Tournament: GSU | Round: 1 | Opponent: GMU KM | Judge: Turner
 

Professor Challenger

Pindar and Sutton, 2k (Ian and Paul, Introduction to The Three Ecologies, p. 1-5)

When he gave the world Professor Challenger, Conan Doyle was already justly famous for

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), so it is only to be expected that the singing has stopped.

Arrogance is an intoxicant-~--the Challengers of the 20^th century greedily ate up all available resources. By creating a society based around fossil fuel consumption, we have shut out considerations of alternatives and normalized a belief in our ability to separate ourselves from natural limitations.

Scheer 7 – Member of the German Parliament, President of the European Association for Renewable Energy EUROSOLAR, Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy WCRE

(Hermann, Energy Autonomy: The economic, social, and technological case for renewable energy pg 204-206, dml)

Ecological thinking needs to be holistic

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they shake their heads until a hair falls in.

This belief in our ability to manage any risk has bottled massive amounts of danger in extra-ordinary complex arrangements—this situation becomes most ominous when we consider a widespread willful disregard for quests to situate our actions and perceptions in new and innovative directions.

Peat, 08 – theoretical physicist, Ph.D., founder of the Pari Centre for New Learning (F. David, “Gentle Action: Surviving Chaos and Change”, http://www.gentleaction.org/library/paper2.php)

Many rapid changes that are taking place around us. These include globalization, developments

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change and engage in those actions that are appropriate to each new situation.

Our whole aff is a plan—problem solving includes policy and planning -~--policy involves an assertion of privileged position from which to hand down a plan—whereas, planning involves an awareness of its situatedness in the process processes that produce problems-~--this allows deeper solutions to complex and multifaceted problem-~--we will not reduce our insight down to a static vision, we will however defend the revolutionary moments we create.

Moten and Harney, 10 – (Fred Moten and Stefano Harney, Policy and Planning, http://www.darkmatter101.org/site/2010/04/19/policy-and-planning/)

The hope that Cornel West wrote about in Social Text in 1984[1]

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 but it’s intelligible if you got a plan.

Life is constantly fighting against the force of entropy-~--the channeling of parts into wholes involves cooperation to overcome competition.   Life and vibrancy will not be sustained with inflexible attitudes that straightjacket us into spiraling cycles of failed control—we should instead embrace the flexibility afforded to us through sustainable ways of thinking about flows of energy in our human-influenced ecosystem -~-- we will defend reliance upon the earth’s current solar input

Guattari, 89 (Felix, The Three Ecologies, p. 43-45)

There is a principle specific to environmental ecology: it states that anything is possible

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 pervasive atmosphere of dullness and passivity.s3

Any analysis that confines itself to a particular means of parsing out knowledge is inadequate to act in the world.   Synthesizing a meta-model out of the insights from policy, philosophy, and ecology gives ontological grounding to a new vision of the world.

Tinnell, 11 – Department of English, University of Florida (John, The Fibreculture Journal, issue 18 2011, FCJ-121 Transversalising the Ecological Turn: Four Components of Felix Guattari’s Ecosophical Perspective, http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/2011/10/09/fcj-121-transversalising-the-ecological-turn-four-components-of-felix-guattari%E2%80%99s-ecosophical-perspective/)

Transversality, as can be surmised Watson’s insightful work on Guattari, moves hand in

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come, or at least, the eco-humanities yet to come.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: MSU HR | Judge: Young

The world doesn’t conform to a model – they need to win that to be an artist you can only color within the lines – you should ask the question of how do they make debate better?  Debate should be about knowledge advancement over accumulation – the ballot should be used to situate the educational value of debate within the larger societal knowledge-building effort, rather than tracing out the debates that have already happened in the literature

Tinnell, 11 – Department of English, University of Florida (John, The Fibreculture Journal, issue 18 2011, FCJ-121 Transversalising the Ecological Turn: Four Components of Felix Guattari’s Ecosophical Perspective, http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/2011/10/09/fcj-121-transversalising-the-ecological-turn-four-components-of-felix-guattari%E2%80%99s-ecosophical-perspective/)

Guattari stipulates that his ecosophical perspective is ‘at once applied and theoretical, ethicopolitical

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…IWC forms massive subjective aggregates. (Guattari, 2008: 33)  

Framework is a re-education camp; by trying to remap our subjectivity, they create a binary assimilation or failure – this inbreeds knowledge until we see creative thinking and advocacy become regurgitation of tired perspectives.  

