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| 01/14/2013 | Accidents DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Uniqueness – global nuclear power unsustainableBanks, Nonresident Fellow, Foreign Policy, Energy Security Initiative, Brookings Institution, and Massy, Associate Fellow, Energy Security Initiative, 12-16-12 (John, Kevin, “Nuclear Power in Developing Countries? Let's Talk about It,” http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2012/12/16-nuclear-energy-banks-massy?rssid=energy+and+environmentandutm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=emailandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+BrookingsRSS%2Ftopics%2Fenergyandenvironment+%28Brookings+Topics+-+Energy+and+Environment%29, accessed 12-21-12, CMM)
The International Energy Agency (IAEA) projections show that these countries will account for AND , the viability, sustainability and safety of their programs will be compromised. B. Link - SMRs risk accidents – no safer than current reactorsLyman, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program Union of Concerned Scientists, 11 (Edwin, Before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, 7-14-11, “An Examination of the Safety and Economics of Light Water Small Modular Reactors”, http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/lyman-appropriations-subcom-7-14-11.pdf, accessed 9-26-12, CMM)
Proponents of small modular reactors (SMRs) claim that their designs have inherent safety AND comparable or even greater safety, security and proliferation risks than large reactors.
C. Impact – Nuclear accidents risk extinctionLendman, Research Associate of the Center for Research on Globalization (CRG), 11 (Stephen, 3-13-11, “Nuclear Meltdown in Japan,” http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Voices.php/2011/03/13/nuclear-meltdown-in-japan, accessed 9-15-12, CMM)
For years, Helen Caldicott warned it's coming. In her 1978 book, " AND bomb able to devastate a large city, besides causing permanent radiation contamination.
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| 01/14/2013 | Consumption KTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Link – increased energy production amplifies unsustainable consumption. Kerschner, PhD student in ecological economics at ICTA, 10 An aspect usually overseen by technological optimists is that with current unsustainable lifestyles, it B. Impact – consumption spirals to extinction Segalàsa et al, UNESCO Chair of Sustainability, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 10 There are a considerable number of signs suggesting that our industrialised society might eventually cause C. Alternative text: The judge should vote negative to refuse the consumptive mindset embraced by the aff in favor of a politics of downshifting. Engaging in self-reflection aimed at increasing well-being solves consumptive patterns. Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), 10 If consumption is no longer aimed at meeting material needs but at psychological reproduction, | |
| 01/14/2013 | Elections- OhioTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Uniqueness and internal link – Obama is winning narrowly in Ohio – its key to the election. Romney is within striking distance, but energy is key. BEAUMONT, AP, 9-11-12 MANSFIELD, Ohio – It’s all about Ohio – again.¶ The economy has improved B. Unique link – nuclear power has been kept under the rug before the election – its toxic Wood, AOL Energy, 9-13-12 Fossil fuels and renewable energy have become touchy topics in this election, with challenger C. Impact – Romney would undermine US-India relations Larison, The American Conservative, 7-6-12 Seth Mandel’s review of Obama’s diplomatic record greatly overstates things:¶ Obama snubbed India– D. Relations are key to peace over Kashmir – US led negotiations Riedel, Senior Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy, Brookings Institution, 6 Now that President Bush has built on this foundation, he should use the new E. Indo-pak conflict guarantees nuclear winter Fai, executive director at Kashmiri American Council, ’1 The most dangerous place on the planet is Kashmir, a disputed territory convulsed and | |
| 01/14/2013 | T- Financial Incentives exclude FITsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1. Financial incentives are positive inducements that result from a particular action.Yusof et al, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2012 In general, incentives can be defined as mechanism that motivates organisations to become involved 2. The plan must be a direct financial incentive.Al-Juaied, Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs visiting scholar, 2010 2. FINANCIAL INCENTIVES Federal and state governments have frequently used direct and indirect incentives 3. The plan must be an incentive on production – in terms of renewables, the people generating the electricity must directly receive the incentive.EIA, No Date Primary energy consumption: Consumption of primary energy. (Energy sources that are produced B. Violation- Feed-in tariffs are not a positive incentive OR a direct incentive – the plan is a mandate – it also isn’t on the producers of energy but on utility companies. How does a FIT work? FITs are simple. They put a legal obligation | |
| 01/14/2013 | China DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: China angered by status quo renewable energy subsidies in the US but they’re holding back widespread backlashShah, Green Chip Stocks, 8-29-12 The Global Green War had started with the US imposing duties on imports of Chinese China perceives incentives for renewable energy as unfair competition which sends them over the edgeAP, 8-21-12 China’s government has ruled that U.S. government support to six American solar Trade blocks trigger trade wars that end in extinction TRADE WARS: BOTH SIDES LOSE When the government of Country "A" puts | |
| 01/14/2013 | States CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Text: The 50 state governments, the District of Colombia, and all relevant territories of the United States should... State incentives for renewables solve as well as the fed Adelman, Associate Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, and Engel, Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, 8 State climate change initiatives that provide direct subsidies or tax incentives are now common. More Cards- | |
| 01/14/2013 | Neolib KTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Postmodernism is the cultural logic of capital – only a macro-theory can come to terms with neoliberal configurations of capital.Angeles philosophy of education chair, 2004 Against Foucault, Lyotard, and others who reject macro-theory, the category B. Reconceptualize the state – the state is not static and fixed – constant opposition allows rampant neoliberalism to continue – we must be open to a more fluid understanding of the state to understand its governmentality.Oksala, University of Helsinki philosophy and politics in feminist theory professor, 2011 Many commentators now see the year 1979 when Foucault delivered his lecture series at¶ C. Disengagement from neoliberalism is the only ethical choice – reject the affirmative to resist neoliberalism and reframe subjectivity.Hamann, St. John’s University philosophy professor, 2009 Foucault explicitly identified critique, not as a transcendental form of judgment that would subsume | |
| 01/14/2013 | T- USFGTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1. Definitions – the "United States Federal Government" is the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.USA.gov, the U.S. government’s official web portal, 9 U.S. Federal Government¶ Official information And, "should" implies a call to actionDictionary.com 3. must; ought (used to indicate duty, propriety, or expediency): You should not do that. Restrictions on energy production are policy barriers.USEA, 2003 Government policy makers should identify barriers to energy resource development and to energy efficiency and Financial incentives are distinct from mandatesYusof et al, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2012 In general, incentives can be defined as mechanism that motivates organisations to become involved 2. Dialogue - Stasis is critical to any kind of meaningful discussion that can test the merits of arguments from both sides WITHOUT exclusion of either side – absent a common starting point, rigorous testing becomes impossible.Shively, former Texas A%26M political science assistant professor, 2000 The requirements given thus far are primarily negative. The ambiguists must say "no 3. Switch-side debate solves critical thinking.Lundberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill communications professor, 2010 The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and 4. Fairness comes before education – agreed fundamental rules are essential to prevent political debates from devolving into irresolvable ideological disputes- their framework guarantees resistance and hostilityPortis, Gunderson and Shively, Texas A%26M political science professors, 2000 By extension, partisan divisions based upon competing constellations of interests, such as class | |
| 01/14/2013 | Coalitions CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Net benefit – coalitions disad A. Link – Debate is a competition – using it for a movement causes backlash which crushes coalitions.Deborah Tannen, Ph.D., Georgetown University professor of linguistics and University Professor, 1998, "The Argument Culture," p. 174 Another scholar who questions the usefulness of opposition as the sole path to truth is B. Impact – Coalition building is the only way to effectuate change – this internal link turns the entirety of the aff.Krishna, University of Hawaii political science professor, 1993 In this regard, Der Derian’s point that the nature of antiwar protest movements has | |
| 01/14/2013 | Policymaking DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Now is a unique moment for discussing climate change – anti-science ideology is on the rise – it is generating skepticism toward global warming that precludes institutional change.Gleick, National Academy of Sciences fellow, 2011 Anti-science ideology isn’t completely new in the U.S. — there Climate denialism maintains white male privilege.Mooney, DeSMOG, 2011 They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up Rejecting denialism is an ethical choice.Hamilton, Center for applied philosophy and public ethics professor, 2009 Public and open deliberation is critical to challenging denialism.Hobson, University of Oxford, and Niemeyer, Australian National University, 1-10-12 Thus, researchers and commentators now have the means to categorise and discuss different forms The topic gives an opportunity to create an academic space for sustainability education – it is try or die aff – education is the only way to cause an institutional shift – they foreclose the opportunity to that education.Segalàsa et al, UNESCO Chair of Sustainability, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 10 There are a considerable number of signs suggesting that our industrialised society might eventually cause | |
| 01/14/2013 | Cyborgs AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: They thing their notion of "cyborgs" is radical but we always already were cyborgs – their alt is modernity.Latour, Sciences Po Paris sociology professor, 1993 The Constitution explained everything, but only by leaving out what was in the middle Evaluate consequences of enactment. | |
| 01/14/2013 | Grid Adv AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: DoE solves gridMessmer, Network World, 1-6-12 The government is trying once again to whip the key players behind the country’s electrical Tons of money and workers solves grid vulnerability Cyber Command leads day-to-day protection for the more than 15, There are checks on infrastructure shutdownHersh, Pulitzer prize winning investigative journalist, 11-1-10 The most common cyber-war scare scenarios involve America’s electrical grid. Even the | |
| 01/14/2013 | Warming Adv AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Intermittency is the Achilles heel of renewable energy.Lutz, PhysOrg, 3-6-12 William F. Pickard introduces the February 2012 special issue of the Proceedings of the Regulations check methane releaseBegos, AP, 7-22-12 Critics of fracking also repeat claims of extreme air pollution threats, even as evidence Prices spikes are non-unique Natural gas prices up – (AC use, a switch away from coal, and lower production rates)Hargreaves, CNN, 7-25-12 Natural gas prices have surged over 70% during the past three months, fueled Warming is inevitable – developing countriesPlumer, Washington Post, 12 Yes, it’s true: Americans are slowly starting to tackle global warming. U | |
| 01/14/2013 | FITS Solvency AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Nimbyism triggers state shift – they will implement restrictive zoning laws.McCasland, University of Illinois College of Law JD candidate, 2012 Wind energy is generally accepted by the public. n185 But many people do not Multiple alt causes to wide scale adoption – local support, permitting, environmental problems.Maxwell, University of California Hastings College of Law JD candidate, 2012 Ultimately, the success of the industry will require comprehensive regulatory action to remove some No solvency – lack of skilled labor constrains growth.Anderson, Windpower Monthly Magazine, 4-1-12 Another issue - for energy utilities and wind developers alike - is to ensure that Solar collapsing now or is inevitable.Blackwell, Globe and Mail, 7-14-12 The sector’s problems extend far beyond Ontario. Globally, the solar power industry is | |
| 01/14/2013 | Nuclear Power Loan Guarantees Solvency AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Loan guarantees add value to worthless projects Kreutzer, Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation, 7-12-12 Loan Guarantees Misallocate Capital¶ The Antelope Valley Solar Ranch (AVSR), now owned Solvency double bind – either loan guarantees are necessary in which case failure is inevitable or they aren’t and solvency is inevitable Kreutzer, Research Fellow in Energy Economics and Climate Change at The Heritage Foundation, 7-12-12 Section 1705 Recipients¶ The majority of the Section 1705 loans fall into two categories No solvency – problems building new power plants create a chilling effect AP, 7-10-12 ATLANTA (AP) — America’s first new nuclear plants in more than a decade Public support for nuclear power is low – multiple hurdles, each of which independently prevent solvency. Moniz, MIT Energy Initiative director, 2011 Still, nuclear power faces a number of challenges in terms of safety, construction Nuclear power can’t compete – even with subsidies de Rugy, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University, 12 When Barack Obama was just a baby, nuclear energy was touted as the technology | |
| 01/14/2013 | Prolif Adv AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: US is hypocritical – undermines nonprolif leadership Wellen, editor of the Foreign Policy in Focus blog, 12 The West insists on nuclear nonproliferation but refuses to reciprocate with meaningful disarmament.¶ When Prolif isn’t destabilizing – they won’t be used and their ev is hype Farley, assistant professor at the Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky, 11-16-11 The problem with nukes is that there are strong material and normative pressures against their
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| 01/14/2013 | Econ Adv AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Major spikes not coming – won’t affect producers Menza, CNBC, 8-22-12 The U.S. should continue to have a cheap energy advantage compared to Econ decline doesn’t cause war – the recent recession proves. When the global financial crisis struck roughly a year ago, the blogosphere was ablaze | |
| 01/14/2013 | T- ProcurementTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Interpretation – Government purchases may be an incentive but they aren’t FINANCIAL incentives.Sam Schoofs, Calvin College, 2004, 2004, Washington Internships for Students of Engineering Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 6 August 2004 A federal Renewable Portfolio Standard: Policy Analysis and Proposal, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2004/WISE2004-SamSchoofsFinalPaper.pdf, accessed 9-20-12, CMM)
D. Renewable Energy Policy Overview¶ There are two main categories of renewable energy AND financial incentives 12. Seven states currently have equipment certification programs in place B. Violation – the plan is procurement – that’s a nonfinancial incentiveC. Standards –1. Limits – expanding the topic outside of financial incentives makes it limitless Czinkota et al, Georgetown University McDonough school of business professor, 2009 Michael, Ilkka A. Ronkainen, Georgetown University McDonough school of business professor , and Michael H. Moffett, Thunderbird school of global management continental grain professorship, “Fundamentals of International Business” http:~/~/books.google.com/books?id=_X-l25srIYkCandq=69#v=snippetandq=69andf=com/books?id=_X-l25srIYkCandq=69#v=snippetandq=69andf=false(%%), google books, p.69, accessed 6-25-12, TAP
Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate foreign investments are mainly of three types: fiscal AND import quotas, and local content requirements, and investments in infrastructure facilities. | |
| 01/14/2013 | Debt Ceiling DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Obama will dominate debt ceiling negotiations now—fiscal cliff fights prove his capital is criticalJudis, The New Republic, 1-3-13 (John, “Obama Wasn't Rolled. He Won!,” www.tnr.com/blog/plank/111573/obama-didnt-get-rolled-the-fiscal-cliff-in-fact-he-won, accessed 1-4-12, CMM)
Secondly, Obama scored a major political triumph by getting Republicans to agree to raise AND Democrats make the kind of public fuss that they did over fiscal cliff.
