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1NC - Generic

The aff is a repetition of the discourse of scarcity. Their fixation with production creates a self-fulfilling prophecy – no amount of energy will ever be enough. Nature must be forever manipulated. This myth creates the belief that scarcity creates violence as opposed to the reverse – where the belief in scarcity creates the necessary tools for violence.

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

In the myth, the peculiar logic of accumulation for accumulation’s sake that has become
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just as “securitising” everything tends to give rise to more insecurities.

Corporate securitization leads to EXTINCTION.

REINSBOROUGH 3, Grassroots Organizer and Popular Educator, (Patrick, worked on a range of issues including forest protection, police brutality, peace in Northern Ireland, indigenous rights, organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & PROTEST, Aug, vol 1, # 2, http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html)

Cancer Kills the host. Cancer’s suicidal destiny is a product of its initial perversion
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criminalize, contain and silence dissent among the have-nots is obvious. 

Our alternative is a direct challenge to the aff’s notions of Energy and Security. By STARTING from the perspective of collective security and survival of the commons, ONLY then will we create a truly pragmatic form of politics. We think rejection of your aff for these reasons does produce a different understanding of politics that’s more helpful that your business as usual approach

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

In the bewildering, sometimes frightening, talk about “energy security” that bombards
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“energy security” and the most pragmatic starting point for practical action.

1NC vs Stanford GP (EOR)

The aff is a repetition of the discourse of scarcity. Their fixation with production creates a self-fulfilling prophecy – no amount of energy will ever be enough. Nature must be forever manipulated. This myth creates the belief that scarcity creates violence as opposed to the reverse – where the belief in scarcity creates the necessary tools for violence.

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

In the myth, the peculiar logic of accumulation for accumulation’s sake that has become
AND
just as “securitising” everything tends to give rise to more insecurities.

The phrase “energy security” produces bad policymaking – the more the phrase is invoked the more the plastic phrase is available for deception

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

Mainstream policy responses to such issues are largely framed in terms of “energy security
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term can capture realities on the ground involving different histories and materialities.4 

Oil is a mechanism to lock whole societies into a neoliberal framework - Extension of neoliberal systems of accumulation form the core of the energy security agenda.

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

All the enclosures licensed and encouraged by the “energy security” discourse can be
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amount to more of the same: markets, markets and more markets.

Carbon sequestration is just a strategy for corporate greenwashing

FORD 4 (Eddie, Weekly Worker, “Fight for a red planet,” 7/15)

Another significant development - and one monumental in its hypocrisy, of course - is
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, so that power lies with the direct producers and not the appropriators.

EXTINCTION

REINSBOROUGH 3, Grassroots Organizer and Popular Educator, ¶ (Patrick, worked on a range of issues including forest protection, police brutality, peace in Northern Ireland, indigenous rights, organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS and PROTEST, Aug, vol 1, # 2, http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html)

Cancer Kills the host. Cancer’s suicidal destiny is a product of its initial perversion
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criminalize, contain and silence dissent among the have-nots is obvious.

Our alternative is a direct challenge to the aff’s notions of Energy and Security. By STARTING from the perspective of collective security and survival of the commons, ONLY then will we create a truly pragmatic form of politics. We think rejection of your aff for these reasons does produce a different understanding of politics that’s more helpful that your business as usual approach

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

In the bewildering, sometimes frightening, talk about “energy security” that bombards
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“energy security” and the most pragmatic starting point for practical action.

Links - Carbon Sequestration

Carbon-sequestration sites hurt the poor and your solvency arguments are unproven

Hess 9 David J. professor of sociology at Vanderbilt University and member of the Vanderbilt Institute for Energy and Environment. Localist Movements in a Global Economy, Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States

A fourth deficiency in mainstream scenarios is that even where innovation in favor of green
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and those whose family budgets are heavily affected by rising food prices.12

CCS mistakes the underlying problem away from capitalism, this answers their perms

Wishart 11 Ryan, doctoral candidate in sociology at the University of Oregon. He is coauthor of the chapter “Mountain Justice: A Grassroots Effort to End Mountaintop Removal,” in Transforming Places, forthcoming from the University of Illinois Press. MONTHLY REVIEW, Volume 62, Issue 08 (January)

However, his mistaking of both the underlying social problem (capitalism) and of
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easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism.

2NC - Framework

THE FIXATION WITH POLICY FIXING HAS BEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT’S BIGGEST PROBLEM IN THE LAST 30 YEARS.  IT IS OBSESSED WITH POLICY SCRUTINY instead of the politics that makes the policies possible

SHELLENBERGER AND NORDHAUS 4 ¶ (Michael: strategist for foundations, organizations and political candidates, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Institute (www.TheBreakthrough.org), an organization advancing strategic initiatives to build a progressive majority, and Ted: Vice President of Evans/McDonough, one of the country’s leading opinion research firms, and Director of Strategic Values Science Project, The Death of Environmentalism)

But in their public campaigns, not one of America’s environmental leaders is articulating a
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-interest leads to a kind of policy literalism that undermines its power.

POLICY-SPEAK FAILS TO MOTIVATE the young and the disengaged

WERBACH 4   (Adam, Commonwealth of San Francisco, “Is Environmentalism Dead?”)

The signs of environmentalism’s death are all around us: we speak in terms of
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, the sooner we can give birth to something more powerful and relevant.

Your understanding of energy is horrible for policymaking

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

Both the word “energy” and the word “security” have in fact
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fossil-fuelled industrialism that is entrenched within the “securitisation of everything”.

Our criticism creates a better understanding of policy.  If framework is a voting issue we can win on this argument independently.  Discursive policy webs define what is possible and ALL of your solvency claims

Goldberg 6, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Canada,
(Michelle P., Globalisation, Societies and Education, Vol. 4, No. 1, March, pp. 77–102)

The concept of a discursive policy web facilitates a more fulsome understanding of policy processes
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web is to provide a means for being more successful in this endeavour.

2NC - AT Perm

Letting the government take care of it prevents our alt - Our alt is mutually exclusive – the power to change rests in individuals and not the government

Ruggero 9 E. Colin, The New School for Social Research in New York, ¶ Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, Radical Green Populism: Climate Change, Social Change and the Power of Everyday Practices, 11-11, http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/e-colin-ruggero-radical-green-populism-climate-change-social-change-and-the-power-of-everyday-p

Radical Green Populism is also populist. It’s populist in that it is ‘of
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stepping back and letting NGOs and government ‘take care of it.’

PRODUCTION SHOULD BE SEEN AS SECONDARY TO CONSUMPTION

Trainer 2K, Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, U of New South Wales (Australia), Ted, “Where Are We, Where Do We Want to Be, How Do We Get There?”, Democracy and Nature, Vol. 6, No. 2

Marxists insist on the centrality of the mode of production in the analysis of society
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made to major global problems such as Third World deprivation and ecological destruction.

2NC - Corporate Fixing DA

A. The aff depends on corporations to lead us to the promise land. CORPORATE-LED SOLUTIONS LEGITIMIZE CORPORATE CONTROL. This is delusion.

REINSBOROUGH 3, Grassroots Organizer and Popular Educator, Patrick, worked on a range of issues including forest protection, police brutality, indigenous rights, organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & PROTEST, Aug, vol 1, # 2, http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html

More and more activists have turned to campaigns which directly confront destructive corporations. This
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war on terrorism”, NGO's can easily become an obstacle to transformative change. 

B. Corporate rules produces ECOLOGICAL EXTINCTION

REINSBOROUGH 3, Grassroots Organizer and Popular Educator, ¶ (Patrick, worked on a range of issues including forest protection, police brutality, peace in Northern Ireland, indigenous rights, organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & PROTEST, Aug, vol 1, # 2, http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html)

We live in a dangerous time, an urgent time, a time of profound
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pushed the life support systems of the planet to the point of collapse. 

C.  Don’t waste your time with the affirmative.  Abandon all attempts to make corporations more responsible and prefer our alternative movement to replace the current system

DANAHER 1, Public Education Director of Global Exchange, Kevin, International Socialist Review Issue 19, July-August

We must do more than make individual corporations more socially responsible (e.g
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by money values, with a totally new system driven by life values.

2NC - Enclosure DA

Your aff is a form of enclosure – it uses Energy to prop up inflated standards of living and ignore the impoverishment of the rest of the world.

REINSBOROUGH 3, Grassroots Organizer & Popular Educator, Patrick, worked on a range of issues including forest protection, police brutality, indigenous rights, organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS & PROTEST, Aug, vol 1, #2, http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html

But this brutality is just one side of the system of global control. Far
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become so deeply imbedded in our lives that they now define our culture.

