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Plan: The United States federal government ought to make available a permanent production tax credit for systems referenced in United States Code Title 42, Chapter 100, § 9210(2).
Observation 1 : Inherency
Obama Has Announced Support For the Extension of the PTC But It Wont Happen Until After the Election
Des Moines Register 2012 8/15 Wind credit likely to stay
All the huff and puff on the campaign trail in Iowa aside, it’s likely
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credit won’t happen before the election, aides for Iowa’s congressional delegation said.
That Delay Will Tank the Industry
Bloomberg 2012 Aug 21 Extend Wind-Power Tax Credit Now, So It Can Die Later http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-21/extend-wind-power-tax-credit-now-so-it-can-die-later.html
With companies rushing to finish before another expiration on Dec. 31, building this
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it would take some time for the industry to ramp up its plans.
This Renewal Will Be Another Short-Term Extension of the PTC – Short-Term Extensions Create Uncertain Markets That Stifles the Industry – 5 Reasons
Dr. Ryan Wiser, Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 2007 March 29 “Wind Power and the Production Tax Credit: An Overview of Research Results” Testimony Prepared for a Hearing on ‘Clean Energy: From the Margins to the Mainstream’ Senate Finance Committee
Though the historical impacts of the PTC are well known, somewhat less recognized is
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given uncertainty in the future ¶ domestic market demand for those advanced technologies.
And Scalability Would Be Fast – Industries Are Just Waiting on a Signal From a Stable Federal Policy
Clean Technica 08 (“The “Unlimited” Potential of American Wind Power: AWEA”, April 22, http://cleantechnica.com/2008/04/22/the-unlimited-potential-of-american-wind-power-awea/)
The American Wind Energy Association held a press conference today (4/21/
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they need is enough time to build, which relies upon the PTC.
Our advantage is warming
Obama is perceived as a nationalist on energy because of dirty energy production—the US currently views the world through the lens of exploitation
Klare Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College 6-21-12 (Michael, “Is Barack Obama Morphing Into Dick Cheney?” http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/06/barack-obama-energy-dick-cheney, Mike)
As details of his administration's global war against terrorists, insurgents, and hostile warlords
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but copying the Cheney energy blueprint is bound to produce the exact opposite.
International emitters look to domestic leaders
Desombre, 10 (Elizabeth R, Frost Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Associate Professor of Political Science focusing on international environmental politics @ Wellesley, “The United States and Global Environmental Politics: Domestic Sources of U.S. Unilateralism”, 2010, http://www.polisci.ufl.edu/usfpinstitute/2010/documents/readings/DeSombre%20Chapter.pdf) WP
U.S. leadership (or even level of participation) in international environmental
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, pushed by industry impacted by¶ international (or subnational) regulation.
Now is key to curbing climate change – wind power sends an international signal
Global Wind Energy Council ’12 (“Wind Energy Must be Key Climate Change Solution,” http://www.gwec.net/index.php?id=136, Mike)
Climate change is now generally accepted to be the greatest environmental threat facing the world
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and the finance sector need for wind power to reach its full potential.
PTC is Key to Energy Leadership
By Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Ore. Member, House Ways And Means Committee, 2012 August 7 “Congress Should Extend PTC Immediately” http://energy.nationaljournal.com/2012/08/should-wind-tax-credit-stay-or.php
The world is in the midst of an energy revolution. Due to rising fossil fuel prices, the instability of oil rich regions, and the increasing dangers of global climate change, communities all over the planet are looking for new, modern, sustainable sources of energy. The United States should lead the way in investment and innovation that will pay dividends both economically and environmentally for decades to come by extending the PTC.
Permanent extension of PTC Is necessary to be viewed as a clean energy leader
Erin Dewey, 5- ’11 (“SUNDOWN AND YOU BETTER TAKE CARE: WHY SUNSET PROVISIONS HARM THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY AND VIOLATE TAX PRINCIPLES”, 52 B.C. L. Rev 1105)
The permanent extension of the PTC is necessary to promote renewable energy in the United
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in the interest of realizing the social and economic benefits of renewable energy.
Electrical Grid is Key Factor in Emissions
Environmental Protection Agency No Date http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/ghgemissions/gases/co2.html
Electricity is a significant source of energy in the United States and is used to
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electricity, burning coal will produce more CO2 than oil or natural gas.
Wind Power Solves Warming
Greenpeace ‘6 (“Wind Power Key to Fight Climate Change,” September 20, http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/press/releases/wind-power-key-to-fight-climat/, Mike)
Over a third of the world's electricity - crucially including that required by industry -
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will determine the world's environmental and economic situation for many decades to come."