B. Energy debates drain capitalIzadi, National Journal, 12 (Elahe, 8-29-12, "Former Sen. Trent Lott, Ex-Rep. Jim Davis Bemoan Partisanship on Energy Issues" http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/former-members-bemoan-partisanship-on-energy-issues-20120829, accessed 11-8-12, CMM)
In a climate where everything from transportation issues to the farm bill have gotten caught AND Congress is gridlocked because of who is there.… The middle is gone.”
C. Default causes a recessionGoldfarb, Washington Post, 1-1-13 (Zachary, “‘Fiscal cliff’ deal does little to tame threats from debt ceiling, high unemployment rates,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/fiscal-cliff/fiscal-cliff-deal-does-little-to-tame-threats-from-debt-ceiling-high-unemployment-rates/2013/01/01/8e4c14aa-5393-11e2-bf3e-76c0a789346f_story.html, accessed 1-2-13, CMM)
Leaving the fate of the debt ceiling up in the air will cause anxiety among AND year, and not below 6 percent until at least 2016 or later.
D. New collapse triggers total collapse – the economy is structurally weak.Isidore, CNN Money, 11 (Chris, 8/10/2011, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse,” http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/10/news/economy/double_dip_recession_economy/index.htm, accessed 1-6-12, CMM)
And while economists disagree on just how likely the U.S. economy is AND this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it.
E. Economic collapse leads to global war.Lind, New America Foundation Economic Growth Program Policy Director, 5/11/2010 Michael, "Will the great recession lead to World War IV?," http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/05/11/great_recession_world_war_iv
If history is any guide, an era of global economic stagnation will help the AND Eurasia, Eastasia and Oceania in 1984 is all too easy to imagine.
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| 01/14/2013 | Guidance Doc CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Guidance docs solve and don’t link to politics.Raso, Yale Law School JD candidate and Stanford University political science PHD, 2010 Connor, has since graduated from both institutions in the spring of 2010, 119 Yale L.J. 782, January 2010, “Note: Strategic or Sincere? Analyzing Agency Use of Guidance Documents” Lexis, accessed 9-4-12, TAP
Scholars and policymakers alike have devoted increasing attention to a seemingly obscure question: do AND practice, do agencies frequently use guidance documents to implement important policy decisions? | |
| 01/14/2013 | IAEA DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Uniqueness - The IAEA is withstanding budget pressure now but its fragile.Pomper , senior research associate @ James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, and Dover, research assistant @ CNS, September, 2011 World Politics Review ( Michelle and Miles, “The IAEA's Political Balancing Act,” http://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/print/10145, accessed 10-23-12, CMM)
Zero Real Growth. Although the IAEA has been charged with increased responsibilities in safety AND the 2013 budget is again being held to a zero-growth policy. B. Link – distributed SMRs undermine the IAEA budgetLyman, Senior Scientist, Global Security Program Union of Concerned Scientists, 11 (Edwin, Before the Energy and Water Development Subcommittee Committee on Appropriations, U.S. Senate, 7-14-11, “An Examination of the Safety and Economics of Light Water Small Modular Reactors”, http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/lyman-appropriations-subcom-7-14-11.pdf, accessed 9-26-12, CMM)
The distributed deployment of small reactors would also put great strains on existing licensing and AND of SMRs around the world would be difficult, if feasible at all. C. Internal Link – the safeguard budget of the IAEA prevents nuclear terrorismAllison, Director of Center for Science and International Affairs @ Harvard, and Sreenivasan et al, former ambassador of India, 8 (“Reinforcing the Global Nuclear Order for Peace and Prosperity - The Role of the IAEA to 2020 and Beyond,”- Report prepared by an independent Commission at the request of the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/pdf/2020report0508.pdf, accessed 10-23-12, CMM)
Seen against the immense consequences for world¶ security, global investment in the crucial AND projects of interest to the donor, leaving¶ other urgent priorities unfunded. D. Impact - nuclear terrorism causes extinctionAyson, Henry Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, 10 Robert, The Washington Quarterly, “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism”, Volume 33, Issue 7, accessed 3-6-11, ZQC
A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by AND for the terrorists. This might not help the chances of nuclear restraint. | |
| 02/09/2013 | Politics- ImmigrationTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NC-Uniqueness – there’s momentum for immigration reform nowMali, The Hill, 2-3-13 (Meghashyam, “Reid: Immigration bill will pass Senate,” http://thehill.com/video/senate/280739-reid-vows-immigration-reform-will-pass-senate, accessed 2-4-13, CMM)
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Sunday said that immigration AND the measure unless they are assured that border security will be dealt with. Plan unpopular Political capital necessary for deal-making and arm twisting – that’s key to passage Shifter, Inter-American Dialogue, 12 (Michael, 12-27-12, “Will Obama Kick the Can Down the Road?,” http://www.thedialogue.org/page.cfm?pageID=32andpubID=3186, accessed 2-7-13, CMM)
Not surprisingly, Obama has been explicit that reforming the US’s shameful and broken immigration AND some arms, even in his own party. Resistance will not disappear.
Immigration reform is key to the agriculture industry- and that’s key to the entire economyFitz, Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, 12 (Marshall, 11-14-12, “Time to Legalize Our 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants,” http:~/~/www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pdf(%%), accessed: 2-6-13, LLL)
Nowhere is the tension between immigrant AND Georgia,66 Alabama,67 Arizona,68 and others have pursued. Economic collapse leads to global war.Lind, New America Foundation Economic Growth Program Policy Director, 5/11/2010 Michael, "Will the great recession lead to World War IV?," http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/05/11/great_recession_world_war_iv
If history is any guide, an era of global economic stagnation will help the AND Eurasia, Eastasia and Oceania in 1984 is all too easy to imagine.
1NR- Framing issue – political capital can overcome non-uniques – the plan drains it and destroys agenda prioritizationCillizza and Blake, Washington Post, 1-21-13 (Chris and Aaron, “President Obama’s second term starts today. It ends sooner than you think.,” http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/01/21/president-obama-second-term-starts-today-it-ends-in-sooner-than-you-think/, accessed 1-24-13, CMM)
At the moment, President Obama is at the height of his political influence. AND of what he hopes will round out his presidency in this second term. Will pass- PC KeyBenen, MSNBC, The Maddow Blog, 2-6-13 (Steve, “Defining the 'extremes' in the immigration debate,” http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/02/06/16868677-defining-the-extremes-in-the-immigration-debate, accessed 2-7-13, CMM)
At the surface, there's ample reason for optimism on comprehensive immigration reform. President AND the common ground to take care of this issue once and for all." Will pass – political capital is keyWeigant, Huff Post, 1-23-13 (Chris, “Handicapping Obama's Second Term Agenda,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/obama-second-term_b_2537802.html, accessed 1-24-13, CMM)
The second big agenda item is immigration reform. President Obama holds virtually all the AND of Obama's main agenda items. We'll just have to wait and see. | |
| 02/09/2013 | Politics Links- IFRsTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NC-IFRs trigger a huge backlash – prolif, costs, and fossil fuel industry backlashElias, Syndicated Political Columnist, 8 (Thomas, "An energy solution that’s worth another look", San Gabriel Valley Tribune, October 3 2008, Lexis, accessed 11-4-12, CMM)
THERE may be a workable way to solve most of And the IFR was a threat," he said in a remarkable 2001 essay that can be accessed at http://www.nationalcenter.org/NPA378.html .
1NR-Obama gets pulled in Izadi, National Journal, 12 (Elahe, 8-29-12, "Former Sen. Trent Lott, Ex-Rep. Jim Davis Bemoan Partisanship on Energy Issues" http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-election/former-members-bemoan-partisanship-on-energy-issues-20120829, accessed 11-8-12, CMM)
In a climate where everything from transportation issues to the farm bill have gotten caught AND Congress is gridlocked because of who is there.… The middle is gone.”
Reprocessing unpopular.Russell, Roll Call, 2-5-13 Pam Radtke, “Budget Cutters Eye Nuclear Reprocessing Plant” http:~/~/www.rollcall.com/news/budget_cutters_eye_nuclear_reprocessing_plant-222173-1.html?zkPrintable=html?zkPrintable=true(%%), accessed 2-8-13, TAP
Given the threat of sequester, supporters of a $4.8 billion mixed AND month unless Congress acts to postpone them or enact an alternative austerity plan.
There’s no constituency for nuclear – it doesn’t create enough jobs.Tucker, editor-at-large at Nuclear Townhall, 8-16-12 (William, “WILLIAM TUCKER: Nuclear’s Problem — Too Much Energy, Not Enough Jobs,” http://www.nucleartownhall.com/blog/william-tucker-nuclear%E2%80%99s-problem-%E2%80%94-too-much-energy-not-enough-jobs/, accessed 8-17-12, CMM)
Mitt Romney has kicked off his campaign to win votes in the Upper Midwest Industrial AND employment that builds political constituencies. It is only good at producing energy.
No energy is safe – incentives get tied to Solyndra controversy.Harder, National Journal, 2011 Amy, 9-26-11, “What Role Should Government Play in Energy Production?” http:~/~/energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/09/what-role-should-government-pl.php#170907url:http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2011/09/what-role-should-government-pl.php#170907(%%), accessed 10-26-12, TAP
The failure of solar manufacturer Solyndra And , and tax breaks to oil firms.
Misperception of not CLEARLY being tied to solving revenue problems triggers controversy.Macauley, Resources for the Future Vice President for Research and Senior Fellow, 1-6-12 Molly, “It's Economics” http:~/~/energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/01/php(%%), accessed 10-26-12, TAP
Congressional action on energy, climate, or both seems unlikely unless a clear link AND fiscal problems, it is very hard to see them happening this year.
Political capital is necessary to legislative success. Marshall, Miami University political science associate professor, and Prins, University of Tennessee Knoxville political science associate professor, 2011 Bryan and Brandon, 9-2011, Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol 41 Issue 3, “Power or Posturing? Policy Availability and Congressional Influence on U.S. Presidential Decisions to Use Force” Wiley-Blackwell, p.525-6, accessed 7-30-11, TAP
Based on this line of argument, our policy availability theory predicts that the president's AND use force may influence their ability to successfully promote their other policy objectives. | |
| 02/09/2013 | IFRs Solvency AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1. IFRs can’t compete and current light-water reactors solve any benefitsLovins, Rocky Mountain Institute chairman and chief scientist, 9 Amory, 3-21-9, ““New” nuclear reactors, same old story” http:~/~/www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory(%%), accessed 10-14-12, TAP
The IFR—a pool-type, liquid-sodium-cooled fast- AND offering no advantage over LWRs in proliferation resistance, cost, or environment. 2. All empirics go our way – their authors exaggerate benefits and underestimate costs.Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute chairman and chief scientist, 9 Amory, 3-21-9, ““New” nuclear reactors, same old story” http:~/~/www.rmi.org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_org/Knowledge-Center/Library/2009-07_NuclearSameOldStory(%%), accessed 10-14-12, TAP
No new kind of reactor is likely to be much, if at all, AND countervailing disadvantages and costs that advocates assume away, contrary to all experience. 3. No solvency – costs and delayWauchpoe, Independent Australian, 7-5-12 Noel, spokesperson for Women’s Electoral Lobby on nuclear issues, IA = progressive journal focusing on politics, democracy, the environment, Australian history and Australian identity “In dispraise of Integral Fast Nuclear Reactors” http:~/~/www.independentaustralia.net/2012/environment/in-dispraise-of-integral-fast-nuclear-reactors/http://www.independentaustralia.net/2012/environment/in-dispraise-of-integral-fast-nuclear-reactors/(%%), accessed 10-14-12, TAP
First of all, I always think “follow the money”. Because of various AND reactor is costing 1,000 times more than conventional reactors to run. | |
| 02/09/2013 | Russia DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: A. Uniqueness –Russian natural gas revenue is reboundingSeeking Alpha, 12-12-12 ("Why Gazprom is a Steal," seekingalpha.com/article/1059311-why-gazprom-is-a-steal, accessed 1-19-13, CMM)
Harry Beck wrote a good article a few months ago explaining why Gazprom was and AND Bank estimates, and this is of course beneficial to its largest enterprise.
