Baez-Minton Neg

Cap K

The ideology of the market has infiltrated discussions of both climate and renewable energy- the affirmatives endorsement of economic incentives maintains social hegemony and dismisses discussions of non-economic evaluations- this makes criticisms of capitalism impossible.
Harriss-White 2006
"Capitalism: The Market...or perhaps ever."

FiTs are a regressive tax, increasing income inequality

Nelson, Simshauser, & Kelley 11 (Tim, Paul, Simon – AGL Energy Inc., http://www.eap-journal.com/archive/v41_i2_01-nelson.pdf)
"We have argued...afford such systems.” 

Focus on subjective violence and easily identifiable flashpoints of conflict misses the boat – only focusing on the background or objective violence can solve root cause – cannot be viewed from the same stand point – the call to act will be strong but responding creates a stop-gap which prevents engaging in criticisms of capital  
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 1-4 
If there is a unifying … distance out of respect towards its victims.

Resisting reliance on economic evaluation is the ultimate ethical responsibility – the current social order guarantees social exclusion on a global scale 
Zizek and Daly 2k4 (Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 14-16)
For Zizek it is imperative … in an otherwise sound matrix.
Market based approaches make ecological capitalism impossible – their reliance on economic incentives assures fast warming and extinction 
Harriss-White, Professor of Development Studies, Oxford, 2006  Barbara Undermining Sustainable Capitalism: The Market-Driven Politics of Renewable Energy socialistregister.com/socialistregister.com/files/ecolbhweh19Oct06.doc
Fossil energy underwrites and saturates … poor people tread with small ecological footprints.

Demand for urgency is a product of hypocritical outrage meant to extend the privilege of global capitalism – our alternative is to do nothing in the face of the affirmative  
Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 6-8
Let’s think abou t … what causes this violence.

2NC Cards

The affirmative is a politics of fear – they may win that this method motivates a depoliticized society – but this form of motivation is incompatible with progressive politics

Zizek 2008 Slavoj Violence p 40-41
Today’s predominant mode of … a safe distance from others. 

NEGATIVITY IS A PREREQUISITE 
Zizek, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana 1999 Slavoj, The Ticklish Subject, page 153-154
It would therefore be tempting …  newly emerged Master-Signifier.

Permutation doesn't solve- it supplements the system it doesn't disturb.
Zizek 2008
"The wordless character...a change within it."

One should renounce strategies of synthesis – instead radical criticism must assert that contradictions are irreducible – we should celebrate the gap between thesis and anti-thesis not try to fill it with constructed synthesis 
Zizek in 2006 Slavoj, The Parallax View, The Symptom Volume 7, spring, http://www.lacan.com/zizparallax.htm 
In his formidable Transcritique,…subject with transcendental illusion: 

Concerns for conservatives reaction to the plan is anti-politics.

Dean, Associate Professor of Political Theory at Hobart & William Smith, 2005 Jodi, Zizek against Democracy, jdeanicite.typepad.com/i_cite/files/zizek_against_ democracy_new_version.doc – 
Not surprisingly, this superficial … destroy the displaced element

UTIL
Risk the impossible- the system of capital creates an ethical dilemma because it seems that all action outside of its confines will necessarily fail-ethics will never be political if we don't insist on risking the impossible of a successful revolution against capitalism-we radically restructure the ethico-political imagination to include the possibility of successful actions against domination.
Zizek and Daly 2k4
"For Zizek, a confrontation...from the political self."

The search for the greatest good is the opposite of our ethical imperative their framing results in paralysis due to the infinite number of considerations that come from utilitarianism.
Donahue 2001
"Indeed, Lcan's ethical imperative...cannot be universalized."

Cap is the Root CAuse of their impacts
Zizek 2008
"There is an old...the situation of capital."

ENVIRONMENT
sustainable cap is impossible- the market prevents environmentally friendly politics.
Harriss-White 2006
"market-driven politics...reflection of the fiction"

Corporate control of the environment means that capitalism assures fast warming.
Zizek 1999
"this already brings us..and more depoliticized."

Framework

A) INTERPRETATION –the affirmative must have a firm advocacy that defends instrumental implementation by the United States federal government of a topical plan.

1. The topic is defined by the phrase following the colon—the USFG is the agent of the resolution, not the individual debaters
   Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing 2k 

2. Resolved proves the framework for the resolution is to enact a policy.
Wordsand Phrases 1964Permanent Edition
Definition of the word “resolve,” given by Webster is “to express an opinion or determination by resolution or vote; as ‘it was resolved by the legislature;”It is of similar force to the word “enact,” which is defined by Bouvier as meaning “to establish by law”. 