These energy exclusions hide inequality and cause the underlying conflicts

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

Both the word “energy” and the word “security” have in fact
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discussion about, and organisation for, a democratic, fossil-free future

Our impact outweighs – there’s no way for you to determine that you outweigh given your world doesn’t even acknowledge these body counts

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

Security became Security of access to the resources and assets needed for profit, whether
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toward the commodification of Security, armies and police have themselves gone private. 

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1NC vs Stanford GP

Can’t solve— international CO2 will still stay in the atmosphere for centuries, climate won’t respond to reversal, 

M. Granger Morgan Professor and Head of the Department of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, directs the NSF Climate Decision Making Center, served as Chair of the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. B.A. in Physics from Harvard, Ph.D. in Applied Physics and Information Sciences at the University of California at San Diego Environmental Protection Agency, “The Geoengineering Option”, Foreign Affairs 09 http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/64829/david-g-victor-m-granger-morgan-jay-apt-john-steinbruner-and-kat/the-geoengineering-option)

Eliminating all the risks of climate change is impossible because carbon dioxide emissions, the
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would still take decades for the atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide to stabilize. 

You can’t pin warming on CO2—their experiments ignore radioactive fluctuations, faulty ice-core data, or cloud cover explanations 

Roy Spencer served as lead NASA research on climate studies at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, climatologist and  Principal Research Scientist for the University of Alabama in Huntsville, U.S. Science Team Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA’s Aqua satellite. B.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the University of Michigan in 1978 and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Meteorology from the University of Wisconsin–Madison “Statement To The Committee On Oversight And Government Reform Of The United States House Of Representatives”, 3/19/2007, http://oversight-archive.waxman.house.gov/documents/20070320152338-19776.pdf ) 

Some have found it effective to use the close relationship between ice core-inferred
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but we need to first examine what processes determine Earth’s natural greenhouse effect.

2NC vs Stanford

flawed data – atmospheric readings have massively overestimated warming rates

Watts et al, President IntelliWeather, 7-29-’12 (Anthony Watts, Evan Jones- IntelliWeaterh Corp, Stephen McIntyre, and John Christy- Department of Atmospheric Science at Alabama; “An area and distance weighted analysis of the impacts of station exposure on the U.S. Historical Climatology Network temperatures and temperature trends” http://wattsupwiththat.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/watts-et-al_2012_discussion_paper_webrelease.pdf)

4. Discussion and Conclusions The analysis demonstrates clearly that siting quality matters. Well
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spurious doubling of U.S. Tmean trends from 1979 - 2008.

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1NC

Increased personal knowledge of global warming leads to a decrease in concern for the problem – understanding nature as a social identity is critical to reversing the social and political paralysis which prevents solutions to warming

Ervine 12  -- Assistant Professor of Political Studies at Trent University, Canada, Kate, New Political Science, Volume 34, Issue 1, pages 1-20

While this article does not wish to suggest that nature's general, though constructed,
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allowing us to maintain the illusion of normalcy despite the mounting contradictory evidence.

WE SHOULD BELIEVE IN SUSTAINABILITY NOT BECAUSE OF GLOBAL WARMING – THIS IS THE ONLY WAY TO MOVE PAST SYMPTOMATIC POLITICS – the more we focus on global warming the more we avert our attention away from discovering the real cure for our “dis-ease”

Backhaus 9 Gary, Loyola College in Maryland, Department of Philosophy, Sustainability, Automobility: Global Warming as Symptomatology, 1, 187-208

Hypothetically, if we could immediately solve the global warming (climate change) problem
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fundamental principle of modern material culture from which our environmental problems have ensued.

It’s all about the frame: when global warming is framed as an issue of systemic fossil fuel addiction it can be a tool for larger systemic change.  We need to view global change as a byproduct of corporate rule.  Our alt builds more support for systemic change

REINSBOROUGH 3, Grassroots Organizer and Popular Educator, Patrick, worked on a range of issues including forest protection, police brutality, indigenous rights, organizing director of the Rainforest Action Network, JOURNAL OF AESTHETICS and PROTEST, Aug, vol 1, # 2, http://www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org/1/de_colonizing/index.html

Global warming when expanded from the single issue context of carbon dioxide pollution and re
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leap-frog the political log-jams with the values crisis analysis.

2NC - Our Arg is True

Social psychology studies prove the more we’re informed about warming, the less we’ll show concern for warming – decades of clinical work prove our argument. And the aff’s solution to warming is a feel good campaign that makes us feel less responsible.

Lertzman 8  Renée, trained in psychosocial studies, developed primarily in the UK; Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University’s Master’s in Environmental Education and Communication, Fellow at the Biodiversity Project, an environmental communications organization, Ecologist, 6-19

We want to believe that there is a causal link between information and action,
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we face, while at the same time steering us towards practical actions.

2NC Impact - Externalization

EXTERNALIZATION.  WHEN THERE IS AN ENVIRONMENT “OUT THERE” BEING WARMED AND WARMING, THE PROBLEM IS DEFLECTED AWAY FROM US.

SHELLENBERGER AND NORDHAUS 4   (Michael: strategist for foundations, organizations and political candidates, Executive Director of the Breakthrough Institute (www.TheBreakthrough.org), an organization advancing strategic initiatives to build a progressive majority, and Ted: Vice President of Evans/McDonough, one of the country’s leading opinion research firms, and Director of Strategic Values Science Project, The Death of Environmentalism)

The concepts of “nature” and “environment” have been thoroughly deconstructed.
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isn’t anyone’s fault, but it is all of our responsibility to change.”

We’ll pretend the problem is someone else’s

Lertzman 8  Renée, trained in psychosocial studies, developed primarily in the UK; Associate Faculty at Royal Roads University’s Master’s in Environmental Education and Communication, Fellow at the Biodiversity Project, an environmental communications organization, Ecologist, 6-19

Don’t pronounce too harshly upon those who seem not to care about the environment,
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is not there, or that it is the responsibility of someone else.

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1NC vs Stanford

Energy independence is a rhetorical device used to appeal to American values and hypnotize the public into believing that it will eliminate military entanglements

BRYCE 9 – Robert, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Journalist, Writer for New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Counterpunch, and Atlantic Monthly. In 2009 testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, GUSHER OF LIES. The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”

Americans love independence. Whether it’s financial independence, political independence, the Declaration of
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oil—and thus, presumably, all foreign energy—is bad.

We turn your aff on a larger level -- The more we believe in oil addiction, the more policy-making can’t get past it

Rice and Tyner 11     Stian and James, Pf - Department of Geography, Kent State University, The Geographical Journal, Volume 177, Issue 3, pages 208–212, September 

In our attempt to understand the languishing of American environmental geopolitics, we believe that
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truly transformative debate on energy policies never makes it onto the national agenda.

No independence—Oil companies agree

Dallas Observer 6/28/12, “ExxonMobil CEO: Burning Fossil Fuels Causes Climate Change, But Energy Independence Is Still Complete Bullshit” http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2012/06/exxonmobil_ceo_burning_fossil.php)

ExxonMobil CEO: Burning Fossil Fuels Causes Climate Change, But Energy Independence Is Still
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out of touch with reality when even intransigent ExxonMobil looks progressive by comparison.

Even if we increase production, companies will just export their energy—means no independence

Howard Gruenspecht Acting Administrator U.S. Energy Information Administration U.S. Department Of Energy Before The
Committee On Energy And Natural Resources United States Senate 3/12/12, http://www.energy.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve?File_id=c8a6eed2-eafc-4be7-ac2b-0f40cc15f501) 

EIA data indicates a significant shift in petroleum product trade flows, as the United
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have reduced crude inputs and refinery output much more than what actually occurred.

Independence impossible-best projections show

Anthony H. Cordesman, Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy @ Cener for Strategic International Studies “Energy Risks in North Africa and the Middle East” 5/24/12 http://csis.org/publication/energy-risks-north-africa-and-middle-east-0) 

US Liquid Fuels Production and Imports: 1950-2025: The political dishonesty of
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the American economy on the secure flow of global exports or direct imports.

SQ Solves—we’re independent enough for the US not to intervene anywhere

Matthew Hulbert lead Analyst at European Energy Review and consultant to a number of governments, most recently as Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations  and Jochem Meijknecht 12 Researcher in the Clingendael International Energy Programme at the Netherlands Institute of International Relations. “Global Oil: U.S. Independence”, Second Quarter 2012 www.iaee.org/en/publications/newsletterdl.aspx?id=164)

For now, let’s put aside depletion rates, cost uncertainties for viable extraction,
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the Middle East without a U.S. flag to cover them.