Kalantzis, 06 – Ph.D., School of History, Philosophy, and Politics, Macquarie University; B.A., History and Linguistics, Macquarie University; Dean, College of Education, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006--, former teacher (Mary, Changing Subjectivities, New Learning,  PEDAGOGIES: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL, 1(1), 7–12,  http://newlearningonline.mu.commongroundpublishing.com/learning-by-design/files/2010/10/PedagogiesArticle.pdf)

Whether it

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alternative pathways and destination points in learning.

Separation of perspectives is an inadequate foundation for thinking – every topic begins with a problem area – by isolating and separating questions of philosophy, ecology, and policy within that problem area, the explanations we use to craft strategies are limited by the scope of inquiry.

Webb and Gulson, 12 – University of British Columbia, Canada AND University of New South Wales, Australia (P. Taylor and Kalervo, Policy prolepsis in education: Encounters, becomings, and phantasm, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, 33:1, 87-99)

Up until the 1980s, it was commonly assumed that education policy represented the implementation

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the status quo (e.g., regulate, standardize, cement). 

Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: MSU HR | Judge: Young

Everything is political – generalized models of politics fail to capture the multitude of subjectivities existing within it – beginning from the micro-level is a better form of political engagement

Read 8 – Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern Maine

(Jason, “The Full Body: Micro-Politics and Macro-Entities”, review of DeLanda, Manuel (2006) A New Philosophy of Society: Assemblage Theory and Social Complexity, Deleuze Studies. Volume 2, Page 220-228, dml)

In response to this tendency

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constitute the individual to global networks.

Key issue – none of their evidence is very good on how macropolitics works – political engagement is not the issue, politics is infinitely more complex than their reductionist representation

CLAUDE 1988 (Inis, Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia, States and the Global System, pages 18-20)

This view of the state as an institutional monolith

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and that they sometimes claim.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: MSU HR | Judge: Young

Making energy debates solely a question of price causes tunnel vision that blinds us to ongoing catastrophes and potential alternatives

Scheer 7 – Member of the German Parliament, President of the European Association for Renewable Energy EUROSOLAR, Chairman of the World Council for Renewable Energy WCRE

(Hermann, Energy Autonomy: The economic, social, and technological case for renewable energy pg 150-151, dml)

Reducing all questions exclusively to

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principle into organized social irresponsibility.

Point predictions are untrue and bad for policymaking

Bernstein et al, 2k (Steven Bernstein., Richard Ned Lebow, Janice Gross Stein and Steven Weber, University of Toronto, The Ohio State University, University of Toronto and University of California at Berkeley. “God Gave Physics the Easy Problems” European Journal of International Relations 2000; 6; 43.)

Wars - to continue with the same example

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when done in past or future time.5

Tournament: GSU | Round: 3 | Opponent: MSU HR | Judge: Young
The 1AC was not merely words and arguments, it was an experience – the counterplan is an attempt to reappropriate the absolute alterity encountered in the 1AC for a specific goal which is a reason it does not solve and makes the 1AC a disad

Deleuze and Guattari 80 (Gilles and Felix, philosophers and rhizomes, A Thousand Plateaus pg 376-378, dml)

But noology is confronted by counterthoughts

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and innumerable tracings that claim to be their equal.

You should evaluate the ontological strategy of the 1AC prior to the discourse it uses – language does not represent an idea, it expresses a fluid strategy – the distinction is between what language means vs what it does – even if they win the language we use has adverse meanings, its effect on the world serves to liberate dualisms means we solve the net benefit

Strathausen 10 (Carsten Strathausen is Associate Professor of German and English at the University of Missouri. His first book was The Look of Things: Poetry and Vision around 1900 (University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Carsten is the editor of A Leftist Ontology (University of Minnesota Press, 2009), and the translator of Boris Groys' Under Suspicion: A Phenomenology of the Media (forthcoming 2011, Columbia University Press). He has also published numerous essays on culture, philosophy, and intellectual history and is currently completing a book project on The Aesthetics of New Media, “Epistemological Reflections on Minor Points in Deleuze”, Theory and Event Volume 13, Issue 4, dml)