3.‘Should’denotes an expectation the aff will be enacted.
American Heritage Dictionary 2k
Used to express probability or expectation

4.The USFG is the government in Washington D.C.
Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2k http://encarta.msn.com
“The federal government of the United States is centered in Washington DC”

B.  Violation:  the aff doesn’t defend instrumental action by the United States federal government.

C. Vote neg
Competition – we should construct debate as a site for agonistic conflict. They make debate impossible by channeling our strategy into their weak points.
Yovel 3
(Jonathan Yovel  Yale Law School; University of Haifa - Faculty of Law Cardozo Law Review, Vol. 24, pp. 635-662, 2003  HALF-WRITTEN LAWS: NIETZSCHE AND LEGAL THEORY, Peter Goodrich and Mariana Velvedere, eds., Routledge 2005 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=950742)

While reactive forces respond to their context and in this way are dictated by them, active forces find their own mediums for action. There is a catch, however..are the toughest ones.

B. Arbitrary interpretations are inevitable and good; we must enforce and interpretations grounded in the community to allow for agonism
Ramaeker 01 STEFAN RAMAEKERS assistant professor at Laboratory for Education and Society Journal of Philosophy 0f Education, Vol. 35, No. 2, 2001 “Teaching to Lie and Obey: Nietzsche on Education “http:www.wehavephotoshop.com/PHILOSOPHY%20NOW/PHILOSOPHY/Nietzsche/Nietzsche%20On%20Education.pdf
Much as one values Nietzsche...judging from a particular point of view.

2.  Extra T:  Even if the Aff claims to expand visa policy they claim benefits from the personal advocacy which allows them unpredictable advantages like spike outs.  Independent voter for competitive equity.

3.  Ground rooted in tradition is a prerequisite to political engagement—
Arendt, 2k5 (Hannah, The Promise of Politics , p. 41-2)
It lies in the nature of a tradition to be accepted..spreads a veil of meaninglessness over all spheres of modern life. 

4.  Aff conditionality: The affirmative’s advocacy statement is unclear whether or not it includes USFG action.  This allows 2AC clarification which destroys our ability to get stable offence in the 1NC.  Any uncertainly over whether they meet our interpretation is not a risk that they meet but a reason to reject for Aff conditionality.  Independent voter for competitive equity.

5. We shouldn’t ascribe a telos to debate.  It doesn’t change anything in the real world all the education can be gained from reading, the value to debate is the aesthetics of the struggle
Lane 96 Robert D. Lane, Classics, Philosophy, and Religious Studies/ Institute of Practical Philosophy  Vancouver Island University “The Absurd Hero” http://records.viu.ca/www/ipp/absurd.htm
Sisyphus is the absurd hero...abstractions or 'absolutes'."

T v. UMKC JW Trauma AFF

A. Interpretation- Restrictions are limiting measures. 

Google Definitions:
re·stric·tion
noun /riˈstrikSHən/ 
restrictions, plural

A limiting condition or measure, esp. a legal one
- planning restrictions on commercial development

The limitation or control of someone or something, or the state of being limited or restricted
- the restriction of local government power
Specifically, “restrictions on” refer to measures that reduce

Princeton WordNet (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=restricting)
S: (v) restrict, curtail, curb, cut back (place restrictions on) "curtail drinking in school"

2. Remove means to eliminate-
Merriam-Webster Dictionary. (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/remove. )
re·move: to get rid of : eliminate

Violation – The aff affirms a court decision, but it does not remove restrictions. This measure can only risk resulting in a decrease of nuclear power.
Limits –Thousands of court cases exist. Too much to research. 

Topical coherence – Volume of production ensures a cogent topic, requiring the aff incentive or regulation to affect the volume, not simply the nature of, production. If the aff is allowed to simply be “production-y” in the restriction area, the topic isn’t unified and we’re really debating two different topics.
Reduce restrictions is already powerful – The ability of the aff to take a negative state action by removing government measures already evades most disads and generates no specific, new ground. Combining that with no requirement to affect the topic outcome means too much aff power. 

The plan text itself is not functional, to affirm a supreme court decision means nothing in the world of policymaking. This means any clarification of the plan text or the aff makes them extra topical. At best the aff only reinforces a restriction which makes it untopical because it doesn’t remove a restriction or to provide incentives. 

Extra T- their discussion of trauma is an extra facet of the plan that is unassociated with the plan text this allows them to access extra advantages which is abusive and an independent voter.
T is a VI for competitive equity. 

