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| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Wallace et al,’ Center for Strategic and International Studies U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Senior Adviser, 12 (Michael. “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise.” Pg 59, 2012, http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf., accessed 8-19-12 wdw) America’s nuclear energy industry … could be retired early. DoE, 10 (“Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap”, Pg v-viii, April 2010, http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/NuclearEnergy_Roadmap_Final.pdf, accessed 8-8-12 wdw) To achieve energy security and … of fertilizers and other chemical products. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: US nuclear leadership is on the decline now-economic crises and natural gas pricesMiller et al., Texas AandM University Research Professor, 12 (Warren and Pete Domenici, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”, Pg 3, July 2012, The Bipartisan Policy Center, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, accessed 8-20-12 wdw) Only a few years ago, there was … and overcome current challenges. Now is key to maintain American nuclear leadershipWallace et al,’ Center for Strategic and International Studies U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Senior Adviser, 12 (Michael. “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise.” Pg 60-61, 2012, http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf., accessed 8-19-12 wdw) Meanwhile, China, India, Russia, and … prevent its early demise. Miller et al., Texas AandM University Research Professor, 12 (Warren and Pete Domenici, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”, Pg 9-10, July 2012, The Bipartisan Policy Center, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, accessed 8-20-12 wdw) Beyond the Vogtle and Summer plants, there are … is still expected to be positive overall. Miller, Texas AandM University Research Professor, 12 (Warren and Pete Domenici, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”, Pg 16-19, July 2012, The Bipartisan Policy Center, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, accessed 8-20-12 wdw) Nuclear power technologies are distinct from other … States has a critical commercial and advisory role to play. Proliferation increases risk of nuclear terrorism, accidental launch, regional nuclear war and NPT collapse-culminates in extinctionCirincione, Director for Non-Proliferation at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2007 (Joseph, “Symposium: Apocalypse When?”, National Interest, November/December 2007, lexis, ldg) Let me be clear: Nuclear proliferation … return to the 1950s nuclear free-for-all. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Rowell, Oil Change International Staff Writer, 12 (Andy, “US Military Warns of ‘Severe Energy Crunch’”, 4-12-2012, Oil Change International, http://priceofoil.org/2010/04/12/us-military-warns-about-forthcoming-%E2%80%9Csevere-energy-crunch%E2%80%9D/, accessed 8-30-12 wdw) The United States Joint Forces … barrels per day. 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 is growing … energy security. Tverberg, Oil Drum Editor, 11 (Gail, “No Easy Solutions to the Coming Energy Crisis”, 4-27-11, http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/No-Easy-Solutions-To-The-Coming-Energy-Crisis.html, accessed 8-30-12 wdw) It seems to me that our international … now can’t be expected to continue indefinitely. Economic decline causes Middle East instability and global nuclear warBurrows, Counselor in the National Intelligence Council, and Harris, Member of the NIC’s Long Range Analysis Unit, 2009 (Mathew, Jennifer, “Revisiting the Future: Geopolitical Effects of the Financial Crisis,” http://www.twq.com/09april/docs/09apr_Burrows.pdf, d/a 1-21-12, ads) The most dangerous casualty … to escalating crises. 2) Energy shortages and increased population spark conflictHargraves, Dartmouth ILEAD Energy Policy Professor, 12 (Robert, “Throium: energy cheaper than coal”, Pg 27-28, 2012, accessed 8-30-12 wdw) Reduced resources and increased …civilized world. In summary: Resource wars cause World War 3 and cooperation can’t solveHeinberg, Post Carbon Institute senior fellow, 2012 (Richard “China’s role in a world of scare resources” January 2012 Volume 3 Issue 1 http://www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1036 accessed: 5-30-12 mlb) This trend toward increasing … by political chaos. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Andres and Breetz, National War College National Security Strategy Professor, MIT Political Science Doctoral Candidate, 11 (Richard and Hanna, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications”, Pg 3, February 2011, INSS Strategic Forum, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF%20262%20Andres.pdf, accessed 8-31-12 wdw) Grid Vulnerability. DOD is unable … after the civilian grid went offline. Andres and Breetz, National War College National Security Strategy Professor, MIT Political Science Doctoral Candidate, 11 (Richard and Hanna, “Small Nuclear Reactors for Military Installations: Capabilities, Costs, and Technological Implications”, Pg 3-4, February 2011, INSS Strategic Forum, http://www.ndu.edu/inss/docuploaded/SF%20262%20Andres.pdf, accessed 8-31-12 wdw) Unlike other alternative sources of … of U.S. lives. An attack on the grid makes accidental launch inevitable Blair, World Security Institute, 2008 (Bruce G., Center for Defense Information and World Security Institute, "Increasing Warning and Decision Time (‘De-Alerting’)," Achieving the Vision of a World Free of Nuclear Weapons International Conference on Nuclear Disarmament at Oslo, February 26-27, http://disarmament.nrpa.no/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/Paper_Blair.pdf, accessed 2-22-12, mtf) There are a host of reasons why … stream of computer signals carries real risk. Causes extinction News Blaze, 2009 (independent news agency, "Organisations Worldwide Urge Obama, Medvedev: Take-Weapons Off Alert," News Blaze, 7-6-09, http://newsblaze.com/story/20090706130809zzzz.nb/topstory.html, accessed 2-22-12, mtf) In a letter faxed last week to … to make good on that promise." |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Goldberg and Rosner, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, 11 (Stephen and Robert, “Small Module Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.”, pgs 1-2, November 2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf, accessed 8-17-12 wdw) Nuclear power occupies a unique … of SMRs. Goldberg and Rosner, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, 11 (Stephen and Robert, “Small Module Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.”, pgs 27, November 2011, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf, accessed 8-31-12 wdw) Loan Guarantees: Loan guarantees do … and the FOAK-1 plant.45 SMRs are immune to the hazards of typical nuclear plants-cooling system, size, and locationSzondy, Charged Magazine Contributor, 12 (David, “Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors – the future of energy?”, 2-16-12, Gizmag, http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/, accessed 8-20-12 wdw) This cooling system is often passive. In … even to areas where security concerns have been raised |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Vanderbilt | Judge:
SMRs don’t take long to build and compound time
WNA, 12
(“Small Nuclear Power Reactors”, 9-4-12, http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf33.html, accessed 9-4-12 wdw) The IRIS developers have....grids cannot take 1000+ MWe single units. Federal incentives are vital to spur investment and innovation in the energy sector—nuclear power is one example
American Energy Innovation Council, 11
(“Catalyzing American Ingenuity: The Role of Government in Energy Innovation,” January 2011, accessed 9-13-12, http://americanenergyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/AEIC_Catalyzing_Ingenuity_2011.pdf) The rationale for...a new nuclear reactor. Public-private partnerships empirically spur investment and technological innovation
Freed, Third Way Vice President for Clean Energy, 8-16-11
(Josh, “Washington MUST Help Private Sector,” accessed 9-13-12, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/08/how-can-washington-green-ameri.php) Let’s start with....deficit, without it. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: | Judge:
No root cause-no monocasual explanation.
