllable present. Giffney 08 (Noreen, Professor of Queer Theory at University College of Dublin, Queering the Non/Human, p. 65, CW, accessed on 3/17/11)
Reproductive futurism imposes, according to Edelman, ‘……… those into enslavement to its ideals.
Life becomes a hollow shell under futurism as it is only important interms of its place in the future. Edelman 04 (Lee, Prof @ Tuffman University, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, P. 47-9, CW, accessed on 2/27/11)
The death drive as which the queer figures, ………. force if needed, must give way?
The permutation doesn’t solve. It just adds content to the framework of heteronormativity that leaves dominant structures unchallengedWinans, Professor of English at Susquehanna University, 2006. (Amy E., “Queering Pedagogy in the English Classroom: Engaging with the Places Where Thinking Stops”, Pedagogy 6.1, pg 103-122). Jt
What I am proposing in this …… exploration in our classrooms.
The permutation still links to the K- Queer methodologies must reject normative commitmentsAleardo Zanghellini, Senior Lecturer, Macquarie University, 2009 (“Queer, Antinormativity, Counter-Normativity And Abjection”, GRIFFITH LAW REVIEW (2009) VOL 18 NO 1, EBSCO) RKB
Romero is arguing that because ……….. based on those commitments
The permutation tries to make our radical negativity into something meaningful and positive in the world – our negativity is so powerful because it does not seek to secure the future and is deemed unintelligent by the social order.Edelman 04 (Lee, Prof @ Tuffman University, No Future: Queer Theory and the Death Drive, P. 59-61, CW, accessed on 2/28/11)
Only such stubborn disavowal can ….—living beings become once again indivisible, identical to one another—and immortal."49 |
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