POST POLITICS

POST POLITICS STIFLES SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL TRAJECTORY CHANGE

Swyngedouw, '6
[Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. “Impossible 'Sustainability' and the Post-Political Condition.” Forthcoming in: Sustainable Development. Eds. David Gibbs and Rob Krueger. Sep. 2006. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. <http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc>.]
"Slavoj Žižek and Chantal Mouffe...(cfr animal lib movement in the UK)." 

CONSENSUS EQUALS SCAPEGOATING

Swyngedouw, '6
[Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. “Impossible 'Sustainability' and the Post-Political Condition.” Forthcoming in: Sustainable Development. Eds. David Gibbs and Rob Krueger. Sep. 2006. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. <http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc>.  myost]
Undesirable sustainability: Environmental Politics as Post-politics

"Although there may be no Nature,...shall turn to next."

Eco-apartheid fosters human separation from nature, which is the root of environmental destruction, social oppression, and makes extinction inevitable. Your capital-based technological solution as a response to energy and the environment only makes the problem worse and deepens our separation. Only by rejecting your managerial logic can we create the consciousness to shift to new paradigms of consumption and production that move beyond eco-apartheid.

Shiva ‘12
[Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist, author and eco feminist. “Making Peace with the Earth.” Tvergastein Journal, June 26, 2012. http://tvergasteinjournal.wordpress.com/2012/06/26/making-peace-with-the-earth/]
"The Economist special Issue on...as members of the Earth Community."

The alternative is to be in antagonism with the affirmatives populists call to “act now” around environmental concerns.  This antagonism is necessary to open up space for A radical socio-environmental political programme

Swyngedouw, '6
[Erik Swyngedouw, Professor of Geography at the University of Manchester in its School of Environment and Development. “Impossible 'Sustainability' and the Post-Political Condition.” Forthcoming in: Sustainable Development. Eds. David Gibbs and Rob Krueger. Sep. 2006. New York: Guilford Press, 2007. <http://www.liv.ac.uk/geography/seminars/Sustainabilitypaper.doc>.  myost]
"5. Producing New Environments...different socio-environmental futures."

Waste DA

A)Uniqueness

1. Legal restrictions on waste disposal makes Yucca mountain the only place to go
   The Post and Courier 10/20
   (One of the oldest daily newspapers in the South and the eighth oldest  newspaper still in publication in the United States, “Restart Yucca Mountain project”, http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20120820/PC1002/120829989/1021/restart-yucca-mountain-project) T. Snider
   "Nuclear plants in South Carolina ...is a good place to start."

Nuke power is a dying industry— Fukushima killed the resurgence
Lyman ‘11
[Edwin S. Lyman is a senior staff scientist in the Global Security Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists in Washington. His expertise is in nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism prevention. Previously, he served as president of the Nuclear Control Institute. “Surviving the one-two nuclear punch: Assessing risk and policy in a post-Fukushima world.” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Sep2011, Vol. 67 Issue 5, p47.]
"The mammoth wave that... about the safety of nuclear power."

There is no viable waste solution—increased nuclear power production explodes the system.
NIRS ‘09
[Nuclear Information Resource Service. “United States Commercial “Low-Level” Radioactive Waste Disposal Sites Fact Sheet.” NIRS Factsheet.   April 2009. http://www.nirs.org/factsheets/wastesitesfctst43009.pdf]
"In Andrews County, TX, Waste Control Specialists,... and natural resources into the future. "

You force new mining— Uranium supplies are not enough to cover current nuclear production
Keen ‘12
[Kip Keen, staff writer for Mine Web, “Uranium supply crunch by 2016 – nuclear experts says,” Mine Web, January 24, 2012. http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72103?oid=143915&sn=Detail&pid=102055]
"A nuclear expert gave... to make up for in coming years."

This recreates nuclear colonialism by dumping toxic waste on indigenous land.
Kuletz 98
(Valerie, PhD, Environmental Sociology at University of California Santa Cruz, “The Tainted Desert: Environmental and Social Ruin in the American West”, Routledge, New York, 1998)
“Los Angeles Basin. What the networking…the view from Yucca Mountain. “
water under Yucca Mountain. 

Continued waste dumping at Yucca Mountain leads to extinction
Comarow 2001
(Yucca Mountain: Time to Think the Unthinkable  - Testimony presented at US Department of Energy Public Hearing 12-8-2001  - by David Comarow)
"What is unthinkable?...water under Yucca Mountain."