Martin, Wollongong University science, tech and society professor, 1990
(Brian, “Uprooting War”, http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/90uw/uw13.html, DOA: 11-4-11, ldg) In this chapter and....for grassroots movements to uproot them. Good environmental decisions are made by evaluating consequences
Norton, Georgia Tech Professor of Philosophy, 96
(Nryan, Environmental Pragmatism, Iowa State University, Light and Katz, 9/15/12, atl) This multi-scalar and biogeographic....dynamics which support human values Incrementalist solutions add up – No environmental solutions will occur without practical and governmental change
Hirokawa, University of Connecticut Law Professor, 02
(Keith, June 2002, Stanford Environmental Law Journal, 21 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 225, 9/19/12, atl) Under this reinterpretation....paradigms of environmental protection. The immediacy of environmental degradation makes state action essential – radical critiques reproduce violence
Eckersley, University of Melbourne Professor of Political Science, 04
(Robyn, “The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty.” P 90-93, The MIT Press (March 5, 2004), 9/19/12, atl) It might be tempting....and hence more legitimate. Ontologically examining the hierarchal system between people and nature leads to a more oppressive form of exploitation
Quigley 1995
(Peter, professor of humanities and social sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, “Rethinking Resistance”, Postmodern Environmental Ethics, p.179) RKB By fetishizing, or giving....respect or self-determination. Avoiding nuclear war is an ethical imperative
Krieger, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, 07
(David, May 17, 2007, “Responsibility in an Era of Consequences.” http://www.wagingpeace.org/articles/2007/05/17_krieger_Responsibility_In_An_Era.htm, 9/12/12, atl) The inaugural meeting of the....these instruments of annihilation.” |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: GSU | Round: 2 | Opponent: Vanderbilt | Judge:
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 a....undermines political effectiveness. 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 No Link and Turn—paying taxes isn’t coercion and the alternative is the breakdown of civil society- makes the aff a DA to the alt
The Economist, 4-15-11
(“Ayn Rand on tax day,” http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2011/04/taxes_and_government) This is faintly ridiculous....certain degree of bad fortune. |
| 09/22/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Budget sequestration will happen
Bennett, Writer for DefenseNews, 9-18-12
(John, “For Pre-Election Sequestration Deal, Time Is Up,” accessed 9-19-12, http://www.defensenews.com/article/20120918/DEFREG02/309180002/For-Pre-Election-Sequestration-Deal-Time-Up?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE) The likelihood of a....automatic cuts several months. Budget sequestration ensures deep cuts in the DOE budget
Malakoff, Writer for Science Magazine, 9-14-12
(David, “Sequestration Would Cut U.S. Science Budgets By 8.2%, White House Estimates,” accessed 9-19-12, http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2012/09/sequestration-would-cut-us-scien.html) U.S. government science funding....for defense research programs. No Link—ARPA-E is politically untouchable and gets more money when it needs it
Grunwald, TIME Magazine Reporter, 9-9-12
(Michael, “The 'Silent Green Revolution' Underway at the Department of Energy,” accessed 9-19-12, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/the-silent-green-revolution-underway-at-the-department-of-energy/261905/) Grunwald: It's a legitimate fear....national parks and major cities. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Thorium is prolif resistant-no incentive and waste disolves
Hargraves, Dartmouth ILEAD Energy Policy Professor, 12
(Robert, “Throium: energy cheaper than coal”, Pg 338-339, 2012, accessed 9-6-12 wdw) The liquid fluoride...a chain reaction. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Thorium solves-cheaper, plentiful, and minimizes waste
Hargraves, Dartmouth ILEAD Energy Policy Professor, 12
(Robert, “Throium: energy cheaper than coal”, Pg 97-98, 2012, accessed 9-5-12 wdw) LFTR energy technology....LFTR salt. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
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 federalism...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 Federal stamp is key to investor confidence
Gale, Latham and Watkins San Diego Finance Department Chair, 09
(Kelley Michael, Co-Chair for the firm‘s Climate Change and Cleantech Practice Groups., “Financing The Nuclear Renaissance: The Benefits And Potential Pitfalls Of Federal and State Government Subsidies And The Future Of Nuclear Power In California”, Energy Law Journal Vol. 30:497, 9/5/12, atl) Further, in the nuclear...for nuclear energy. Federal investment is critical to first movers
Spurgeon, Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, 08
(Dennis R., February 5, 2008, “Federal Support For A Growing Nuclear Power Industry” Platts 4th Annual Nuclear Energy Conference, 9/18/12, atl) Government backed risk...to the consumer. 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 have...listed above. No spillover – nations don’t model US federalism
Stephan, Government Professor, Columbia University, 99
(Alfred, previously Professor of Government at Oxford University, “Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model,” 1999, http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v010/10.4stepan.html, accessed 9-20-12, ara) Yet although these...our next point. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Complete rejection fails-we should focus progressive advancements of security
Weaver, Copenhagen IR professor, 1996
(Ole, On Security, pg 56-7, ldg) An agenda of...value to be maximized. Alt leads to interventionism-turns the K
McCormack, PhD in International Relations from the University of Westminster, 2010
(Tara, Critique, Security and Power: The political limits to emancipatory approaches, page 127-129, ldg) The following section...emancipatory theoretical approaches. Counterdiscourses fail to undermine securitization as they are co-opted as part of the political game.
Aradau, Open University International Studies Lecturer, 2001
(Claudia, “Migration the Spiral of (In)Security”, March, http://linuxtrek1.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html, DOA: 8-15-11, ldg) Desecuritization’ as promoted...the ‘professionals of security’. Securitization is inevitable.
Loader et al., All Souls College criminology professor, 2007
(Ian, Civilizing Security, pg 258-9, ldg) The way ahead...form or other. Defer to consequentialism and evaluate individual instances of security.
Floyd, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, 2007
(Rita “Towards a consequentialist evaluation of security: bringing together the Copenhagen and the Welsh Schools of security studies”, Review of International Studies) Towards a consequentialist....they be honoured, Focus on discourse fails-material factors outweigh
Hyde Price, Birmingham German studies professor, 2001
(Adrian, Europe’s New Security Challenges, pg 29, ldg) Securitization thus focuses....of floating signifiers. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Collapse is worse for all their impacts---causes extinction of every other species and then humans
Monbiot, 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/environment-climate-change, DOA: 8-16-12, ldg) The interesting question...think it isn't. Capitalism key to artificial intelligence
Kurzweil, Co-Founder, Chancellor and Trustee, Singularity University, 2001
(Ray, “The Law of Accelerating Returns”, 3-7, http://research.lifeboat.com/law.htm, ldg) There is a...this progression. AI solves every impact and averts multiple scenarios for extinction
Howe, The Singularity Institute, 2002
(Mitchell, “What are the Odds?”, http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/articles/whataretheodds.htm, ldg) Between now and...with surprising ease. Discount their impacts-prior assumptions dispose them to pessimism-better to adapt globalization for the better and prefer specificity.
Aisbett, Crawford School of Economics and Government lecturer, 2007
(Emma, “Why Are the Critics So Convinced That Globalization Is Bad for the Poor?”, March, http://www.nber.org/chapters/c0113.pdf, DOA: 8-17-12, ldg) This paper has...to do better. Capitalism isn’t the root cause- their alt won’t solve
Aberdeen, activist and owner of Freedom Tracks Records, 2003
(Richard, “the way: a theory of root cause and solution” http://freedomtracks.com/uncommonsense/theway.html, ldg) A view shared by...perceived economic “class”. Economic growth solves for CO2 Emissions
Tamazian, Department of Financial Economics and Accounting, University of Santiago de Compostela, 2009
(Artur, “Does higher economic and financial development lead to environmental degradation: Evidence from BRIC countries”, Volume 37, Issue 1, January, Science Direct) We show that...may lower emissions. 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...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...to love it. Empirically proven that capitalism drastically reduces poverty rates
Norberg, Timbro Institute Fellow, 03 (Johan, In Defense of Global Capitalism, page 25-26) Between 1965 and 1998...2 out of 10. 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...their hiring practices. Capitalism Reduces Racism
George Gilder, Fellow, Discovery Institute, 1993, Wealth and Poverty, p. 141 (HARVUN4176) The last thirty years...oppressive and discriminatory. Capitalism solves war
Griswold, director of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies, 2005
(Daniel, “Peace on Earth? Try Free Trade among Men”, 12-28, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5344, ldg) As one little-noticed...produce best at home. 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 Only capitalism makes ethics possible-key to individual freedom
Romar, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2009
(Edward, “Noble Markets: The Noble/Slave Ethic in Hayek’s Free Market Capitalism”, Journal of Business Ethics, 85: 57-66, Springer, ldg) Like Nietzsche, Hayek...its own principles. Growth sustainable-solves environment
Adler, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation at the Case Western Reserve University, 2008
(Jonathan, “Green Bridge to Nowhere”, The New Atlantis, Fall, http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/green-bridge-to-nowhere, ldg) The first item...plausibly democratic alternative. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
CP leads to agency overload
Rossi, FSU law professor, 1997
(Jim, “ARTICLE: PARTICIPATION RUN AMOK: THE COSTS OF MASS PARTICIPATION FOR DELIBERATIVE AGENCY DECISIONMAKING”, Fall, 92 Nw. U.L. Rev. 173, lexis, ldg) Information Problems. Although...projects or agency CP is normal means – at the very least solves your NB
Peyser, MIT Masters in City Planning, 05
(Jennifer, “How Does Participation in the Framing, Review, and Incorporation of Scientific Information Affect Stakeholder Perspectives on Resource Management Decisions?,” http://web.mit.edu/dusp/epp/music/pdf/jpeyser.thesis.FINAL.pdf, 9/6/12, atl) The National Environmental....local, and tribal governments. EIA incorporation causes massive delays – bureaucratic procedures, cost, and excessive documents
Cole et al., UCLA School of Public Health, 2004
(Brian, “Prospects for Health Impact Assessment in the United States: New and Improved Environmental Impact Assessment or Something Different?” Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 29, No. 6, December 2004. Copyright © 2004 by Duke University Press, 9/5/12, atl) NEPA implementation is...study methodologies and results. EIA can’t spillover – congressional concerns exist outside of NEPA
Cole et al., UCLA School of Public Health, 2008
(Brian, “Building Health Impact Assessment (HIA) Capacity: A Strategy for Congress and Government Agencies”, December, http://www.prevent.org/data/files/initiatives/buildignhealthimpactassessmenthiacapacity.pdf, DOA: 8-18-12, ldg) Despite the potential...local government agencies. Non-binding consultation solves public participation and politics
Lindstrom, Research Consultants for the Arizona Department of Transportation, 97
(Matthew, “How do you collect and use public information in the development of transportation plans and programs?” adot, report number: fhwa-az97-452, 9/6/12, atl) There are two...Arizona’s Department of Transportation. |
| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Renewables are failing-nuclear is key to get off fossil fuels
International Energy Agency, 12
(“Energy Technology Perspectives 2012”, pg 2 http://www.iea.org/Textbase/npsum/ETP2012SUM.pdf, accessed 8-30-12 wdw) Nine out of ten...energy is alarming. No tradeoff – renewables can’t solve, tradeoff is with fossil fuels, and SMRs solves the impacts
Loudermilk, 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...nuclear energy portfolio. SMRs key to US nuclear leadership-Thorium provides a bridge energy
Johnson, Oregon State University WISE, 6
(Brian, “Thorium for Use in Plutonium Disposition, Proliferation-Resistant Fuels for Developing Countries, and Future Reactor Designs”, 2006, pg ii, American Nuclear Society, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2006/Johnson-ANS.pdf, accessed 9-16-12 wdw) As it stands...this promising technology. China and India overwhelm
First 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...the report said. |
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| 11/06/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Indigenous rights groups have no way to prove that they were the actual “first inhabitants” of the land, and if they gained that land through warfare, then they have no more claim to it than the colonialists.