No Hormuz impact – Iran won’t attack the strait—too many other means of leverage

Matthew Hulbert lead Analyst at European Energy Review and consultant to a number of governments, most recently as Senior Research Fellow, Netherlands Institute for International Relations  “Markets Beware: Hormuz Still Vital To Global Energy Balance”, 7/16/12 http://www.forbes.com/sites/matthewhulbert/2012/07/16/markets-beware-hormuz-still-vital-to-global-energy-balance/) 

Realistic Debate But whether Iran ever exercises this option is an entirely different debate
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the slow Shia burn long before it gets drawn into strategic power plays.

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1NC

Interpretation – the affirmative must discuss a reduction of restrictions or increase in incentives for energy production.

Your aff is so in-determinate and unfocused that its not debatable- you say vote for us because other people are resisting transphobic violence. It destroys the ability for the negative to test the aff

Debate-ability IS critical to AGONISTIC RESPECT.  We want TO BE able adversaries – we need to have some way to engage your argument.

HATAB 2, Prof of Philosophy @ Old Dominion University, ¶ (Lawrence J., The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 24 (2002) 132-147)

Moreover, the structure of an agon conceived as a contest can readily underwrite political
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, procedural notion conferred upon citizens in order to sustain viable political practice.

Deliberative argument requires an agreement established before the debate in order to determine the relevance of any argument. Without a point of stasis, debates could easily devolve into ridiculous claims like vote for us because we are USC Trojan fans and Matt Barkley is awesome. The logic of the affirmative makes every argument relevant and therefore makes deliberative argument impossible.

Walton ‘4 Douglas Walton, Full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg, 2004 (Relevance in Argumentation) pg. 126

Such matters of how a chain of arguments can be relevant to the issue of
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what should be proved or for solving the problem that should be solved. 

Deliberative Argument is Critical to Prevent Marginalization and Violence. The aff abandonment of deliberative argument because it has the potential to exclude perspectives ignores the Spectrum of Power Relationships that exist throughout society.

Deliberative argument is crucial to ending the very violence they isolate.

Tonn ‘5 Mari Boor Tonn, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland, 2005  (“Taking Conversation, Dialogue, and Therapy Public” Rhetoric and Public Affairs Vol. 8, No. 3)

This widespread recognition that access to public deliberative processes and the ballot is a baseline
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therapeutic conversation and dialogue jeopardizes the very pulse and lifeblood of democracy itself.

1NR - AT K of T

Agonism proves that these marginalization DA’s to topicality aren’t true, agonism says that disagreements can produce commonality, but we need to have a common forum for contest

Zandra 10, University of La Verne, American Journal of Theology and Philosophy, Volume 31, Number 3, September

As I stated at the beginning, I am trying to name a difference in
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articulations of the issue. While political liberalism foregrounds reasonable deliberation and overlapping. 

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1NC

There exists an antagonism in debate – On one side, debate is always shaped by strategy, winning, debate theory, etc . The other side is the desire to influence a larger public. What the aff fails to recognize is that their desire to change the debate community is always shaped by the norms of debate. We assume that because these politics are good for us, then they’re also good and feasible for the non-debate space.  Let us view the outside of the academy as more important than our debate spaces.  AND let us remember that in it’s current formation, the public does not yield to the debater

Welsh 12 Scott Department of Communication Appalachian State University (“Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency”, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012, Jstor) 

Giroux’s concluding words, in which scholars reclaim the promises of a truly global democratic
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outside the academy that there can be immediate, material, political consequences.

Our argument is particularly true to the 1AC - using debate as a form of politics in and of itself tradeoffs with producing tools useful for the public.

Welsh 12 Scott Department of Communication Appalachian State University (“Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency”, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012, Jstor)

What does it mean to say rhetoric scholarship should be relevant to democratic practice?
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no less of an impediment to the production of democratically consequential rhetoric scholarship.

Alternative – Reject the affirmative because of their use of debate as a mode/conception of political agency. Our alternative is to come to terms with antagonism by keeping competing elements of the antagonism in view and understanding the limits of debate as political agency in itself.

Welsh 12 Scott Department of Communication Appalachian State University (“Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency”, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012, Jstor) 

In light of Žižek’s account of antagonism, one should not be surprised, however
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of what Žižek calls supplemental ideological fantasies or ready explanations for the gap.

Our goal as rhetorical scholars should be the EXPLORATION and PRODUCTION or inventional resources suitable for the larger non-debate public, otherwise we get lost in TOO-EASY ASSURANCES that what we are doing here – in the debate space – is necessary and sufficient

Welsh 12 Scott Department of Communication Appalachian State University (“Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency”, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012, Jstor) 

The challenge is to resist synthetically resolving these antagonisms, whether in confirming or disconfirming
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of practical wisdom in democratic publics without absolving scholars of responsibility to them.

Radical solutions should carefully consider the question of institutions if they care about other communities. The question of institutional support is critical if we care about expanding a wider base for change

Ruggero 9 E. Colin, The New School for Social Research in New York, ¶ Center for Energy and Environmental Policy, University of Delaware, Radical Green Populism: Climate Change, Social Change and the Power of Everyday Practices, 11-11, http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/e-colin-ruggero-radical-green-populism-climate-change-social-change-and-the-power-of-everyday-p

Radicals must carefully deliberate the development of alternative social institutions and intellectual resources for subversion
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broadening the cultural-social unity of a wide social base for change.

2NC - Role of the Ballot

IF WE TRULY CARE ABOUT BEING RESPONSIBLE SCHOLARS, you should JUDGE THIS DEBATE BY what it provides for the LARGER PUBLIC – rhetorical criticism does nothing if we don’t pay attention to how it’s appropriated. Our responsibility as debate scholars should be to provide arguments THAT others can use

Welsh 12 Scott Department of Communication Appalachian State University (“Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency”, Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012, Jstor) 

It is also tempting to conclude that one could still essentially engage in activist rhetorical
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better informed, better reasoned, better debated.  That is our politics.  

WE NEED TO MOVE BEYOND PROTEST AS AN END IN AND OF ITSELF

McGuigan 1 (Brendan, “A General Statement on Revolution,” 11/19, http://www.mylittlesoapbox.com/General_Plan.doc)

There are two very important pitfalls to be aware of.         First is a tendency
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protests is a danger that is already beginning to rear its ugly head.

2NC - AT Perm

The perm’s middle ground becomes an invitation to do the alt POORLY – the perm PRODUCES SCHOLARLY WANDERING

Welsh 12 Scott, Department of Communication Appalachian State University. Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency. Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012

It is tempting to conclude that coming to terms with the antagonism means finding a
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does not “make amends” with the action side of the antagonism.

Scholarly wandering doesn’t produce publically deployable rhetoric

Welsh 12 Scott, Department of Communication Appalachian State University. Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency. Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012

As Burke writes: So we must keep trying anything and everything, improvising,
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does not “make amends” with the action side of the antagonism.

The perm assumes that the public can effectively use the synthesis of the aff and the neg – this assumption is another link

Welsh 12 Scott, Department of Communication Appalachian State University. Coming to Terms with the Antagonism between Rhetorical Reflection and Political Agency. Philosophy and Rhetoric, Vol. 45, No. 1, 2012

Furthermore, resisting the “the magisterial discourse about the ‘requirements of science’ being
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all of the ingeniously linked details of any grand theoretical synthesis with us.

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1NC

Keeping the slave modality at the forefront denies Black agency and accomplishments

Gasman 6 Marybeth Gasman is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on the history of historically Black colleges and philanthropy. The Journal of Higher Education 77.2 (2006) 317-352

In many ways, Jencks and Riesman followed a long line of research (including
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of Black agency, researchers must look at the situation from multiple perspectives.

Even Wilderson believes in political resistance, his work with students groups and South Africa proves

Schettler 9 Meta L. Schettler is an associate professor of Africana studies at California State University, Fresno. She has published in the International Journal of Africana Studies, Abafazi, and Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies. Callaloo, Volume 32, Number 1, Winter

Wilderson’s memories of the murderous attacks on the Black Panthers, especially the killing of
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protests by student groups while simultaneously working with an underground cell in MK.

Their epistemological framework of social death impacts is essentialist and totalizing – effaces the possibility for communal politics of blackness

BÂ 11 (SAËR MATY, teaches film at Portsmouth University, “The US Decentred From Black Social Death to Cultural Transformation”, hthttp://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/csrj/article/view/2304/2474, Acc: 8/3/12)

—WILDERSON’S WHITE WATCH SEES RED ON BLACK: SOME WEAKNESSES¶ A few pages
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The coffle¶ approaches with its answers in tow.’ (340)

Wilderson ignores slave-like conditions of nonblack workers

Bruker 11  Malia  - Temple University, Film Maker, Production Manager, Writer and Producer for the news magazine SourceCode, she helped create and lead a national team of independent filmmakers and citizen journalists in a unique model of news production. Journal of Film and Video Volume 63, Number 4, Winter

Although this section on Native American political theory is exhaustive and provides a new and
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roundups, inhumane Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities, and draconian legislation.