For Deleuze, language does not represent

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cannot account for this potentiality of language.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: Dartmouth CL | Judge: Collins

What is material?  The affirmative disagrees with their representation of economics as a monocausal explanation for how power functions – the world is a collection of differences and attempting to impose a singular model of knowing on it paradoxically makes analysis impossible

Manuel DeLanda, 1997, Adjunct Associate Professor – Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation – Columbia University, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, p. 46-8

Even in this age of huge multinational corporations, the command element in the commercial

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to a certain segment of the population of commercial and industrial institutions.63

Ethical judgments about capitalism in the abstract should be avoided – its complete abandonment is neither possible nor desirable – an insistence on meshwork alternatives will result in worse forms of oppression

Manuel DeLanda, 1997, Adjunct Associate Professor – Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation – Columbia University, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, p. 66-70

Thus, much as sedimentary rocks, biological species, and social hierarchies are all

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keys to understanding sedimentary humanity, igneous humanity, and all their mixtures.

Our alternative is to reject their representation of homogenous capitalist system in which we are all cogs – Our discursive rejection is key to a new hope in transforming economic institutions

Manuel DeLanda, 1997, Adjunct Associate Professor – Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation – Columbia University, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History, p. 266-274

When we think that the majority of equations used in science are linear and that

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destinies," not the death of humanity and its potential for destratifications.19

Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: Dartmouth CL | Judge: Collins

All our offense on switch-side debate applies here – agonism presupposes clear boundaries between subject-positions and demarcations in the debate – but subjects are always interconnected – they try to shut out certain subjectivities which prevents genuine encounters with difference – only we force a confrontation with difference that does not try to assimilate it – this proves that debate isn’t key to access this

Christensen-Scheel 12 – Faculty of Technology, Art, and Design at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Science

(Boel, “The ethic-aesthetic way of wonders”, InFormation Vol 1 no 1, pg 19-38, dml)

The reactivating of social space without closing the personal space is a key aspect in

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partnership (Begon, Townsend and Harper, 2006, p. 381). 

Tournament: GSU | Round: 6 | Opponent: Dartmouth CL | Judge: Collins

Switch-side debate is inclusive exclusion – fairness and predictability are products of predetermined concepts about how debate should be – their framework is an attempt to overcode subjectivity, and maybe we should deterritorialize that map of a curriculum.

Reid-Brinkley, 12 (Transcription of Dr. Shanara Reid-Brinkley lecturing WGA DF in November 2011, Carrollton, GA, Fairness, Predictability and Knowledge-Making Practices, http://resistanceanddebate.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/fairness-predictability-and-knowledge-making-practices-2/)

I think one of the smartest arguments I saw Louisville (around 2008) make

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expansion or complication of what we consider as the available area of research.

Tournament: GSU | Round: 7 | Opponent: Emory LM | Judge: Quigley
We are liquid learners – allows us to be influenced by others

Barnett, 12 – Emeritus Professor of Higher Education at the Institute of Education at the University of London (Roland, “The Coming of the Ecological Learner”, TRANSITIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS IN LEARNING AND EDUCATION pg 15-17, Springer ebook)

One dimension of this fragility is the world’s interconnectedness. We know the linguistic signs

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learning wellbeing and also of interconnecting with wider societal and global learning endeavours.

diversity, even when conflicting, should be allowed to influence our models positively

Lewis and Dehler, 2k (Marianne W. Lewis, PhD, associate professor of management at the University of Cincinnati, and Gordon E. Dehler, Gordon E. Dehler, PhD, Associate Professor, The College of Charleston, School of Business and Economics, Department of Management and Entrepreneurship “Learning through Paradox: A Pedagogical Strategy for Exploring Contradictions and Complexity,” Journal of Management Education 2000 24: 708, pdf)

Writing in the context of diversity, Gallos (1997) referred to the “

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a level of comfort and order that enables students to explore and learn.

We should challenge dominant structures from within – even if they seem to coopt our criticism, that sows the seeds for the breakdown of dominant paradigms.

