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Thorium revival is inevitable—the only question is if the U.S. gets on board or not
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 5-14-12
(Richard, “Dr Makhijani and Me,” From the comments section of an article detailing a debate between Martin and Makhijani, accessed 8-19-12, http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/intelligent-energy/safe-nuclear-let-the-thorium-debate-begin/15816) Mark, thanks for… us do that. Thorium revival is inevitable—the only question is whether the U.S. is a follower or a leader
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 5-4-12
(Richard, “Is Thorium A Magic Bullet For Our Energy Problems?,” Talk of the Nation Science Friday, National Public Radio, accessed 8-20-12, p. Lexis) Richard Martin: Sure… or a leader. Plan: the United States Federal Government should provide substantial incentives via a matching funds program to increase Thorium fueled Molten Salt Reactors. |
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U.S. economy is competitive now
Sharma, Head of Emerging Markets at Morgan Stanley, 12
(Ruchir, August 3, “Comeback Nation: Why the U.S. Economy is Stronger than You Think,” http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/08/comeback-nation-why-the-us-economy-is-much-stronger-than-you-think/260634/, accessed 9-3-12, hec) Usain Bolt is … the public debt. China investing in thorium now- trades off with US competitiveness
Martin, Wired Science Contributing Editor, 11
(Richard, February 1, “China Takes Lead in Race for Clean Nuclear Power,” http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/china-thorium-power/, accessed 8-23-12, hec) China has officially … Wen Hui Baoreport. The US is key to preventing global economic collapse
Caploe, PhD in International political economy from Princeton, 2009
(David, “Focus still on America to lead global recovery,” The Straits Times, 4-7, lexis, ldg) IN THE aftermath … solved there too. Competitiveness is key to economy- exports and trade
Raidt, senior fellow, Atlantic Council, 12
(John, “SERIES: The Eight Factors of American Competitiveness - Chapter Two: Open Markets,” 3-23-12, http://www.freeenterprise.com/economy-taxes/series-eight-factors-american-competitiveness, accessed 9-8-12, ara) Bottom line: Despite … and prosperous society. Chinese domination of the thorium market dooms U.S. economic competitiveness – plan solves
Halper, Smart Planet Contributing Editor: Energy, 12
(Mark, June, 29, “Two and a Half Nations Start Thorium Nuclear Power Research,” New Energy and Fuel, http://newenergyandfuel.com/http:/newenergyandfuel/com/2012/06/29/two-a-half-nations-start-thorium-nuclear-power-research/, accessed 8-23-2012, hec) According to a … creative and entrepreneurial. Decline causes war
Royal, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 10
(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215, ldg) Less intuitive is… to those views. |
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Other countries will model – US nuke power decisions influence other nations
Sagan, Global Nuclear Future Initiative American Academy of Arts and Sciences co-chair, 11
(Scott D, Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University co-director. “The International Security Implications
Of U.S. Domestic Nuclear Power Decisions.” 4-18. http://www.brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sagan_brc_paper_final.pdf. Accessed: 8/11/2012. ADC) The United States… nuclear terrorism risks. Thorium cannot be proliferated
Martin, Wired Science Contributing Editor, 9
(Richard, December 21, “Uranium is so Last Century: Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke,” http://www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/all/1, accessed 8-25-12, hec) The thick hardbound … generate nuclear power. Prolif causes nuclear terrorism
Kroenig, Assistant Govt. Professor- Georgetown University, 12
(Matthew, “The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does it Have a Future,” http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1182andtid=30%5D, 10-22-12, hec) Nuclear terrorism. The.. to conventional instability.
Nuclear terrorism leads to extinction
Morgan, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, 2009
(Dennis, World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race Futures, Volume 41, Issue 10, December, ldg) In a remarkable … of strategic weapons Prolif leads to a chain reaction of proliferation
Kroenig, Assistant Govt. Professor- Georgetown University, 12
(Matthew, “The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does it Have a Future,” http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1182andtid=30%5D, 10-22-12, hec) Further proliferation. Nuclear …and become nuclear powers. Prolif causes nuclear war and extinction
Kroenig, Assistant Govt. Professor- Georgetown University, 12
(Matthew, “The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does it Have a Future,” http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1182andtid=30%5D, accessed: 10-22-12, hec) Nuclear War. The …devastating nuclear exchange.
Plan solves extinction from terrorism and nuclear war
Rhodes, Professor; Writer, 12
(Chris, “Hopes Build for Thorium Nuclear Energy”, http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Hopes-Build-for-Thorium-Nuclear-Energy.html, 10-22-12, hec) Thorium has many … for that purpose. |
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Energy crunch is going to happen
Rowell, Oil Change International staff writer, 12
(Andy. “US Military Warns Of “Severe Energy Crunch.”” 4-12. http://priceofoil.org/2010/04/12/us-military-warns-about-forthcoming-%E2%80%9Csevere-energy-crunch%E2%80%9D/. Accessed: 9/6/2012. The United States … barrels per day.” Thorium based reactors are key to solve energy security
Hargraves, Dartmouth ILEAD Energy Policy Professor, 12
(Robert, “Throium: energy cheaper than coal”, Pg 27-28, 2012, accessed 8-30-12 wdw) The world population … attain energy security
U.S. leadership in clean energy markets is key to accelerate the installation of modern energy services worldwide
National Renewable Energy Laboratory, 08
(“Strengthening U.S. Leadership of International Clean Energy Cooperation,” December 2008, accessed 8-20-12, http://www.nrel.gov/international/pdfs/44261.pdf) Impacts on Development … Millennium Development Goals. Access to modern energy services is key to reduce global poverty
International Energy Agency, 11
(“Energy For All: Financing access for the poor,” October 2011, accessed 9-2-12, http://www.iea.org/Papers/2011/weo2011_energy_for_all.pdf) Energy is a … action is taken. Access to modern energy services is key to global gender equality
EU Sustainable Energy for All Summit, 4-16-12
(“Gender Equality, Women’s Rights and Access to Modern Energy Services,” accessed 9-2-12, http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/what/energy/sustainable/documents/discussion_paper_1_en.pdf) Worldwide about 1.5 … the energy system. We have a moral obligation to achieve gender equality
Driscoll and Meleis, Univ. of Pennsylvania Obstetrics and Sociology Professor, 11
(Deborah and Afaf, “Empowering Women to Change the World: What Universities and the UN Can Do,” accessed 10-16-12, www.upenn.edu/assets/images/photos/colloquium_bkgd_public.pdf) Women’s empowerment enables … and sustainable development. Access to modern energy services is a moral obligation
Clark and Nguyen, Bloomberg News Reporters, 10-10-11
(Simon and Lananh, “World Can Have Power, Cleaner Stoves for $48 Billion Annually, IEA Says,” accessed 9-3-12, http://mobile.bloomberg.com/news/2011-10-10/energy-poverty-seen-as-history-at-iea-for-investment-of-48-billion-a-year) The sum is … citing IEA data. |
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Spent fuel problem is a ticking time bomb
Galatis, Nuclear Engineer, 4-11-11
(George, “Nuclear Whistleblower: “Spent Fuel Pools in US are a potential timebomb, situation can get worse than Chernobyl”,” accessed 9-3-12, http://www.tuurdemeester.com/?p=1)
TD: What are … a radiological crisis.”