B. Link – IFRs undermine Russian prices.Blees et al, Science Council for Global Initiatives, 11 (Tom, Yoon Chang2, Robert Serafin3, Jerry Peterson4, Joe Shuster1, Charles Archambeau5, Randolph Ware3, 6, Tom Wigley3,7, Barry W. Brook7, , 2Argonne National Laboratory, 3National Center for Atmospheric Research, 4University of Colorado, 5Technology Research Associates, 6Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, 7(climate professor) University of Adelaide, “Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III),” 2/24/11, http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change/, accessed 1-20-13, CMM)
Nuclear power is sometimes criticized for being poor at load-following—the ability AND its instability, but a valuable commodity in several industrial processes xxi.
C. Impact- that collapses Russia’s economyTUCKER, Assistant Director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, 1-9-13 (Aviezer, “The New Power Map,” http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138597/aviezer-tucker/the-new-power-map?page=show, accessed 1-13-13, CMM)
Until recently, Gazprom was in denial about the shale gas revolution, claiming that AND , it sells gas in Europe at about a 66 percent profit margin.) D. Russian decline goes nuclearFilger, founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com, 9 (Sheldon, 5-10-09, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html, accessed 5-9-11, CMM)
In Russia, historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree AND the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence. | |
| 02/09/2013 | Solvency Answers v Trinity MRTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: It’s necessary to learn the language of the state- key to have lasting societal changeSullivan, the New Republic – editor, 1995 (Andrew, Virtually Normal, pg. 91-93)
Moreover, mere cultural redeployment in a free society is always subject to a cultural AND or projects for turning the cage into something more like a human home.”
Intellectual change has little effect on consumption patterns – concrete actions are key.Lewis, George Washington University geography and regional science professor, 1992 Martin, “Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism” http:~/~/books.google.com/books?id=cMThEEHW2JYCandprintsec=frontcover#v=onepageandqandf=com/books?id=cMThEEHW2JYCandprintsec=frontcover#v=onepageandqandf=false(%%), p.11-2, accessed 7-10-12, TAP
Many eco-radicals hope that a massive ideological campaign can transform popular perceptions, AND political plans must be devised if those policies are ever to be realized.
Doublebind- Either they need a clear roadmap that proposes a gradual withdraw or their movement creates radical transitions wars that replace capitalism anywayLee Harris, Atlanta Writer, 2002, Two, (Policy Review, December, p3(13) The intellectual origins of America-Bashing)
This is the immiserization thesis of Marx. And it is central to revolutionary Marxism AND the social order and all socialist schemes would be reduced to pipe dreams.
Their movement results in totalitarianism and extinctionRockwell, president of von Mises Institute, ‘8 Llewllyn Rockwell 5/17/08; Rockwell is the president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute; “Everything You Love You Owe to Capitalism” http:~/~/mises.org/story/2982url:http://mises.org/story/2982
Whatever the specifics of the case in question, socialism always means overriding the free AND said for malaria and typhoid and dropping atom bombs on millions of innocents.
Guided capitalism solvesLewis, George Washington University geography and regional science professor, 1992 Martin, “Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism” http:~/~/books.google.com/books?id=cMThEEHW2JYCandprintsec=frontcover#v=onepageandqandf=com/books?id=cMThEEHW2JYCandprintsec=frontcover#v=onepageandqandf=false(%%), p.20, accessed 7-10-12, TAP
A healthy society, I would argue, is one characterized by simultaneous increases in AND rather than strangle the rather truculent capitalist goose that lays the golden eggs.
Corporations thwart your movementFarber, City University of New York Brooklyn College political science professor, 9-13-12 Samuel, “Occupy Wall Street and the Art of Demanding” http:~/~/truth-out.org/opinion/item/11507-org/opinion/item/11507-occupy-wall-street-and-the-art-of-demanding(%%), accessed 9-15-12, TAP
Of all the internal controversies Occupy generated, the one over whether the movement should AND on the state but because they were much stronger than their American counterparts.
Vagueness of the aff makes success impossibleFarber, City University of New York Brooklyn College political science professor, 9-13-12 Samuel, “Occupy Wall Street and the Art of Demanding” http:~/~/truth-out.org/opinion/item/11507-org/opinion/item/11507-occupy-wall-street-and-the-art-of-demanding(%%), accessed 9-15-12, TAP
The OWS reluctance to formulate demands might have been beneficial initially in that it might AND where they are – to point B – where they want to be.
They don’t solve warming – tech is key.Atkisson, President and CEO of environmental sustainability group, ‘1 (Alan, The Atkisson Group, international sustainability group that advises governments and corporations, “Sustainability is Dead – Long Live Sustainability,” 10-18-01, http:~/~/www.rrcap.unep.org/uneptg06/course/Robert/pdf(%%), accessed 9-10-10) PM
Our economies and technologies are changing certain basic structures of planetary life, such as AND with relatively minor risks to the greater whole associated with their inevitable collapse.
Cap doesn’t cause warsJoshua Goldstein, American University International Relations Professor, 2001, “War and Gender: How Gender Shapes the War System and Vice Versa,” p.411-412
I began this book hoping to contribute in some way to a deeper understanding of AND on injustice as the main cause of war seems to be empirically inadequate.
Renewables are intermittentGoffman, PhD and CSA, 08 (Ethan, December 2008, “Why Not the Sun? Advantages of and Problems with Solar Energy,” ProQuest, http:~/~/www.csa.com/discoveryguides/solar/pdf(%%), accessed: 10-18-12, LLL)
A major disadvantage of both wafer-based and thin film solar energy is intermittency AND , such as solar and wind, are well suited to the task.
Cap is key to the environment –turns structural violenceNorberg, senior fellow at CATO institute 03 (Johan, Senior Fellow at Cato Institute, In Defense of Global Capitalism, pg 224)
Although multinational corporations and free trade are proving good for development and human rights in AND exhaust emission control, for example—and begin to rectify past mistakes.
Debate space not key.Giroux, Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies at McMaster University, 10 (Is there a role for Critical Pedagogy in Language/Culture Studies? An interview with Henry A. Giroux, Version of record first published: 17 Dec 2010, interviewed by Manuela Guilherme, Centro de Estudos Sociais Universidade de Coimbra, http:~/~/henryagiroux.com/htm(%%), accessed 9.25.12 JDK)
MG: One of your most radical statements is that every educational act is political AND which they live but also being able to assume the mantle of governance.
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| 02/23/2013 | Districts- Immigration DA v OCS AffTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Immigration reform will pass nowO’Reilly, Fox News Latino, 2-20-13 (Andrew, “With Tea Party Decline, Immigration Battle Shifts Focus,” http:~/~/latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/02/20/with-tea-party-decline-immigration-battle-shifts-focus/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/02/20/with-tea-party-decline-immigration-battle-shifts-focus/(%%), accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
The times are certainly changing for hard-line anti-immigration activists.¶ ¶ AND they know that this issue will affect the party in the long run.” Plan BREAKS bipartisanship – committees and fights over the middle groundHowell, EandE News, ‘12 (Katie, “Committees prep their agendas — but will anything really get done?,” 1-17-12, http:~/~/www.governorswindenergycoalition.org/?p=896url:http://www.governorswindenergycoalition.org/?p=896(%%), accessed 1-6-13) PM
Despite an impressive track record at clearing energy and public lands measures, the Senate AND environmentalists and many Democrats say it already infringes on too many sensitive areas.
If negotiations fall through, Obama will propose his own billKrauthammer, National Post, 2-22-13 (Charles, “Charles Krauthammer: Enforcement is the key to making U.S. immigration plans work,” http:~/~/fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/22/charles-krauthammer-enforcement-is-the-key-to-making-u-s-immigration-plans-work/http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/22/charles-krauthammer-enforcement-is-the-key-to-making-u-s-immigration-plans-work/(%%), accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
President Obama suggested he would hold off introducing his own immigration bill as long as AND chief architect of the Senate bill, called Obama’s alternative dead on arrival. That collapses reform effortsKurtz, The Daily Beast and Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief, 1-29-13 (Howard, “President Obama Embraces the Senate’s Bipartisan Immigration Plan,” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/29/president-obama-embraces-the-senate-s-bipartisan-immigration-plan.html, accessed 2-4-13, CMM)
In a bit of deft maneuvering, the AND effort and complicated the political salesmanship.
Immigration reform is key to the agriculture industry- and that’s key to the entire economyFitz, Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, 12 (Marshall, 11-14-12, “Time to Legalize Our 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants,” http:~/~/www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pdf(%%), accessed: 2-6-13, LLL)
Nowhere is the tension between immigrant AND Georgia,66 Alabama,67 Arizona,68 and others have pursued.
Ag collapse causes extinctionLugar, Senate foreign relations committee former member, 2000 Richard, former senator from Indiana, “Calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability” http:~/~/www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/html(%%), accessed 1-17-13, TAP
In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning AND in the survival of billions of people and the health of our planet.
1NR CARDS Will pass now but a delay means Obama inserts his own billJoseph, The Hill, 2-21-13 (Cameron, “More than half of Congress has never debated immigration reform,” http:~/~/thehill.com/homenews/senate/284131-com/homenews/senate/284131-more-than-half-of-congress-has-never-debated-immigration-reform||style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal", accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
Obama has warned that if Congress doesn’t move fast enough on legislation, he’ll seek AND , and with that comes a different kind of space for policy development.”¶
Senate bill will pass- there’s a renewed sense of urgency after the leakStar-Ledger Editorial Board, 2-22-13 (“A strategic leak keeps immigration reform on track: Editorial,” http:~/~/blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2013/02/a_strategic_leak_keeps_html||style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal", accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
President Obama hasn’t laid out an official proposal to reform immigration. He hasn’t had AND types ready to sandbag any Republican who throws in with Democrats on reform.
Framing issue – some groups may like the plan but others don’t – link outweighs the turn.Whitman, CASEnergy Co-Chair, Former EPA Administrator and New Jersey Governor, 2012 Christine, 8-13-12, “Nuclear Power Garners Bipartisan Support” http:~/~/energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php?rss=1andutm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=feedandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+njgroup-energy+%28Energy+%26+Environment+Experts~-~-Q+with+Answer+Previews%29#2237728url:http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php?rss=1andutm_source=feedburnerandutm_medium=feedandutm_campaign=Feed%3A+njgroup-energy+%28Energy+%26+Environment+Experts~-~-Q+with+Answer+Previews%29#2237728||style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal", accessed 10-26-12, TAP
It’s clear from the debate around the merits and drawbacks of various electricity and fuel AND pockets of dissent. This makes crafting universally accepted energy policy particularly challenging. Plan is super divisiveMorgan, Tampa Bay Times, ‘11 (Curtis, Lesley Clark, “A year after Deepwater Horizon disaster, opposition to oil drilling fades,” 4-18-11, http:~/~/www.tampabay.com/news/environment/a-year-after-deepwater-horizon-disaster-opposition-to-oil-drilling-fades/1164429url:http://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/a-year-after-deepwater-horizon-disaster-opposition-to-oil-drilling-fades/1164429||style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal", accessed 1-6-13) PM
In Washington, the Obama administration has adopted what Interior Secretary Salazar called a " AND . We don't want to see it as a possibility at all.''
EVEN IF some people like the plan, it doesn’t overwhelm oppositionHarder, EandE Reporter at the National Journal, 8-13-12 (Amy, “Finding the Sweet Spot: Bipartisan Energy and Environment Policies,” 8-13-12, http:~/~/energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/finding-the-sweet-spot-biparti.php?comments=expandall#php?comments=expandall#comments||style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal", accessed 1-6-13) PM
Which energy and environment policies garner bipartisan support? And what's holding Washington back from AND divisive issues, such as climate change and offshore oil and gas drilling? AT: Link Turn – Olive BranchTheir olive branch card is too old – it’s from 2010, which is before the BP oil spill – that changed the game – the plan is ridiculously partisanHobson, Environment and Energy Daily, 12 Margaret, Writer for EandE, the leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy, 4-18-12, EE News, "Obama's development plans gain little political traction in years since Gulf spill", www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/04/18/1url:http://www.eenews.net/public/energywire/2012/04/18/1||style="FONT-WEIGHT: normal", accessed 1-18-13, AFB
President Obama is embracing the offshore oil and gas development policies he proposed in early AND . But those measures have been thwarted by the Democrat-controlled Senate.