Leadership is Key – Wind Power Can Replace Fossil Fuels Globally in 4 Years
Bloomberg 11 (10/11, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, “Onshore wind energy to reach parity with fossil-fuel electricity by 2016” http://bnef.com/PressReleases/view/172)
London and New York, 10 November 2011 – The cost of electricity from onshore
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fired turbines, would bring forward the timing of grid parity for wind.
Warming guarantees multiple positive feedbacks triggering extinction, adaptation cannot solve
Tickell ‘8 (Oliver, Climate Researcher, “On a Planet 4C Hotter, All We Can Prepare for is Extinction,” The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange, Mike)
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told
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warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth.
Observation 2- Defending Our Assumptions
Warming is conclusively real and anthropogenic – acting now key to mitigate weather-disasters
Beinecke President of the Natural Resources Defense Council 8-1-12 (Frances, “Connecting the Dots on Climate Change,” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-beinecke/connecting-the-dots-on-cl_b_1728809.html, Mike)
On Wednesday, the Senate Environment and Public Works committee takes up the important issue
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would be wise to act now -- before the next weather disaster strikes.
Scientific Consensus Based on Climate Models and Observational Data That Warming is Real and Anthropogenic
By Joe Romm on Aug 28, 2012 at 12:29 pm OE ROMM is a Fellow at American Progress and is the editor of Climate Progress “Meteorological Society: Warming Is ‘Unequivocal’, We’re The ‘Dominant Cause’, We Need ‘Rapid Reduction’ Of CO2”
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/28/757991/meteorological-society-warming-is-unequivocal-were-the-dominant-cause-we-need-rapid-reduction-of-co2/
The American Meteorological Society has updated and strengthened its statement on global warming.¶ Here
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, amplifying the impact of human-induced increases in other greenhouse gases….
Science should be trusted – philosophies dismissing scientific realism are ignorant
Sullivan, 1998 Phillip A., professor of aerospace engineering at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Aerospace Studies, “An Engineer Dissects Two Cases Studies”, A House Built on Sand: Exposing Postmodernist Myths about Science, edited by Noretta Koertge
With a telephone line held open to allow us immediate access to data on spacecraft
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with scientific knowledge reflect problems in those disciplines and not problems in science.
Observation 3 Framework
The role of the ballot is to evaluate the simulated policy outcomes of government implementation of the plan
A. Predictable Limits – should which implies a question over federal action.
B. Education- Energy POLICY matters and we need policy action to address the pressing energy needs of the US and the world
Wirth, Gray and Podesta, very qualified, ‘3 The Future of Energy
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Clinton. Volume 82 • Number 4 Foreign Affairs 2003 Council on Foreign Relations
The big questions A century ago, Lord Selborne, the first lord of the
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challenges and the interests that can be mobilized for the necessary political change.
Energy policy NEEDS to happen in the context of politics – Our wirth gray and podesta evidence says politics has failed thus far and a purposeful strategyis necessary. You cant solve issues overnight without targeted policy interventions – that’s wirth gray and podesta
Extend Nisbet ev
C. Advocacy: Framing climate change in terms of public policy is necessary to generate social change- debate is a unique opportunity to enlighten warming nay-sayers
Nisbet, ‘10 (Matthew, Professor of Communication, American University and AB in Government from Dartmouth College. August, Communicating Climate Change: Why Frames Matter for Public Engagement, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 51:2, 12-23)
U.S. presidents, especially newly elected ones, are often given discretion
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a reexamination of the assumptions that have traditionally informed climate change communication efforts.
D. Abstract intellectualism is useless—environmental philosophers should orient themselves towards real-life problems.
Avner De-Shalit, 2k. Professor of Political Theory at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Associate Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Environment, Ethics, and Society, Mansfield College, Oxford University. “The Environment: Between Theory and Practice,” p. 20, Questia.
So animal rights philosophers have been missing the chance to find a way to many
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philosophers who suggest this idea, and scorn all such claims as nonsense.
E. Our discourse solves- Apocalyptic rhetoric is critical to effective solutions to climate change
Kamminga, IR @ Groningen, 8
(Menno, "The Ethics of Climate politics: four modes of moral discourse," Environmental politics 17(4), Informa) Elliot
The separate importance of prophetic discourse for climate ethics seems clear from the above treatment
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and thereby stress desirable, even if not very realistic, human possibilities.