Heg Turns

Predominance theory fails to explain the post-world war II era – history proves

Human Security Report Project 2011 Human Security Report Project is an independent research centre affiliated with Simon Fraser University (SFU) in Vancouver, Canada, Human Security Report 2009/2010: The Causes of Peace and the Shrinking Costs of War
http://hsrgroup.org/docs/Publications/HSR20092010/20092010HumanSecurityReport-Part1-CausesOfPeace.pdf
"As with other realist claims,... insurgents in national liberation wars."

US leadership is unsustainable and è mass suffering, militarism and conflict

Boggs 2005 (Carl, Professor of Social Science at National University, Imperial Delusions p. x-xiii)
"As, the United States ...global system it aspires to dominate."

and hence the entire system."
Imperialism necessitates endless systems of war and global inequality

Foster research at the North South Institute 2003 John Imperial America and War, Monthly Review, May 28 http://www.monthlyreview.org/0503jbf.htm
"At present, U.S. imperialism...
Militarism è environmental destruction and extinction

Sanders professor of History of Ideas and English at Pitzer College 2009 Barry Online Excerpt from The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of Militarism
http://www.revolutionbythebook.akpress.org/book-excerpt-from-the-green-zone-the-environmental-costs-of-militarism/
"In a nation like ours,... continue to work its evil."

Solvency (Natives K)

We should heed the mystical knowledge of Indians when attempting to increase the production of wind's power. Viewing the earth as a "resource" to be consumed is destructive. 

Donald L. Fixico 1996
(Defending Mother Nature: Native American Perspectives on Environmental Justice)

"Native Americans have viewed.... then I will destroy this world too"

The exclusion of oral and mystical knowledge about the world creates a hegemonic knowledge culture that mass the indian disappear- knowing and experiential knowledge are key

Tinker 04
(George, Professor of American Indian cultures and religious traditions at Iliff School of Theology in Denver, member of the Osage nation, "The Stones Shall Cry Out: Consciousness, Rocks, and indians" Fall 2004 (CL))

"Communication between humans... human place in the world"

CASE CARDS V. INDIANA FITs AFF
Solvency
Lack of payment specificity prevents solvency
Cory, Couture, & Kreychik 9 (Karlynn, Toby, & Claire, Nat’l RE Laboratory, http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy09osti/45549.pdf)
"As with most policies...and market conditions."

Empirical examples don’t apply – Int’l schemes are not tied to production, but installation

Bailey 10 (Ronald, science correspondent @ Reason, http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/overpaying-for-green)
"However, a recent...per kilowatt-hour." 

Capacity bottlenecks prevent quick adoption

Jenner 8-1 (Steffen, 12, U of Tubingen – Economics, “Did Feed-in Tariffs work? An Econometric Assessment”, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2121261)
"Figure 3 shows the...subsidies were plenty."

Wind & solar alone fails

Gipe 10 (Paul, World Futures Council, http://www.worldfuturecouncil.org/fileadmin/user_upload/PDF/Grading_N.Am._FITs_Report.pdf)
True renewable energy...and geothermal power generation."  

Up-front costs prevent

Cory, Couture, & Kreychik 9 (Karylynn, Tobey, & Claire, Nat’l RE Lab, http://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy09osti/45549.pdf)
Second, in contrast... (Lantz and Doris 2009)." 

State barriers prevent

Dorsi 12 (Michael, Fellow-Phillips & Cohen LLP, grad – Harvard Law, UC-David LR 35:2, http://environs.law.ucdavis.edu/issues/35/2/dorsi.pdf)
"A federally-operated...the federal level." 

WARMING
Won’t generate price competitive renewables – High cost tech is installed first

Bailey 10 (Ronald, science correspondent @ Reason, http://reason.com/archives/2010/01/26/overpaying-for-green)
"Advocates also claim ...before the subsidy declines."

Negligible amount of solar power will be produced

RWI 9 (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschat sforschung, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/germany/Germany_Study_-_FINAL.pdf)
Yet, in sharp...835 Bn kWh."

Zero net climate effect (EEG is the name of the German FiT)

RWI 9 (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschat sforschung, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/germany/Germany_Study_-_FINAL.pdf)
In the end, ...been equal to zero."

FiTs lead to gas reliance

RWI 9 (Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für Wirtschat sforschung, http://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/germany/Germany_Study_-_FINAL.pdf)
"Due to their backup ...claims further into question. "

Gas turns warming

Quail 9-11 (Jim, Vancouver lawyer – social justice, labour & trade law, http://jimquail.com/2012/09/11/feed-in-tariff/)
All the easy money is in subsidized...by burning coal."