Ext Ag Impact- Brink
Immigration reform key to ag- the industry is on the brink Serrano, Time, 12 (Alfonso, “Bitter Harvest: U.S. Farmers Blame Billion-Dollar Losses on Immigration Laws,” http:~/~/business.time.com/2012/09/21/bitter-harvest-u-s-farmers-blame-billion-dollar-losses-on-immigration-laws/http://business.time.com/2012/09/21/bitter-harvest-u-s-farmers-blame-billion-dollar-losses-on-immigration-laws/(%%), accessed: 2-7-13, LLL)
Ralph and Cheryl Broetje rely on roughly 1,000 seasonal workers every year to AND balance of payments, we need to support a labor force for agriculture.” Ext Ag Impact- Ag SpillsoverAg industry spills over to all levels of the economyHall, PhD in Political Economy, 10 (Shane, 1-4-10, “The Effect of Agriculture Industry on the Economy,” http://www.ehow.com/facts_5829019_effect-agriculture-industry-economy.html, accessed: 2-8-13, LLL)
In 1789, when the U.S. was a young nation, 90 AND fewer resources. These advances enable farmers to grow more crops per acre.
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| 02/23/2013 | OCS CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: The United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions in the Atlantic and Pacific regions in the United States for conventional gas production and provide necessary leases for conventional natural gas production.The CP solves better than the affEIA ‘9 (Energy Information Administration, “Impact of Limitations on Access to Oil and Natural Gas Resources in the Federal Outer Continental Shelf,” 2009, http:~/~/www.eia.gov/oiaf/aeo/otheranalysis/aeo_2009analysispapers/html(%%), accessed 10-26-12) PM
Estimates from the MMS of undiscovered resources in the OCS are the starting point for AND the absence of previous exploration and development activity and modern seismic survey data. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Navy DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Naval readiness is strong now – that deters conflictKatz, retired vice admiral, 1-3-13 (Doublas, former commander of the Fifth Fleet, "A Strong Navy," 1-3-13, thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/economy-a-budget/275395-a-strong-navy, accessed 2-21-13) PM
On the other hand, even with the increasingly austere fiscal climate unfolding, the AND to crises, to include humanitarian, no matter where they flare up. Plan removes restrictions on the Gulf – that undermines naval effectivenessSNS ‘7 (States News Service, “BOYD LEADS CHARGE TO DEFEAT OFFSHORE DRILLING AMENDMENT IN COMMITTEE,” 6-7-7, accessed 2-21-13, Lexis) PM
Congressman Allen Boyd (D-North Florida) today led the charge in the AND I will continue to work in Congress to keep this ban in place."
Strong navy de-escalates all conflict and deters great power warRoughead, Admiral, US Navy, Chief of Naval Operations, ‘7 (Gary, James Conway, General, US Marine Corps, and Thad Allen, Admiral, US Coast Guard, "A Cooperative Strategy for 21st Century Seapower," October 2007, www.navy.mil/maritime/Maritimestrategy.pdf, accessed 2-21-13) PM
This strategy reaffirms the use of seapower to influence actions and activities at sea and AND ability to retaliate against aggressors conventionally, unconventionally, and with nuclear forces. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Gas OCS Solvency AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Too much uncertainty with gas-only leases means no one will investMaritime Executive, 08 (4-2-08, “Gas-Only Drilling in Offshore Moratorium Areas Suggested,” http:~/~/www.maritime-executive.com/article/2005-10-20gas-com/article/2005-10-20gas-only-drilling-in-offshore-moratori(%%), accessed: 2-16-13, LLL)
However, the American Petroleum Institute (API), in comments this week to MMS AND , only to be forced to abandon the resource, stranding substantial investments."
OCS risks huge environmental damage – chemical wasteNealon, Daily Press (VA), 10 (Cory, 5-17-10, “Could offshore drilling in Virginia dredge up toxic danger?,” http://www.dailypress.com/news/virginia/dp-nws-offshore-conflicts-20100516,0,590048,full.story, accessed 2-3-13, CMM)
Virginia's offshore drilling plan is filled with unknowns.¶ Among them: how much oil AND how much the current may have moved the chemical weapons, he said.
Thousands of permits have been givenSouthern Environmental Law Center, 08 (Southern Environmental Law Center, Fall 2008, “Offshore Drilling in the South Atlantic: Too Little, Too Late,” http:~/~/www.southernenvironment.org/uploads/fck/file/offshore_drilling/selc%20position%20paper%20on%20offshore%20drilling.pdf(%%), access date: 9-14-12, LLL)
Third, oil and gas companies, which already have access to substantial oil and AND supplies and the environmental impacts of exploration and production activities in these areas.
Little gas in the OCSSouthern Environmental Law Center, 08 (Southern Environmental Law Center, Fall 2008, “Offshore Drilling in the South Atlantic: Too Little, Too Late,” http:~/~/www.southernenvironment.org/uploads/fck/file/offshore_drilling/selc%20position%20paper%20on%20offshore%20drilling.pdf(%%), access date: 9-14-12, LLL)
First, offshore drilling off the coast of the Southeast will not yield enough oil AND does not allow for the recovery of natural gas from these deposits.14
Infrastructure problems blocks solvencyGeman, 05 (Ben, 9-15-05, “MMS chief questions 'gas only' leasing, praises gulf spill prevention,” Greenwire, accessed: 2-16-13, LLL)
The head of the Minerals Management Service said yesterday she is skeptical about the feasibility AND percent of daily gulf gas production remains shut-in, MMS said.
Price spikes aren’t comingSkutnik, Assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Tennessee, 8-31-12 (Steve, “Wishful thinking on natural gas prices,” 8-31-12, http:~/~/neutroneconomy.blogspot.com/2012/08/html(%%), accessed 9-10-12) PM ¶ Rod Adams of Atomic Insights has posted a string of arguments in the general AND do little to see to it that new nuclear plants actually get built.¶ And even if they do, they’ll be minorSkutnik, Assistant professor of nuclear engineering at Tennessee, 9-4-12 (Steve, “Does declining gas exploration indicate a price "explosion" or just a new equilibrium?” 9-4-12, http:~/~/theenergycollective.com/skutnik/108906/com/skutnik/108906/does-declining-gas-exploration-indicate-price-explosion-or-just-new-equilibrium(%%) , accessed 9-10-12) PM
In fact, a very interesting thing appears to be happening right now with shale AND instead appears to be happening is the search for a new price equilibrium. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Gas OCS Gulf Adv AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Manufacturing down now – new indicatorMantell, MarketWatch, 2-21-13 (Ruth, “Weakening new orders hit manufacturing,” http://articles.marketwatch.com/2013-02-21/economy/37210903_1_new-orders-future-general-activity-new-orders-index, accessed 2-22-13, CMM)
Weakening new orders hit manufacturing activity in February, according to two gauges released Thursday AND of manufacturing,” said Steven Ricchiuto, chief economist at Mizuho Securities USA.
Manufacturing down – skills shortageSirkin, Bloomberg, 1-14-13 (Harold, “The Coming Shortage of Skilled Manufacturing Workers,” http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-01-14/the-coming-shortage-of-skilled-manufacturing-workers, accessed 1-24-13, CMM)
As many as 600,000 U.S. manufacturing jobs remained vacant across AND the process. Putting it on the back burner can jeopardize the future.
Manufacturing not key to the economySpicer, Reuters, 9-4-12 (Jonathan, “Manufacturing another headache for U.S. economy,” http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/04/us-usa-economy-manufacturing-idUSBRE8830MA20120904, accessed 9-6-12, CMM)
Manufacturing in the United States shrank at its sharpest clip in more than three years AND add jobs more than three years after the recession was formally declared over.
Future job growth is entirely speculative – oil and gas production wouldn’t increase jobs in a normal economyLevi, senior fellow for energy and the environment at the Council on Foreign Relations, 12 (Michael, director of its Program on Energy Security and Climate Change, July/August, “Think Again: The American Energy Boom,” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/06/18/think_again_the_american_energy_boom?page=full, accessed 6-18-12, CMM)
"The U.S. Energy Boom Will Create Millions of New Jobs."¶ AND way out of America's job crisis. The numbers just don't add up.
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| 02/23/2013 | Gas OCS Postal Service Adv AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Plan not insufficient – massive legislative reforms – budgeting, service, organizational, market – key to avert postal fiscal cliffGeddes, Cornell University Department of Policy Analysis and Management professor andAEI visiting scholar, 1-31-13 R. Richard, AEI, “Save the Postal Service from collapse”, http:~/~/www.aei.org/article/economics/save-the-postal-service-from-collapse/http://www.aei.org/article/economics/save-the-postal-service-from-collapse/(%%), accessed 2-4-13, AFB
Without major legislative reform, the U.S. Postal AND bailout. But Congress must act to allow that to happen.
No impact- bio-weapons to difficult to build and disperse- history proves- AND- even if they could be effective the perceived barriers doom motivation Stratfor, 12-21-2007, "Bioterrorism: Sudden Death Overtime?," http:~/~/www.stratfor.com/analysis/bioterrorism_sudden_death_com/analysis/bioterrorism_sudden_death_overtime
First, it must be recognized that during the past several decades of the modern AND weapons have not been executed: The cost is higher than the benefit. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Gas OCS Artic Leadership AnswersTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1. No Arctic conflict over resources – disputes are overplayed and negotiations solve.Brigham, distinguished professor of geography and Arctic policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 10 (Lawson, Sept/Oct, “Think Again: The Arctic,” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/think_again_the_arctic?page=full, accessed 11-4-12, CMM)
Maybe not, but many countries are looking at the Arctic today with fresh eyes AND borders and oil fields today are in regions that are badly destabilized already.
Natural gas not key – oil solves – all their cards prove. *2. International organizations solve.Brigham, distinguished professor of geography and Arctic policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, 10 (Lawson, Sept/Oct, “Think Again: The Arctic,” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/08/16/think_again_the_arctic?page=full, accessed 11-4-12, CMM)
It's highly unlikely, however, that the Arctic countries would ever agree to the AND binding agreement among its members, on search and rescue in the region. 3. No incentive for war – Arctic resources are too difficult to getEremenko, Moscow-based foreign correspondent for The Canadian, 3-26-2009 Alexey, The Canadian, "Russian insights: The Arctic Race," http:~/~/www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2009/03/26/03115.html(%%)
The problems begin with the main prize itself, which is very much hypothetical. AND wickedly expensive – which means there may be no profit in that oil. | |
| 02/23/2013 | T - Incentives vs Georgetown EUTournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: A. Interpretation – Government purchases may be an incentive but they aren’t FINANCIAL incentives.Sam Schoofs, Calvin College, 2004, 2004, Washington Internships for Students of Engineering Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 6 August 2004 A federal Renewable Portfolio Standard: Policy Analysis and Proposal, http://www.wise-intern.org/journal/2004/WISE2004-SamSchoofsFinalPaper.pdf, accessed 9-20-12, CMM)
D. Renewable Energy Policy Overview¶ There are two main categories of renewable energy AND financial incentives 12. Seven states currently have equipment certification programs in place B. Violation – the plan is procurement – that’s a nonfinancial incentiveC. Standards –1. Limits – expanding the topic outside of financial incentives makes it limitless Czinkota et al, Georgetown University McDonough school of business professor, 2009 Michael, Ilkka A. Ronkainen, Georgetown University McDonough school of business professor , and Michael H. Moffett, Thunderbird school of global management continental grain professorship, “Fundamentals of International Business” http:~/~/books.google.com/books?id=_X-l25srIYkCandq=69#v=snippetandq=69andf=com/books?id=_X-l25srIYkCandq=69#v=snippetandq=69andf=false, google books, p.69, accessed 6-25-12, TAP
Incentives offered by policymakers to facilitate foreign investments are mainly of three types: fiscal AND import quotas, and local content requirements, and investments in infrastructure facilities.
2. Ground – we can’t get core offense based off financial incentives or CPs that offer a different type of incentive D. T is a voter for fairness and education – reasonability is arbitrary and leads to judge intervention | |
| 02/23/2013 | Russia NG DATournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: A. Uniqueness –Russian natural gas revenue is reboundingSeeking Alpha, 12-12-12 ("Why Gazprom is a Steal," seekingalpha.com/article/1059311-why-gazprom-is-a-steal, accessed 1-19-13, CMM)
Harry Beck wrote a good article a few months ago explaining why Gazprom was and AND Bank estimates, and this is of course beneficial to its largest enterprise.