Tsosie,Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics and Executive Director, Indian Legal Program, Arizona State University College of Law, 2005
(Rebecca, “Whiteness: Some Critical Perspectives: The New Challenge to Native Identity: An Essay on "Indigeneity" and "Whiteness,"” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, l/n) Waldron's central premise...weight of history." n123 Drawing lines between “indigenous” people and “nonindigenous” people can draw divisions that marginalize groups and destabilize society.
Tsosie,Lincoln Professor of Native American Law and Ethics and Executive Director, Indian Legal Program, Arizona State University College of Law, 2005
(Rebecca, “Whiteness: Some Critical Perspectives: The New Challenge to Native Identity: An Essay on "Indigeneity" and "Whiteness,"” Washington University Journal of Law and Policy, l/n) In short...the entire society. 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. Taking actions towards recognition and working within the system is key – radical utopian actions fail to create progressive change
Frank Pommersheim, South Dakota Law Professor, 1999
(31 Arizona state Law Journal 439 p. Lexis) Neither of these...decolonize federal Indian law. n33 Perm do the Plan and the Alt in all other instances Arguing for the recognition of the effects of colonization on the colonized people is only an excuse for further hegemonic control
Kidner 2001
(David W., Senior Lecturer in Psychology in the Humanities and Communication Studies Programmes at Nottingham Trent University, Nature and Psyche, p.183-184) RKB The actions of...process of debate. |
| 02/05/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Feminist theory relies on stabilized notions of male/female and excludes all those between and beyond the two, reinforcing heterosexuality.
Kathy Davis et al, 2006. (Mary Evans and Judity Lorber. Handbook of Gender and Women's Studies, pg 310 google books). Jt
In current gender theory....question our own assumptions. The male/female binary in feminism reinforces heterosexism and excludes the queer body
Hennessy, Professor of English at Rice University, 2000. (Rosemary, Profit and Pleasure, Pg. 4-5, GoogleBooks) Jt One of the most notable...always potentially at risk. Good environmental decisions are made by evaluating consequences
Norton, Georgia Tech Professor of Philosophy, 96
(Nryan, Environmental Pragmatism, Iowa State University, Light and Katz, 9/15/12, atl) This multi-scalar and...dynamics which support human values. Environmental pragmatism is best – it allows flexibility to solve immediate problems AND reinforces the perm
Hirokawa, University of Connecticut Law Professor, 02
(Keith, “Some Pragmatic Observations about Radical Critique in Environmental Law”, 21 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 253 (2002) , 9/19/12, atl) By rejecting commitments...engaged in environmental disputes. 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 a dirty...political effectiveness |
| 02/05/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Policy analysis must precede discourse – it’s the most effective way to challenge power, prevent conflict
Taft-Kaufman, Professor of Speech at CMU, 1995
(Jill, “Other Ways”; Southern Communication Journal; Spring; Vol. 60, No. 3, ebsco, ldg) The postmodern passwords...that fuel them. Threat construction does not cause war.
Sullivan, PhD in political science Harvard University, 2003
(Andrew, “Idiocy of the week Sheryl Crow, brain-dead peacenik in sequins.”, 1-15-2003, Salon.com, http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/sullivan/2003/01/15/crow/index.html, ldg) One is also required....man. Way harsh. Representations aren’t transformative – it only reflects preexisting changes in the objective world
Mearsheimer, Professor of political science at the University of Chicago, 1995
(John, The False Promise of International Institutions”; International Security; Vol. 19, No. 3;lexis, ldg) Critical theory maintains...they are challenging. |
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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...addressing egalitarian concerns.42 50 states can’t do the same green bank
Alic, Oilprice.com, ‘12
(Jen “Money: A New (Decentralized) Shade of Green” 9-27-12 http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Renewable-Energy/Money-A-New-Decentralized-Shade-of-Green.html accessed: 11-2-12 mlb) There is no...the private sector. |
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No compromise—ideological differences ensures it’ll be a punt at best
Viqueira, NBC News, 11/8
(Mike, November 8, 2012, “The looming 'fiscal cliff' -- cataclysm or compromise?”, http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/08/15033299-the-looming-fiscal-cliff-cataclysm-or-compromise?lite, 11/9/12, atl) While no can say...It's likely to be a mess. WARN act thumps the link—ensures massive partisanism for the rest of the year
Tsai, Stars and Stripes, 10/5
(Joyce, October 5, 2012, “Partisan debate deepens over layoff notices before sequestration”, http://www.stripes.com/partisan-debate-deepens-over-layoff-notices-before-sequestration-1.192039, 10/5/12, atl) WASHINGTON — The Obama administration... election,” he said. SMRS are bipartisan-demand is high
Stenger et al., Hogan Lovell’s energy Practice Partner, 12
(Daniel, “Are Small Reactors the Next Big Thing in Nuclear?”, 8-26-12 Last Date Modified, PennEnergy, http://www.pennenergy.com/index/power/display/3288852302/articles/electric-light-power/volume-88/issue-6/sections/are-small-reactors-the-next-big-thing-in-nuclear.html, accessed 8-29-12 wdw) SMRs have enjoyed...realize the promise The link outweighs the turn-wins overwhelm costs
Mitchell, Columbia international politics professor, 9
(Lincoln, “Time for Obama to Start Spending political capital”, 6-18-9, http://www.huffington post.com/Lincoln-mithcell/time-for-obama-to-start-s_b_217235.html, ldg) Throughout his presidential...most important, test. Impact IRS solves the impact
McKinnon, writer for WSJ, 10/1
(John D, October 1, 2012, “IRS Could Buy Time on Fiscal Cliff”, http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/10/01/irs-could-buy-time-on-fiscal-cliff/, 10/1712, atl) The prospect of...to reach a compromise. |
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Complete rejection fails-we should focus progressive advancements of security
Weaver, Copenhagen IR professor, 1996
(Ole, On Security, pg 56-7, ldg) An agenda of minimizing...value to be maximized. Securitization is inevitable.
Loader et al., All Souls College criminology professor, 2007
(Ian, Civilizing Security, pg 258-9, ldg) The way ahead...exists in some form or other. Threat construction does not cause war.
Sullivan, PhD in political science Harvard University, 2003
(Andrew, “Idiocy of the week Sheryl Crow, brain-dead peacenik in sequins.”, 1-15-2003, Salon.com, http://dir.salon.com/story/opinion/sullivan/2003/01/15/crow/index.html, ldg) One is also required to ask...man. Way harsh. Representations aren’t transformative – it only reflects preexisting changes in the objective world
Mearsheimer, Professor of political science at the University of Chicago, 1995
(John, The False Promise of International Institutions”; International Security; Vol. 19, No. 3;lexis, ldg) Critical theory maintains...they are challenging. Defer to consequentialism and evaluate individual instances of security.
Floyd, postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick, 2007
(Rita “Towards a consequentialist evaluation of security: bringing together the Copenhagen and the Welsh Schools of security studies”, Review of International Studies) Towards a consequentialist...that they be honoured, Counterdiscourses fail to undermine securitization as they are co-opted as part of the political game.