Political responsibility requires a consideration of consequences
Jeffrey Isaac, James H. Rudy Professor of Political Science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy and Public Life at Indiana University, Bloomington, Spring 2002, Dissent, vol. 49, no. 2
As writers such as Niccolo Machiavelli, Max Weber, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Hannah
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choices. But it should never be mistaken for a serious political commitment.
Extra If have time
Environmental Leadership is Key to Shaping the Durban Platform
by Elliot Diringer Executive Vice President at C2ES 05/18/2012 Climate Negotiators Open A New Round http://www.c2es.org/blog/diringere/climate-negotiators-open-new-round-bonn
A new round of climate talks opened this week in Bonn, Germany, with
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the talks along, the real work right now is back at home.
Success of the Durban Platform Creates a Relationship of Mutual Trust Between the US and China
Alvin Lin is the China Climate and Energy Policy Director at the Natural Resources Defense Council and Michael Davidson is the US-China Climate Policy Coordinator at the Natural Resources Defense Council. Durban Climate Talks and Bridging the Trust Gap December 19, 2011
After a marathon session into early Sunday, the climate talks in Durban concluded this
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world will have a chance of coming together to effectively address climate change.
US Leadership on Clean Energy is Key to Establishing That Relationship
by Deborah Seligsohn on December 16, 2011 China At Durban: First Steps Toward A New Climate Agreement http://insights.wri.org/news/2011/12/china-durban-first-steps-toward-new-climate-agreement
It seems the coverage thus far has overlooked one development: the relationships that emerged
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domestic purposes, but the international context will be less of a motivation.
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Apocalyptic rhetoric is critical to effective solutions to climate change
Kamminga, IR @ Groningen, 8
(Menno, "The Ethics of Climate politics: four modes of moral discourse," Environmental politics 17(4), Informa) Elliot
The separate importance of prophetic discourse for climate ethics seems clear from the above treatment
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and thereby stress desirable, even if not very realistic, human possibilities.
Link
Our Aff is not the type of consumption they criticize- Wind panels don’t consume anything rather are just a transfer energy into a different form
Dustin Cohen 2010 March 10 Some Notes on Heidegger’s Question Concerning Technology (Enframing, Standing Reserve and Virtual Technologies) http://cybject.wordpress.com/2010/03/11/some-notes-on-heidegger%E2%80%99s-question-concerning-technology-enframing-standing-reserve-and-virtual-technologies/
Martin Heidegger was concerned about the status of the human amidst modern technology. Tied
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does not commandeer nature’s energy or store it for future use (Mitcham).
2. Permutation do the plan with a focus on consumption based approach to energy resources – solves better and the aff is a net-benefit
Bryant and Goodman 4 - * PhD in Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies, Professor of Communication Studies
Raymond and Michael, “Consuming Narratives: The Political Ecology of 'Alternative' Consumption,” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, New Series, Vol. 29, No. 3
The consumption practices of the conservation- and solidarity-seeking commodity cultures described here
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along the powerful socio-economic and ecological networks of production and development.
3. Their K doesn’t deny that the plan is bad– you can vote aff for another justification
Hargraves, 12 July, Robert, Robert Hargraves has written articles and made
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than coal, ISBN: 1478161299, purchased online at Amazon.com
New technology makes clean energy, cheaper than coal. New energy technology solves more
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agree to an energy technology that both improves both the environment and productivity.
5. Perm: Do the plan and all parts of alt that don’t reject the AFF
Our Robertson evidence is much better than any impact they have – tech friendly counterculture like our affirmative has been able to solve for the problems of the K. this proves as uniqueness for how we have solved the problems of consumption with civilization. Robertson also said we can redefine civilization which is exactly what our permutation is talking about
6. Environmental management and tech are key to prevent extinction-there is no more “natural” state to retreat to.
Robertson 7 Ross, Associate Editor, What Is Enlightenment, previously worked for the National Resources Defense Council, “A Brighter Shade of Green: Rebooting Environmentalism for the 21st Century”, http://www.enlightennext.org/magazine/j38/bright-green.asp, AVLB
It was a philosophy that completely reversed the fulcrum of environmental thinking, shifting its
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boldly enough and we may fail completely.”¶ GENDERED LANGUAGE SAID IN CONTEXT¶
History demonstrates the resilience of capitalism and the inevitability of growth despite periodic recessions and government intervention
Gross,Writer for Newsweek, ‘9 (Daniel, “Decline? I’ll Decline: Our best days aren't necessarily behind us”, Newsweek, 2009, http://www.newsweek.com/id/183667?from=rss)
The dumb, willfully blind optimists who dominated the late boom have been evicted—
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of American history have shown that it can be a pretty good guide.