B. Link – SMRs crowd out natural gasRosner and Goldberg, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago, The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, 11 (Robert, Stephen, November 2011, “Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.,”https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf, accessed 10-22-12, CMM)
Furthermore, CBO discussed the market risk associated with GW-scale plants: ¶ AND the investment requirements are comparable – SMRs could potentially “fit the bill.”
C. That collapses Russia’s economyTUCKER, Assistant Director of the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, 1-9-13 (Aviezer, “The New Power Map,” http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/138597/aviezer-tucker/the-new-power-map?page=show, accessed 1-13-13, CMM)
Until recently, Gazprom was in denial about the shale gas revolution, claiming that AND , it sells gas in Europe at about a 66 percent profit margin.) Russian decline goes nuclearFilger, founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com, 9 (Sheldon, 5-10-09, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html, accessed 5-9-11, CMM)
In Russia, historically, economic health and political stability are intertwined to a degree AND the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Immigration DATournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: Immigration reform will pass nowO’Reilly, Fox News Latino, 2-20-13 (Andrew, “With Tea Party Decline, Immigration Battle Shifts Focus,” http:~/~/latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/02/20/with-tea-party-decline-immigration-battle-shifts-focus/http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2013/02/20/with-tea-party-decline-immigration-battle-shifts-focus/, accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
The times are certainly changing for hard-line anti-immigration activists.¶ ¶ AND they know that this issue will affect the party in the long run.”
DoD SMRs uniquely destabilizing in CongressBencosme, Joseph S. Nye Jr. Researcher at the Center for a New American Security, 11-28-12 Francisco, The State of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2012/11/state-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.html
Some have argued that the Department of And negotiations that are taking place in Congress as part of the fiscal cliff.
If negotiations fall through, Obama will propose his own billKrauthammer, National Post, 2-22-13 (Charles, “Charles Krauthammer: Enforcement is the key to making U.S. immigration plans work,” http:~/~/fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/22/charles-krauthammer-enforcement-is-the-key-to-making-u-s-immigration-plans-work/http://fullcomment.nationalpost.com/2013/02/22/charles-krauthammer-enforcement-is-the-key-to-making-u-s-immigration-plans-work/, accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
President Obama suggested he would hold off introducing his own immigration bill as long as AND chief architect of the Senate bill, called Obama’s alternative dead on arrival. That collapses reform effortsKurtz, The Daily Beast and Newsweek’s Washington bureau chief, 1-29-13 (Howard, “President Obama Embraces the Senate’s Bipartisan Immigration Plan,” http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/01/29/president-obama-embraces-the-senate-s-bipartisan-immigration-plan.html, accessed 2-4-13, CMM)
In a bit of deft maneuvering, the Senate And the Senate effort and complicated the political salesmanship.
Immigration reform is key to the agriculture industry- and that’s key to the entire economyFitz, Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress, 12 (Marshall, 11-14-12, “Time to Legalize Our 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants,” http:~/~/www.americanprogress.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/pdf, accessed: 2-6-13, LLL)
Nowhere is the tension between immigrant labor and the economy more obvious than in AND Georgia,66 Alabama,67 Arizona,68 and others have pursued.
Ag collapse causes extinctionLugar, Senate foreign relations committee former member, 2000 Richard, former senator from Indiana, “Calls for a new green revolution to combat global warming and reduce world instability” http:~/~/www.unep.org/OurPlanet/imgversn/143/html, accessed 1-17-13, TAP
In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning AND in the survival of billions of people and the health of our planet. 1NR It will pass but it will be toughStar-Ledger Editorial Board, 2-22-13 (“A strategic leak keeps immigration reform on track: Editorial,” http:~/~/blog.nj.com/njv_editorial_page/2013/02/a_strategic_leak_keeps_html, accessed: 2-22-13, LLL)
The Senate’s Gang of Eight — Democrats Robert Menendez (N.J.), Chuck AND ¶ With or without Obama’s brand, this will be a tough sell. Electoral concerns may be necessary for GOP support but aren’t sufficientBenac, AP, 1-20-13 (Nancy, “Obama's Second Term: President Faces Tough To-Do List Over Next Four Years,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/20/obamas-second-term_n_2517117.html, accessed 1-22-13, CMM)
Immigration offers Obama perhaps his best chance at a significant second-term achievement. AND people illegally in the U.S. is the big sticking point.
Economic collapse leads to global war.Lind, New America Foundation Economic Growth Program Policy Director, 5/11/2010 Michael, "Will the great recession lead to World War IV?," http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/05/11/great_recession_world_war_iv
If history is any guide, an era of global economic stagnation will help the AND Eurasia, Eastasia and Oceania in 1984 is all too easy to imagine.
US pulls down every other country – makes conflict inevitableCaploe, 4/7/9 David Caploe is CEO of the Singapore-incorporated American Centre for Applied Liberal Arts and Humanities in Asia., “Focus still on America to lead global recovery”, April 7, The Strait Times, lexis
IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have AND US - and it is going to have to be solved there too.
New collapse triggers total collapse – the economy is structurally weak.Isidore, CNN Money, 11 (Chris, 8/10/2011, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse,” http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/10/news/economy/double_dip_recession_economy/index.htm, accessed 1-6-12, CMM)
And while economists disagree on just how likely the U.S. economy is AND this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it.
Decline causes withdrawal from the worldFriedberg and Schoenfeld – 8 (Aaron, professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and Gabriel, visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html, accessed 9-24-10, CMM)
With the global financial system in serious trouble, is America's geostrategic dominance likely to AND to rise to an occasion as grave as the one we now face.
Collapse in economic growth leads to massive resource exploitationSanders, UC-Berkeley Peace and Conflict Studies professor, 90 (Jerry W., “Global Ecology and World Economy: Collision Course or Sustainable Future,” Bulletin of Peace Proposals, Vol. 21 (4), p. 395-401)
A substantial body of evidence exists to support the proposition that unrestrained economic growth is AND fear of the social and political specter that might follow in its absence.
2NRPolitics___ Nuclear waste issue cant be separated from the politics of SMRsCunningham, Policy Analyst for Energy and Climate at the American Security Project, ’12 Nick, Small Modular Reactors: A Possible Path Forward for Nuclear Power, October, http:~/~/americansecurityproject.org/ASP%20Reports/Ref%200087%20-%20Small%20Modular%20Reactors.pdf
Disposal of spent nuclear fuel has confounded the nuclear industry for decades and the problem AND the nuclear waste problem will bedevil the entire nuclear industry, including SMRs.¶ Military SMRs cause backlash – budget requests proveParthemore, Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), 7-28-11 (Christine, “Debate Continues on Small Modular Nuclear Reactors,” http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2011/06/debate-continues-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.html, accessed 10-24-12, CMM)
Yesterday Wired’s Danger Room reported that last week And reactors for use on forward operating bases.
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| 02/23/2013 | Oil Sands DATournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: A. Uniqueness – Canadian oil sands production is collapsingWeston, National Affairs Specialist, CBC News, 12 (Greg, 11-1-12, “Greg Weston: Oilsands crippled by soaring costs, memo says,” http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/story/2012/11/01/pol-weston-oilsands-warnings-financial.html, accessed 1-21-13, CMM)
A confidential government memorandum obtained by CBC News warns that soaring costs of developing the AND sector," and could jeopardize the viability of some projects, he says. B. Link – SMRs are key to the industryStewart, director of policy and research with the Canadian NuclearAssociation (CNA), 12 (John, February “NUCLEAR IN THE OIL SANDS: BUILDING ON CANADA’S STRENGTHS,” http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/feb12/stewart.pdf, accessed 1-21-13, CMM)
Currently deployed reactor¶ designs would not be easy to apply to¶ bitumen extraction AND be approximately competitive¶ with natural gas in in-situ¶ applications. Newer reactor designs such as the¶ Enhanced CANDU 6, the Advanced¶ CANDU AND ¶ on SMRs’ portability, modularity,¶ steam characteristics and maintenance¶ needs.
C. Impact – Oil sands development risks Canadian economic collapse – Dutch DiseaseZerbisias, Toronto Star, 12 (Antonia, 2-24-12, “Ottawa’s focus on Alberta oilsands is killing manufacturing jobs in Eastern Canada, economists say,” http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1136578--ottawa-s-focus-on-alberta-oilsands-is-killing-manufacturing-jobs-in-eastern-canada-economists-say, accessed 1-21-13, CMM)
You know that old saying, “When the U.S. sneezes, AND are going to have even more intense division between Eastern and Western Canada.” Economic decline causes Quebec secession.Nuechterlein, U.C. Berkeley Rockefeller Research Scholar, 99 (Donald E., September. Rockefeller Research Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. “CANADA DEBATES A VARIETY OF DOMESTIC ISSUES,” http:~/~/donaldnuechterlein.com/1999/html(%%), accessed 9/1/10, CMM)
Current opinion polls in Quebec show that pro-independence forces are somewhat below the AND Quebec voters may worry that their province will suffer economically if it separates. That sets a global model for separatismBourge, UPI, 2 (Christian, March 5, United Press International, “Canadian unity key to global pluralism,” lexis, accessed 9-7-10, CMM)
The secession of the province of Quebec would have a negative impact not only on AND of that ideal and a negative example for similar nations the world over. Global nuclear warShehadi, Research Associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, 93 (Kamal, December 1993, “Ethnic Self Determination And the Break Up of States,” p. 81)
This paper has argued that self-determination conflicts have direct adverse consequences on international AND a real danger that regional conflicts will erupt over national minorities and borders. 2NC Magnitude – separatist movements all around the world will causes escalating conflicts that spread globally and will give terrorists access to nuclear weapons – that causes global nuclear warSpeice, JD Candidate, February, 6 Patrick, 47 Wm and Mary L. Rev. 1427, Lexis
The potential consequences of the unchecked spread of nuclear knowledge and material to terrorist groups AND draw in the United States and escalate to the use of nuclear weapons.
Secession magnifies all war impacts and turns the case (terrorism, disease, environment, population growth, war, prolif)Gottlieb, Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Diplomacy University of Chicago Law School, 1993 Gidon, 1993, “Nation Against State,” p. 26-27
Self-determination unleashed and unchecked by balancing principles constitutes a menace to the society AND hundred independent territorial states cannot be the basis for global security and prosperity. Quebec secession diverts US attention from the global stage – turning hegemonyLamont, former Americas Society Canadian Affairs director, 94 (Lansing, Time's chief correspondent in Canada between 1971-1973, and President of American Trust for the British Library, “Breakup: The Coming End of Canada and the Stakes for America,” p. 229)
Most assuredly, the United States would lose a valued ally in an increasingly turbulent AND . diplomat put it, ‘They can do things that we can’t.”
Tar Sands production has caused Dutch Disease – empiricsNikiforuk, an award-winning Calgary journalist and author, 12 (Andrew, 5-13-12, “Oil sands sparked 'uniquely Canadian strain' of Dutch Disease: report,” http://thetyee.ca/Blogs/TheHook/Labour-Industry/2012/05/31/Canadian-Dutch-Disease/, accessed 1-21-13, CMM)
A new report by the Pembina Institute argues that Alberta's oil sands boom has given AND "In the years ahead they will be calling it the Canadian disease." Canadian tar sands cause Dutch disease, collapsing their economy – less oil production solves.Nikiforuk, an award-winning Calgary journalist and author, 10 (Andrew, August, 13, The Tyee, “How the Tar Sands Threaten Canada's Economic Fate,” http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/08/13/TarSandsEconomicFate/, accessed 9-3-10, CMM)
Every week Canada's least favorite Emir, Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, earnestly lectures AND First and foremost is what economists call the resource curse or the Dutch Disease.
Other separatist groups are looking at Canada – failure would set a precedent for secessionDion, former Canadian Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, 97 (Stephane, 11/21/1997, since 97 he has been the President of the Canadian Privy Council, the Leader of the Liberal Party of Canada, and was the leader of the oppoisition until 2008, “Canada is Going to Make it After All,” http://bcp.gc.ca/aia/index.asp?lang=engandPage=archiveandSub=speeches-discoursandDoc=19971121-eng.htm, accessed 9-7-10, CMM)
In a recent article in the Boston Globe, Lester C. Thurow of the AND fortune as Canada cannot successfully bring together populations with different languages and backgrounds.
Quebec secession will be modeled – it sets a bad exampleBourge, UPI, 2 (Christian, March 5, United Press International, “Canadian unity key to global pluralism,” lexis, accessed 9-7-10, CMM)
But at a SAIS-sponsored forum last week, Brookings Institution senior fellow Kent AND , give ideas to those seeking to end such experiments in other nations. | |
| 02/23/2013 | States Income Tax CPTournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: Text: The 50 state governments, the District of Colombia, and all relevant territories of the United States should …. by raising the personal income tax by 1 percent on people with incomes over $500,000.