Spent nuclear fuel fire is increasingly likely due to errors, terrorist attack or a natural disaster—a fire would make uninhabitable an area half the size of New Jersey, kill tens of thousands and cripple the economy
Alvarez, Institute for Policy Studies Senior Scholar, 3-23-11
(Robert, “Unsafe at any reactor,” LA Times, accessed 8-22-12, http://articles.latimes.com/2011/mar/23/opinion/la-oe-alvarez-nuclear-spent-fuel-20110323) The nuclear crisis …little is incalculable. Large scale radiation release will collapse civilization and kill billions
Turchin, Research Fellow at the Science for Longer Life Foundation, 4-6-11
(Alexei, Russian translator and expert in global catastrophe scenarios, “The worst scenario for nuclear power plant disaster and the risk of human extinction,” accessed 9-3-12, http://www.scribd.com/doc/52440799/Worst-Case-Scenario-of-Nuclear-Accidents-human-extinction) Mainly affects the …with their application. Thorium based reactors can burn up plutonium and toxic waste
Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph International Business Editor, 3-20-11
(Ambrose, “Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium,” Daily Telegraph, accessed 8-20-12, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html) US physicists in … an eco-cleaner. Uranium reactors are at an extremely high risk of meltdown
Smith, 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) Bradford offered another ... an evacuation.24 Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, 11
(Stephen, 03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,” http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 6/18/12, soap) Reuters said the … entire Northern Hemisphere." |
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Medical isotope shortage is coming—this ensures price spikes and lack of patient access to life saving medicines—development of thorium fueled reactors solves
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 12
(Richard, Super Fuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future, Pages 195-197) After the Fukushima-Daiichi … for medical isotopes. Robust supply of medical isotopes is vital to domestic research and development into more effective treatments for various types of cancer—and for diagnosing and treating people who already have it
Nichols, Investment Analyst, 8-14-12
(Brian, “Isotopes, Shortages, Solutions and The Growing Demand Of Cancer Treatment,” accessed 10-4-12, http://seekingalpha.com/article/805651-isotopes-shortages-solutions-the-growing-demand-of-cancer-treatment) Last week I .. it's simply necessary. Deaths from cancer is the biggest systematic impact in the round
Craig, 21st Century Science and Technology Associate Editor, 09
(Christine, “Radioisotopes: The Medical Lifesavers That Congress Is Suppressing,” accessed 10-4-12, http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Winter_2009/Isotope_Suppression.pdf) Cancer is the … in these advances. |
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A federal matching funds program solves for the development of thorium as a nuclear fuel
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 12
(Richard, Super Fuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, page 232) While a new …$10 billion a year. Thorium is cheap, abundant, safe, and great in MSRs.
Svoboda, Contributing Editor- Popular Mechanics, 10
(Elizabeth, “The truth about thorium and nuclear power,” http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/the-truth-about-thorium-and-nuclear-power, 10-13-12, hec) Talk of a … of nuclear reactors. The plan accelerates development
Barton, Energy from Thorium writer, 09
(Charles, retired counselor, “The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Paradigm,” http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971/, 10/20/12, atl) The Obama campaign, … efficiency and renewables? The tech is realistic – basis is robust
Frye, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Senior Attorney in the Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication, 08
(Roland M, “The Current "Nuclear Renaissance" In The United States, Its Underlying Reasons, And Its Potential Pitfalls”, 2008 Energy Bar Association Energy Law Journal 2008 Energy Law Journal 29 Energy L. J. 279 , 10/20/12, atl) Other scientists have …reactor by 2020. n346 U.S. development of thorium is the vital internal link to its successful diffusion globally
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 12
(Richard, Super Fuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future, Page 212) Kennedy, of course, … and the NRC.” Thorium is the solution
Hargraves, Dartmouth University Professor, 12
(Robert, August 5, “Thorium: Energy Cheaper than Coal,” http://energyfromthorium.com/, accessed 9-3-12, hec) Thorium energy can …market-based environmental solution. Thorium is safe
Evans-Pritchard, International Business Editor-The Daily Telegraph, 11
(Ambrose, March 20, “Safe Nuclear Does Exist and China is Leading the Way with Thorium,” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html, accessed 8-25-12, hec) A few weeks … wrecking the planet. |
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Paying taxes in a democracy isn’t coercion
de Neufville, 4-22-11
(Robert, “Taxation is not slavery,” http://bigthink.com/ideas/38029) “Taxation without representation,” … for those programs. All decisions on taxes involve morals—we just think it’s moral to improve the lives of people in foreign countries
The Economist, 4-15-11
(“Ayn Rand on tax day,” http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/04/taxes_and_government) As Abraham Lincoln … two worthwhile points. Ethical policymaking must be grounded in consequences
Jeffrey C. Isaac, Indiana University James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life director, Spring 2002, “Ends, Means, and Politics,” Dissent Magazine Power is not …undermines political effectiveness. |
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India has always over-hyped it’s thorium program—there have been no breakthroughs in 40 years