Triadafilopoulos 10 (Triadafilos; Assistant Professor of Political Science – University of Toronto, “Global Norms, Domestic Institutions and the Transformation of Immigration Policy in Canada and the US,” Review of International Studies, 36)

The concept of stretching speaks to the durability of governance paradigms and their propensity to

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from policy unravelling to shifting, during which new policies were institutionalised.21

The notion that escape or rejection must be absolute is profoundly debilitating in imagining desirable alternatives

Day ‘5 Richard, professor in the department of global development at Queen's University “Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements” http://www.scribd.com/doc/19280772/Gramsci-is-Dead

In closing this chapter, I want to make it clear that I am not

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but also always present, as no community can be sustained without them.

Don’t divide people into categories – this is an impact turn to identity categories – it makes resistance against colonialism impossible – we need identities that slip through the cracks, that can’t be pinned down

Tsianos et al. ‘8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21^st Century” Pluto Press

To escape policing and start doing politics necessitates dis-identi- fication - the

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is always here because it is non-literal, witty and hopeful.

The 1NC focus on neo-colonial violence obscures the way in which it is the very struggle against colonialism plays into the hands of the interests of transnational capital. Resistance couched in these terms can only define itself in the negative, insinuating a reactionary melancholy that undoes the force of subversion

Tsianos et al. ‘8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21^st Century” Pluto Press

It has been argued that United States foreign policy during the Bush administration is serving

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). Subversion then becomes the constitutive outside of what it tries to negate.

Melancholy negates the will to act – it makes us slaves of the powerful and makes our fears of death absurd – vote negative to reject the salvation morality

Deleuze and Parnet ‘87

famous philosopher, Professor of Philosophy at the Sorbonne, Dialogues II, European Perspectives, with Claire Parnet, freelance journalist, translated by Hugh Tomlinson and Barbara Habberjam, 2002 pgs.61-62

When Spinoza says 'The surprising thing is the body ... we do not yet know

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of salvation, teaching to soul its life, not to save it.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 2 | Opponent: WGA GM | Judge: Culp
The 1NC falsely assumed a priori that power is a substance which can be characterized in a certain way and then attempts to assign it particular characteristics based on certain underlying trend. This is a conceptual error akin to saying that ‘a wind is made of dry leaves’ or actually believing ‘there is never any objections to the government in dictatorships’. Power is not a substance but rather a movement through actant objects and is almost always negotiable and the thinner it’s stretched the weaker it gets. Rather than resent bureaucratic forms of thought we should admire it for its venal flaws

Harman ‘9 Graham, professor of philosophy American University of Cairo, “Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics” p. 21-22

It is never the actant in naked purity that possesses force, but only

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of the hand. Harmony is a result, not a guiding principle.

The permutation solves – we should not identify identity in static categories – instead affirming an ontology of becoming allows us to formulate true resistance

Tormey 6

(Simon Tormey, Politics at University of Nottingham, Parliamentary Affairs 2006 59(1): 138-154, dml)

As opposed to the ‘majoritarian’ logic of ontology, an ontology of becoming involves

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representation move beyond the ‘singular’ towards the collective, if it does?

Their movement fails – identity struggles serve to reaffirm violent power struggles – only an ontology of becoming solves

Tormey 6

(Simon Tormey, Politics at University of Nottingham, Parliamentary Affairs 2006 59(1): 138-154, dml)

As is clear, ‘normativity’ is underpinned here by ontological rather than epistemological considerations

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or ‘nomadic’ forms of thought to think how they might be developed.

We are students performing distinct pedagogies –despair and hopeless prevents social change and destroys value to life. Vote aff to endorse hope – this is an ethical action that is a precursor to all forms of political change

Denzin prof soc, comm, and humanities @ U Illinois urbana-champagne 2k3 (Norman, “Performing Auto Ethnography Politically” The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 25:257–278, www.citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.167.4086)

HOPE, PEDAGOGY, AND THE CRITICAL IMAGINATION As an interventionist ideology the critical imagination

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lives, to become active agents in shaping the history that shapes them.