Aradau, Open University International Studies Lecturer, 2001
(Claudia, “Migration the Spiral of (In)Security”, March, http://linuxtrek1.blogspot.com/2006_02_01_archive.html, DOA: 8-15-11, ldg) Desecuritization’ as promoted... ‘professionals of security’. Focus on discourse fails-material factors outweigh
Hyde Price, Birmingham German studies professor, 2001
(Adrian, Europe’s New Security Challenges, pg 29, ldg) Securitization thus focuses...of floating signifiers. Don’t buy their root cause claims – the proximate cause s determine whether the impact ultimately happens
Kanwisher, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, 1989
(Nancy, “Cognitive Heuristics and American Security Policy”, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Dec., 1989), pp. 652-675, Academic Onefile, ldg) This predilection for...have political solutions. |
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Military use of nuclear fails- too expensive, has to be backed up, less convenient
Lovins, RMI founder, 12
(Armory B., Rocky Mountain Institute, “Lovins addresses New Nuclear Power for DOD (QandA 3 of 3),” 5-10-12, da 9-15-12, http://dodenergy.blogspot.com/2010/05/lovins-addresses-new-nuclear-power-for_12.html, mee) Question 3: Are there....by the marketplace. No solvency- lack of building meters and private financing fails
Forbes et al, House Committee On Armed Services Chairman, 12
(Rep. J. Randy, Witnesses: Rep. J. Randy Forbes, R-Va. Chairman Del. Madeleine Z. Bordallo, D-Guam, Sharon Burke, Assistant Secretary Of Defense For Operational Energy Dorothy Robyn, Deputy Undersecretary Of Defense For Installations And Environment Katherine Hammack, Assistant Secretary Of The Army, Installations, Energy And The Environment Jackalyne Pfannenstiel, Assistant Secretary Of The Navy, Energy, Installations And Environment Terry Yonkers, Assistant Secretary Of The Air Force, Installations, Environment And Logistics Rep. Joe Heck, R-Nev. Rep. Larry Kissell, D-N.C. Rep. Austin Scott, R-Ga. “Rep. J. Randy Forbes Holds A Hearing On Defense Activities And Energy Prices,” 3-29-12,CQ Transcriptions, accessed l/n 9-15-12, mee) At Watervliet Arsenal...high-leverage as possible. |
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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...undermines political effectiveness. 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,...but first philosophy" (Levinas, Totality and Infinity 304). Enlightenment thinking / Caring about survival is a prerequisite to ecological change
AtKisson, executive editor of the Journal in Context: A Quarterly of Humane Sustainable Culture.89
(Alan, Interviewing Michael Zimmerman, Professor of Philosophy at Tulane University, New Orleans, Summer 1989, “Introduction To Deep Ecology”, http://www.context.org/iclib/ic22/zimmrman/, 8/19/12, atl) For all its problems...way of having conversation. Deep ecology can include different spheres and rejection of the political guarantees right cooption
Plumwood, was an Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University, 10
(Val, “Deep Ecology, Deep Pockets, Deep Problems: A feminist Ecosocialist Perspective”, Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology, pg. 59+, 8/20/12, atl) Naess’s work opens...incompatible with others. Ecological intervention is inevitable – encompassing humanity as a mere part of the collective erases intra species difference and creates mass paralysis
Bookchin, founder of the social ecology movement, 87
(Murray, American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement “Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement”, http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/socecovdeepeco.html, 8/19/12, atl) The seeming ideological...a deadening abstraction. No positive outlining ensures capitalist cooption
Bookchin, founder of the social ecology movement, 87
(Murray, American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosopher. A pioneer in the ecology movement “Social Ecology versus Deep Ecology: A Challenge for the Ecology Movement”, http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/bookchin/socecovdeepeco.html, 8/19/12, atl) Taken together, all...for "population control." Can’t distinguish oppressive groups
Plumwood, was an Australian Research Council Fellow at the Australian National University, 10
(Val, “Deep Ecology, Deep Pockets, Deep Problems: A feminist Ecosocialist Perspective”, Beneath the Surface: Critical Essays in the Philosophy of Deep Ecology, pg. 59+, 8/20/12, atl) The politics of deep...models of property. |
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Prices low now and will stay low long term- Fukushima
Koven, Financial Post analyst, 9-26
(Peter, “Short-term dip in uranium prices now a long-term slump,” 9-26-12, Financial Post Trading Desk, da 9-28-12, http://business.financialpost.com/2012/09/26/weak-uranium-market-could-last-a-while/, mee) When the Fukushima...wrote in a note. Low prices key to uranium market- no one will buy it over $40
Kidd, deputy director-general of the World Nuclear Association, 12
(Steve, “Uranium supply-how has Fukushima changed the market,” September 28th, 2012, Nuclear Engineering International Magazine, da 9-28-12, http://www.neimagazine.com/story.asp?sectioncode=147andstoryCode=2063119, mee) Interest in the...economically attractive Central Asia instability inevitable – Kazakstan protests and Uzbekistan religious conflicts
McGlinchey, Associate Professor, Government and Politics, 9-27
(Eric, Ph.D. from Princeton University, “Central Asia Grows Wobbly,” 9-27-12, http://themonkeycage.org/blog/2012/09/27/central-asia-grows-wobbly/, accessed 9-28-12, ara) Central Asia is...Berdymukhamedov too may prove a casualty of unrest. |
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SMRs are key to reduce emissions-
Hargraves and Moir, Dartmouth College Energy Policy Professor, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Scientist, 11
(Robert and Ralph, “Liquid Fuel Nuclear Reactors”, January 2011, American Physical Society, http://www.aps.org/units/fps/newsletters/201101/hargraves.cfm, accessed 9-16-12 wdw) Burning coal for...from coal plants. SMRs key to US nuclear leadership-Thorium provides a bridge energy
Johnson, Oregon State University WISE, 6
(Brian, “Thorium for Use in Plutonium Disposition, Proliferation-Resistant Fuels for Developing Countries, and Future Reactor Designs”, 2006, pg ii, American Nuclear Society, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2006/Johnson-ANS.pdf, accessed 9-16-12 wdw) As it stands...this promising technology. |
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1AC Inherency America’s nuclear energy industry is in decline
Wallace et al,’ Center for Strategic and International Studies U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Senior Adviser, 12
(Michael. “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise.” Pg 59, 2012, http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf., accessed 8-19-12 wdw) America’s nuclear energy...be retired early. New generations of reactors are necessary to advance our nuclear portfolio
DoE, 10
(“Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap”, Pg v-viii, April 2010, http://www.ne.doe.gov/pdfFiles/NuclearEnergy_Roadmap_Final.pdf, accessed 8-8-12 wdw) To achieve energy...other chemical products. Plan: The United States federal government should substantially increase loan guarantees for small modular nuclear reactors. Proliferation Global nuclear power is inevitable
Miller et al., Texas AandM University Research Professor, 12
(Warren and Pete Domenici, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets”, Pg 9-10, July 2012, The Bipartisan Policy Center, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, accessed 8-20-12 wdw) Beyond the Vogtle...to be positive overall. This will result in breakout proliferation-asymmetries undermine deterrence and ensure nuclear war-safeguards are key.
(Sokolski, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center Executive Director, 09
Henry, June 1, 2009, “Avoiding a Nuclear Crowd”, http://www.hoover.org/publications/policy-review/article/5534, 10/3/12, atl) Finally, several new...is inevitable. Now is key to maintain American nuclear leadership
Wallace et al,’ Center for Strategic and International Studies U.S. Nuclear Energy Project Senior Adviser, 12
(Michael. “Nuclear Energy in America: Preventing its Early Demise.” Pg 60-61, 2012, http://csis.org/files/publication/120417_gf_wallace_williams.pdf., accessed 8-19-12 wdw)
Meanwhile, China, India, Russia...to prevent its early demise. US construction is key to solve-SMR’s would out compete other models and a strong domestic industry ensures maintenance of the global gold standard.
Miller, Bipartisan Policy Co-Chair for the Nuclear Initiative, 12
(Dr. Warren F. “Pete” e-, Former DOE Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, Senator Pete Domenici, July 2012, “Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nuclear Energy in the United States”, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, 8/14/12, atl) Several other countries...development, and deployment (RDandD) programs. Proliferation causes nuclear war-crisis escalation, aggression, saving face, delegation and launch on warning guarantee it.