Raju and Ramana, physicists with the Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace, 11-12-11
(Suvrat and M.V., “Why Kudankulam is untenable,” The Hindu, accessed 11-3-12, http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-opinion/article2620121.ece) About thorium The … the thorium cycle. India is exporting thorium reserves now—this dooms their domestic thorium development program
Chellappan, Reporter for The Pioneer, 10-15-12
(Kumar, “Thorium loot spells strategic loss,” accessed 11-3-12, http://www.dailypioneer.com/home/online-channel/360-todays-newspaper/101707-thorium-loot-spells-strategic-loss.html) On April 29 … a strategic command. |
| 11/09/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
DOE just gave $197 million loan guarantee to a solar startup company
Groom, Writer for Reuters, 9-24-12
(Nichola, “U.S. poised to hand over $197 million to another solar panel start-up,” accessed 9-26-12, http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/24/us-usa-solar-solopower-idUSBRE88N04V20120924) A tiny solar … will be located. No new spending is necessary—DOE’s Office of Science has enough money already budgeted to do the plan
Cho, Reporter for ScienceInsider, 4-24-12
(Adrian, “Senate Panel Preserves Energy Science, Boosts ARPA-E,” accessed 9-26-12, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/04/senate-panel-preserves-energy.html) Today, a Senate … specified last week. Increased spending is key to economic growth
Pillifant, Writer for Capital New York, 10-5-11
(Reid, “Nadler casts a lonely 'no' vote, urges Obama to stop lauding cuts and embrace spending,” accessed 9-26-12, http://www.capitalnewyork.com/article/culture/2011/10/3625104/nadler-casts-lonely-no-vote-urges-obama-stop-lauding-cuts-and-embrac) “I don’t think … kind of crisis." Increased federal spending empirically saves the economy and causes growth
Firestone, New York Times Columnist, 9-15-12
(David, “Don’t Tell Anyone, but the Stimulus Worked,” accessed 9-26-12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/opinion/sunday/dont-tell-anyone-but-the-stimulus-worked.html?_r=0) Mr. Labrador needn’t … output has doubled. |
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Natives will say no to the plan
Valdes, Associated Press staff, 2009
Manuel, "Yakama Man Leads Anti-Immigrant Efforts," 5-22-9, www.reznetnews.org/article/yakama-man-leads-anti-immigrant-efforts-34200, accessed 12-8-10, mss In the museum…between other groups. Indians say no
Yeagley, Comanche Nation member and Ph.D., 10-15-2002
David, "An American Indian View of Immigration," http://www.vdare.com/yeagley/indian_view.htm, accessed 6-10-2010, mss Playing host to …catastrophe on our people. One-shot deals fail
Bee, University of Connecticut Anthropology professor emeritus and former department head, 1982
Robert, Politics of American Indian Policy, 23, jba/mss It is impossible to … far from humanitarian. Consultation with tribal governments reproduces hierarchy
Bee, University of Connecticut Anthropology professor emeritus and former department head, 1982
Robert, Politics of American Indian Policy, 223, jba/mss Huge obstacles stand … as a whole? The neg’s plan leads to major backlash against Natives- undercuts gradual reforms
Bee, University of Connecticut Anthropology professor emeritus and former department head, 1982
Robert, Politics of American Indian Policy, 214, jba/mss There is another … the 95th Congress Congressional backlash turns and outweighs their impact
Bee, University of Connecticut Anthropology professor emeritus and former department head, 1982
Robert, Politics of American Indian Policy, 218, jba/mss Congress unquestionably holds… the appropriations knife. |
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Many things use REM and demand will rise
Cho ‘12
(Renee “Rare earth metals: Will we have enough?” 9-20-12 http://phys.org/news/2012-09-rare-earth-metals.html accessed: 9-22-12 mlb) According to a recent …, and much more. No war over rare earths---geopolitical tensions drive new production that solves
Wood, Control-Risks senior global issues analyst, 2011
(Jonathan, “Risk Map 2011”, http://www.control-risks.com/webcasts/studio/riskmap_2011/uk/pdf/riskmap_report_2011_LR.pdf, DOA: 10-2-12, ldg) As these examples … tame geopolitical concerns. Zero impact to Chinese rare earths-it’s not even a real monopoly
Worstall, London Adam Smith Institute fellow, 2010
(Tim, “You Don't Bring a Praseodymium Knife to a Gunfight”, 9-29, http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/09/29/you-dont-bring-a-praseodymium-knife-to-a-gunfight?page=full, DOA: 10-2-12, ldg) In case you … will be broken. Their evidence describes temporary assertiveness-China won’t let conflicts escalate with Japan
Taipei Times 2012
(“China to return to peaceful rise: expert”, 4-22, http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2012/04/22/2003530975, DOA: 9-15-12, ldg) After seeing that … with the Philippines. US interventions solves the conflict- no escalation
Shirk, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of the State responsible for US-China relations under Clinton, 2007
Susan, University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation director, and UC-San Diego Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies professor, China: Fragile Superpower, pg. 264-5 Deteriorating relations between … into overt conflict. |
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Perm- do the aff and embrace the danger of technology in an whole and authentic affirmation of our duty as safekeepers of the world
Charles J. Sabatino, Professor of Philosophy at Daemen College, 2007 (A Heideggerian Reflection on the Prospects of Technology) <http://www.janushead.org/10-1/sabatino.pdf> Nevertheless, in spite … it now rests. Concrete ethical action and values are necessary and good—this precedes ontology and theory, is a necessary condition of subjectivity, and is key to destroy the ideology of genocide.
