Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 1 | Opponent: Puget MS | Judge: Rollins, Joel
The 1ac's techno-utopianism belies their naiveté - their technology doesn't increase our awareness of ecological issues, but blinds us to the reversible results of the plan.
Virilio 2009 (Paul April 18, 2009 Grey Ecology Publisher: New York Atropos Press ISBN-13: 978-0981946276 26-28)

So my interest here today, via the dromosphere, is the passage and the acceleration of history and the acceleration of reality through new technologies.............. (CONT) vastness of the world. 

Their projection of the environment has been degraded to the point that it is only viewed through machinery at the click of a button. Our loss of vision traps us into eco-exploitation.
Halsey 04 (Mark Environmental Visions: Deleuze and the Modalities of NatureAuthor(s): Mark HalseyReviewed work(s):Source: Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 9, No. 2, Ethics of Seeing: Consuming Environments(Fall - Winter, 2004), pp. 33-64Published)

French urbanist and architect Paul Virilio writes,............. consistent or ahistorical action (Berger 1972).

this eco-exploitation will cause global catastrophe. Turns the aff.
Sullivan 10 (‘Ecosystem Service Commodities’ -A New Imperial Ecology?Implications for Animist Immanent Ecologies, with Deleuze and Guattari Sian Sullivan 2010)

You have to understand the scale of this....... of these new alignments

Reject the affirmatives uncritical techno-gaze, its essential to disrupt the greenwashing of the status quo and return balance to technology and nature.
Halsey 04 (Mark Environmental Visions: Deleuze and the Modalities of NatureAuthor(s): Mark HalseyReviewed work(s):Source: Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 9, No. 2, Ethics of Seeing: Consuming Environments(Fall - Winter, 2004), pp. 33-64Published)

We are forced to expand the ............(economic) gains not (biotic) losses.

The alternative solves by changing our grey ecology, the way we THINK about nature and our relationship with it.
Burk 10 (Drew is a doctoral candidate at the European Graduate School. He has translated the work of philosophers such as Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, and Jacques Derrida. Burk is the translator of Paul Virilio's,Grey Ecology, New York: Atropos Press, 2010. THEORY BEYONDTHE CODES: Event-Scene A Grey Ecology is Needed Now More Than Ever)

Japan, site of the end of the last world war......... A grey ecology is needed now more than ever.

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 5 | Opponent:  | Judge:
A. Interpretation - Reduce excludes eliminate

Words and Phrases, 2 (vol 36B, p. 80)

Mass. 1905.  Rev.Laws, c.203, § 9, provides that, if two or more cases are tried together in the superior court, the presiding judge may “reduce” the witness fees and other costs, but “not less than the ordinary witness fees, and other costs recoverable in one of the cases” which are so tried together shall be allowed.  Held that, in reducing the costs, the amount in all the cases together is to be considered and reduced, providing that there must be left in the aggregate an amount not less than the largest sum recoverable in any of the cases.  The word “reduce,” in its ordinary signification, does not mean to cancel, destroy, or bring to naught, but to diminish, lower, or bring to an inferior state.—Green v. Sklar, 74 N.E. 595, 188 Mass. 363.

B. Violation – the affirmative is a complete removal 

C. Standards – 

1. Limits –We were given 6 types of energy sources, we have done all our research on them. It’s unfair for the negative to have to debate an energy source that we had no prior research about. 

2.  Predictability – our evidence signifies the ordinary meaning of reduce; moving beyond the ordinary meaning of words sets a precedent to interpret the all other words unpredictably