Our criticism impact-turns their prioritization arguments -- placing emphasis on certain identity category as necessary for resistance represents a political cul-de-sac that makes liberation impossible and re-entrenches the harms they describe

Day ‘5 Richard, professor in the department of global development at Queen's University “Gramsci is Dead: Anarchist Currents in the Newest Social Movements” http://www.scribd.com/doc/19280772/Gramsci-is-Dead

This observation is based on a few scattered passages in Empire, but is refl

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forces cannot produce anything that will look like change to you at all.

Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 5 | Opponent: MoState RT | Judge: Elliott

Added these cards

Solar power need not eat up finite resources -~-- technology can dialogue with nature

Martin-Palmaab and Lakhtakiaac, 12 – Raúl J. Martín-Palmaab* and Akhlesh Lakhtakiaac (Engineered biomimicry for harvesting solar energy: a bird's eye view, Taylor and Francic)

All three methodologies of engineered biomimicry – bioinspiration, biomimetics, and bioreplication – are

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witness increased activity with all three methodologies as well as industrial adoption.

Sustainable lifestyles require sustainable technologies – biomimetic solar power prioritizes coexistence with nature over separation and rigidity.

Johnson, 10 – received her PhD from the University of Minnesota for doctoral work that focused on the political and social implications of “biomimicry,” an emerging field within which scientists reverse engineer biological traits for technological production (Elizabeth R. Johnson, Reinventing biological life, reinventing ‘the human’, Ephemera Journal volume 10(2): 177-193)

This is not all, however, as according to Benyus,

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good for the living Earth is good for us as well’ (ibid).

Tournament:  | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Permutation do both

Only DOE has authority

And, 50 state fiat is a voting issue – no decision makers controls state policy, kills logic which justifies infinite intrinsicness – no solvency advocate kills fairness and undermines core research skills – kills real world education

Federal guarantees are vital to getting investors on board – superior credit rating

Sullivan and Walsh, 8 - Mary Anne Sullivan, partner in Hogan and Hartson's energy practice, has more than 25 years of experience as an energy lawyer. She previously served as general counsel of the U.S. Department of Energy and as deputy general counsel for environment and nuclear programs. Sam Walsh is an associate at Hogan and Hartson (“Federal Loan Guarantees,” Electric Light and Power, Mar/April, ABI Inform)

In their rulemaking comments, Wall Street firms emphasized that a loan guarantee must represent

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, absent fraud or material misrepresentation by the holder of a guaranteed obligation.

State incentives fail – federal loan guarantees attract substantially more investment capital

NEI, 11 – Nuclear Energy Institute  “Issues in Focus Loan Guarantees For Clean Energy Development” http://www.google.com/url?sa=tandrct=jandq=andesrc=sandsource=webandcd=2andved=0CCkQFjABandurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nei.org%2Ffilefolder%2Floanguaranteefastfacts.pdfandei=PCJsUNTiJKbA2gXymYAgandusg=AFQjCNEzvSlK0TiMZStFOzXeQDIf76vQBw)

 State governments are doing their part. Many of the states where new nuclear

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power plants by providing financing support and/or assurance of investment recovery.

Doesn’t solve the case – restrictions are codified in federal law – prevents the requisite licensing, means the cp fails to cause commercialization – that’s 1ac Martin AND

MIT, 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Nuclear Energy Research and Development Roadmap: Report to Congress”, April 2010, http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/nuclear-engineering/22-033-nuclear-systems-design-project-fall-2011/readings/MIT22_033F11_read_core_doe.pdf

 In the United States, it is the responsibility of industry to design,

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initiatives that bear directly on the development and deployment of new reactor systems.

Congress key

Fertel, 05 - Senior Vice President And Chief Nuclear Officer Nuclear Energy Institute (Marvin, CQ Congressional Testimony, “NUCLEAR POWER'S PLACE IN A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY,” 4/28, lexis) //DH

Industry and government will be prepared to meet the demand for new emission-free

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policy challenges-like waste management-that arise with all advanced technologies.

Perm do both – state action provides cover and acts like a mandate for Obama

Can’t solve nuclear leadership – not perceived

Fertel, 05 - Senior Vice President And Chief Nuclear Officer Nuclear Energy Institute (Marvin, CQ Congressional Testimony, “NUCLEAR POWER'S PLACE IN A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY,” 4/28, lexis) //DH

Industry and government will be prepared to meet the demand for new emission-free

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policy challenges-like waste management-that arise with all advanced technologies.