States solve nuclear developmentDow Jones Newswires, 7 (5-21-07, “States Maneuver to Lure New Nuclear Power Plants” http://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=19778941, accessed 8-29-12, CMM) NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- In a positive shift for U.S AND Orleans-based Entergy Corp. to pass on some pre-construction nuclear plant development costs to their customers, while Georgia regulators are considering a similar move.
Increasing taxes on the wealthy generates a lot of revenue and doesn’t tank the economyMcNichol, Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, 9 (Elizabeth, Andrew Nicholas and Jon Shure, 11-11-09, “Raising State Income Taxes on High-Income Taxpayers,” http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=viewandid=2792, accessed 8-29-12, CMM)
As states face increasingly difficult choices for closing the gap between available resources and the AND concentration of wealth and income among a small fraction of a state’s households. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Case - Solvency - vs Georgetown EUTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1. The tech isn’t close to readyLovering et al, Breakthrough Institute Energy and Climate Program policy analyst, 12 (Jessica, Ted Nordhaus, chairman, Michael Shellenbergerare president of the Breakthrough Institute, “Out of the Nuclear Closet,” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/09/07/out_of_the_nuclear_closet?page=full, accessed 9-8-12, CMM)
To move the needle on nuclear energy to the point that it might actually be AND few exceptions, this is largely true elsewhere around the world as well. 2. The NRC won’t license SMRs.Tucker, American Spectator energy reporter, 11 William, Mar 2011, “America’s Last Nuclear Hope” http:~/~/0101.nccdn.net/1_5/28c/010/2c9/pdf, p.4, accessed 9-24-12, TAP
So why isn’t there more coordination between the civilian and military efforts? In fact there is AND if any proposal ever makes it through the process.
3. SMRs can’t be put on basesWong, Associate Research Fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University. He is with the Military Studies Programme at the School’s constituent unit, the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2012 (Kelvin, 5-8-12, “Beyond Weapons: The Military’s Quest for Nuclear Power,” http:~/~/rolandsanjuan.blogspot.com/2012/05/html, accessed: 1-8-13, LLL)
Synopsis¶ The military has always maintained an interest in the application of nuclear energy AND destruction and sabotage are likely, should give military planners cause to pause. 4. No manufacturing capacityITA, US Department of Commerce International Trade Administration, 11 (Feb, “The Commercial Outlook for U.S. Small Modular Nuclear Reactors,” http://www.trade.gov/publications/pdfs/the-commercial-outlook-for-us-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.pdf, accessed 12-28-12, CMM)
One obstacle is diminished manufacturing capacity.¶ U.S. nuclear competitiveness is hampered AND and¶ rebuild capacity can require a lead time of several¶ years. 2NC Each one of our solvency deficits are sufficient to take out the whole caseMoniz, MIT Energy Initiative director, 11 Ernest, MIT physics and engineering systems professor, Foreign Affairs, Nov/Dec 2011, “Why We Still Need Nuclear Power: Making Clean Energy Safe and Affordable” Proquest, accessed 8-16-12, TAP
Still, nuclear power faces a number of challenges in terms of safety, construction AND stores it for centuries. Only then can the public's trust be earned.
This negates all advantages – SMRs are unprovenMarcus, independent consultant on nuclear power technology and policy, 11 (Gait, previously worked as deputy director-general of the Nuclear Energy Agency in Paris and as principal deputy director of the Office of Nuclear Energy, Science, and Technology at the U.S. Department of Energy, served as president of the American Nuclear Society and as chair of the Engineering Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, “nuclear power after Fukushima,” Mechanical Engineering133. 12 (Dec 2011): 26-29, proquest, accessed 12-28-12, CMM)
In addition, the smaller size of SMRs facilitates the use of underground or below AND reactors proved to be. Many of these provisions are already in place. It also takes out cost competitionKessides, Development Research Group, The World Bank, and Kuznetsov, Consultant, The World Bank, 12 (Ioannis and Vladimir, “Small Modular Reactors for Enhancing Energy Security in Developing Countries,” Sustainability 2012, 4, 1806-1832, http://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/4/8/1806, accessed 12-28-12, CMM)
One of the fundamental problems underlying the debate on the potential role of SMRs in AND be resolved with accumulating information about the full¶ costs of SMR build.
Licensing is the biggest problemHopf, senior nuclear engineer with more than 20 years of experience in shielding and criticality analysis and design for spent fuel dry storage and transportation systems, 11 (Jim, has been involved in nuclear advocacy for 10+ years, and is a member of the ANS Public Information Committee, 10-25-11, “Roadblock in Congress for SMR Development,” http://ansnuclearcafe.org/2011/10/25/congress-smr/, accessed 12-28-12, CMM)
NRC Issues More Important? As many have observed, the main barrier to the deployment of SMRs may not AND requiring the NRC to complete reviews within some fixed, reasonable time period.
The NRC is the biggest barrierCunningham, Policy Analyst for Energy and Climate at the American Security Project, 12 (Nick, October, “Small Modular Reactors: A Possible Path Forward for Nuclear Power,” http://americansecurityproject.org/ASP%20Reports/Ref%200087%20-%20Small%20Modular%20Reactors.pdf, accessed 12-28-12, CMM)
The most difficult challenge currently facing SMRs is the institutional barriers. Currently, the Nuclear AND it may be an uphill battle for the SMR industry.
DOD put itself under NRC licensing jurisdiction in the 2010 Quadrennial Defense Review- we quote the DOD- even on bases- anything else is a lieRogers, Center for New American Progress, 10 (Will, 7-29-10, “DOE and DOD to Explore Nuclear Power on Military Bases Question,” http:~/~/www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2010/07/html, accessed: 1-8-13, LLL)
Yesterday, Deputy Secretary of Energy Dan Poneman and Deputy Secretary of Defense Bill Lynn AND and are located on or adjacent to DOD U.S. installations. The DOD won’t circumvent the NRC – its outside their boundsKing et al, Center for Naval Analyses Project Director and Research Analyst for the Environment and Energy Team, 11 (Marcus, LaVar Huntzinger, Thoi Nguyen, March, “Feasibility of Nuclear Power on U.S. Military Installations,” www.cna.org/sites/default/files/research/Nuclear Power on Military Installations D0023932 A5.pdf, accessed 1-22-13, CMM)
The most basic licensing issue relates to whether NRC will have jurisdiction¶ over potential AND required for¶ licensing and construction to approximately 6 years 45. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Case - Water - vs Georgetown EUTournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: Water wars empirically denied and just don’t make senseAllouche, research fellow at Institute for Development Studies at MIT, 11 (Jeremy, former professor – MIT, PhD in International Relations from the Graduate Institute of International Studies “The sustainability and resilience of global water and food systems: Political analysis of the interplay between security, resource scarcity, political systems and global trade,” Food Policy, Volume 36, Supplement 1, January 2011, Pages S3–S8, Science Direct, accessed 11-3-12, CMM)
The question of resource scarcity has led to many debates on whether scarcity (whether AND Barnett and Adger, 2007 and Kevane and Gray, 2008).
Massive desal expansion now and prices keep coming downCraze, Bloomberg, 2-14-13 (Matt, “Desalination Seen Booming at 15% a Year as World Water Dries Up,” http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-14/desalination-seen-booming-at-15-a-year-as-world-water-dries-up.html, accessed 2-18-13, CMM)
As the global population soars by about 74 million people a year, water shortages AND like China, desalination is an economic slam- dunk,” he says.
No impact to central asia.Claes, program specialist in USIP’s Center for Conflict Analysis and Prevention, 10 (Jonas, United States Institute of Peace, “Preventing Conflict in the “Stans”,” 4-23, http://www.usip.org/files/resources/PB%2021%20Preventing%20Conflict%20in%20the%20Stans.pdf, accessed 11-4-12, CMM)
Despite this litany of conflict drivers, Central Asia has remained relatively peaceful for the AND system,’ as it is incapable of reabsorbing its emigrants into society. No water shortage in Africa – recent reportsYeo, AlterNet, 4/27/2012 (Daniel, Landmark report tackles myths and fears about water scarcity in Africa, Trust, p. http://www.trust.org/alertnet/blogs/africa-views/landmark-report-tackles-myths-and-fears-about-water-scarcity-in-africa/, accessed 11-3-12, CMM)
DFID-funded work by the British Geological Society has revealed that there are huge amounts of AND the first time that this complex mess has been quantified in this detail. | |
| 02/23/2013 | Case - Grid - vs Georgetown EUTournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: No military fuel shortages – even with high costsAlic, adjunct in international studies at Johns Hopkins, ‘12 (John, directed studies on international competitiveness and technology policy at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, “Defense Department Energy Innovation: Three Cases,” March 2012, ttp://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Energy%20Innovation%20at%20DoD.pdf, accessed 1-20-13) PM
Over 80 percent of the petroleum purchased and consumed by the U.S. AND since World War II has been based on borders nominally open to trade.
No impact- DOD systems attacked all the time, security measures are in placeTuutti, Federal Computer Week, 11 (Camille Tuutti-staff writer, Federal Computer Week is a site for strategy and business management for government leaders, 11-2-11, “Analysis: Cybersecurity puzzle is a tough one to solve,” http:~/~/fcw.com/Articles/2011/11/02/Cybersecurity-policy-and-federal-agencies.aspx?Page=1url:http://fcw.com/Articles/2011/11/02/Cybersecurity-policy-and-federal-agencies.aspx?Page=1, accessed: 9-25-12, LLL) The Defense Department, in particular, has been a prime target for hackers: AND project leader of the Federal Information Security Management Act Implementation Project at NIST.
Heg effectiveness is inflated Fettweis, Tulane University Associate Political Science Professor, 11 (Christopher, Sept/Oct, “Free Riding or Restraint? Examining European Grand Strategy,” ebsco, Vol. 30 Issue 4, p316-332, accessed 3-24-12, CMM)
The hegemonic-stability argument overestimates the capability of the United States to maintain global AND upon an unwilling 95 percent. Stability and unipolarity may be simply coincidental.
. No incentive for war – Arctic resources are too difficult to getEremenko, Moscow-based foreign correspondent for The Canadian, 3-26-2009 Alexey, The Canadian, "Russian insights: The Arctic Race," http:~/~/www.agoracosmopolitan.com/home/Frontpage/2009/03/26/03115.html
The problems begin with the main prize itself, which is very much hypothetical. AND wickedly expensive – which means there may be no profit in that oil. 2NC Supply constraints don’t affect the military AND fuel switching failsSarewitz, Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes at Arizona State, ‘12 (Daniel, Samuel Thernstrom Senior Climate Policy Advisor, Clean Air Task Force, “Energy Innovation at the Department of Defense: Assessing the Opportunities,” March 2012, http:~/~/bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Energy%20Innovation%20at%20DoD.pdf, accessed 1-20-13) PM
Liquid fuels are indispensable for the U.S. military. Nuclear reactors power AND amount). Indeed, alternative fuels cannot promise performance advantages of any sort. 1. Grid modernization solvesAvila, ABC News, 12 (Jim- staff writer, 7-31-12, “A U.S. Blackout as Large as India’s? ‘Very Unlikely’,” http:~/~/abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/a-u-s-blackout-as-large-as-indias-very-unlikely/http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/07/a-u-s-blackout-as-large-as-indias-very-unlikely/, accessed: 9-24-12, LLL)
As India recovers from a blackout that left the world’s second-largest country — AND a much more modern grid and we’re doing that as rapidly as possible.”
Unipolarity is not peaceful – empirical evidence goes neg.Monteiro, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University, 11 (Nuno P., Winter 11/12, “"Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful",” International Security, volume 36, issue 3, pages 9-40, http://belfercenter.ksg.harvard.edu/publication/21648/unrest_assured.html, accessed 1-23-12, CMM)
How well, then, does the argument that unipolar systems are peaceful ac- AND 47 These figures provide no evi- dence that unipolarity is peaceful.48
China-Taiwan ties are strong and durable -Lai, Jamestown Foundation Fellow, Mackay Medicine College Assistant Professor, 12/3/2009 I-chung, "Taiwan and the Changing Strategic Balance in the East China Sea," http://www.jamestown.org/single/?no_cache=1andtx_ttnewstt_news=35794andtx_ttnewsbackPid=13andcHash=37c127cdae, 12/29
Mending relations with China has been the cornerstone of President Ma’s foreign policy. Throughout AND Republic of China (Hong Kong Central News Agency, October 18). | |
| 02/23/2013 | States CP - A2: 50 state fiat badTournament: Districts | Round: 3 | Opponent: Georgetown EU | Judge: 1. Its not utopian –– it’s the squo Carlarne, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law, 8 (Cinnamon, July, “Notes from a Climate Change Pressure-Cooker: Sub-Federal Attempts at Transformation Meet National Resistance in the USA,” 40 Conn. L. Rev. 1351, lexis, accessed 8-26-12, CMM)
On its own, California can exert political pressure and make emission reduction gains. AND by state level politicians to create enough political momentum to overcome federal inertia.