Impact
Extinction in the short term matters—Tickell evidence says warming will conclusively lead to extinction—Greenpeace says we have till 2020 to stop climate change, that gives us 80 years for policy makers to come up with a solution to the collapse of civilization
2. Extend Issac—A consideration of political consequences is key—To not means we’re failing our responsibility as policy makers
Alternative
Permutation—do the plan and reject civilization.
2. Permutation—do the plan as a means of positive resistance.
3. The alternative is self-rupturing and results in a vacuum of human nihilism that destroys value to life—civilization is not only inevitable, but even the most radical authors wouldn’t follow their path—Perm resolves this
Trotter ‘3 (Alex, “The Question of Primitivism,” July 30, http://insurgentdesire.org.uk/questionofprimitivism.htm)
The radical anthropology that many anarchists have recently taken interest in has the merit of
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we want to call it) and its quarrel with Marxism and leftism.
4. They have No evidence that the ALT—
A. Causes a mindset shift or
B. Spill over to other nations
They have to win both of these things to win their Alt solves the links—We have evidence that says the plan is molded internationally
5. Zerzans criticism devolves into circular logic about civilization—language and symbols that existed prior to civilization prove its inevitability—this construction of civilization turns all of their reasons its bad
Albert ‘5 (Michael, “Anthropology and John Zerzan: A Brief Critique,” March 27, http://www.insurgentdesire.org.uk/anthropologyandzerzan.htm)
John Zerzan is anarcho-primitivism’s most famous and vocal thinker. He has published
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our ways of life can often be a reflection of our greater context.
6. The Alt doesn’t offset emissions—Even if they win a civ collapse—Only wind power prevents RUNAWAY warming, that’s Global Wind Energy Council
7. The Alt can’t overcome human condition
Allenby 7 (Brad, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Arizona State University, “The Benefits of Our Hardwired Need to Consume,” GreenBiz.com, March 7, 2007, http://www.greenbiz.com/blog/2007/03/08/the-benefits-our-hardwired-need-consume, AD: 7-6-9)
That humans are inclined to make choices that offer more pleasure than pain comes as
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who seek to impose such behavior change, regardless of their good intentions.
8. The K is totalizing—Some aspects of civilization are likely bad, but a wholesale rejection undermines ANY benefit to civ
9. The alternative fails—idealism cannot save the environment, only specific reforms.
Martin Lewis, 1994. Lecturer in history and director of the International Relations program at Stanford. Green Delusions, p. 12-3, Google Books.
It is certainly not my belief that ideas are insignificant or that attempting to change
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creation of an ecologically sustainable society becomes little more than an impossible dream.
10. The alternative isn’t feasible – production-focus is net-better
Winter 3 – PhD in Psychology, Professor @ Whitman
Deborah, “The Psychology of Environmental Problems,” Google Book
Giving up comforts and conveniences may be more than we can fathom, and reverting
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lot easier than reducing our use of hot water (Stern, 2000).
Environmental solutions must be sustainable—ignoring human needs means there will be an inevitable backlash that dismantles the alternative.
Daniel Farber, 1999. Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota. Eco-Pragmatism, Pg. 12-3.
The ultimate challenge for environmental law is social sustainability. It will do little good
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a few years. Environmental protection is a marathon, not a sprint.
12. The world of the alternative would be comparatively worse—returning to nature would put too much pressure on the environment, hastening extinction.
Martin Lewis, 1994. Lecturer in history and director of the International Relations program at Stanford. Green Delusions, p. 8, Google Books.
Finally, the radical green movement threatens nature by advocating a return to the land
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devastation that occurs when economic growth stalls out in an already industrialized society.
13. Alt Fails- The Transition to a de-developed society will destroy environmental protection
Lewis , Professor of Environmental studies at Duke University, ’92 (Martin W., “Green Delusions: An Environmentalist Critique of Radical Environmentalism”)
If the most extreme version of the radical green agenda were to be fully enacted
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devestation that occurs when economic growth stalls out in an already industrialized society.
14. They Should Specify the Agent of the Alternative – That’s a Voting Issue
First, our Solvency Arguments against the alternative are -there is a distinction in the literature between attitudinal change based on social location- means they have utopian fiat because they can make significant structural barriers to transformation disappear–alt will solve every case by the 2nr
Second, is ground –we are forced to impact turn which they will say don’t apply or we have to link turn the criticism the AFF barely wins on
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Ext – 2AC 1 Cohen
Our Cohen Evidence proves no link – we don’t use nature, the blowing of the wind is left up to nature and we accept that. There is no manipulation of the energy proving there is no link based on control.