Kroenig, Georgetown University Government assistant professor, 12
(Matthew, Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University and Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Council on Foreign Relations, “The History of Proliferation Optimism: Does It Have A Future?,” 5-26-12, http://www.npolicy.org/article.php?aid=1182andrtid=2, accessed 10-2-12, mtf) The proliferation optimist position...opponents to back down. Accidents – 1 AC Status quo nuclear power will be based off Chinese designs-guarantees accidents and meltdowns
Tu, Carnegie Energy and Climate Program senior associate, 12
(Kevin Jianjun. “China’s Nuclear Crossroads.” 3-11. http://carnegieendowment.org/2012/03/11/china-s-nuclear-crossroads. Accessed: 9/30/2012. ADC) It’s first important...can’t afford to make. Other countries follow the US lead-ensures they’ll pick SMR’s and implement safety measures
Lieberman, American Physical Society senior government relations specialist, 11
(Jodi, November 15, 2011 “Nonproliferation, Congress, and Nuclear Trade: Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose” http://csis.org/files/publication/111116_nonproliferation_congress_and_nucleartrade.pdf U.S. Nonproliferation Influence...South Korea in 2012. Nuclear accidents wreck biodiversity
Mousseau, USC biology professor, 2011
(TA, “Conservation consequences of Chernobyl and other nuclear accidents”, Biological Conservation Volume 144, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 2787–2798, Science Direct, ldg)
The explosion at...when they are rare. Extinction
Daily et al, Professor, Department of Biological Sciences Stanford, 7
(11-19, Gretchen, Senior Fellow, Woods Institute for the Environment Director, Center for Conservation Biology Director, Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources Chair, The Natural Capital Project, “ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: Benefits Supplied to Human Societies by Natural Ecosystems,” http://www.sierraforestlegacy.org/Resources/Conservation/FireForestEcology/ForestEconomics/Economics-Daily97.pdf) atw In addition to...to colonize the moon. Solvency Other nations will model US investment – it’s a bellwether of nuclear tech
Adamantiades et al., ICG Aeolian Energy, 9
(A. Adamantiades, ICG Properties is a real estate development firm; and I. Kessides, The World Bank, "Nuclear power for sustainable development: Current status and future prospects," Energy Policy Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2009, Science Direct, accessed 8-5-12, mtf) This paper describes...of the world. Capitalization is key to nuclear commercialization-only the federal government can leverage the funds necessary
Bennett, Vice President for Public Affairs, Third Way, 10
(Matt, Josh Freed is Director of the Third Way Clean Energy initiative, Jeremy Ershow is a Policy Advisor at Third Way, “Breaking the Nuclear Financing Barrier,” February 10, http://content.thirdway.org/publications/265/Third_Way_Idea_Brief_-_Breaking_the_Nuclear_Financing_Barrier.pdf, accessed 9-30-12, ara) High financing costs...the loan volume. NRC will streamline SMR’s
Sullivan, et al., partner, Hogan Lovells’ LLP, 10
(Mary Anne, partner in Hogan Lovells' energy practice in Washington, D.C., Daniel F. Stenger is a partner in Hogan Lovells' energy practice, Amy C. Roma is a senior associate in Hogan Lovells' energy practice, “Are Small Reactors the Next Big Thing in Nuclear?” 12-21-10, http://www.elp.com/index/display/article-display/3288852302/articles/electric-light-power/volume-88/issue-6/sections/are-small-reactors-the-next-big-thing-in-nuclear.html, accessed 9-20-12, ara) The biggest challenge...through industry working groups. SMRs are immune to the hazards of typical nuclear plants-cooling system, size, and location
Szondy, Charged Magazine Contributor, 12
(David, “Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors – the future of energy?”, 2-16-12, Gizmag, http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/, accessed 8-20-12 wdw) This cooling system...have been raised |
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We can escape destructive power while working within the current power structures.
Weberman 2000
(David, vol. 7 issue 2 "are freedom and anti-humanism compatible?" the case of foucault and butler" Constellations: an international journal of critical and democratic theory) gek One might well...the existence of freedom. The endpoint of biopower is not the creation of bare-life but the fostering and production of forms-of-life. Biopower seeks to optimize the individual and produce “extra-life.”
Ojakangas 05 (Mika, Impossible Dialogue on Biopower, Foucault Studies, Doctorate in Social Science) Moreover, life as...“forms of life”.50 The modern sovereign state is not like the twentieth century totalitarian state – liberal democracy checks the impact of biopower.
Dickinson, professor UC Davis, 2004
(Edward Ross, Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About “Modernity,” Central European History, vol. 37, no. 1, March, project muse, ldg)
In short, the...radically differing potentials. Your kritik is based on totalitarian biopolitics – not democratic biopolitics – like the plan – which are sweet
Dickinson, history professor at Cincinnati, 2004
(Edward, “Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About ‘Modernity’” Central European History, vol. 37, no. 1, 1–48, project muse, ldg) The lesson is not...Nazi racial state. Biopolitics isn’t universally oppressive
Dickinson, history professor at Cincinnati, 2004
(Edward, “Biopolitics, Fascism, Democracy: Some Reflections on Our Discourse About ‘Modernity’” Central European History, vol. 37, no. 1, 1–48, project muse, ldg) In short: is ...between these perspectives. |
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Links to politics – XOs are unpopular AND takes out solvency – Congress will force rollback
Savage, NY Times, 12
(Charlie, “Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals,” 4-22-12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/us/politics/shift-on-executive-powers-let-obama-bypass-congress.html?pagewanted=alland_moc.semityn.www#h, accessed 9-19-12, ara) The focus, said...his “power grabs.” No Solvency—The Courts regularly roll-back executive orders
Cooper, Vermont political science professor, 2002
(Phillip, By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action” pg. 77, ldg) Despite the apparent...admittedly legitimate decrees. No Solvency—Plan can theoretically be repealed in four months—executive orders are not durable
Gaziano, Heritage Foundation Senior Fellow, 2-21-01 (Todd, “The use and abuse of executive orders and other presidential directives,” http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2001/02/the-use-and-abuse-of-executive-orders-and-other-presidential-directives) There are, however...equally compelling orders.40 Unpopular XOs spark congressional backlash
Risen, managing editor of Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, 2004
(Clay, “The Power of the Pen”, 7-16, http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=the_power_of_the_pen, ldg) The most effective...an anti-environmental president. Executive orders turn the President into a lightning rod-links to the disad
Cooper, Vermont political science professor, 1997
(Phillip, “Power tools for an effective and responsible presidency” Administration and Society, Vol. 29, proquest, ldg) Interestingly enough...and ultimately dysfunctional. Either Obama will assert authority inevitably
Greenwald, JD NYU law school, 2009
(Glenn, “Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges”, 6-27,http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/06/27/preventive_detention/, ldg) There has now... Congressional authority at all. Or single directives don’t spillover
Kreider, Wilkes political science professor, 2006
(Kyle, EXECUTIVE ORDERS AND THE MODERN PRESIDENCY: LEGISLATING FROM THE OVAL OFFICE, June, http://www.bsos.umd.edu/gvpt/lpbr/subpages/reviews/warber0606.htm, ldg) A part of the...upon their constitutionality Counter Plan hurts prez powers
Posner, Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon, 2000
(Michael, “Blocking the Presidential Power Play”, National Journal, 1-1, http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/nj_20000101_15.php, ldg) Some legal experts...more questionable responses." Non-unique – Obama increasing his power now
Savage, NY Times, 12
(Charlie, “Shift on Executive Power Lets Obama Bypass Rivals,” 4-22-12, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/23/us/politics/shift-on-executive-powers-let-obama-bypass-congress.html?pagewanted=alland_moc.semityn.www#h, accessed 9-19-12, ara) One Saturday last fall...council to brainstorm. |
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Badiou is not politically useful because his alternative is too vague—he says that the event side steps the state but any alternative politics must be able to reform the state to succeed.