Totalizing civil society bad:

A. Ignores black agency: Black positionality and civil society aren’t always already defined by antagonism.  The idea that civil society is corrupt ignores black agency throughout history.  Southern teachers in the 1940s onward were able to exercise their agency and mobilize many important gains

Malczewski 11  Joan Malczewski is Assistant Professor of History and Social Studies in the Department of Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Professions at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, New York University. Journal of Policy History Volume 23, Number 3, 2011

While progress was significantly slower in the Deep South, the Jeanes teachers there still
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is indebted to the organizational structures and community mobilization that occurred through schooling.

B. Perpetuates racial binaries: The notion of endemic forms of anti-blackness rooted in civil society is a social fiction which divides up the world according to a black-white model of racial thought. They don’t demonstrate the feasibility of altering racial thinking and presume a monolithic character of white racism.

Sexton 10 Jared Sexton Crit Sociol 2010 36: 87

However, the notion of an ‘endemic’ black-white model of racial thought
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154), that political-intellectual enterprise is not without hazard.10 

Fear of state ensures that an anti-racist praxis is coopted by neoliberal racism

Esposito 11   Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminology at Barry University in Miami Shores, FL, Luigi, Theory in Action, White Fear and US Racism in the Era of Obama: The Relevance of Neoliberalism, Vol. 4, No.3, July

Clearly, the neoliberalization of racial matters, as manifested in postracial discourse, is
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as a promoter of anti-racism and social justice (Giroux, 2004

The notion of a libidinal economy is reductionist, self-serving and wrong

Kaufman 7 Eleanor, University of California, Los Angeles, PMC, The Desire Called Mao:

Žižek criticizes the "flux of Life" Deleuzians for seeing in Deleuze and Guattari
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legacy of psychoanalysis that traces its connection to Marxism must contend with it.

Race-based politics is toxic – it breeds infighting that prevents unification and cooperation to achieve the goals of the movement, reconstitutes racism.

Shellenberger 8 Michael, environmental strategist and coauthor of Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, interview with Hannah Lobel, Utne Reader, March-April, http://www.utne.com/2008-03-01/Environment/Complete-Interview-The-Temperature-Transcends-Race.aspx

Ever since we wrote “Death of Environmentalism” we’ve been in various debates about
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to put an end to race-based politics not to reconstitute it.

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1NC vs UCF JV (Energy Apartheid)

Nuclear power is emblematic of the way capitalism prioritizes profits at the expense of peoples’ lives and safety – even nuclear accidents haven’t deterred its expansion

Tetsuzo 11 (Fuwa, director of the Japanese Communist Party Social Sciences Institute, May 10th, “Fukushima Nuclear Crisis and Capitalism” http://politicalaffairs.net/fukushima-nuclear-crisis-and-capitalism/)

We can nowadays easily recognize the threat of the profit-first principle of capitalism
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whether we can afford to keep the situation as it is or not.

Capitalism causes structural violence—profit drive and exploitation is the root cause of all impacts

Sam Webb 04, National Communist Party Chairman, People’s Weekly World Newspaper

Capitalism was never a warm, cuddly, stable social system. It came into
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within and between classes and social movements at the national and international level.

Our current form of capitalism gives no incentive to sustain life on earth, turning into a unsustainable system of extraction and exploitation.

Ikerd 06 Is Capitalism Sustainable?[1] John Ikerd Professor Emeritus of Agricultural & Applied Economics University of Missouri Columbia College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Sustaining People through Agriculture series,” Small Farm Today Magazine, Missouri Farm Publications, Clark, MO. November-December 2006. http://web.missouri.edu/ikerdj/papers/SFT-Sustainable%20Captialism.htm#_ftn1

All economic capital is extracted from either natural or social capital. Once all natural
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the importance of this question, to commit, and to become involved.

Our alternative is to reject the affirmative—our alt is mutually exclusive to the plan—we need to reject the aff’s single issue focus and instead dictate our efforts to challenge capital

Magdoff and Foster 10 (Fred and John Belamy, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism”, Monthly Review, Volume 61, Issue 10)

The foregoing analysis, if correct, points to the fact that the ecological crisis
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of and by, and not just ostensibly for, the people.57

1NC vs Stanford LS (Feminism)

Feminism only smooths the way for capitalism—even if it creates equality, massive violence and poverty still continue in the name of capitalist hegemony, only class focus serves to address these inequalities

Newinsky 4 Peter, eco-activist living in Germany, The Continuing Charm of Marx, http://www.stateofnature.org/theContinuingCharm.html

One cogent argument against a facile or reductionist emphasis on class alone, however,
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are but grist for its all-levelling mill of expansion and accumulation.

This neoliberal globalization creates massive amounts of superfluous subhumans, letting the poor die because they are less than human and unworthy of life.

Magdoff, professor emeritus of plant and soil science at the University of Vermont, 08 (Fred, The World Food Crisis MONTHLY REVIEW, May)

The chairman of a district in Lagos, Nigeria described it as follows: “
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them to die” (New York Times, October 15, 2007).

This turns the aff – women are the most impacted by neoliberalism.

Dor, Campaign Against Neo-liberalism in South Africa, 05 (George, Economic Alternatives to Neoliberalism, 6/2, http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/comment/28420)

These corporations have already had a devastating impact, destroying local production and employment,
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find jobs and therefore not in a position to participate economically in society.

Vote neg—It’s try or die for the revolution. The capitalism is unsustainable and reforms only insure the crash is worse—this makes total rejection key

Magdoff and Foster, 2010 (Fred and John Belamy, professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism”, Monthly Review, Volume 61, Issue 10)

The foregoing analysis, if correct, points to the fact that the ecological crisis
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of and by, and not just ostensibly for, the people.57

2NC Link - Identity Politics

Identity politics feed capitalism – it’s a safe way to ignore the class struggle and perpetuates oppression on a global scale

Anarchist News 5 (Identity politics – capitalism in action!, http://www.anarchistnews.org/?q=node/48)3

I'm not going to spend time explaining Australian capitalism or how it adversely affects the
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their arses off as identity-based groups help capitalism divide working people.

2NC - AT Perm

The perm causes more defections from leftist politics

Connolly, chair of political science at John Hopkins University, 99 (William E., "Assembling the Left", Boundary 2 26.3 (1999) 47-54)

I focus here on the academy. The academy is crucial because it has served
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monopolize left enclaves, ghettos, and caves in the academy can be attenuated

The permutation fails to solve the K- focusing on the problems of the aff will trade off with the economic focus needed to disrupt capitalism

Ebert 95, (Teresa L., English, State University of New York, Albany, Rethinking Marxism Association for Economic and Social Analysis, vol 8 no 2, The Knowable Good--Post-al Ethics, the Question of Justice and Red Feminism, index found here, http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/d/rm.htm#95, article here, http://www.geocities.com/redtheory/AO/AOVol5-1RedFeminism.html )

What is of primary concern in anarchic-ludic politics is not so much "
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, is seen as nondeterminate and immanently generating its own local sites of resistance

2NC - Cap Root Cause of Patriarchy

The sexual domination of women arose out of the commodification of women’s labor

Hunter 88 (Virgina, “Review: The Origins of Patriarchy: Gender and Class in the Ancient World”, Labour / Le Travail, Vol. 22 (Fall, 1988), pp. 239-246)

There is more. For Lerner also accepts the theoretical formulations of Claude Levi-
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from both Engels and Levi-Strauss: she has wed the two.

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1NC

Your re-performance isn’t going to be appropriated for broader change

Said 11   Mohamed Kadry, Military and Technology advisor and head of military studies unit, Al- Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies; member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, Interview on Security Reform in Egypt, 6-8, http://carnegieendowment.org/arb/?fa=showandarticle=44463

I mentioned the role of the media and press, and culture and art must
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would smile and recognize the problem, but then nothing else would happen.

The fantasy of change is a DA to your performance

Lobel 7, Assistant Professor of Law, University of San Diego, (Orly, Harvard Law Review, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 937)

The explorations of micro-instances of activism are often fundamentally performative, obscuring the
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the public debate, and aim to challenge and reform existing realities. 231

If the notion of playing with meaning is enough to cause structures to start tumbling down, we wouldn’t have things like exploitation.  Peformances become lost in the feel good moment of the local - ignoring determining structures and systematic relations.