Arnett, Duquesne University Communication Professor, 2003
(Ronald C., "The Responsive 'I': Levinas's Derivative Argument," Argumentation and Advocacy 40.1, pg. 39-43, cab) Emmanuel Levinas, considered … but first philosophy" (Levinas, Totality and Infinity 304). 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 … undermines political effectiveness. Zero empirical correlation between ‘innate drives’ or ‘social institutions’ and war
Sharp, Professor of Law Georgetown University, 2008
(Walter, “Democracy and Deterrence Foundations for an Enduring World Peace”, May 2008, http://aupress.au.af..mil/Books/sharp/Sharp.pdf, ldg) While classical liberals , address these individuals. The plan is not the dangerous technological understanding of being that Heidegger criticizes, he has no problem with using technology
Hubert L. Dreyfus, Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley, 1996 (Being and Power: Heidegger and Foucault) <http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~hdreyfus/html/paper_being.html> Heidegger and Foucault … production and consumption. Turn- Preventing extinction is a political end of Dasein – failure to solve turns the alt
Reilly, Merchants Exchange Owner and Political Consultant, 08
(Clint, 19 August 2008, "From Heidegger to the Environment: Californians Are in the World," http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/2008/08/from_heidegger.html, 9/15/12, atl) Even in today’s … “we,” no “I.” Alt cant’ solve – rejection of growth results in imperial takeover and neighborhood tensions
Lewis, Duke University School of the Environment and the Center for International Studies professor, 92
(Martin, “Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism”, Duke University Press Books (April 8, 1993), 9/14/12, atl) The radical environmentalist … different classical archetype. 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 … its negative pole. 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 … from civil society. 75 |
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CP fails – prizes don’t provide long-term commitments
Krauss, New Scientist writer, 8
(Lawrence, "Commentary: Cash prizes won't solve our energy problems; Breaking the US's dependence on oil will take years of painstaking research, says Lawrence Krauss," 7-19-08, lexis, accessed 9-27-12, mtf) THE late Senator … an election stunt |
| 11/12/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Sunset provisions create massive uncertainty, deters investment, and creating boom and bust cycles—turning the net benefit to the counter-plan
Dewey, 11
(Erin, “SUNDOWN AND YOU BETTER TAKE CARE: WHY SUNSET PROVISIONS HARM THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY AND VIOLATE TAX PRINCIPLES,” Boston College Law Review, accessed 10-12-12, www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/.../pdf/.../07_dewey.pdf) For supporters of … and renewable energy. Plans with sunsets are inherently riskier for investors compared to plans without them
Dewey, 11
(Erin, “SUNDOWN AND YOU BETTER TAKE CARE: WHY SUNSET PROVISIONS HARM THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY AND VIOLATE TAX PRINCIPLES,” Boston College Law Review, accessed 10-12-12, www.bc.edu/content/dam/files/schools/law/.../pdf/.../07_dewey.pdf) The “illusion of … with the PTC. |
| 11/12/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Many things use REM and demand will rise
Cho ‘12
(Renee “Rare earth metals: Will we have enough?” 9-20-12 http://phys.org/news/2012-09-rare-earth-metals.html accessed: 9-22-12 mlb) According to a recent …and much more. The U.S. is thorium independent
Sorenson, Nuclear and Aerospace Engineer, 8-4-12
(Kirk, “Kirk Sorensen: A Detailed Exploration of Thorium's Potential as an Energy Source,” accessed 11-4-12, http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/79398/kirk-sorensen-detailed-exploration-thoriums-potential-energy-source) Kirk Sorenson: …and so forth. Unipolarity will end-3 reasons.
Haass, President of the council on foreign relations, 2008
(Richard, “The Age of Nonpolarity”, Foreign Affairs, May/June Vole 87 Issue 3, ebsco, ldg) But even if … things than a recession. Hegemony collapses the economy-creates systemic imbalances.
Mastanduno, government professor at Dartmouth, 2009
(Michael, “System Maker and Privilege Taker U.S. Power and the International Political Economy”, World Politics, Volume 61 Number 1, project muse, ldg) The ability of …adjustment on the others. Economic crash causes nuclear world war III
O'Donnell, 2-26-2009
Sean, Baltimore Republican Examiner writer and Squad Leader in the Marine Corps Reserve, the Baltimore Examiner, "Will this recession lead to World War III?," http://www.examiner.com/x-3108-Baltimore-Republican-Examiner~y2009m2d26-Will-this-recession-lead-to-World-War-III Could the current … history repeats itself. |
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NNSA is only responsible for government nuclear facilities
Associated Press, 10-31-12
(“Report faults federal agency after Tenn. nuke security guards got copies of test in advance,” Washington Post, accessed 11-10-12, http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/report-faults-federal-agency-after-tenn-nuke-security-guards-got-copies-of-test-in-advance/2012/10/31/7bfa7e52-23a2-11e2-92f8-7f9c4daf276a_story.html) The report said... security contractor WSI-OR. NNSA cuts coming now
Hodge, Analyst for Human Events, 10-15-12
(Hope, “Inside America’s Missile Crisis,” accessed 11-10-12, http://www.humanevents.com/2012/10/15/inside-americas-missile-crisis/) Now, with the... that are underway. |
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China
China is dedicated to Thorium
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 5-4-12
(Richard, “Is Thorium A Magic Bullet For Our Energy Problems?,” Talk of the Nation Science Friday, National Public Radio, accessed 8-20-12, p. Lexis) Richard Martin: Sure. … or a leader. China’s dedication causes America to lose the whole market
WP, ’12
(Washington post, 3-14, “America Is Letting China Steal Our Valuable Nuclear Innovations,” http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/03/america-is-letting-china-steal-our-valuable-nuclear-innovations.html, 11/9/12, hec) Specifically, the U.S. … the entire market. Causes a collapse of heg
Martino, founder and chairman of the board of Cyber Technology Group, author of numerous books on finance, 7
(Rocco, A Strategy for Success: Innovation Will Renew American Leadership, http://www.fpri.org/orbis/5102/martino.innovationamericanleadership.pdf, 11/9/12, hec) The United States …and energy dependence. U.S. hegemonic decline causes global great-power war, collapses trade and spreads economic nationalism and protectionism
Zhang 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/, DOA: 9-21-11, ldg) This does not… of unrivalled US primacy. That causes great power war
Hillebrand, Kentucky diplomacy professor, 2010
(Evan, “Deglobalization Scenarios: Who Wins? Who Loses?”, Global Economy Journal, Volume 10, Issue 2, ebsco, ldg) A long line of …interstate war rises. |
| 11/19/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Perm do the aff and the alt in all non-exclusive instances We don’t essentialize- Feminist theory does not presuppose an essentialized woman or gender; the opposite is true, we recognize that not all women are the same by acknowledging that some are disenfranchised.