All their cards based off of consumption in the context of excess. Excess is inevitable with every energy type OTHER than wind
Ext 2AC 2 Bryant Goodman
Extend Permutation do the plan with a focus on consumption, Our Bryant and Goodman evidence explains focusing on production can create dualities necessary to breaking down constructions of production
Even if they win a link, we solve the residual impacts because self-correction happens
Ext Framerk
Energy policy NEEDS to happen in the context of politics – Our wirth gray and podesta evidence says politics has failed thus far and a purposeful strategyis necessary. You cant solve issues overnight without targeted policy interventions – that’s wirth gray and podesta
Extend Nisbet ev
Micropolitics Fail
( ) Our Hero-ism K of micro-politics – their fear of co-optation means they work outside the system to their detriment. Micro creates an opportunity cost with the macro. They have it backwards – curriculum needs to start with the macro.
Jensen ‘9
Tim Jensen – Co-coordinator of the Ohio State University’s Digital Media Project. He coordinates “Candid Candidacy” and, at the time of this writing, is a PhD student in Philosophy, and is quoting Oliver Marchart is a professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne – Bridging Micro and Macro :: Setting the Stage – April 6, 2009 – http://candidcandidacy.wordpress.com/2009/04/06/bridging-micro-and-macro-setting-the-stage/
Oliver Marchart asks the same question in his essay, “Bridging the Micro-
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that is why he argues for theorization to begin at macro-levels.
They have it backwards – Learning macro-politics is a pre-requisite to successful micro-politics. Without it, micro-political sub-culture can’t re-aggregate to become counter-culture.
Marchart ‘4
Oliver Marchart is a professor in the Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne – Peace Review 16:4, December (2004), 415-420 – http://www.csub.edu/~mault/subcultures3.pdf
In what came to be called the "resistance through style" paradigm of early
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depoliticized account of subcultures—even as those theorists started with the opposite intention
of politicizing cultural theory. Yet not all roads lead to Rome, and not
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take place on the roads to Rome but on the road to Damascus.
( ) Macro-politics should come before micro-politics
Peggy A. Sissel is assistant professor, Center for Research on Teaching and Learning, College of Education, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, NEW DIRECTIONS FOR ADULT AND CONTINUING EDUCATION, no. 91, Fall 2001
These scholars and others point to the necessity of developing an analysis of adult education
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be understood without some comprehension of the external environment in which they function.
( ) Micro-politics – even when politically potent – is doomed to fail and cede politics.
Dery ‘96
Mark Dery is an American author, lecturer and cultural critic. He taught media criticism and literary journalism in the Department of Journalism at New York University.In January 2000, he was appointed Chancellor's Distinguished Fellow at the University of California, Irvine – BUILDING A PROGRESSIVE, PRAGMATIC FUTURISM AN E-MAIL INTERVIEW WITH MARK DERY BY GEERT LOVINK– it is regarding his book Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century – the interview is available at: http://www.thing.desk.nl/bilwet/TXT/dery.txt.
Of course, techno-bricoleurs like Mark Pauline of Survival Research Laboratories better embody
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, stood in relation to the American atom bombs simultaneously falling on Japan.
( ) Micro-politics fails and is comparatively-worse than macro-politics
Cummings and Eagly ‘1
Scott L. Cummings – Staff Attorney, Community Development Project, Public Counsel Law Center, Los Angeles, California. J.D., Harvard Law School, 1996. Ingrid V. Eagly – Coordinating Attorney, Immigrant Domestic Violence Project, Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA), Los Angeles, California. J.D., Harvard Law School, 1995. UCLA Law Review – February, 2001 – lexis, lawrev section.
The law and organizing model privileges local organizing as the centerpiece of social change practice
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, New Left Rev., July-Aug. 2000, at 49.
1AR AT : Collapse Inevitable
Capitalism is self-correcting, ensures sustainability
Eichenwald, 2’ (Kurt, Staff writer, The New York Times, June 30, )
Could the short-term, self-rewarding mentality of a handful of capitalists
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which will wash away the next time unbridled exuberance creates a booming market.
The whole world believes cap is inevitable
Ash, 7’ (Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European Studies at Oxford, 2/22/2007, The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/02018381,00.html)
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of
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era of globalised capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient.
Even people in their anti-capitalist movement know there’s no alternative
Socialism Today, 6’ (“Fighting For Socialism: One Hundred Issues,” official magazine of the socialist party of England, April/May)
But what is the alternative to capitalism? The collapse of Stalinism – a caricature
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succumbed to the notion that there is no alternative to the capitalist market.