Ebert 95, Pf Critical and Cultural Theory, University at Albany, (Teresa, (Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism, Post-Ality, Marxism and Postmodernism, edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh)

However, contrary to ludic claims, this diverse deployment of deregulating invention by Butler
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" is itself a deconstituting process that undoes its own effects (oppression). 

Ecofeminism denies anti-capitalist analysis of production – they can’t solve because their perspective requires rejection of capitalism to solve

Mellor 97 – Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic – 1997 (Mary, FEMINISM AND ECOLOGY, p. 162)

Eco-feminists incorporate an implicit or explicit rejection of capitalism in their critique of
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struggle and mainstream environmental campaigning have largely replaced social class as political agents.  

Their deconstructive and representation-based approach trades off with paying attention to he forces of production

Hardt and Negri 2K   (Michael, associate professor in Duke University's literature program, Antonio, inmate at Rebibbia Prison in Rome, Empire)

Hybridity itself is an empty gesture, and the mere refusal of order simply leaves
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a powerful instrument for the exit from modernity, has lost its effectiveness.

Assuming that gendered dichotomies dictate every aspect of social life is incorrect—doesn’t allow a space for resistance

Hooper, 1. Charlotte (University of Bristol research associate in politics), Manly States: Masculinities, International Relations, and Gender Politics pp 45-46. 

Spike Peterson and Anne Sisson Runyan (1993), in their discussion of  gendered dichotomies
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performing only an ide-  ological or propagandistic role is also too simplistic.  

Resignification occludes the true sources of power.

Ebert 95, Pf Critical and Cultural Theory, University at Albany, (Teresa, (Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism, Post-Ality, Marxism and Postmodernism, edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh)

More, specifically, it is what Butler calls "resignification."  The politics of
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revolutionary praxis to transform the system of exploitation and emancipate those it exploits.

We should not expect that playing with meaning is liberatory in all contests.  Playing with meaning helps conservative politics

Hardt and Negri 2K   (Michael, associate professor in Duke University's literature program, Antonio, inmate at Rebibbia Prison in Rome, Empire)

"Discourse" and "interpretation" are presented as powerful weapons against the institutional
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celebratory affirmations of postmodernists can easily appear naive, when not purely mystificatory.

Ludic cultural resistance obscures more important strategies of resistance

Satcau 99, Pf English, (Aurelia, POSTMODERN,THE LUDIC AND THE POST-AL, Colloquium at the Department for Cultural Studies, Monash University, http://professoraureliasatcau.wordpress.com/english-pages/postmodernthe-ludic-and-the-post-al/)

The ‘resistance’ performed in ludic theory and practices today, as an effect of
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today, when confusion and unhappiness is on a higher rate than ever.

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1NC vs UCF JV

Nuclear renaissance now – industry leaders have public support and people recognize the need for energy diversity

Forbes 12 Jeff McMahon, contributor, “The Nuclear Renaissance Is Back, Industry Panel Says”, September 27, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2012/09/27/the-nuclear-renaissance-is-back-industry-panel/

Encouraged by a new poll showing public support, industry leaders predicted Wednesday that nuclear
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.S. are safe and secure. So there is public support.”

Massive influx of new loan guarantees and licenses cause nuclear speculation – undermines nuclear safety and makes a future crash inevitable

Koplow 11 Doug and Ellen, United Nations Environment Programme's Working Group on Economic Instruments, MBA – Harvard, and Vancko, project manager – nuclear/climate @ UCS, “Nuclear Power: Still Not Viable without Subsidies,” Union of Concerned Scientists, February

Such blind acceptance is an unwarranted, expensive leap of faith that could set back
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for nuclear power while shifting even more of the risks onto the public.

Loan guarantees fail—Pre-pay requirements and subsidy cost make it impossible for utilities to mobilize capital

Gale 9 Kelley Michael, Finance Department Chair of Latham and Watkins‘ San Diego office serves as global Co-Chair for the firm‘s Climate Change and Cleantech Practice Groups. thirty years of experience representing private and public sector clients in the development, regulation, and financing of alternative energy projects and capital intensive infrastructure projects, “Financing The Nuclear Renaissance: The Benefits And Potential Pitfalls Of Federal and State Government Subsidies And The Future Of Nuclear Power In California”, Energy Law Journal Vol. 30, pgs 497-552

Much has been written on the DOE‘s loan guarantee program under the EPAct
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arrange investment or interim financing to get them through the development process.71

Nuclear energy provides an optimal backup for decentralized solar power

Harding 12 Margaret, president of 4Factor Consulting where she advises clients on quality, regulatory, technical, and business issues within the nuclear industry, and has worked in the nuclear industry for more than 30 years, “Role of nuclear energy in creating smarter US grid networks”, Nuclear Energy Insider, Feb 8, http://analysis.nuclearenergyinsider.com/operations-maintenance/role-nuclear-energy-creating-smarter-us-grid-networks

How do nuclear energy facilities contribute to the overall reliability of energy supply? And
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these arrays, should the amount of solar power being generated exceed demand.

Decentralization fights economic colonialism, returning political power and economic benefits to local communities

Farrell 11 (John, “Democratizing the Electricity System: A Vision for the 21st Century Grid” The New Rules Project, June 2011)

The cornerstone of the distributed generation revolution is its potential democratizing influence on the electric
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outweigh the economic colonialism of absentee owners profiting from local renewable energy resources.

1NR - Causes Price Spikes

Failure of nuclear power is worse, causes price spikes in other energy sources – makes it harder for disadvantaged groups to get access to benefits – Germany proves

The Energy Report 11 Spencer Kimball, “Ending Nuclear Power Could Impact Social Equality”, April 4, http://www.theenergyreport.com/pub/na/9145

The commission tasked with reviewing the future of nuclear energy in Germany has begun its
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We have to solve this in a way that doesn't tolerate social dislocations." 

1NR - Warming Impact

Nuclear power solves warming

NYT 12 “Nuclear Energy”, October 12, http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/energy-environment/atomic-energy/index.html

Nuclear power has gained new adherents in recent years, including some environmentalists who had
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power a central point of his agenda both for energy and global warming.

Marginalized communities are less likely to survive global warming – it threatens their unique culture

Minority Rights Group International 8 Rachel Baird; NGO working to secure the rights of ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities worldwide, and to promote cooperation and understanding between communities, “The Impact of Climate Change on Minorities and Indigenous Peoples”, 10 April, http://www.minorityrights.org/6268/briefing-papers/the-impact-of-climate-change-on-minorities-and-indigenous-peoples.html

Climate change is just beginning to be articulated as a human rights issue – rather
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their government to account for climate change-related impacts on their communities.

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1NC

The United States federal government should hold a national summit on zoning regulations regarding the siting of nuclear power plants.  The summit should include leaders from communities of color that would be directly affected by the proposed locations of nuclear power plants.  The siting of nuclear power plants should be contingent on the decisions reached at the national summit.

Their author agrees that a national summit is the best way to solve

Bullard 11 Robert, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs @ Texas Southern University, “Dismantling Energy Apartheid in the United States”, February 9, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/dismantling-energy-apartheid-in-the-united-states/

Our Climate Justice Movement demands that clean, green, and renewable energy be made
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not get left behind or on the sideline of a clean energy future.

Net benefit:
The aff is speaking for others – they make the broad assertion that all nuclear siting is racist and doesn’t benefit the communities that are near the locations, ignoring communities that actively decide to let nuclear power plants be built near them. This re-entrenches oppression

Alcoff, Hunter College and CUNY philosophy professor, 91 (Linda Martin, “The Problem of Speaking for Others”, Cultural Critique,  No. 20,  pgs. 1-2)

The recognition that there is a problem in speaking for others has followed from the
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oppressed is becoming increasingly criticized by members of those oppressed groups themselves.6 

This perpetuates racism and imperialism – turns the aff

Alcoff, Hunter College and CUNY philosophy professor, 91 (Linda Martin, “The Problem of Speaking for Others”, Cultural Critique,  No. 20,  pg. 10)

Looking merely at the content of a set of claims without looking at their effects
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speaker, words, hearers, location, language, and so on.

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1NC - Energy Apartheid

Status quo resistance solves the aff – people are perfectly capable of stopping siting of nuclear power plants if they don’t want it to happen

Bullard 11 Robert, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs @ Texas Southern University, “Dismantling Energy Apartheid in the United States”, February 9, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/dismantling-energy-apartheid-in-the-united-states/

Residents in Valdosta, Georgia are fighting to block a 40 megawatt biomass incinerator slated
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homes. It plans to sell the electricity to the Georgia Power Co.

