Lee-Koo Aff

Observation One:  The Earth has a fever
(narrative)

Catastrophic warming causes extinction
Tickel 8 (Oliver, Environmental Researcher, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction,” The Guardian, August 11, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange) [Quals Added]
We need to get prepared for....towards a similar hothouse Earth.

PLAN: NYU affirms this year’s resolution that the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce restrictions on and or substantially increase financial incentives for energy production in the United States. 

Observation Two:  We are violent.  Our embrace of violence guarantees the coming apocalypse  
Wood, distinguished professor at Vanderbilt Univ, 2003 (David, “What is Eco-Phenomenology?,” Eco-Phenomenology, edited by Charles Brown and Ted Toadvine 2003, pgs. 230-231)
We are pissing in the reservoir....other natural phenomena, and complex systems.

Observation Three:  Feed a Fever, Starve a Cold.  Our chances for change are transmitted only by our voice.    We are the prerequisite to change
Veldman, 2012  (Robin Globus, phd candidate B.A and M.A, “Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists” in Ethics & the Environment 17.1.  NG)
A final function of the....motivating environmentally¶ ethical behavior.

Apocalyptic environmental narratives solve individuals moral reasoning about ecological destruction
Veldman, 2012  (Robin Globus, phd candidate B.A and M.A, “Narrating the Environmental Apocalypse: How Imagining the End Facilitates Moral Reasoning Among Environmental Activists” in Ethics & the Environment 17.1)
The observation that people....then helps to convert moral deliberation into action.

Narratives are crucial. If we are to address ecology we must not engage in assumptive practices such as explaining, analyzing, or defining. Rather, it is necessary to engage in matters of describing the essence of our being in the world through the performance of and retelling of stories.
Llewelyn, visiting philosophy professor at Loyola Univ. of Chicago, 2003
(John, “Prolegomena to Any Future Phenomenological Ecology,” Eco-Phenomenology, edited by Charles Brown and Ted Toadvine 2003, pgs. 58-59) at
A philosophical ecology deeper....them in one way or another.

Underview: We must transform our sense of the natural by re-understanding nature
Wood, distinguished professor at Vanderbilt Univ, 2003
(David, “What is Eco-Phenomenology?,” Eco-Phenomenology, edited by Charles Brown and Ted Toadvine 2003, pgs. 221-224)
We have tried so far....as distinct questions of meaning, identity, and value.