Brown, Illinois African American studies professor, 2004
(Nicholas “Or, Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek, Waiting for Something to Happen”, CR: The New Centennial Review 4.3 (2004) 289-319, project muse, ldg) Badiou's ontology cannot...upon to answer? Collapse of capitalism is worse for all their impacts---causes extinction of every other species and then humans
Monbiot, 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/environment-climate-change, DOA: 8-16-12, ldg) The interesting question...think it isn't. 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 Capitalism key to artificial intelligence
Kurzweil, Co-Founder, Chancellor and Trustee, Singularity University, 2001
(Ray, “The Law of Accelerating Returns”, 3-7, http://research.lifeboat.com/law.htm, ldg) There is a...stop this progression. AI solves every impact and averts multiple scenarios for extinction
Howe, The Singularity Institute, 2002
(Mitchell, “What are the Odds?”, http://www.acceleratingfuture.com/articles/whataretheodds.htm, ldg) Between now and...with surprising ease. Capitalism isn’t the root cause- their alt won’t solve
Aberdeen, activist and owner of Freedom Tracks Records, 2003
(Richard, “the way: a theory of root cause and solution” http://freedomtracks.com/uncommonsense/theway.html, ldg) A view shared by... perceived economic “class”. Capitalism solves war
Griswold, director of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies, 2005
(Daniel, “Peace on Earth? Try Free Trade among Men”, 12-28, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5344, ldg) As one little...best at home. Only capitalism makes ethics possible-key to individual freedom
Romar, Department of Management and Marketing, University of Massachusetts Boston, 2009
(Edward, “Noble Markets: The Noble/Slave Ethic in Hayek’s Free Market Capitalism”, Journal of Business Ethics, 85: 57-66, Springer, ldg) Like Nietzsche, Hayek...its own principles. |
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Sequestration is coming-Republicans are outmaneuvering Obama
Carroll, Washington Examiner Senior Editorial Writer, 1/18
(Conn, “Morning Examiner: The sequester is going to happen”, The Washington Examiner, 1-18-13, http://washingtonexaminer.com/morning-examiner-the-sequester-is-going-to-happen/article/2519017#.UPr0Ox3jhkY, accessed 1-19-13 wdw) Other media outlets...is going to happen. Debt ceiling fights ensure sequestration happens
Freedberg, AOL Defense, 1-9
(Sydney J., Jr., “Why Sequestration May Be The Least Worst Case,” 1-9-13, http://defense.aol.com/2013/01/09/congresss-self-created-crisis-sequestration-may-be-the-least-w/, accessed 1-15-13, ara) WASHINGTON: A year ago...in the head. Hagel nomination makes spending cuts inevitable
Rubin, Washington Post, 1-15
(Jennifer, “Where is Sen. Warner on defending defense?” 1-15-13, http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/01/15/where-is-sen-warner-on-defending-defense/, accessed 1-15-13, ara) His most challenging...jobs hang in the balance.” Turn – cuts increase efficiency and key to effective programs
Blady, Huffington Post, 13
(Joseph, Former program officer for the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, former senior analyst for the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence, “Maybe We Should Have Kept Sequestration for Defense,” 1-3-13, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-blady-md/maybe-we-should-have_b_2402305.html, accessed 1-16-13, ara) Sequestration, meaning the...secretary of defense. SMRs are bipartisan – DOE programs prove
Domenici and Miller, Co-chairs of BPC Nuclear Initiative, 12
(Pete and Warren, Senator, BPC senior fellow, and Former Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Nuclear Initiative,” July 2012, Bipartisan Policy Center, page 20, da 8-18-12, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, mee) Strategic Goal...deployment (RDandD) programs. 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. Winners win- bandwagoning
Green, Hofstra political science professor, 2010
(David, "The Do-Nothing 44th President ", 6-11, http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Do-Nothing-44th-Presid-by-David-Michael-Gree-100611-648.html, ldg) Moreover, there is...what they did. Opponents are disorganized- nuclear industry empirically controls the messaging battle
Squassoni, CSIS Senior Fellow, 12
(Sharon, Director and Senior Fellow, Proliferation Prevention Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies, former senior assoc. at Nuclear Nonproliferation Program at Carnegie, former Congressional adviser as senior specialist in weapons of mass destruction at the Congressional Research Service, “Nuclear Power in the Global Energy Portfolio” in the report: The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States, Federation of American Scientists, February 2012, http://www.fas.org/pubs/_docs/Nuclear_Energy_Report-lowres.pdf, accessed 9-30-12, mtf) Concerns about contamination...week after Fukushima.18 Embryonic stem cells not key- ACS, cord blood and IPS cells solve
Parker, Washington Post staff writer, 2009
Kathleen, "Behind the Bell Curve," Washington Post, l/n, accessed 2-25-11, mss In fact, every...stem cells . . . are obsolete." |
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Reform won’t pass – GOP will block, optimists are empirically wrong, and talks won’t begin for a month
CNN Wire, 1-16-13
(“Solve immigration without a quick path to citizenship,” Lexis, d/a 1-18-13, ads) Now Obama wants...See you in 10 years. Gun thumper
Kayyem, Newstimes staff writer, 1/19
(Juliette. “Immigration reform suddenly approachable.” 2013. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Immigration-reform-suddenly-approachable-4208125.php. Accessed: 1/21/2013. ADC) But then all...a foregone conclusion. PC low now and ineffective
Eberly, Baltimore Sun staff writer, 1/21
(Todd. “The presidential power trap.” 2013.http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bs-ed-political-capital-20130121,0,1947745.story. Accessed: 1/21/2013. ADC) As Barack Obama... to presidential leadership. Hagel thumps
Ratnam, Bloomberg staff writer, 12
(Gopal. “Obama Has Double Dilemma in Choice of New Pentagon Chief.” 12-27. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-28/obama-has-double-dilemma-in-choice-of-new-pentagon-chief.html. Accessed: 1/3/2013. ADC) President Barack Obama...and deficit reduction. There’s no bill and it wouldn’t pass anyway
San Francisco Chronicle, 1-18-13
(“Immigration reform's time has come,” http://www.sfgate.com/opinion/editorials/article/Immigration-reform-s-time-has-come-4206430.php, d/a 1-18-13, ads) When someone...of it down. Bottom of the docket
Munro, The Daily Caller staff writer, 12
(Neil. “Obama promises new immigration plan but keeps endgame close to his vest.” 12-31. http://dailycaller.com/2012/12/31/obama-promises-new-immigration-plan-but-keeps-endgame-close-to-his-vest/. Accessed: 1/3/2013. ADC) However, Obama’s language...which is broken.” SMRs are bipartisan – DOE programs prove
Domenici and Miller, Co-chairs of BPC Nuclear Initiative, 12
(Pete and Warren, Senator, BPC senior fellow, and Former Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Nuclear Initiative,” July 2012, Bipartisan Policy Center, page 20, da 8-18-12, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, mee) Strategic Goal: Historically...deployment (RDandD) programs. 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. Winners win- bandwagoning
Green, Hofstra political science professor, 2010
(David, "The Do-Nothing 44th President ", 6-11, http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Do-Nothing-44th-Presid-by-David-Michael-Gree-100611-648.html, ldg) Moreover, there is a...precisely what they did. Opponents are disorganized- nuclear industry empirically controls the messaging battle
Squassoni, CSIS Senior Fellow, 12
(Sharon, Director and Senior Fellow, Proliferation Prevention Program at Center for Strategic and International Studies, former senior assoc. at Nuclear Nonproliferation Program at Carnegie, former Congressional adviser as senior specialist in weapons of mass destruction at the Congressional Research Service, “Nuclear Power in the Global Energy Portfolio” in the report: The Future of Nuclear Power in the United States, Federation of American Scientists, February 2012, http://www.fas.org/pubs/_docs/Nuclear_Energy_Report-lowres.pdf, accessed 9-30-12, mtf) Concerns about contamination...week after Fukushima.18 |
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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...2005 Energy Policy Act. Loan guarantees attract private capital – increases are key
Peskoe, Associate, McDermott Will and Emery LLP, 12
(Ari, focuses on regulation, legislation, and transactional issues related to energy policy, “A Solution Looking For a Problem: Building More Nuclear Reactors after Vogtle,” April 2012, Electricity Journal, Volume 25, Issue 3, ScienceDirect, accessed 10-2-12, ara) Given the checkered...a nuclear disaster.64 Need more loan guarantees – investors need volume certainty
NEI, 10
(Nuclear Energy Institute. “Clean-Energy Loan Guarantee Program Sees Only Limited Progress, NEI Tells Congress.” 9-23. http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/newsreleases/clean-energy-loan-guarantee-program-sees-only-limited-progress-nei-tells-congress. Accessed: 9/30/2012. ADC) Testifying during a...schedules,” he said. Federal incentives are vital to spur investment and innovation in the energy sector—nuclear power is one example
American Energy Innovation Council, 11
(“Catalyzing American Ingenuity: The Role of Government in Energy Innovation,” January 2011, accessed 9-13-12, http://americanenergyinnovation.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/AEIC_Catalyzing_Ingenuity_2011.pdf) The rationale for government...a new nuclear reactor. Public-private partnerships empirically spur investment and technological innovation
Freed, Third Way Vice President for Clean Energy, 8-16-11
(Josh, “Washington MUST Help Private Sector,” accessed 9-13-12, http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/08/how-can-washington-green-ameri.php) Let’s start with...deficit, without it. |
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Non unique- German exports low now
AP, 13
(The Associated Press, “German exports slide 3.4 per cent lower in November compared with previous month”, 1-7-13, http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/german-vice-chancellor-economy-grew-by-075-per-cent-last-year-2013-outlook-promising-185875902.html, DOA: 1-29-13, llc) BERLIN - Economic weakness...growing in 2013. German economy is resilient and isn’t on the brink
Fairless, Wall Street Journal Reporter, 10-8-12
(Tom, “German Exports Signal Resilience,” WSJ, accessed 11-3-12, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443982904578044120311916676.html) German exports rose...the third quarter. Turn—German economic downturn forces Merkel to support European stimulus measures—this is vital to preventing Eurozone collapse and a global economic crisis