MacKinnon 2000
(Catharine A, "Points Against Postmodernism," Chicago-Kent Law Review, 75 Chi.-Kent. L. Rev. 687, lexis) Postmodernism's rejection of … and feminism's, "women." Turn- Singular focus on gender violence reinforces images of women as victim subjects—this undermines feminist insights and reinforces gender essentialism
Kapur 02 (Ratna, Visiting Prof of Law @ NYU, Spring, 15 Harv. Hum. Rts. J. 1, lexis) In this Article, … a sovereign state. Arguing for womens rights is intrinsically a male form of thinking- it posits itself as in opposition to, not in relation to, opposing viewpoints
Hardwig 84
(John, professor of philosophy at ETSU, “Should Women Think in Terms of Rights?” Ethics, Vol. 94, No. 3, p.449, JSTOR) RKB One cannot think … relation to others. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
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, undermines political effectiveness. Perm- do the plan and the alt in all other instances
Solves better, using capitalism to fight itself is more effective
Rothkrug, Monthly Review, 1990
(Paul, “Ecological and historical timetables - comments on 'Socialism and Ecology'; includes reply of editors - letter to the editor
Monthly Review, March, 1990, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1132/is_n10_v41/ai_8834605/pg_2/?tag=content;col1, ldg) No institution is … that very effort. Perm- do both No root cause. Blaming systems of thought or action is pointless. Violence is always proximately caused.
Cutler, Southwest State philosophy professor, 1997
(Hugh Mercer, “Rediscovering values: coming to terms with Postmodernism”, Netlibrary, p. 164-165) At the same … with postmodernism, however. Capitalism Doesn’t Promote Racism
Houman Shadab, philosopher, CAPITALISM: PRACTICE, 2001, p. http://www.ekloges.com.cy/nqcontent.cfm?tt=articleanda_id=439. (DRGOC/E333) Many fear that in their hiring practices. Capitalism Reduces Racism
George Gilder, Fellow, Discovery Institute, 1993, Wealth and Poverty, p. 141 (HARVUN4176) The last thirty …oppressive and discriminatory. Capitalism Promotes Freedom And Democracy Wyatt M. Rogers, Jr., President III Sigma Company, 2000, Third Millennium Capitalism, p. 42 (HARVUN4169) The main appeal … a representative republic. Democracy prevents planetary extinction
Diamond, Hoover Institute Senior Fellow, 95 (Larry, “Promoting Democracy in the 1990s,” http://wwics.si.edu/subsites/ccpdc/pubs/di/fr.htm) This hardly exhausts … sovereignty, and openness. Capitalism increases life expectancy, solves for diseases, feeds the world, decreases illiteracy, helps the environment and resources are not running out
Moore, President of the Club for Growth, 02 (Stephen, “Real Aid,” National Review, 8-28-02, http://www.nationalreview.com/moore/moore082802.asp) Life Expectancy: In…share in the bounty. Capitalism and free trade are vital to upholding the fundamental human right to enjoy the fruits of your own labor
Griswold, CATO Center for Trade Policy Studies Associate Director, 01 (Daniel, “Seven Moral Arguments for Free Trade,” CATO Policy Report, July/August 2001, http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v23n4/freetrade.pdf) One: Free Trade … law of justice. Free Markets Are Vital To Individual Freedom
Amartya Sen, Nobel Economics Laureate, Lament University Professor of Economics and Philosophy at Harvard, 1999, Development as Freedom, pp. 6-7 (HARVUN4183) A third … in social living. Capitalism Provides The Means To Understand And Experience Meaning In Life
Charles Handy, former Professor London Business School, 1998, The Hungry Spirit, p. 50 (HARVUN4189) Capitalism, then, …not the end. Capitalism decreases illiteracy and increase education levels
Norberg, Timbro Institute Fellow, 03 (Johan, In Defense of Global Capitalism, page 36-37) Educations is one … is rapidly disappearing. Capitalism decreases world hunger and malnutrition
Norberg, Timbro Institute Fellow, 03 (Johan, In Defense of Global Capitalism, page 31-32) Longer lives and …, from 34 to 33 percent. Only capitalism can create the wealth necessary for new technological developments that can solve global warming in the future
CNBC News Transcripts 6/19/06 (lexis)
Mr. DENNIS KNEALE (Forbes Managing Editor): Look, Al Gore is right, …to solve those. Capitalism Is The Most Effective System For Ending Poverty And Improving Living Conditions
Bill Emmott, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, 2003, 20:21 Vision, pp. 272-273 (HARVUN4145) The findings of …. that it will last. Empirically, Capitalism Is Key To Quality Of Life
Bill Emmott, Editor-in-Chief of The Economist, 2003, 20:21 Vision, p. 25 (HARVUN4191) Capitalism is what … themselves to love it. Capitalism is good—breaks down racism and maintains individual rights which is key to life.
Hoenig, managing member at a Hedge Fund and a regular contributor to Fox News Channel's Cashin' In, Your World with Neil Cavuto, January 14, 2008
(Jonathan, “Are We the Greatest Threat to Global Prosperity?” http://www.smartmoney.com/tradecraft/index.cfm?story=20080114-trade-freeandpgnum=1) The answer is that … entire world will be. Capitalism Is Good For The Environment
Joseph Bast, president, Heartland Institute, ECO-SANITY, 1994, p. 193. (DRGOC/E319) It is time … wrong-headed and counterproductive. Capitalism Best To Meet Social Equity And Environmental Goals
Martin W. Lewis, Assistant Professor Geography @ GWU, 1992, Green Delusions: an environmentalist critique of radical environmentalism, p. 19 (HARVUN3913) At the same time… skilled, well-paying jobs. Alt Fails- This abundance is the only way to achieve the mindset shift that they want.