Multiple alt causes to environmental racism through siting – coal facilities

Bullard 11 Robert, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs @ Texas Southern University, “Dismantling Energy Apartheid in the United States”, February 9, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/dismantling-energy-apartheid-in-the-united-states/

While Americans talk about a “green energy future,” the continued siting of “
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Georgians shoulder a disproportionate burden of energy apartheid that’s practiced in the state.

And biomass facilities

Bullard 11 Robert, Dean of the Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs @ Texas Southern University, “Dismantling Energy Apartheid in the United States”, February 9, http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/02/dismantling-energy-apartheid-in-the-united-states/

The movement to renewable energy is the preferred strategy to clean energy future for our
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to live in neighborhoods that are suspected of posing the greatest health danger.

1NC - Neolib Epistemology

The aff is too focused on epistemology – this is a trap to demobilize the masses

Bedggood 99 Pf Sociology at New Zealand, (David, Cultural Logic, Vol 2, # 2, Spring)

To express this freedom as a intellectual critique or a "radicalisation" of Marxism
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" capitalism looms larger it cannot be contained by such idealist fixes.111

Turning discourse and epistemology into a structuring reality displaces human agency – turns the aff

Ebert 95, Pf Critical and Cultural Theory, University at Albany, (Teresa, (Untimely) Critiques for a Red Feminism, Post-Ality, Marxism and Postmodernism, edited by Mas'ud Zavarzadeh)

Building on Foucault's theory of a localised, diffuse, a-systematic power,
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where these terms occupy the grammatical site of the subject" (9).

The environmental justice movement is too reductive – it denies agency of indigenous Americans

Yamamoto and Lyman 1 Eric K, professor of law @ Hawaii Law School, and Jen-L W, UC Berkeley visiting law prof, University of Colorado Law Review, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 311, Spring, p. 311-313

"Racial communities are not all created equal." 1 Yet, the established environmental
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needed jobs in the area and is an aspect of group economic survival.

People of color prioritize social issues over environmental concerns – the EJ movement misrepresents their opinions so that they can make a political point even if the communities want other issues dealt with first

Shellenberger and Nordhaus 7 Michael, environmental strategist and cofounder and president of the Breakthrough Institute; and Ted, cofounder and chairman of the Breakthrough Institute, Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, pg. 75-6

EJ leaders frequently insist that environmental issues are among the top concerns of people of
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say they want to see action taken by the government to fix it.

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1NC vs thorium

Energy production excludes transformation – it must be primary

Eurostat (EU Commission’s energy statistics organization) July 6, 2012 “Glossary: Primary production of energy” http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/statistics_explained/index.php/Glossary:Primary_production_of_energy

Primary production of energy is any extraction of energy products in a useable form from
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burned), or coke production in coke ovens, is not primary production. 

Thorium is not production – it’s an energy transformation

Guardian 11 Eifion Rees for The Ecologist, June 23, 2011, Guardian Environment Network, “Don't believe the spin on thorium being a greener nuclear option”

Anti-nuclear campaigner Peter Karamoskos goes further, dismissing a 'dishonest fantasy' perpetuated by
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– 'so these are really U-233 reactors,' says Karamoskos.¶

That’s a voter –
First, Limits – Secondary production is an catch-all category – explodes the literature base – predictability and research burden

Kim Woodard (Research Assistant at the Resource Systems Institute of the East-West Center,  Chairman and CEO of Javelin Investments) 1980 “The International Energy Relations of China” p. 457

Secondary energy production can most easily be defined as the conversion of one energy fuel
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should be taken as a point of reference, not the final word.

Second, Precision - Separating primary and secondary forms of energy is key to overall energy policy – education

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1NC

CIR will pass, capital key, new issue trades off

Shifter 12-27 Michael, President of the Inter-American Dialogue, “Will Obama Kick the Can Down the Road?”

Not surprisingly, Obama has been explicit that reforming the US’s shameful and broken immigration
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needed -- would take away energy and time from other priorities like immigration. 

CIR solves multiple internal links to the economy

Beadle 12/10 Amanda Peterson, Reporter/Blogger at ThinkProgress.org. She received her B.A. in journalism and Spanish from the University of Alabama, where she was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper The Crimson White and graduated with honors. Before joining ThinkProgress, she worked as a legislative aide in the Maryland House of Delegates. “Top 10 Reasons Why The U.S. Needs Comprehensive Immigration Reform” http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/12/10/1307561/top-10-reasons-why-the-us-needs-comprehensive-immigration-reform-that-includes-a-path-to-citizenship/

The nation needs a comprehensive immigration plan, and it is clear from a recent
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U.S. university, 2.62 American jobs are created.

extinction

Royal 10 (Jedediah, director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal, and Political Perspectives, pg 213-215)

Less intuitive is how periods of economic decline may increase the likelihood of external conflict
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As such the view presented here should be considered ancillary to those views.

Link - Nuclear Power

Nuclear energy debates cost capital -- tons of strong opposition.

Szondy, ’12 David, freelance writer -- Gizmag, 2-16, “Feature: Small modular nuclear reactors - the future of energy?” http://www.gizmag.com/small-modular-nuclear-reactors/20860/

The problem is that nuclear energy is the proverbial political hot potato - even in
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has caused many governments to take an almost schizophrenic stance regarding the atom.

Link - CFIUS

The plan makes China a pivotal issue – bashing empirically benefits the GOP and sparks political opposition

Yingzi, 10 (Tan, “US likely to give nod to CNOOC deal, despite opposition” 10/14, China Daily,
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2010-10/14/content_11409139.htm

In 2005, CNOOC gave up plans to acquire Unocal Oil Co after the bid
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in a small US steel company, said Scissors from the Heritage Foundation.

Impact - US Credibility

Comprehensive reform is critical to restore US international credibility

Alden, Bush, and McLarty 2009 [Edward Alden, Bernard L. Schwartz Senior Fellow, Florida governor Jeb Bush and former White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McLarty.Council on Foreign Relations “U.S. Immigration Policy” July 2009 http://www.cfr.org/immigration/us-immigration-policy/p20030]

"The continued failure to devise and implement a sound and sustainable immigration policy threatens
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do not significantly reduce the risk of terrorists or criminals entering the country.

Solves terrorism, disease, and North Korean nuclearization – collapse results in lashout against Iran

Joshua Kurlantzick, visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment’s, December 2005 (Current History p. 419-420: http:// www.carnegieendowment.org/files/Kurlantzick.pdf)

A broad decline in soft power has many practical implications. These include the drain
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of terrorism, in addition to rooting out and destroying individual militant cells.

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STUPID PUBLICS. The aff takes an already secret and unaccountable industry and buries it deeper within institutions that are even more removed from public scrutiny. Handing off nuclear power to the military creates the presumption that the public is too stupid to participate in nuclear governance.

Taylor 7, associate professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado–Boulder, Brian C., Presidential Studies Quarterly, Volume 37, # 4, Pages 667-692

This is a rhetorical matter in that centralization has historically been produced and maintained through
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their sense of entitlement protects them from inconvenient challenges raised by popular voice. 

The ROOT CAUSE of nuclear FAILURE IS collusion between government and industry. Reluctance to question authority ensures the constant repetition of Fukushimas

Grossman 10-25  Karl, professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury for 32 years. He is a specialist in investigative reporting. He is the author of Cover Up: What You Are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power. DiaiNuke, http://www.dianuke.org/foxes-guarding-the-hen-houses-a-global-pattern-in-nuclear-industry/

The conclusion of a report of a Japanese parliamentary panel that the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear
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a construction or operating license for a nuclear power plant anywhere, anytime.

The SECURITIZATION of nuclear energy ENSURES FAILURES OF HEAT SINKS. The NRC knows it and has been keeping the issue out of the public.

Gundersen 12-17   Arnie, Fairewinds, 40-years of nuclear power engineering experience. He attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) where he earned his Bachelor Degree cum laude while also becoming the recipient of a prestigious Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship for his Master Degree in nuclear engineering. Arnie holds a nuclear safety patent, was a licensed reactor operator, and is a former nuclear industry senior vice president. During his nuclear power industry career, Arnie also managed and coordinated projects at 70-nuclear power plants in the US.

Now since Fukushima Daiichi, I have been following the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's analysis pretty
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loss of the ultimate heat sink because their intake structures can become flooded. 

Greenwashing. Cleaning the military’s energy will become a spectacle that prevents larger behavioral change in our energy choices

Sirota 11 --David, best-selling author of the new book "Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live In Now," co-hosts The Rundown with Sirota and Brown on AM630 KHOW, http://www.salon.com/2011/05/23/greenwashing_military/

The defiant move exemplified that mix of stubborn hubris that has come to define our
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simply move America away from its energy-draining policy of permanent war.