The States CP is the topic – jurisdictional questions are key to energy production debates Kay, Senior Extension Associate with the Community and Regional Development Institute-Cornell Dept. of Sociology, 12 (David, “Energy Federalism: Who Decides?,” http://devsoc.cals.cornell.edu/cals/devsoc/outreach/cardi/programs/loader.cfm?csModule=security/getfileandPageID=1071714, accessed 10-19-12, CMM)
Questions about energy production and consumption are acquiring renewed urgency in the 21st Century. AND of debate about energy federalism are being cinched into an increasingly dense tangle. | |
| 02/24/2013 | Districts- Sequester DATournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NCA. Uniqueness – Obama is ramping up the pressure on Republicans now – that’s key to solve the sequesterBrown and Sherman, Politico, 2-20-13 (Carrie Budoff, Jake, “President Obama's sequestration strategy: Shame,” http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/obamas-sequestration-strategy-shame-87829.html, accessed 2-21-13, CMM)
President Barack Obama’s sequester strategy is all about one word: shame.¶ With the AND than raising tax rates on the wealthy is closing loopholes that benefit them.
B. Link – DoD SMRs cost political capitalBencosme, Joseph S. Nye Jr. Researcher at the Center for a New American Security, 11-28-12 Francisco, The State of Small Modular Nuclear Reactors, http://www.cnas.org/blogs/naturalsecurity/2012/11/state-small-modular-nuclear-reactors.html
Some have argued that the Department of Defense (DOD) would be a unique AND negotiations that are taking place in Congress as part of the fiscal cliff. Political capital is keyGanelman, The Moderate Voice Editor-in-Chief, 2-11-13 (Joe, “Obama Will Throw Down Political Gauntlet in State of the Union Address,” http://themoderatevoice.com/175832/obama-will-thrown-down-political-gauntlet-in-state-of-the-union-address/, accessed 2-21-13, CMM)
Don’t look for President Barack Obama to do a State of the Union speech tomorrow AND of the millions of Americans who volunteered for the campaign,” he added.
C. Impact – Sequester kills airlines – collapses the economy by AprilEverett and Wolfe, Politico, 2-22-13 (Burgess, Kathryn, “Ray LaHood: Cuts a ‘calamity’ for air travel,” http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=40C6F437-B2B7-4BC6-A8EC-A47D80B4B502, accessed 2-23-13, CMM)
The industry group Airlines for America said Thursday that it’s “confident” airline operations AND time his old colleagues’ phones would light up with complaints from frustrated filers.
Economic collapse leads to global war.Lind, New America Foundation Economic Growth Program Policy Director, 5/11/2010 Michael, "Will the great recession lead to World War IV?," http://www.salon.com/news/economics/index.html?story=/opinion/feature/2010/05/11/great_recession_world_war_iv
If history is any guide, an era of global economic stagnation will help the AND Eurasia, Eastasia and Oceania in 1984 is all too easy to imagine.
2ncEconomic decline causes war – studies prove Royal, Department of Defense Cooperative threat reduction director, 2010 Jedediah, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, p.213-4, TAP
Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict AND not featured prominently in the economic-security debate and deserves more attention.
US pulls down every other country – makes conflict inevitableCaploe, 4/7/9 David Caploe is CEO of the Singapore-incorporated American Centre for Applied Liberal Arts and Humanities in Asia., “Focus still on America to lead global recovery”, April 7, The Strait Times, lexis
IN THE aftermath of the G-20 summit, most observers seem to have AND US - and it is going to have to be solved there too.
New collapse triggers total collapse – the economy is structurally weak.Isidore, CNN Money, 11 (Chris, 8/10/2011, “Recession 2.0 would hurt worse,” http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/10/news/economy/double_dip_recession_economy/index.htm, accessed 1-6-12, CMM)
And while economists disagree on just how likely the U.S. economy is AND this new recession would likely have virtually no policy effort to counteract it.
Sequester kills NextGen airline traffic control – key to competitivenessPrincipato, president of Airports Council International, 12 (Greg, Airports Council International – North America, which represents local, regional and state governing bodies that own and operate commercial airports in the United States and Canada and more than 350 aviation-related businesses, 10-22-12, “Sequestration Threatens Air Travel Progress; Economic Impact Could Last Decades,” http://gov.aol.com/2012/10/22/sequestration-threatens-air-travel-progess-economic-impact-coul/, accessed 2-24-13, CMM)
Those of us in the airport business take pride in the community and job growth AND to the potential financial losses our economy will suffer the longer we delay.
That key to solve greater power warsBaru, Professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy and Institute of South Asian Studies, Singapore, 9 (Sanjaya, January, “Year of the power shift?,” http://www.india-seminar.com/2009/593/593_sanjaya_baru.htm, accessed 11-5-12, CMM)
The management of the economy, and of the treasury, has been a vital AND to find adequate financial resources to simultaneously sustain economic growth and military power.
Decline causes withdrawal from the worldFriedberg and Schoenfeld – 8 (Aaron, professor of politics and international relations at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, and Gabriel, visiting scholar at the Witherspoon Institute, “The Dangers of a Diminished America”, http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122455074012352571.html, accessed 9-24-10, CMM)
With the global financial system in serious trouble, is America's geostrategic dominance likely to AND to rise to an occasion as grave as the one we now face.
Falling economy causes quick and massive increase in warmingSanders, UC, Berkeley Peace and Conflict Studies Professor 90 Jerry W., "Global Ecology and World Economy: Collision Course or Sustainable Future" Bulletin of Peace Proposals Vol. 21 (4) p. 395-401
What will be the likely impact of economic stagnation and increasing competition on the environment AND of fallow land a growing danger in many regions of the Third World.
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| 03/29/2013 | PTX- CIR NDTTournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: HarvardBS | Judge: 1NC PTXImmigration will pass- there’s bipartisanship and it’s at the top of the agenda President Barack Obama challenged Congress Monday to "finish the job" of finalizing legislation Renewables will cost Obama’s capital. Obama, unhindered by election concerns and perhaps emboldened by a desire to secure his Political capital necessary for deal-making and arm twisting – that’s key to passage Not surprisingly, Obama has been explicit that reforming the US’s shameful and broken immigration Nowhere is the tension between immigrant labor Ag collapse causes extinction In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning 1NR PTXSpending political capital means Obama has to implement keystone President Barack Obama’s policy on energy and climate change remains inscrutable, full of strategic That triggers warming. It is a well known fact that if emissions rise, air quality deteriorates, Backlash to renewables blocks use What do the words "banana," "cave," and "nope" have | |
| 03/29/2013 | Framework NDT Rd 2Tournament: NDT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard BS | Judge: 1nc
Topicality
Restrictions on energy production are policy barriers. USEA, 2003 ~United States Energy Association, Energy Policy Bulletin, Issue 5, 4-16-03, "Energy Supply Diversity" http://w.sari-energy.org/Publications/Documents/bulletins/bulletin5.pdf-http://w.sari-energy.org/Publications/Documents/bulletins/bulletin5.pdf, p.1, accessed 8-15-12, TAP~
Government policy makers should identify barriers to energy resource development and to energy efficiency and AND protection and more recently, the need to drastically improve our homeland security. Financial incentives are distinct from mandates Yusof et al, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 2012 ~Nor’Aini, Ismael Younis Abu-Jarad, Universiti Malaysia Pahang, and Mohd Hasanal Badree, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Theoretical and Empirical Researches in Urban Management, Volume 7 issue 1, "The effectiveness of government incentives to facilitate an innovative housing delivery system: the perspective of housing developers" http://um.ase.ro/no71/4.pdf-http://um.ase.ro/no71/4.pdf, p.59-60, accessed 6-25-12, TAP~
In general, incentives can be defined as mechanism that motivates organisations to become involved AND because they want to sell their new technology to a different polluting sector.
2. Dialogue Stasis is critical to any kind of meaningful discussion that can test the merits of arguments from both sides WITHOUT exclusion of either side. Shively, former Texas A%26M political science assistant professor, 2000 ~Ruth, Political Theory and Partisan Politics, edited by Portis, Gundersen, and Shively, "Political Theory and the Postmodern Politics of Ambiguity," 181-2~
The requirements given thus far are primarily negative. The ambiguists must say "no AND . In other words, contestation rests on some basic agreement or harmony.
3. Process Switch side debate uniquely solves critical thinking through deliberation that solves all existential problems. ~Also answers debate bad~ Lundberg, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill communications professor, 2010 ~Christian, Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century by Allan Louden, "Tradition of Debate in North Carolina" http://books.google.com/books?id=ntHxX_9J7gYC%26printsec=frontcover~~%23v=onepage%26q=complex%20world%26f=false-http://books.google.com/books?id=ntHxX_9J7gYC%26printsec=frontcover, p.311-3, accessed 8-8-12, TAP~
The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and AND concrete work to realize and expanded commitment to debate at colleges and universities. Decision-making skills and engagement with the state energy apparatus prevents energy technocracy and actualizes radical politics Hager, Bryn Mawr College political science professor, ’92 ~Carol J., "Democratizing Technology: Citizen %26 State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990" Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70, accessed 10-7-12, AFB~
During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement AND a space for a delibera-tive politics in modern technological society.61
Vote negative on presumption –– lack of details of the plan makes it impossible to rigorously test it. LA Times editorial, 9-11-12 ~"Details, Mr. Romney", http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-romney-tax-plan-details-20120911,0,416185.story-http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-romney-tax-plan-details-20120911,0,416185.story, accessed 10-21-12, AFB~
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney insists that his plan to cut tax rates by 20 AND do unless and until Romney makes a more detailed case for his plan.
2nc
USFG "USFG should" means the debate is solely about a policy established by governmental means Ericson, California Polytechnic College of Liberal Arts Dean Emeritus, 3 ~Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4~
The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains AND compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose.
Details Key
Decision-making—debate over a controversial point of action creates argumentative stasis—that’s key to avoid a devolution of debate into competing truth claims Steinberg, University of Miami Communication Studies lecturer, %26 Freeley, Boston-based criminal, personal injury and civil rights law attorney, 8 ~David L. and Austin J., Argumentation and Debate: Critical Thinking for Reasoned Decision Making p. 45~
Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of AND particular point of difference, which will be outlined in the following discussion.
HaGER
Decisionmaking skills learned from debate over technical energy issues are key to actualizing political change Hodson, University of Toronto Ontario Institute for Studies professor of education, 10 ~Derek, "Science Education as a Call to Action," Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, Vol. 10, Issue 3, p. 197-206, accessed 10-7-12, AFB~
The final (fourth) level of sophistication in this issues-based approach is AND justice are kept in the forefront of discussion during the establishment of policy.
~Note – SSI = socioscientific issues~
Key to Advocacy Doesn’t trade off with personal values—debate makes students more able to advocate for them Jiménez-Aleixandre, professor of education – University of Santiago de Compostela, et al, 2 ~Maria-Pilar and Cristina and Pereiro-Muñoz High School Castelao, Vigo (Spain), "Knowledge producers or knowledge consumers? Argumentation and decision making about environmental management," International Journal of Science Education Vol. 24, No. 11, p. 1171–1190, accessed 10-28-12, AFB~
Attitudes and values have a paramount role in environmental education. The importance accorded to AND supporting the claim that they were not just passive ’knowledge consumers’. | |
| 03/29/2013 | T - FIT Not Incentive NDT RD3Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: How does a FIT work? FITs are simple. Even if they are a type of incentive, but they are not a financial incentive. Policies to overcome barriers to energy conservation pertain to pricing, financial incentives, and It also means they violate “For” – they’re not exclusive B. Vote Neg Ground – Allowing infinite omni-directional mechanisms that impact energy markets in ways that could increase production is bad – only direct financial disbursements for increased production create a predictable and manageable topic—prerequisite to negative ground and preparation In some sense, most Federal policies have the potential to affect energy markets. Limits - Broad definitions could include 40 different mechanisms Guisinger finds that if “incentives” are broadly defined to include tariffs and trade Block/2NR
D. Renewable Energy Policy Overview¶ There are two main categories of renewable energy The aff is not a financial incentive – it is government purchases. FIT policies do not address the barrier posed by the high up-front costs of RE systems, in contrast to rebate programs and other up-front "capacity-based" incentives. FIT policies are designed to offer stable revenue streams through long-term purchase contracts, requiring that the high up-front costs be amortized over a long period of time. The history of consumption and product of energy in the United States since 1950 is One of the obstacles to intelligent discussion of this topic is the tremendous potential for Including indirect incentives allows targeting other sectors – that explodes the topic. Consequently, the spectrum of incentives is considerably broadened and a distinction is made between
Pace and Gatrell, geographers, 9 The last tool used to promote renewable energy production is to provide financial incentives. 2. This means they violate “substantial” because their increase is not “in the main” for the USFG “Substantially” means in substance; in the main; essentially; by including the material or essential part. | |
| 03/29/2013 | States RPS CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Text: The 50 state governments, the District of Colombia, and all relevant territories of the United States should establish a Renewable Portfolio Standard requiring that by regulated electric utilities in the United States meet a baseline of twenty percent of their demand through qualifying alternative energy sources, including solar and wind. RPS creates market competition- FITs markets eventually die out because they’re not self-sustainable In a state with an RPS program and a robust SREC market, the winners Electricity prices trending downward Moreover, the boom in domestic natural gas production could have even more immediate affects RPS key to reduced electricity prices- FITs investors have no incentive to reduce costs In some circles, FITs are held as the gold standard in stimulating solar development Electricity prices collapse the ag sector. Agricultural production is sensitive to changes in energy prices, either through energy¶ consumed Ag collapse causes extinction In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning Block Natural gas is keeping prices low – this answers all their non-uniques. EIA expects total generation of electricity to remain largely unchanged in 2013 and to grow Electricity prices will remain low.