Counterplan makes investors uncertain – federal backing necessary to give grounding to claims and for investors to follow through with loan construction – that’s Bowman and Lyash

A. Federal licensing

Wallace, 05  - President , Constellation Generation Group (Mike, CQ Congressional Testimony, “NUCLEAR POWER 2010 INITIATIVE,” 4/26, lexis)//DH

The Department of Energy's Nuclear Power 2010 program is a necessary, but not sufficient

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is a necessary and appropriate investment in U.S. energy security.

B. Continued funding and support

NEI, ‘8

“Building Confidence in Licensing New U.S. Nuclear Plants,” Jan/Feb,

http:~/~/nei.org/resourcesandstats/publicationsandmedia/newslettersandreports/nuclearpolicyoutlook/http://nei.org/resourcesandstats/publicationsandmedia/newslettersandreports/nuclearpolicyoutlook/(% style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" %)

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part of the expansion of the U.S. nuclear power sector.

States can’t provide that – they’re broke

The Hill 6/12 (“Report: Medicaid costs squeezing state budgets” June 12th, 2012, http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/medicaid/232283-report-medicaid-costs-squeezing-state-budgets%20-)

The poor economy and rising healthcare costs are driving up states' expenditures on Medicaid,

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past few decades,” said Scott Pattison, the group's executive director. ¶

Tournament: Wake | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Nuclear power has tons of political support.

Koplow, ‘11

Doug, founder of Earth Track, Inc., has worked on natural resource subsidy issues for more than 20 years, mainly in the energy sector, holds a B.A. in economics from Wesleyan University, M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, Union of Concerned Scientists, February, “Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable Without Subsidies,” http://www.ucsusa.org/assets/documents/nuclear_power/nuclear_subsidies_report.pdf

The industry and its allies are now pressuring all levels of government for large new

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that made—and continue to make—the existing nuclear fleet possible.

Independently, nuclear power is an effective stimulus

Somsel 9 January 23, 2009, “Productive stimulus: Fast-track nuclear power”, By Joseph Somsel, MBA from California Polytechnic University, nuclear engineer, broad work background in the nuclear power industry and in the overall electric utility business, currently involved in entrepreneurial development of niche electrical generating sources in California and Colorado

So unemployment is rising in the US and the pace of economic growth has turned

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to fill it in. This plan just defaults to regular government work.

Not sufficient political capital to negotiate fiscal cliff

The Washington Times November 7, 2012 “EDITORIAL: Obama: A lame-duck president” http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/nov/7/obama-a-lame-duck-president-lack-of-convincing-man/

When it comes to America’s problems, there will be no slowdown. The hard

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. Obama a lame duck simply affirms what has been true all along.

No ‘fiscal cliff’ deal

Dave Michaels (writer for the Dallas Morning News) November 7, 2012 “Divided Congress faces immediate danger of fiscal cliff”http://www.dallasnews.com/business/headlines/20121107-divided-congress-faces-immediate-danger-of-fiscal-cliff.ece

But Democrats, who want to let the tax cuts expire for top earners,

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solutions enacted in 2013 to begin to solve the problem,” Boehner said.

No compromise – they will delay it

Michael Neibauer (writer for the Washington Business Journal) November 7, 2012 “Congress likely to try to defer sequestration” http://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/2012/11/congress-likely-try-to-defer.html?page=all

Rather than attempt to squeeze a compromise out of a lame-duck session,

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agreement, with the hard work of tax reform to span across 2013."

Wind energy tax credit will create a fight now

 Peter Schorsch (Executive Editor of SaintPetersblog and President of Extensive Enterprises Online, LLC) November 8, 2012 “Lawmakers face a busy lame duck session” http://saintpetersblog.com/2012/11/lawmakers-face-a-busy-lame-duck-session/

Wind energy tax credits: “After simmering for the better part of this year

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are at striking a deal to extend a wide range of tax extenders.”

Peace process thumps ‘fiscal cliff’

Mitchell Bard (writer for Fox News) November 8, 2012 “ Will the Middle East derail Obama’s agenda?” http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2012/11/08/will-middle-east-derail-obamas-agenda/

President Obama was reelected with a clear priority to improve the economy, but it

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him to expend political capital he needs to win fights over the economy.