MILITARISM. Viewing the Pentagon as the agent of change delegitimizes the clout of the civilian world and provides political cover for the war on terror

Feldman 7 Jonathan, lecturer at Stockholm University, “The Strange Political Economy of Death in the South,” Counterpunch, 11/1, http://www.counterpunch.org/2007/11/01/the-strange-political-economy-of-death-in-the-south/ ¶ The Greening of the Pentagon and War Planners

The Pentagon is again the agent of political praxis. The authors call for "
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unchecked monopoly capitalist accumulation, such forces threaten to block any comprehensive reforms. 

Our alternative is a direct challenge to the aff’s notions of Energy and Security. By STARTING from the perspective of collective security and survival of the commons, ONLY then will we create a truly pragmatic form of politics. We think rejection of your aff for these reasons does produce a different understanding of politics that’s more helpful that your business as usual approach

Hildyard et al 12 Nicholas, The Corner House, Larry Lohmann and Sarah Sexton.12 Energy Security For Whom? For What? February 2012

In the bewildering, sometimes frightening, talk about “energy security” that bombards
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“energy security” and the most pragmatic starting point for practical action.

2NC - Turns Case

If we win that the aff locks out the public from energy decisions, we turn the aff:

A. Nuclear power can’t survive without long-term public support

Cameron 10 (Ron, Head, Nuclear Development Division, OECD Nuclear Energy Agency, "The 2050 roadmap for nuclear: making a global difference," http://www.world-nuclear.org/sym/2010/papers/cameron.pdf-)

Given that the construction period of a nuclear plant may include national elections, and
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public consultations and debates to achieve a national consensus on the way forward.

B. The RELUCTANCE TO QUESTION AUTHORITY CAUSED FUKUSHIMA

Williams 12   Chris, author of Ecology and Socialism: Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis, reports on an independent investigation into Japan's nuclear nightmare. Socialist Worker, 7-12, http://socialistworker.org/2012/07/12/capitalisms-disastrous-priorities

HOW COULD such a "profoundly manmade disaster" have come to pass? According
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accidents. Therefore, we conclude that the accident was clearly "manmade." 

C. SERIAL POLICY FAILURE: Nuclear secrecy reduces the public to passive spectators perpetuating self-deception

Taylor and Hendry 8, Pf of Comm @ Colorado-Boulder, Comm and Journalism @ New Mexico, Bryan C., Judith, RHETORIC and PUBLIC AFFAIRS, Vol 11, Number 2, Summer

Oppressive conditions of secrecy, security, centralization, and containment surrounding the institutionalization of
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informed exchange that might result in more constructive nuclear policies."82

2NC - Aff Epistemology is Wrong

Militarism defines what is fact and fiction.  We have over 1500 military bases.  We spend more on defense than all the world combined.  Public space is militarized domestically.  We live in a militarized culture.  Nothing about your harms are necessarily true besides the fact that they reflect a form of militarization that turn international problems into military problems. This militarization of culture produces unaccountable political power

Giroux 6, Director of the Waterbury Forum in Education and Cultural Studies at Penn State, (Henry A, symploke 14.1/2, 98-151)

In the contemporary context of globalization, militarism has become what David Theo Goldberg calls
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in a single group nor are limited to a particular sphere of society.

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1NC - Based Islanding Adv

Islanding fails because multiple plants can shut down simultaneously and fossil fuels will still be needed for backup

Salama 12 Mohamed E., prof of Pathology at the university of Utah, Is nuclear power a global warming solution?, http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/workshops/11JunNATO/Salama_NuclearEnergy.pdf, 8/8/12

The industry’s scenario is fundamentally flawed, because current nuclear power plants are aging.
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, their total contribution to world energy use would only increase to 12%.

They misunderstand—When the grid goes down grid connected plants do too so there’s no possibility of islanding – solar is an example

Adams 6/16 (Mike, Editor of the Natural News, “Reality check: When the power grid goes down, all grid-tie solar systems will go down with it” 6/16/12 http://www.naturalnews.com/036194_solar_system_grid-tie_power_grid.html)

(NaturalNews) A lot of people believe they are becoming "power independent"
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electricity from their own solar panels even if the power grid is down?

1NC - Prolif Adv

Even if thorium or U233 and not plutonium’s used for fuel, reprocessing waste would dramatically increase weapons material.

Green 10 Jim Green, PhD in science and technology studies, NUCLEAR WEAPONS,  NUCLEAR POWER and INTEGRAL FAST REACTORS, http://foe.org.au/sites/default/files/IFR-FoEA-web-Feb2010.pdf, Feb 2010

In theory, there is much to like about the idea of conventional reprocessing with
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amount to over 270 tonnes, enough for 27,000 nuclear weapons.

Thorium reactors still facilitate prolif and are themselves a terrorist target.

Siegel 12 (By RP Siegel. “Liquid Fluoride Thorium Power: Pros and Cons” Triple Pundit, April 23rd, 2012. http://www.triplepundit.com/2012/04/liquid-fluoride-thorium-power-pros-cons/)

Cons¶ Non-renewable fuel¶ Still produces hazardous waste (though far less
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as I expect you will be hearing more about it in the future.

No risk of weaponization

Talmadge ‘07, Ph.D. in political science at MIT, 2007 (Caitlin. Spring. The Washington Quarterly. Deterring a Nuclear 9/11. www.twq.com/07spring/docs/07spring_talmadge.pdf)

Nowhere is this approach more plausible than in the case of nuclear terrorism. 14
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or indirectly facilitate their acquisition of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

1NC - Solvency

Thorium isn’t effective and takes multiple decades to come online—plus, US restrictions taint solvency

Makhijani 12 http://www.npr.org/2012/05/04/152026805/is-thorium-a-magic-bullet-for-our-energy-problems

¶ FLATOW: Well, I've only got about a minute or so to go
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something we don't know.¶ FLATOW: Last word, Richard, quickly?

Don’t buy the hype – their authors are lobbyists and thorium’s not feasible or inevitable

Guardian 11 Eifion Rees for The Ecologist, June 23, 2011, Guardian Environment Network, “Don't believe the spin on thorium being a greener nuclear option”

The pro-thorium lobby claim a single tonne of thorium burned in a molten
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– in short, it concluded, the claims for thorium were 'overstated'.

Lengthy construction time

BUNYARD 6 Peter, science editor of The Ecologist, U.K. Pacific Ecologist. Taking The Wind Out Of Nuclear Power

Nuclear power has a record of long construction times, measured in decades. The
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would be in short supply and too expensive to fuel a consumer society. 

SMRs are just a new marketing gimmick to hide waste problems

Nussbaum 11 Rudi H. is a Professor emeritus of Physics and Environmental Sciences at Portland State University. A Reckless Denial of Reality : Clinging to the Nuclear Option, 7-27

In addition to unacceptable long lasting effects on public health, even if operating normally
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nothing to offer in terms of safe disposal of spent nuclear fuel rods.

Waste problems gut US leadership

Bengelsdorf 7 (Harold, consultant and former director of energy department offices, “THE U.S. DOMESTIC CIVIL NUCLEAR INFRASTRUCTURE AND U.S. NONPROLIFERATION POLICY”, http://www.nuclearcompetitiveness.org/images/COUNCIL_WHITE_PAPER_Final.pdf)

It is, therefore, essential that the United States have vibrant nuclear reactor,
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safeguards and other nonproliferation controls through close peaceful nuclear cooperation with other countries.

1 accident will plunge any renaissance into the dark ages

Squassoni, ‘8 Sharon, Senior Associate, Nonproliferation Program -- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 3-12, “The Realities of Nuclear Expansion” Congressional Testimony: House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming, Washington, DC 

A few caveats with respect to projecting nuclear energy expansion are necessary. Nuclear energy
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nuclear energy’s share of electricity production, and then estimate nuclear reactor capacity.

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1NC

A --- Interpretation --- restrictions are direct governmental limitations on production

Annamaria Viterbo 12 , Assistant Professor in International Law at the University of Torino, PhD in International Economic Law from Bocconi University and Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute, 2012, International Economic Law and Monetary Measures: Limitations to States' Sovereignty and Dispute, p. 166

In order to distinguish an exchange restriction from a trade measure, the Fund chose
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imposed directly on the use of currency in itself, for all purposes.

Energy production refers to the extraction, conversion, and distribution of energy

Koplow 4 Doug Koplow is the founder of Earth Track in Cambridge, MA. He has worked on natural resource subsidy issues for 20 years, primarily in the energy sector "Subsidies to Energy Industries" Encyclopedia of Energy Vol 5 2004www.earthtrack.net/files/Energy%20Encyclopedia,%20wv.pdf

3.2 Production Energy production
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the energy resource to the point of final use, and accident risks.