More evidence – prices declining because of natural gas and decreased demand. A combination of natural gas prices at 10-year lows and the warmest winter Because a feed-in tariff acts as a cross subsidy, they change the FITs increase electricity prices A number of the arguments against FIT policies are largely economic in nature: | |
| 03/29/2013 | CIR NDT RD 3Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: President Barack Obama challenged Congress Monday to "finish the job" of finalizing legislation Political capital necessary for deal-making and arm twisting – that’s key to passage Not surprisingly, Obama has been explicit that reforming the US’s shameful and broken immigration Immigration reform is key to US-India relations Relations reduce regional tensions and sustain global trade and investment - prevents nuclear war Washington’s increased interest in India since the late 1990s reflects¶ India’s economic expansion and | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT Round 5 - 1NC FrameworkTournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: Fitzmier, Mabrey, Corey Stone A. Interpretation - The affirmative must defend the implementation of a topical plan by the United States federal government based off the resolution.B. Violation - The affirmative does not defend the instrumental implementation of a topical policy. Instead, they affirm black gold.C. Reasons to prefer1. Fairness - The resolution sets the topic for discussion- allowing the aff to choose their own ground outside the resolution makes it impossible for the negative to be prepared- there are an infinite amount of non-policy advocacies unrelated to the topic that are impossible to predict- this leaves the negative unprepared to debate2. DialogueStasis is critical to any kind of meaningful discussion that can test the merits of arguments from both sides WITHOUT exclusion of either side.Shively, former Texas AandM political science assistant professor, 2000 The requirements given thus far are primarily negative. The ambiguists must say “no 3. Decision-making skills and engagement with the state energy apparatus prevents energy technocracy and actualizes radical politicsHager, Bryn Mawr College political science professor, ‘92 During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement Vote negative on presumption –– lack of details of the plan makes it impossible to rigorously test it – that means we can’t determine the impact to their education | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT Round 5 - 2NC/1NR FrameworkTournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: Fitzmier, Mabrey, Corey Stone DecisionmakingDecision-making—debate over a controversial point of action creates argumentative stasis—that’s key to avoid a devolution of debate into competing truth claimsSteinberg, University of Miami Communication Studies lecturer, & Freeley, Boston-based criminal, personal injury and civil rights law attorney, 8 Debate is a means of settling differences, so there must be a difference of Doesn’t trade off with personal values—debate makes students more able to advocate for themJiménez-Aleixandre, professor of education – University of Santiago de Compostela, et al, 2 Attitudes and values have a paramount role in environmental education. The importance accorded to Switch side debate goodSwitching sides can include personal experience. Teams can draw on anecdotes, history, or empirics to justify any position. Our model requires that debate pivot around the resolution, but does NOT exclude conviction. This solves their offense and turns it because it makes debaters stronger advocates.Hodson 9 – Hodson, professor of education – Ontario Institute for Studies @ University of Toronto, ‘9 Politicization of science education can be achieved by giving students the opportunity to confront real State GoodAnd, meaningful reformism now – disproves sweeping claim.Delgado, University of Colorado law professor, and Farber, University of Minnesota law professor, 1998 PROFESSOR FARBER: As I was getting ready to leave for the airport, my Claiming “State’s always racist” is a turn. Over-privileges hopelessness – makes actual remedies impossibleDelgado, University of Colorado law professor, and Farber, University of Minnesota law professor, 1998 And finally, what I fear the most is the response that seemed to be | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT Round 5 - 1NC Climate Denialism DATournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: Fitzmier, Mabrey, Corey Stone Now is a unique moment for discussing climate change – anti-science ideology is on the rise – it is generating skepticism toward global warming that precludes institutional change.Gleick, National Academy of Sciences fellow, 2011 Anti-science ideology isn’t completely new in the U.S. — there Climate denialism works to maintain white male privilegeMooney, DeSMOG, 2011 They come at you at public events, wanting to argue. They light up Rejecting denialism is an ethical choice.Hamilton, Center for applied philosophy and public ethics professor, 2009 The topic gives an opportunity to create an academic space for government sustainability education – it is try or die neg – education is the only way to cause an institutional shift – they foreclose the opportunity to that education.Segalàsa et al, UNESCO Chair of Sustainability, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, 10 There are a considerable number of signs suggesting that our industrialised society might eventually cause | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT Round 5 - 1NC Case - F KTournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: Fitzmier, Mabrey, Corey Stone They shut down the dialogue for this debate before it ever started by blaring sexually explicit and offense music containing the F word – we can endorse all of their advocacy with the exception of the song in the pre-round prep because the F word constructs sex as inherently violent and masculine – normalizes sexual violence – there is an obligation to reject the language to create a more egalitarian world.Schwyzer, Pasadena City College history and gender studies professor, 2009 My classmates were having, as I came to discover, a classic intra- | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT Round 5 - 2NC Case - F KTournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: Fitzmier, Mabrey, Corey Stone Their use of the f word makes this discussion meaningless – further debate is impossible and independently causes violenceCampbell, Family Court Philosopher, ‘7 As a general rule, people who use "fuck" a lot—like | |
| 03/30/2013 | NDT Round 5 - 1NC CaseTournament: NDT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Oklahoma CL | Judge: Fitzmier, Mabrey, Corey Stone personal politicsthe politics of personal investment and disclosure isn't always possible, and to force people to disclose is both violent to their identity and dangerous to their livelihood—they ignore the privilege of disclosing itselfVila, University of Texas San Antonio sociology associate professor, 2005 At the same time, some of the problems related to the intertwining of the Good is good enough - isn’t inconsistent with black thought, vote aff – method focus never results in action.Fearon, Stanford Political Science Professor, and Wendt, Ohio State IR Professor, 2002 It should be stressed that in advocating a pragmatic view we are not endorsing method State GoodIt is necessary to learn the language of the state- their form of opposition will always be transitory, getting co-opted by the government or society. It may be necessary but is not sufficientSullivan, the New Republic – editor, 1995 (Andrew, Virtually Normal, pg. 91-93) Moreover, mere cultural redeployment in a free society is always subject to a cultural Learning policy making discourse is the only way to challenge the dogmatic assumptions of elites – it is subversive which solves their impact.David E. McClean, New School University Professor, and Society for the Study of Africana Philosophy President, 2001, “The Cultural Left and the Limits of Social Hope,” http://www.american-philosophy.org/archives/past_conference_programs/pc2001/Discussion%20papers/david_mcclean.htm Yet for some reason, at least partially explicated in Richard Rorty's Achieving Our Country codeswitching answersLinguistic resistance must be an invitation – the aff is imposition – a tool of the colonizer.Yancy, Duquesne Assistant Philosophy Professor, 2004 Regarding white philosophers (or even Black ones) who simply fail to understand the Their call for the ballot upholds white ontological expansiveness.Sullivan, Penn State University Philosophy, African American Studies and Women’s Studies professor, 2004 Although he ultimately wants to risk inviting white people into Black semiotic space, Yancy Codeswitching fails – it creates negative stereotypes.Cargile et al, Cal State University Long Beach communication professor, 2006 Of all the varieties of non-mainstream US English, the most researched and Too sweeping to say working-through-State never counters racism – here’s 7 concrete examples:Seligman ‘11 Litigation as a tool for social change has a long and proud tradition in the | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 1NC VaguenessTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney insists that his plan to cut tax rates by 20 | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 1NC T SolarTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Scott, I’m confused about the use of the terms solar energy and solar power B. Violation- solar energy, but not solar power C. Standards- -Limits- They include anything that the sun heats which is everything, kills neg prep D. T is a voter for fairness and education – reasonability is arbitrary and leads to judge intervention | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 1NC CIRTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: President Barack Obama challenged Congress Monday to "finish the job" of finalizing legislation Renewables will cost Obama’s capital. Obama, unhindered by election concerns and perhaps emboldened by a desire to secure his Political capital necessary for deal-making and arm twisting – that’s key to passage Not surprisingly, Obama has been explicit that reforming the US’s shameful and broken immigration Nowhere is the tension between immigrant labor and the economy more obvious than in agriculture. By most estimates, undocumented immigrants make up more than half of the workers in the agriculture industry.59 Likewise the U.S. Department of Agriculture has estimated that each farm job creates three "upstream" jobs in professions such as packaging, transporting, and selling the produce, meaning that what happens in the agricultural sector affects the economy as a whole.60 Ag collapse causes extinction In a world confronted by global terrorism, turmoil in the Middle East, burgeoning | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 States CPTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: State incentives for renewables solve as well as the fed State climate change initiatives that provide direct subsidies or tax incentives are now common. Increasing taxes on the wealthy generates a lot of revenue and doesn’t tank the economy As states face increasingly difficult choices for closing the gap between available resources and the Clean energy boosts states power now – that’s the lynchpin of federalism – the plan crushes that. States as Innovators: The Emergence of a New Federalism¶ For clean energy in Federalism is key to solve civil war Small state federalism is a big part of what keeps the peace in countries like That causes nuclear war Historically, the only way that the slow bureaucratic creep of government is reversed is | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 1NC CaseTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: But from 1744 or so to the present day the best poetry had internalized its subject matter, particularly in the mode of Wordsworth after 1798. Wordsworth had no true subject except his own subjective nature, and very nearly all significant poetry since Wordsworth, even by American poets, has repeated Wordsworth’s inward turning. This no longer seems to be a question of any individual poet’s choice, but evidently is a necessity , perhaps a blight of the broad movement that we see now can be called Romanticism or Modernism, since increasingly the latter would appear to have been only an extension of the former. No impact and ontology doesn’t come first – it is impossible to lose a sense of being. Who has forgotten Being? No one, no one ever has, otherwise Nature The alt leads to nuclear war, which outweighs the K To be sure, Fox sees the need for our undergoing "certain fundamental changes Interrogating the relationship between humans and nature doesn’t solve AND the alt can’t spillover – prefer pragmatic change Many eco-radicals hope that a massive ideological campaign can transform popular perceptions, Our economies and technologies are changing certain basic structures of planetary life, such as Focus on ontology eschews real world suffering AND prioritizing ontology leads to political hijacking of their project to further self-interested politics But the battles between the supporters of late critical theory and postmodernism and those of As for the thesis that ecology is not a discourse about nature but interdependent relations 3. Intermittency dooms renewables. William F. Pickard introduces the February 2012 special issue of the Proceedings of the In the aftermath of events such as Love Canal or the Exxon Valdez oil spill No warming- Newest peer review studies prove NASA satellite data from the years 2000 through 2011 show the Earth’s atmosphere is allowing While such are the fantasies only of the most moonstruck extremists, even moderate radicals The environment is sustainable – and cap is critical to solve. The great ecological challenges that our generation faces demands an ecological politics that is generative The growing use of rooftop solar systems are spurring concern that U.S. Corporations thwart your movement Of all the internal controversies Occupy generated, the one over whether the movement should Debate space can’t solve MG: One of your most radical statements is that every educational act is political Environmentalists block everything What do the words "banana," "cave," and "nope" have | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 2NC T SolarTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Solar energy is a broad term that labels the conversion of the radiant energy received Solar power requires energy production- it doesn’t convert solar energy into a useable energy form Discussing governmental actions In a field that lacks consistent Policy is difficult, since boundaries Limits are necessary- the flood gates because everything is powered by solar energy-
The sun is of course the main source of all of the energy that humans We use solar energy in many ways. All day,¶ we use sunlight to | |
| 03/31/2013 | NDT RD 7 1NR CaseTournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: 1NRShively The requirements given thus far are primarily negative. Consequences Power is not a dirty word or an unfortunate feature of the world. It is the core of politics. Power is the ability to effect 3. Utilitarianism precludes any other framework for evaluations, life comes first. To say that human extinction is a certainty would, of course, be a Consequentialism 1NC Whatever the theoretical sweep of the argument advanced by |
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