Weisenthal, Deputy Editor of Business Insider, 6-24-12
(Joe, “The Downturn In Germany Is The Best Thing To Happen In A Long Time,” accessed 11-3-12, http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fall-in-the-german-economy-is-good-news-2012-6#ixzz2BBjhGaG1) And so now...get onto a new path. |
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Won’t pass-No political will, partisanship, and differing visions
Garza, LIBRE Initiative Executive Director, 1-31
(Daniel, “Daniel Garza: Immigration Reform Inevitable? Think Again”, Fox News Latino, 1-31-13, http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2013/01/31/daniel-garza-immigration-reform-inevitable-think-again/, accessed 1-31-13 wdw) In a nutshell...Border Security, etc.). Reform is dead – GOP leaders want to kill the bill for political maneuvering –empirically proven
Zornick, The Nation Staff Writer, 1-29-13
(George, “The Numbers Just Don’t Add Up on Immigration Reform,” http://www.thenation.com/blog/172504/numbers-just-dont-add-immigration-reform#, d/a 1-31-13, ads) Thanks to the...base wants them to. Gun thumper
Kayyem, Newstimes staff writer, 1/19
(Juliette. “Immigration reform suddenly approachable.” 2013. http://www.newstimes.com/local/article/Immigration-reform-suddenly-approachable-4208125.php. Accessed: 1/21/2013. ADC) But then all...a foregone conclusion. Obama won’t use PC—but if he does, it’s the kiss of death for immigration—solidifies opposition and kills GOP willingness to cooperate
Koppelman, New Yorker, 1/29
(Alex, January 29, 2013, “Will Obama Save Immigration Reform or Kill it?”, http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2013/01/will-obama-save-immigration-reform-or-kill-it.html, 1/31/13, atl) There is a...only way to do it. Hagel thumps
Ratnam, Bloomberg staff writer, 12
(Gopal. “Obama Has Double Dilemma in Choice of New Pentagon Chief.” 12-27. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-28/obama-has-double-dilemma-in-choice-of-new-pentagon-chief.html. Accessed: 1/3/2013. ADC) President Barack Obama...and deficit reduction. Rubio is key – not Obama
Avlon, The Daily Beast, 1-31-13
(John, “Immigration Reform Proposal Shows Similar Ideas Betweeen Bush and Obama,” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/31/immigration-reform-proposal-shows-similar-ideas-betweeen-bush-and-obama.html, d/a 2-1-13, ads) Fast-forward six...then turn over and die.” SMRs are bipartisan – DOE programs prove
Domenici and Miller, Co-chairs of BPC Nuclear Initiative, 12
(Pete and Warren, Senator, BPC senior fellow, and Former Assistant Secretary for Nuclear Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, “Maintaining U.S. Leadership in Global Nuclear Energy Markets: A Report of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Nuclear Initiative,” July 2012, Bipartisan Policy Center, page 20, da 8-18-12, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Leadership%20in%20Nuclear%20Energy%20Markets.pdf, mee) Strategic Goal: Historically...deployment (RDandD) programs. 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. Winners win- bandwagoning
Green, Hofstra political science professor, 2010
(David, "The Do-Nothing 44th President ", 6-11, http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Do-Nothing-44th-Presid-by-David-Michael-Gree-100611-648.html, ldg) Moreover, there is...what they did. Global aging solves aggression and ensures international peace
Haas, Duquesne University Political Science Assistant Professor, 07
(Mark L., “A Geriatric Peace? The Future of U.S. Power in a World of Aging Populations”, http://muse.jhu.edu.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/journals/international_security/v032/32.1haas.html, 1/3/13, atl) In coming decades...other great powers. Altruism solves the impact
Palacios, World Bank Senior Pension Economist, 02
(Robert, “The future of global ageing”, http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/content/31/4/786.full, 1/3/13, atl) When faced with...through natural selection. |
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Cap solves warming-allows the greatest adaptive capacity and improves human wellbeing that overwhelms negative effects.
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) Table 10 indicates...by climate change (Goklany, 2005, 2007a). Failure to solve warming causes extinction – geological history proves
Bushnell, NASA Langley Research Center chief scientist, 10
(Dennis M. has a MS in mechanical engineering, won the Lawrence A. Sperry Award, AIAA Fluid and Plasma Dynamics Award, the AIAA Dryden Lectureship, and is the recipient of many NASA Medals for outstanding Scientific Achievement and Leadership, "Conquering Climate Change," The Futurist 44. 3, May/Jun 2010, ProQuest, accessed 10-3-12, mtf) Unless we act...they're actually conservative. Capitalism solves war
Griswold, director of the Cato Institute Center for Trade Policy Studies, 2005
(Daniel, “Peace on Earth? Try Free Trade among Men”, 12-28, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5344, ldg) As one little-noticed...best at home. |
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Perm – do both - We must combine animal rights with political action – failure to do so replicates the problems being criticized
Phelps, Fund for animals spiritual outreach director, 2005
(Norm, “Trying to Walk Before We Can Crawl”, January, http://www.satyamag.com/jan05/phelps.html, DOA: 10-24-11, ldg)
Unfortunately, what is...movement and beyond.) A pragmatic struggle for non-human rights is the only feasible option – the alt devolves into paradigm wars
Favre, MSU law professor, 2004
(David, “Integrating Animal Interests Into Our Legal System”, 10 Animal L. 87, lexis, ldg) This division stems...they remain legal property. 12 All creatures identify with similar beings – it’s inevitable, but we can make decisions for the benefit of other beings
Scholtz, North West university law professor, 2005
(Werner, “animal culling: a sustainable approach or anthropocentric atrocity?: issues of biodiversity and custodial sovereignty”, Macquarie Journal of International and Comparative Environmental Law , 2.2, project muse, ldg) The CBD recognizes...between man and environment Even if they win we just cause human extinction it still outweighs and turns their impact—human moral evolution will inevitably lead to an end to speciesism—If humans survive, we can ensure that animals and the earth survive for billions of years. But human extinction now means inevitable natural events will cause non-human life extinction much sooner
Matheny, John Hopkins Public Health PhD candidate, 2007
(J.G., “Ought we worry about human extinction?”, 12-6, http://jgmatheny.org/extinctionethics.htm, DOA; 10-14-11, ldg) Moral philosophers have...long-term hope for survival. 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...philosophy, 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. No root cause-no monocasual explanation.
Martin, Wollongong University science, tech and society professor, 1990
(Brian, “Uprooting War”, http://www.bmartin.cc/pubs/90uw/uw13.html, DOA: 11-4-11, ldg) In this chapter...to uproot them. Absolute rejection of anthropocentrism is convoluted and makes humanism worse in the long term
Hayward, University of Edinburgh, Professor of Environmental Political Theory, 97
(Tim, Director of Just World Institute; Programme Director of MSc International Political Theory, “Anthropocentrism: A Misunderstood Problem”, Environmental Values, Vol. 6, No. 1 (February 1997), pp. 49-63 But if the... expunge anthropocentrism altogether. |
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Energy production is inherently a white-over-black system. The focus on production obscures the real problem of the racial American culture that glorifies consumption. We cannot begin to address this problem until we get rid of the racial hierarchy that maintains America
Mandell, J.D,‘8
(Bekah “Racial Reification and Global Warming: A Truly Inconvenient Truth” 4-1-8 http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1046andcontext=twlj Boston College Third World Law Journal Volume 28 Issue 2 accessed: 10-27-12 mlb) Global warming is an …. address the crisis.41 Blackness is only present through a continuous grammar of suffering; that grammar is one of accumulation and fungibility through a status of non-humanity that positions slaves as provision for Civil Society. The meta-physical and gratuitous violence creates the dichotomy between structural life and death – making the African that entered the ship a Black when it went. Fungibility is the structural essence for Civil Society and the condition of possibility for the ‘living.’
Pak, Philosophy PhD 12
(Yumi , "Outside Relationality: Autobiographical Deformations and the Literary Lineage of Afro-Pessimism in 20th and 21st Century African American Literature." Dissertation Accessed: 12-26-12 mlb)
Because the four….dialectic, as “anti-Human.” We aren’t saying the black body is socially dead but radically policed by Civil Society and pushed to the outside of the modern world
Pak, Philosophy PhD, 12
(Yumi , "Outside Relationality: Autobiographical Deformations and the Literary Lineage of Afro-Pessimism in 20th and 21st Century African American Literature." Pgs 12-14, Dissertation Accessed: 2-25-13 wdw) Furthermore, I do not wish …. of a persistent social death. This fungibility is replicated throughout status quo energy policy where Black suffering has created the condition of possibility for an advancement of consumption with no paradigm to evaluate it all. There is only the possibility of black trash when dealing with the question of energy production and the main goal is always consumption just to get out the solution only leading to a bigger problem. We are here to discuss the underside of the resolution it’s excretion , the crude process of production the continually posits blacks as the waste that must be disposed of
Mills, Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, 1
(Charles, John Evans, “Black Trash” Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Pg(s) 83-89, accessed 12/21/12, soap) Finally, Marxist explanations ….the white body politic. Questions of the environment we occupy must be reframed and analyzed for the position blackness
Mills, Professor of Moral and Intellectual Philosophy at Northwestern University, 1
(Charles, John Evans, “Black Trash” Faces of Environmental Racism: Confronting Issues of Global Justice (Studies in Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy, Pg(s) 72-73, accessed 12/21/12, soap) In his introduction to Leviathan…. politicized race and space Our unflinching paradigmatic analysis that calls for the end of the world. If we win the that the US has ethically distanced itself from Black and Red bodies then the round becomes a question of how we orient our intellectual discourse; the alternative calls for a revolutionary zeitgeist aimed at the overthrow of the political-project that is America.
Wilderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine, 2010
(Frank B., Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” Pages 2-4. pdf, Written in 2010, Accessed 08-08-2012, AJH) What are we to….by a revolutionary Zeitgeist The slave is anti-human and suffers ontologically so our paradigmatic analysis cannot be seen through civil society
Wilderson, University of California, Irvine professor of the African America studies and drama , ‘10
(Frank B. III “Red, White and Black” pg. 10-11 accessed: 12-21-12 mlb) Regarding the Black position…. Columbia University awaits an answer. Civil society masks its oppression by attempting to be infinitely inclusive but can never fully include the black forcing them to structurally adjust only replicating the fungibility of the slave
Wilderson, Associate Professor of African-American Studies at UC Irvine, 2010
(Frank B., Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms,” Pages 24-26. pdf, Written in 2010, Accessed 09-20-2012, AJH) No one makes films and…. concerning institutional integrity. Communication theory assumes equality between subjects – it cannot account for the position of the slave
Brady, executive board member of Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, 12
(Nicholas, “Louder Than the Dark: Toward an Acoustics of Suffering”, http://thefeministwire.com/2012/10/louder-than-the-dark-towards-an-acoustics-of-suffering/, accessed 1/7/13, soap) The violence that….in their own dominion. Deliberation is exclusive of cultural minorities and opposing forms of scholarship
Deveaux, 2005
Monique Deveaux, Professor and Canada Research Chair in Ethics and Global Social Change, Ph.D., University of Cambridge, MPhil, University of Cambridge, MA and BA, McGill University, “Minorities Within Minorities: Equality, Rights and Diversity”, 2005, GBooks, Accessed 2/10/12 soap Critics of deliberative democracy…. significance of citizens' differences. Deliberation only confers legitimacy on existing institutions of oppression and silences dissent – only risks co-option
Young, University of Chicago Political Science Professor, 2001
(Iris Marion, “Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy”, http://dtserv3.compsy.uni-jena.de/__C12577C8005101BB.nsf/0/51085249A07E840EC12577C9005FC33A/$FILE/Iris%20Marion%20Young%20-%20Activist%20Challenges%20to%20Deliberative%20Democracy.pdf, accessed 7/19/12, soap) To this charge…. silence real dissent. Policy focus inevitably creates serial policy failure
Smith, Queen’s Environmental Studies professor, 2011
(Mick, Against Ecological Sovereignty: Ethics, Biopolitics, and Saving the Natural World, pg 219-221, ldg) The purpose of this…. claims of ecological sovereignty. Civil society’s demand for immediate action is politically demobilizing and prevents an analysis of the oppressive structures of governance
Schlag, Prof. of Law @ Colorado U, 90
(Pierre, November 1990,., Stanford Law Review “Normative and Nowhere to Go”, http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.liberty.edu:2048/stable/1228996?seq=14, accessed 12/29/12, soap) In fact, even ….forrnalism"-normative formalism." |
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Their interp doesn’t solve their impacts
Galloway 2010
(Ryan, Head Coach at Samford University and overall amazing person. “The Importance of Being Relevant” http://www.cedadebate.org/forum/index.php?topic=925.0)jap How relevant are....disad and a counterplan). Deliberative stasis causes exclusion and closes off the ability of deliberation to solve
Young, University of Chicago Political Science Professor, 96
(Iris Marion, “Communication and The Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy” in “Democracy and Difference: Contesting The Boundaries of The Political”, 1996, Pg(s) 125-126, accessed 2/13/13, soap) Deliberative theorists commonly....biased against them. Deliberative discourse privileges certain styles while devaluing others. The only way their ideal world can exist is in a world where we eradicate difference
Young, University of Chicago Political Science Professor, 96
(Iris Marion, “Communication and The Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy” in “Democracy and Difference: Contesting The Boundaries of The Political”, 1996, Pg(s) 122, accessed 2/13/13, soap) Deliberative theorists tend....and wide gesture.'" Predictability polices difference
Dantley, Miami educational leadership professor, 2002
(Michael, “Uprooting And Replacing Positivism, The Melting Pot, Multiculturalism, And Other Impotent Notions In Educational Leadership Through An African American Perspective”, Education and Urban Society, 34.3, SAGE, ldg) The cultural thought is....Le Corbusier or Meis. (p. 143) Switch-Side debate takes on distance that conceals violence
Mediatore, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Ohio Wesleyan University, 7
(Shari Stone- in 2007(Challenging Academic Norms: An Epistemology for Feminist and Multicultural Classrooms http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v019/19.2stone-mediatore.html-http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nwsa_journal/v019/19.2stone-mediatore.html, accessed 12/21/12, soap) Ultimately, when we confuse....be troubled by violence. |
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Capitalism cannot explain the libidinal economy of anti-blackness – After the alternative the question of Why Africa is still not answered. If capitalism is based off value systems and productivity is would of made more economic and political sense. This means there are a surplus of examples that cannot be solves by the alt
Wilderson, professor of African American Studies at University of California, Irvine, 2010
(Frank, A. B. Dartmouth College (Government/Philosophy); MFA Columbia University (Fiction Writing); Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Rhetoric/Film Studies), “Red, White and Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms, pgs 13-15) blh David Eltis is emphatic....than that of the slave.” Any attempt to deconstruct Capitalism without placing the black body at the center fails to explain the surplus examples of exclusive policies of materiality within the context of the black body – instead it allows for the continuation of anti-black politics
Wilderson, professor of African American Studies at University of California, Irvine, 2003
(Frank, A. B. Dartmouth College (Government/Philosophy); MFA Columbia University (Fiction Writing); Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley (Rhetoric/Film Studies), “The Prison Slave as Hegemony's (Silent) Scandal”, Social Justice, Vol. 30 Issue 2, p18-27) blh This ipso facto deputization....practice with a his¬torical scandal. Slavery cannot be reduced down to purely economic desire. The only explanation can be found at the black body
Tibbs and Woods ‘8
Donald F. Tibbs, Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University, Tryon P. Woods, Assistant Professor of Criminology, Sonoma State University; BA, Wesleyan University; MS, Arizona State University; PhD, University of California, “The Jena Six and Black Punishment: Law and Raw Life in the Domain of Nonexistence”, Fall / Winter, 2008, L/N, Accessed 5/30/11\ soap The "brave New World,"....reason for the slaves' (non)being. Their objective philosophical narration only glosses over the lived experienced of the oppressed and maintain their invisibility in civil society. We need to start our philosophy from a cultural standpoint that takes into account lived experience
Shelby, Harvard University Associate Professor of African and African American Studies, 8
(Tommie, “We Who Are Dark”, Pg(s) 14-15, soap) First, philosophers often speak....and long-standing aspirations. The despiritualization in Marx’s theory of “historical materialism;” is a constant state of Othering of Indigenous bodies because it maintains a Euro-Centric paradigm. Means we have an external dehumanization impact
Means, Leader in the (AIM) Movement, 2010
(Russel, First National Director in the American Indian Movement (AIM), “Revolution and American Indians: ‘Marxism is as Alien to My Culture as Capitalism,’” The End of Capitalism, Online, Written 10/17/2010, Accessed 02/20/2013, AJH) Hegel and Marx were heirs....does this really mean? |
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Perm-not a reason why you can’t endorse both methods.
Mills, Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago, ’97
Charles Mills, Associate Professor of philosophy at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is author of blackness visible: Essays on philosophy and race, also from Cornell. Cornell University Press, “The Racial Contract”, 1997, Page(s) 26-27 soap It would be a fundamental....globally dominated by Europeans. Transcendence is not applicable to the black body
Yancy, Professor at Duquense University, 2005
(George, “Whiteness and the Return of the Black Body”, Journal of Speculative Philosophy, Vol. 19, No. 4, Project Muse, retrieved April 15, 2010) blh I write out....scale of human value. (Snead 1994, 4). Only a diverse movement can solve
Torres, assistant professor of Sociology at St. Lawrence University, 2007
(Bob, BA in Philosophy and a BS in Agricultural Science from Pennsylvania State University, MS and PhD in Development Sociology from Cornell University, was a Fulbright Scholar in Spain, "Making a killing", p 117-9) The way to overcome....our domination of nature. Their color ignorance approach helps to perpetuate the covert existence of institutional practices of exclusion and subversion – to deny Blackness is to erase black existence and sustain white supremacy
McClendon, associate professor of African American and American Cultural Studies, 2003 (John H., professor at Bates College, “Act Your Age and Not Your Color: Blackness as Material Conditions, Presumptive Context, and Social Category”, White on White/Black on Black, pps 284-286) blh This is why....through the course of history. Humanism and status quo philosophical thought is based on the fungibility of the slave – supposed revolutionary discourses rely on the death of the slave
Wilderson, University of California, Irvine professor of the African America studies and drama , ‘10
(Frank B. III “Red, White and Black” pg. 19-22 accessed: 12-21-12 mlb) Again, what is important....liberation in any era heretofore. |