Sandy aid thumps ‘fiscal cliff’

David Dayen (writer for FDR – FireDogLake) November 9, 2012 “Lame Duck Congress Has Lots of Work to Do Even Without Fiscal Slope” http://news.firedoglake.com/2012/11/09/lame-duck-congress-has-lots-of-work-to-do-even-without-fiscal-slope/

But perhaps the most important lame duck session item at this point is an immediate

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cliff that can be managed for months before having a legitimate economic impact.

No impact – their evidence is political posturing

Taylor Marsh October 25, 2012 “Move to Stop Obama s Bad Lame Duck Entitlement Deal has Already Begun” Lexis

It is known in Washington as the fiscal cliff. But policy and economic analysts

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stop a deal in the lame duck. The effort has already begun.

Obama not key – industry lobbyists outweigh

The Hotline October 24, 2012 “Panic Cliff” Lexis

Lobbyists Play While Congress Is Away The "50 largest lobbying spenders together spent"

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it has had on what they see as a sullen and disenchanted electorate."

PC not key

Klein, 3/19/12 The Unpersuaded Who listens to a President? by Ezra com/magazine/bios/ezra_klein/search?contributorName=ezra%20klein(%%) March 19, 2012, Ezra Klein is the editor of Wonkblog and a columnist at the Washington Post, as well as a contributor to MSNBC and Bloomberghttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/19/120319fa_fact_klein#ixzz1p36PrMbH

This, Edwards says, is the reality facing modern Presidents, and one they

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can’t solve that with a speech.

And, PC splits congress and backfires

Klein, 3/19/12 The Unpersuaded Who listens to a President? by Ezra com/magazine/bios/ezra_klein/search?contributorName=ezra%20klein(%%) March 19, 2012, Ezra Klein is the editor of Wonkblog and a columnist at the Washington Post, as well as a contributor to MSNBC and Bloomberghttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/03/19/120319fa_fact_klein#ixzz1p36PrMbH

The experience helped to … have the perverse effect of making it harder for him to govern. 

Tournament: Wake | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Prefer util

Cumminsky 90 – Professor of Philosophy, Bates (David, Kantian Consequentialism, Ethics 100.3, p 601-2, p 606, jstor)

We must not obscure the issue by characterizing this type of case as the sacrifice

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consideration of conduct, one's own subjective concerns do not have overriding importance.

Framework – the k needs to prove the whole plan is bad– any other interp moots aff offense and decreases policy education

No root cause– prefer proximate causes

Moore, 04 John Norton, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia He formerly served as the first Chairman of the Board of the United States Institute of Peace and as the Counselor on International Law to the Department of State, Winter, “Beyond the Democratic Peace: Solving the War Puzzle”, 44 Va. J. Int'l L. 341, Lexis Law

If major interstate war is predominantly a product of a synergy between a potential nondemocratic

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dependent on their solution may doom us to war for generations to come.

Permutation do both

Massive nuclear incentives just passed

Yurman ’12 (Nuclear energy RandD budgets spared major cuts Posted on January 5, 2012 by dyurman| 3 Comments Congress trims funding while adding new priorities By Dan Yurman Dan Yurman, nuclear blogger Dan Yurman publishes Idaho Samizdat, a blog about nuclear energy, and is a frequent contributor to ANS Nuclear Cafe.

A Congress that has public approval ratings in the single digits because of deficit-

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D on SMR concepts that presumably would include some fast reactor work scope.  

Anti-nuclear opposition is directly responsible for the spread of lethal coal fired plants throughout the US and the world; their alternative attempts to be the arbiter and enforcer of environmental purity which simply re-affirms the structural forces that make “black trash” possible in the form of Coal pollution and the looming risk of global warming

King ‘9 - Host and Executive Producer of “White House Chronicle” — a news and public affairs program airing on PBS

After 40 Years, Environmentalists Start To See the Nuclear Light, Llewellyn King, November 25, 2009 – 8:47 pm

Although very little happened, Nov. 24 was a red letter day for the

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has cost the environment 40 years when it comes to reducing greenhouse gases.

