Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge:
Restrictions are outright prohibitions on production, not consequences of regulatory schemes.
Caiaccio ‘94
(Kevin T., “Are Noncompetition Covenants Among Law Partners Against Public Policy?”, Georgia Law Review, Spring, 28 Ga. L. Rev. 807, Lexis)
The Howard court began its analysis by examining the California Business and Professions Code, which expressly permits reasonable restrictive covenants among business partners. 139 The court noted that this provision had long applied to doctors and accountants and concluded that the general language of the statute provided no indication of an exception for lawyers. 140 After reaching this conclusion, however, the court noted that, since it had the authority to promulgate a higher standard for lawyers, the statute alone did not necessarily control, 141 and the court therefore proceeded to examine the California Rules of Professional Conduct. 142 The court avoided the apparent conflict between the business statute and the ethics rule by undertaking a strained reading of the rule. In essence, the court held that the word "restrict" referred only to outright prohibitions, and that a mere "economic consequence" does not equal a prohibition. 143

Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Environmental apocalypticism causes eco-authoritarianism and mass violence against those deemed environmental threats-~--also causes political apathy which turns case

Buell 3 Frederick—cultural critic on the environmental crisis and a Professor of English at Queens College and the author of five books,  From Apocalypse To Way of Life, pages 185-186

Looked at critically, then,... clearly  terminal “nature.”

Vote neg to reframe environmental crisis away from crisis discourse-~--this moves the debate away from top-down expertism that causes serial policy failure

Foust et al. 8 Christina R. Foust, Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, et al., with William O. Murphy, Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Instructor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, and Chelsea Stow, Doctoral Student and Graduate Teaching Instructor in the Department of Human Communication Studies at the University of Denver, 2008, “Global Warming and Apocalyptic Rhetoric: A Critical Frame Analysis of US Popular and Elite Press Coverage from 1997-2007,” Paper Submitted to the Environmental Communication Division of the National Communication Association Convention in San Diego, 11/20, p. 22-23

In conclusion, we ..... with climate change.

Tournament: NJDDT | Round: Round 4 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The United States federal government should implement a phased, revenue-neutral carbon tax on all domestic production and importation of coal, petroleum, and natural gas.

Carbon tax could be implemented immediately – solves warming and restores US negotiating credibility ensuring international action

Avi-Yonah and Uhlmann’9 (Reuven S. Avi-Yonah is the Irwin I. Cohn Professor of Law and the Director of the International Tax LLM Program at the University of Michigan Law School; David M. Uhlmann is the Jeffrey F. Liss Professor from Practice and the Director of the Environmental Law and Policy Program at the University of Michigan Law School, “Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax Is a Better Response to Global Warming Than Cap and Trade”, Feb, 28 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 3, lexis, CMR)

A more efficient and ... global climate change.

Solves case better - Public backlash turns case

Frye ‘8 – has practiced in the field of federal energy regulation for thirty-one years, in both the public and private sectors, and has served for the last sixteen years as the Senior Attorney in the Office of Commission Appellate Adjudication of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission (Roland M, “THE CURRENT "NUCLEAR RENAISSANCE" IN THE UNITED STATES, ITS UNDERLYING REASONS, AND ITS POTENTIAL PITFALLS”, 29 Energy L. J. 279, lexis, CMR)

The word "trust" is indeed ... lose momentum and die aborning.

Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 4 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Obama’s push secures immigration reform – but sustained spirit of compromise key

Ferraro 3/14 (Thomas, “Senators aim to reach bipartisan immigration deal next week”, 2013, http:~/~/www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/com/article/2013/03/14/us-usa-congress-immigration-idUSBRE92D1B120130314, CMR)

Eight senators aim to cap ... pending immigration bill.

Plan is unpopular--gets sucked into broader nuclear opposition

Rebecca Smith, "Small Reactors Generate Big Hopes," WALL STREET JOURNAL, 2--18--10,

http:~/~/www.generatorsystems.com/pdf/Small%20Reactors%20Generate%20Big%20Hopes%20WSJ%2002-18-2010.pdf

"We see significant benefits ... at about 1,000 megawatts of capacity.

PC is key and finite

Nakamura 2/20 (David, “In interview, Obama says he has a year to get stuff done”, 2013, http:~/~/www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/02/20/in-interview-obama-says-he-has-a-year-to-get-stuff-done/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/02/20/in-interview-obama-says-he-has-a-year-to-get-stuff-done/, CMR)

President Obama‘s said Wednesday he’s ... with Congress on issues from tax reform, budget cuts, immigration reform and gun control.

Immigration reform key to US lead on biotech innovation

Scullion ’13 (Christine, “Manufacturers Take the Lead In STEM Education”, January 8, http:~/~/www.shopfloor.org/2013/01/manufacturers-take-the-lead-in-stem-education/27254url:http://www.shopfloor.org/2013/01/manufacturers-take-the-lead-in-stem-education/27254, CMR)

The U.S. the leading...global innovation leader.

Biotech innovation key to solve bioterror

Chyba and Greninger, 4 - Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford Institute for International Studies, and an Associate Professor at Stanford University

Christopher and Alex, “Biotechnology and Bioterrorism: An Unprecedented World” Survival, 46:2, Summer 2004

In the absence of a comprehensive ... choose to direct their efforts elsewhere.

Extinction

Steinbruner 97 John D. Steinbruner, Brookings senior fellow and chair in international security, vice chair of the committee on international security and arms control of the National Academy of Sciences, Winter 1997, Foreign Policy, “Biological weapons: a plague upon all houses,” n109 p85(12), infotrac

Although human pathogens ...necessarily its outer limit.

Tournament: NJDDT | Round: 2 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The 1AC’s energy security discourse sanitizes global destruction by proliferating symptom-focused solutions to global power imbalances-~--causes cycles of violence that make global warfare and extinction inevitable

Ahmed 11 Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace and Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis, CMR

3. From securitisation to militarisation .., and joined-up policy-making on these issues.

Alternative: vote negative to reject the security discourse of the 1AC.

Critical praxis outweighs policy making- voting affirmative guarantees error replication. Only a radical break from dominant paradigms can avoid becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy

Graeme Cheeseman, Snr. Lecturer @ New South Wales, and Robert Bruce Assoc. Prof in social sciences @ Curtin univ, ‘96 (Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)

This goal is pursued in ways ... understand them, and why?