Bainbridge, Socialist Alliance spokesperson, 1997
(Alex, "Yes, abundance is sustainable," GREEN LEFT WEEKLY #271, 1997, http://www.greenleft.org.au/back/1997/271/271p13.htm, ldg) Lets be clear on … own personal tools. There is no alternative to capitalism or a clear transition
Kliman, Pace economics professor, 2004
(Andrew, “Alternatives to Capitalism: What Happens After the Revolution?” http://akliman.squarespace.com/writings/, DOA: 11-3-12, ldg) Have we faced … rather than another.” Rejection of capitalism causes massive transition wars and fails
Harris, fellow Hoover Institution, 2003
(Lee, “The Intellectual Origins of America-Bashing”, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policyreview/3458371.html, ldg)
This is the … reduced to pipe dreams. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Perm—do both Perm solves – creates interactive federalism, ideal for energy policy AND has 5 advantages
Kay, Senior Extension Associate, CaRDI, Cornell University, 12
(David, Senior Extension Associate with the Community and Regional Development Institute (CaRDI) in the Department of Development Sociology, Master of Science, Cornell University, “Energy Federalism: Who Decides?” June 2012, http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/outreach/cardi/publications/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfileandPageID=1069208, accessed 8-14-12, ara) Equally briefly, dual ,these energy issues. States can’t solve transboundary issues AND can’t afford research, which is key to effective policy
Stein, Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Law, 12
(Amy L, “The Tipping Point Of Federalism,” 7-3-12, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2098176, Connecticut Law Review, accessed 8-17-12, ara) Federalism scholars like ,addressing egalitarian concerns.42 States can’t fund – budget deficits
Oliff, Policy Analyst, State Fiscal Project, CBPP, 12
(Phil, Policy analyst at the State Fiscal Project at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, MA in Public Policy from Harvard, Chris Mai, and Vincent Palacios, “States Continue to Feel Recession’s Impact,” 7-27-12, http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=711, accessed 9-3-12, ara) As a new … recover fully soon And, states doing the plan means markets say no
Hanson, MIT DOE Office of Science Graduate Research Fellow, 09
(John, August 5, 2009, “Financing New Nuclear: The Federal Government’s Role in the Nuclear Renaissance”, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2009/documents/HansonWISEPolicyPaperFinal.pdf, 9/18/12, atl) These policies are …needed as well. No lit assumes the CP as an opportunity cost for the aff – complexity and variation make state energy policy impossible to empirically measure
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) Some states …concerns listed above. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Perm do both—the plan is a better engagement with the history of dropping the bomb
Puplava, PFS Group Chief Investment Strategist, 11
(President, “Kirk Sorensen States Thorium a Million Times More Energy Dense than Fossil Fuels”, http://www.financialsense.com/contributors/james-j-puplava/kirk-sorensen-thorium-a-million-times-more-energy-dense-than-fossil-fuels, 10/4/12, atl) Kirk: (2:14) Yeah, I’d be … make nuclear weapons. No Link- we don’t forget, we talk about tragedies such as meltdowns and Fukishima 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 …undermines political effectiveness. 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 … its negative pole. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
High prices are inevitable – growth in developing countries outweighs
Gold, WSJ staff writer, 2012
(Russell, “Drivers Cut Back on $4 Gas”, Wall Street Journal, April 28, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703367004576289292254881456.html, accessed 9/18/12, SLC) After weeks of … York Mercantile Exchange. No Link—electricity production and generation doesn’t rely on oil
Behrens and Glover, Congressional Research Service Energy Specialists, 4-11-12
(Carl and Carol, “U.S. Energy: Overview and Key Statistics,” accessed 9-18-12, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R40187.pdf) Consumption of … prices increased sharply. Russian economy down now AND reforms are key, not oil
Ria Novista, 10-23
(Ria Novista, Russian news source, “Valdai Experts Lament Poor Institutions in Russia,” 10-23-12, http://en.ria.ru/analysis/20121023/176858317.html, accessed 10-24-12, ara) “Almost all the … sequence of real steps.” History disproves causality between crisis and war
Ferguson, Harvard University Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, 2006
(Niall, Senior Research Fellow of Jesus College at Oxford, Senior Fellow of the Hoover Institution, “The War of the World”, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3652352/The-war-of-the-world.html, DOA: 10-22-12, ads) Nor can economic …and low inflation. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Sequestration inevitable due to Republican strategy
Bennett, Writer for Navy Times, 1-18-13
(John, “GOP plan splits sequestration, debt-ceiling,” accessed 1-19-13, http://www.navytimes.com/news/2013/01/dn_011813_sequestration_house-mil/) House leaders on … into Washington’s crosshairs. Nuclear power is massively popular- politicians get on board
Whitman, CASEnergy Co-Chair, 12
(Christine Todd, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor, "Nuclear Power Garners Bipartisan Support," 8-13-12, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php#2237728, accessed 9-30-12, mtf) The energy policy … aisle can support. 8% chance of an internal link at most- no PC
Beckmann, associate prof of poli sci at UC Irvine, 12
(Matthew N., “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953-2008,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 41. 3, Sep 2011, pages 488-503, accessed ProQuest 1-6-13, mee) The final important …, but can in close cases. 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, … each historical in nature. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Perm do both-shields the link
Perine, CQ Staff, 2008
(Keith, “Congress Unlikely to Try to Counter Supreme Court Detainee Ruling”, 6-12, http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docID=news-000002896528andcpage=1, ldg) Thursday’s decision, from…me do it.’ ” Courts use agenda-setting to defer to congress and avoid conflict – fiated nature of the counterplan destroys this
Geyh, Indiana University Law Professor, 2006
(Charles, When Courts and Congress Collide, pg 231-232, ldg) There are very few cases … fights with Congress. These conflict avoidance doctrines are the lynchpin to avoiding congressional retaliation- moots their non-uniques
Geyh, Indiana University Law Professor, 2006
(Charles, When Courts and Congress Collide, pg 223-224, ldg) The restraint that Congress … the desires of Congress. That causes rollback.
Roberts, WVU law professor, 2006
(Caprice, "Jursidiction Stripping in Three Acts: A Three String Serenage," Villanova Law Review, Vill. L. Rev. 593, lexis, ldg) Yet, the role of the…fifty-state patchwork quilt. Courts link to politics.