Failure to engage with market mechanisms only reproduces the worst parts of the status quo – only working with the world as it is renders another world possible

Bryant 12—professor of philosophy at Collin College (Levi, We’ll Never Do Better Than a Politician: Climate Change and Purity, 5/11/12, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/well-never-do-better-than-a-politician-climate-change-and-purity/)

However, pointing this out and deriding market based solutions doesn’t get us very far

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there’s no way around this, and we do need to act now.

There is no alternative to capitalism or a clear transition

Kliman, 4 – PhD, Professor of Economics at Pace University

(Andrew, Andrew Kliman’s Writings, “Alternatives to Capitalism: What Happens After the Revolution?” http://akliman.squarespace.com/writings/)

Have we faced the harsh reality that, unless the inseparability between

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a good reason for choosing one path into the future rather than another.”

Vagueness means the alt doesn’t solve

Grossberg 92 – Communication Studies Professor, UNC (Lawrence, We Gotta Get Out of This Place, p 388-90)

If it is capitalism that is at stake, our moral opposition to it has

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context to effectively organize people, and too vague to provide any direction.

Vague alts are a voter—infinite economic systems bypass aff offense, hurting effective cost-benefit analysis—we can’t defend capitalism in a vacuum. Utopian advocacies rig the game towards the neg—voting aff sets a vital precedent

Case is a timeframe disad to the alt—war is inevitable now, even if the alt solves, it doesn’t solve fast enough

Cap solves the environment—history is on our side

Bhagwati 4 – Economics Professor, Columbia (Jagdish, In Defense of Globalization, p 144-5, AG)

The belief that specific pollutants, such as sulfur dioxide, resulting from increased economic

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, and the reduced deforestation of United States compared to a century ago.

Perm—do the plan and all non-mutually exclusive parts of the alternative—if the alt overcomes the status quo, the perm overcomes the link

Capitalism fosters innovation that’s vital to overcoming resource shortages

Smith, 93 (Fred L., Jr., President and Founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, The Market and Nature, September, http://cei.org/gencon/019,03108.cfm)

The prophets of sustainability have consistently predicted an end to the world’s abundant resources,

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increase of political control over physical resources and new technologies only increases the likel

Cap isn’t the root cause of war

MacKenzie 3—prof of economics at Coast Guard Academy. Former prof of economics at Kean. BA in Economics and Management Science at Kean. MA  in Economics from U Connecticut. PhD in economics from George mason (DW, “Does Capitalism Require War?,” 7 April 2003, http:~/~/mises.org/story/1201url:http://mises.org/story/1201(% style="font-size:8.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:7.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Garamond" %),)

Perhaps the oddest aspect of these various, but similar, claims is that their

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by destroying existing wealth. There is no sound reason to think otherwise.

Capitalism is sustainable – no alternative

Rogoff, 12/23/11Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and was formerly chief economist at the IMF. Is Modern Capitalism Sustainable?, http:~/~/www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2011/december/article/is-modern-capitalism-sustainable/http://www.namibian.com.na/news/full-story/archive/2011/december/article/is-modern-capitalism-sustainable/(%%)

CAMBRIDGE – I am often asked if the recent global financial crisis marks the beginning

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might not seem so secure in a few decades as it seems now.

The alternative causes transition wars and extinction

Kothari, 82 Professor of political science at University of Delhi, “Towards a Just Social Order”, p. 571

Attempts at global economic reform could also lead to a world racked by increasing turbulence

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regimes, encouraging regional conflagrations and setting the stage for eventual global holocaust.

Cap solves war—causes economic, not military competition

Gartzke 5—Former associate prof of pol sci, Columbia. Former associate prof of pol sci, USCD. PhD in International Relations, Formal/Quantitative Methods from U Iowa (Erik, “Future Depends on Capitalizing on Capitalist Peace,” 1 October 2005, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5133,)

With terrorism achieving "global reach" and conflict raging in Africa and the Middle

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anti-market activists may distract the developed nations from this historic opportunity. 

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This wasn't us.  I'm guessing someone accidentally posted HL's cites or something onto our wiki.  Keeping it here for the time being so the info isn't lost but it's not accurate info about the aff.