Harrison, Jenner and Block Litigation associate, 2005
(Lindsay, “Does the Court Act as "Political Cover" for the Other Branches?” 11-18 legaldebate.blogspot.com, ldg) While the Supreme … of the public. Lower courts won’t model the Supreme Court decision- takes out solvency
Reynolds, Univ. of Tennessee law professor, and Denning, Samford law professor, 2005
Glenn, Univ. of Tennessee Beauchamp Brogan Distinguished Professor of Law, and Brannon, Samford University Cumberland School of Law Professor of Law and Director of Faculty Development, Lewis and Clark Law Review, "Paper Symposium: Federalism After Gonzales V. Raich: Symposium Article: What Hath Raich Wrought? Five Takes," 9 Lewis and Clark L. Rev. 915, Winter, l/n, accessed 7-28-10, mss Among those people …was getting short shrift. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Price rise inevitable – and a switch to nuclear is inevitable
Lomonica, MIT Technology Review, 12
(Martin “A Glut of Natural Gas Leaves Nuclear Power Stalled” 10-9-12 http://www.technologyreview.com/news/428737/a-glut-of-natural-gas-leaves-nuclear-power/ accessed: 9-23-12 mlb) Even in United States, … called shale gas." No link - Prices massively fluctuate – empirics
Spencer, Heritage Foundation Nuclear Energy Policy Senior Research Fellow, 12
(Jack “More to the story on nuclear power and cheap natural gas” 3-16-12 http://blog.heritage.org/2012/03/16/more-to-the-story-on-nuclear-power-and-cheap-natural-gas/ accessed: 9-23-12 mlb) Two major financial …support growing demand. Empirically denied – 98 steel crisis
International trade administration No date
( http://www.ita.doc.gov/media/ch2.pdf accessed: 11-3-12 mlb) The U.S. steel … sales drop sharply US heg low now- costly engagement, Iraq, war on terror
Buzan, London School of Economics IR prof, 11
(Barry, "The Inaugural Kenneth N. Waltz Annual Lecture A World Order Without Superpowers Decentred Globalism," International Relations, March 2011, vol. 25 no. 1 pages 3-25, da 12-19-11, Sage Publications) mee Since the end … to resort to torture. US failure to lead causes Chinese leadership – leads to China hegemony
Cullinane, Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee staff associate, 11
(Scott. “America Falling Behind: The Strategic Dimensions of Chinese Commercial Nuclear Energy.” Journal of Energy Security. 9-28. http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=319:america-falling-behind-the-strategic-dimensions-of-chinese-commercial-nuclear-energyandcatid=118:contentandItemid=376. Accessed: 9/30/2012. ADC) The international trade …to shape the 21st century. Causes a collapse of heg
Martino, founder and chairman of the board of Cyber Technology Group, author of numerous books on finance, 7
(Rocco, A Strategy for Success: Innovation Will Renew American Leadership, http://www.fpri.org/orbis/5102/martino.innovationamericanleadership.pdf, 11/9/12, hec) The United States … and energy dependence. U.S. hegemonic decline causes global great-power war, collapses trade and spreads economic nationalism and protectionism
Zhang 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/, DOA: 9-21-11, ldg) This does not … unrivalled US primacy. |
| 01/22/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Debt ceiling already worked out
Helderman et al, 1-18
(Rosalind S. Helderman and Lori Montgomery, “House Republicans agree on a bill to raise the debt ceiling for 3 months”, http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/house-republicans-to-vote-on-bill-to-raise-debt-limit-for-3-months/2013/01/18/01347aa2-6190-11e2-b05a-605528f6b712_story.html, 1-18-13, DOA: 1-18-13, llc) House Republicans backed…Congressional pay withheld. Obama doesn’t have PC
Voorhees, Slate Editor, 1/3
(Josh, January 3, 2013, “White House (Quietly) Promises Immigration Push”, http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/01/03/obama_s_immigration_plans_white_house_officials_suggest_early_2013_won_t.html, 1/3/13, atl) With one fiscal-cliff …actions are taken. Nuclear power is massively popular- politicians get on board
Whitman, CASEnergy Co-Chair, 12
(Christine Todd, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor, "Nuclear Power Garners Bipartisan Support," 8-13-12, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php#2237728, accessed 9-30-12, mtf) The energy policy that … aisle can support. That’s key to the agenda
Friedman, Stratfor chief intelligence officer, 8
(George, "Obama: First Moves," Stratfor, 2008, www.stratfor.com/weekly/20081124_obama_first_moves?ip_auth_redirect=1, accessed 11-16-10, mss) Presidents are not … needs to hold that. Winners win – plan is key to Obama political power
Creamer, political organizer and strategist for four decades, 1-2
(Robert, he and his firm, Democracy Partners, work with many of the country’s most significant issue campaigns, one of the major architects and organizers of the successful campaign to defeat the privatization of Social Security, he has been a consultant to the campaigns to end the war in Iraq, pass universal health care, pass Wall Street reform, change America’s budget priorities and enact comprehensive immigration reform, he has also worked on hundreds of electoral campaigns at the local, state and national level, "Why GOP Collapse on the Payroll Tax Could be a Turning Point Moment," www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-creamer/why-gop-collapse-on-the-p_b_1167491.html, accessed 1-2-12, mss) Strength and victory … time to chase them. Gun thumper- Obama is already focusing on other issues
Sarlin, TPM, 1-4-13
(Benjy, “White House Plans To Overwhelm NRA With Rapid Victory”, http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/01/white-house-nra-gun-victory.php?ref=fpa, DOA: 1-5-13, ldg)
The White House …be popular nationally. 8% chance of an internal link at most- no PC
Beckmann, associate prof of poli sci at UC Irvine, 12
(Matthew N., “Opportunism in Polarization: Presidential Success in Senate Key Votes, 1953-2008,” Presidential Studies Quarterly, 41. 3, Sep 2011, pages 488-503, accessed ProQuest 1-6-13, mee) The final important … can in close cases. |
| 01/23/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Advantage 1: Nuclear Waste Spent fuel problem is a ticking time bomb
Galatis, Nuclear Engineer, 4-11-11
(George, “Nuclear Whistleblower: “Spent Fuel Pools in US are a potential timebomb, situation can get worse than Chernobyl”,” accessed 9-3-12, http://www.tuurdemeester.com/?p=1)
TD: What are the safety issues … cause a radiological crisis.”
Large scale radiation release will collapse civilization and kill billions
Turchin, Research Fellow at the Science for Longer Life Foundation, 4-6-11
(Alexei, Russian translator and expert in global catastrophe scenarios, “The worst scenario for nuclear power plant disaster and the risk of human extinction,” accessed 9-3-12, http://www.scribd.com/doc/52440799/Worst-Case-Scenario-of-Nuclear-Accidents-human-extinction) Mainly affects the factor … with their application. Uranium reactors are at an extremely high risk of meltdown
Smith, 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) Bradford offered another …prompting an evacuation.24 Meltdowns cause extinction
Lendman, Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization, 11
(Stephen, 03/ 13, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,” http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 6/18/12, soap) Reuters said the 1995 … entire Northern Hemisphere." Thorium based reactors can burn up plutonium and toxic waste
Evans-Pritchard, Daily Telegraph International Business Editor, 3-20-11
(Ambrose, “Safe nuclear does exist, and China is leading the way with thorium,” Daily Telegraph, accessed 8-20-12, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/ambroseevans_pritchard/8393984/Safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-China-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium.html) US physicists in…as an eco-cleaner. Advantage 2: Prolif
Global interest makes industry expansion dangerous now
Banks and Ebinger, 11
(John P, Charles K, John is a fellow with the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution, Charles is senior fellow and director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution, “Introduction: Planning a Responsible Nuclear Future” in “Business and Nonproliferation”, p. googlebooks, accessed 1-17-13, HEC)
Nuclear energy is …. already under stress.
Unfettered nuclear tech development risks global war
Sokolski, Executive Director of the Nonproliferation Policy Education Center, 9
(Henry, “Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd,” http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5534, accessed 1-171-13, HEC)
Finally, several new … however, is inevitable.
Prolif causes nuclear war and extinction
Kroenig, Assistant Govt. Professor- Georgetown University, 12
(Matthew, “The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does it Have a Future,” http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1182andtid=30%5D, accessed: 10-22-12, hec)
Nuclear War. The …. devastating nuclear exchange. Thorium cannot be proliferated and is the safe alternative to the SQ
Martin, Wired Science Contributing Editor, 9
(Richard, December 21, “Uranium is so Last Century: Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke,”http:www.wired.com/magazine/2009/12/ff_new_nukes/all/1, accessed 8-25-12, hec)
The thick hardbound …genera+te nuclear power.
Other countries will model the plan– US nuke power decisions influence other nations
Sagan, Global Nuclear Future Initiative American Academy of Arts and Sciences co-chair, 11
(Scott D, Center for International Security and Cooperation Stanford University co-director. “The International Security Implications
Of U.S. Domestic Nuclear Power Decisions.” 4-18. http://www.brc.gov/sites/default/files/documents/sagan_brc_paper_final.pdf. Accessed: 8/11/2012. ADC)
The United States …nuclear terrorism risks.
Plan solves extinction from terrorism and nuclear war
Rhodes, Professor; Writer, 12
(Chris, “Hopes Build for Thorium Nuclear Energy”, http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Hopes-Build-for-Thorium-Nuclear-Energy.html, 10-22-12, hec)
Thorium has many … for that purpose. Advantage 3: Medical Isotopes
Medical isotope shortage is coming—this ensures price spikes and lack of patient access to life saving medicines—development of thorium fueled reactors solves
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 12
(Richard, Super Fuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future, Pages 195-197)
After the Fukushima-Daiichi … for medical isotopes.
Robust supply of medical isotopes is vital to domestic research and development into more effective treatments for various types of cancer—and for diagnosing and treating people who already have it
Nichols, Investment Analyst, 8-14-12
(Brian, “Isotopes, Shortages, Solutions and The Growing Demand Of Cancer Treatment,” accessed 10-4-12,http://seekingalpha.com/article/805651-isotopes-shortages-solutions-the-growing-demand-of-cancer-treatment)
Last week I … it's simply necessary.
Deaths from cancer is the biggest systematic impact in the round
Craig, 21st Century Science and Technology Associate Editor, 9
(Christine, “Radioisotopes: The Medical Lifesavers That Congress Is Suppressing,” accessed 10-4-12,http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/Articles_2010/Winter_2009/Isotope_Suppression.pdf)
Cancer is the , in these advances.
Medical isotopes are vital to the economy, provide savings to the health care system, and generate millions of jobs
Adelstein, PhD specializing in nuclear medicine, 95
(S. James, MD- Harvard Medical School Graduate, “Isotopes for Medicine and the Life Sciences,” pg. 12,http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=4818andpage=12, accessed 12-19-12, HEC)
These technologies …cardiac catheterization procedures..
Health care is the vital internal link to prevent economic decline- 3 reasons, AND reducing cancer can save trillions of dollars
Bloom, Economics and Demography Professor, 12
(David, “Public Health and the US Economy,” http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/frontlines/public-health-economy-election/index.html, accessed 12-21-12, HEC)
There are many … asset: its people.
The economic crisis will become irreversible if we do not work to address health care costs immediately
Leopold, lead investigating reporter for Truthout, 8
(Jason, LA Times Bestseller, “Health-Care Crisis Endangers Economy,” July 6, 2008, http://www.alternet.org/story/89474/health-care_crisis_endangers_economy, accessed 12-21-12, HEC)
If the United … a global marketplace."
Decline causes war
Royal, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 10
(Jedediah, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215, ldg)
Less intuitive is … ancillary to those views. Solvency: Government support is vital-it overcomes financial barriers to nuclear that the market cannot
Yanosek, Stanford entrepreneur in residence, 2012
(Kassia, “Financing Nuclear Power in the US”, energyclub.stanford.edu/index.php/Journal/Financing_Nuclear_Power_by_Kassia_Yanosek, DOA: 11-2-12, ldg) Over the course … Energy Policy Act. The plan accelerates development
Barton, Energy from Thorium writer, 09
(Charles, retired counselor, “The Liquid Fluoride Thorium Paradigm,” http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4971/, 10/20/12, atl) The Obama campaign… efficiency and renewables? The tech is realistic – basis is robust
Frye, Nuclear Regulatory Commission Senior Attorney in the Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication, 08
(Roland M, “The Current "Nuclear Renaissance" In The United States, Its Underlying Reasons, And Its Potential Pitfalls”, 2008 Energy Bar Association Energy Law Journal 2008 Energy Law Journal 29 Energy L. J. 279 , 10/20/12, atl) Other scientists have … reactor by 2020. n346 U.S. development of thorium is the vital internal link to its successful diffusion globally
Martin, Pike Research Editorial Director, 12
(Richard, Super Fuel: Thorium, The Green Energy Source for the Future, Page 212) Kennedy, of course, … and the NRC.” Thorium is cheap, abundant, safe, and great in MSRs.
Svoboda, Contributing Editor- Popular Mechanics, 10
(Elizabeth, “The truth about thorium and nuclear power,” http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/next-generation/the-truth-about-thorium-and-nuclear-power, 10-13-12, hec) Talk of a … of nuclear reactors. |