B --- Violation --- CFIUS doesn’t restrict --- it regulates which companies can produce energy

Douglas William Nigh 98, associate professor of international business at the University of South Carolina, and Douglas P. Woodward, associate professor of economics at the University of South Carolina, Foreign Ownership and the Consequences of Direct Investment in the United States: Beyond Us and Them, 1998, p. 144

How did the U.S. government respond to the influx of FDI that
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Council of Economic Advisers; it is usually chaired by a Treasury official. 

C --- Vote neg ---

1 --- Ground --- they avoid links to core disads which are based on increases in energy production --- the US companies are already producing energy --- they just allow foreign firms to acquire those US companies

2 --- Unlimits—allows for affs that repeal a environmental or corporate regulations that have no effect on the amount of energy produced, kills neg ground

3 --- Precision --- restriction is narrower than regulation

US District Court 9—Judge Thomas E. Johnson, US District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, http://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/west-virginia/wvsdce/5:2009cv00152/61171/33

9 The fourth prong of the Central Hudson test refers to "regulation" of
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more broad or no more expansive than 'necessary' to serve its substantial interests").

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1NC

The United States Federal Government should:

-mandate that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States’ annual report to Congress quantify the number of deals that were approved during the previous year; and

-should amend Exon-Florio to define “national security” so as to consider the following factors in reviewing foreign acquisitions as per Carroll

Amending Exon-Florio to narrowly define national security solves the case --- it removes “economic security” as a consideration in the CFIUS process --- this accurate reading of their Carroll solvency evidence provides further support:

Carroll 9 23 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 167 COMMENT: BACK TO THE FUTURE: REDEFINING THE FOREIGN INVESTMENT AND NATIONAL SECURITY ACT'S CONCEPTION OF NATIONAL SECURITY, 2009, lexis

Exon-Florio should be amended to more narrowly define national security. The open
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by embracing globalization and cooperation can the United States truly achieve national security.

The aff goes too far by excluding any oil and gas deals from CFIUS reviews --- this is precisely the situation Carroll wants to avoid: a Chinese state-owned company could try to buy companies that supply energy to the U.S. military and the US would have no capacity to even review such a deal

This obviously harms national security since Chinese companies can freely buy-up US oil companies --- fuels their aggressive expansionism --- and it’s politically unpopular

Alex Newman 12, “Communist China Lobbying to Take Over U.S. Oil, Lawmakers Still Concerned,” NewAmerican, 8-7-12, http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/sectors/item/12364-communist-china-lobbying-to-take-over-us-oil-lawmakers-still-concerned

Top American lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are expressing serious concerns about a
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hairs — and will remain there as long as policymakers refuse to resist.

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1NC - Iran Adv

No impact to nuclear Iran – doesn’t snowball or cause aggression

Layne 9 – Int’l Affairs Prof, Texas AandM, Visiting Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Cato Institute (Christopher, America’s Middle East grand strategy after Iraq, Review of International Studies 35, Cambridge Journals)

Of course, hard-line US neoconservatives reject this approach and argue that a
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intolerable’, because it could be contained and deterred successfully by the US. 

Turn---Iranian prolif will be stabilizing

Robert D. Kaplan 11 is a national correspondent for The Atlantic and a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security, AND Stephen S. Kaplan is a research associate in the Brookings Institution, “America Primed” Feb 23 http://nationalinterest.org/article/america-primed-4892

Moreover, a nuclear-armed Iran is not a worst-case scenario.
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least likely to embroil the United States even deeper in the Middle East.

1NR - Iran Adv

Prolif good: Nuclear weapons make military buildups unnecessary, reducing spending

Avery Goldstein - Director of FPRI’s Asia Program and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. - November 13, 2K “Why Nukes Still Trump: Deterrence and Security in the 21st Century” www.fpri.org/enotes/military.200001113.goldstein.nukesstilltrump.html access 8-24-07

The deterrent logic that guided China, Britain, and France highlights the essential features
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fund conventional forces in the quantity or quality that satisfies their security needs.

Iranian nuclearization will clarify Israel’s strategic thinking, and resolve the Palestinian issue

Justin Logan - foreign policy analyst at the Cato Institute - December 4, 2006 No. 583 “The Bottom Line on Iran: The Costs and Benefits of Preventive War versus Deterrence”

Further, Israeli strategists have been considering the implications of proliferation in the Middle East
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make a territorial settlement necessary, it will also render it possible.136 

Israel has to moderate its stance with Palestine, or the region will be destroyed by nuclear war – Middle East proliferation sets the stage for global peace

Gabriel Kolko - leading historian of modern warfare, Distinguished Research Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto - Aug 30, 2006 “The death of deterrence” http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/HH30Ak03.html accessed June 30, 2007

Even more ominous, the US Army has just released a report that light-
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that it will be liquidated even as it rains destruction on its enemies.

1NC - China Adv

SQUO SOLVES China’s moving away from coal now

Ailun Yang 10-15, Senior Associate – World Resources Institute, “What Is The Future Of King Coal In China?” 10-15-12, http://insights.wri.org/news/2012/10/what-future-king-coal-china

China’s great thirst for coal is undeniably troubling from a sustainable development standpoint. However
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capacity is likely to be only half of what was installed last year.

Turn – no protectionism - CFIUS is good because it forces Chinese corporations to build-up their regulatory experience and capability --- ultimately incentivizes reforms that liberalize the Chinese economy

Daniel H. Rosen 12, partner at the Rhodium Group, and Thilo Hanemann research director at the Rhodium Group, “The Rise in Chinese Overseas Investment and What It Means for American Businesses,” China Business Review, July-September 2012, https://www.chinabusinessreview.com/public/1207/rosen.html

Initially, politicians in Washington and elsewhere were caught off guard by rising Chinese investment
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wider opportunities for foreign multinationals in industries currently off-limits to them.

No shale gas solvency --- technical difficulties, complex geology, lack of a pipeline, and artificial pricing

Leslie Hook 12, “Country focus: China faces difficulties in shale gas production,” Financial Times, 3-28-12, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3fcc49a4-71de-11e1-90b5-00144feab49a.html#axzz2AFOYdPa5

Shale gas is technically difficult to extract and China’s national oil companies are relatively new
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investment in exploration because oil projects are much more lucrative at current prices.

No Sino/Russia war

Weitz 11---Director, Center for Political-Military Analysis Senior Fellow Hudson Institute. PhD in pol sci from Harvard (Richard, China-Russia relations and the United States: At a turning point?, http://en.rian.ru/valdai_op/20110414/163523421.html)

Since the end of the Cold War, the improved political and economic relationship between
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Asia have manifested themselves most visibly in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO).\

1NC - Econ Adv

Alternate causalities swamp the case --- a handful of other industries will still politicize the CFIUS national security standard

Susan W. Liebeler 93, a former chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission, is a partner in the law firm of Irell and Manella. William H. Lash III is an assistant professor at St. Louis University School of Law, Exon-Florio: Harbinger of Economic Nationalism? Regulation, Vol. 16, No. 1, Winter 1993, www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv16n1/reg16n1d.html

Many members of Congress have pressured CFIUS to use Exon-Florio more widely for
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in the makeup of CFIUS and the way Exon-Florio is administered.

Squo solves: CFIUS reviews encourage Chinese oil companies to prudently negotiate the American political climate to avoid backlash

WSJ 12 --- China Foothold in U.S. Energy, 3-6-12, http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:qnxJVCUg4KgJ:online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204883304577223083067806776.html+andcd=2andhl=enandct=clnkandgl=usandclient=firefox-a

China's new approach to investing in U.S. energy companies suggests it has
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nonoperating interest in an asset and not take the oil and gas home."

And, Failure to effectively negotiate the political climate means Congress and the public will backlash regardless of CFIUS --- scuttles deals --- empirically proven

MATTHEW R. BYRNE 6, J.D., The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law, expected 2007, Protecting National Security and Promoting Foreign Investment: Maintaining the Exon-Florio Balance, OHIO STATE LAW JOURNAL, 2006, http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/students/groups/oslj/files/2012/04/67.4.byrne_.pdf

CNOOC’s attempt to acquire Unocal occurred in the summer of 2005. After a much
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bills’ proposed changes to the statute are still mere possibilities, not certainties.

Round 1 vs Stanford GP (EOR)
1NC - Enclosure K; Warming Adv (Framing DA); Oil Dependence Adv
2NC - Enclosure K; Warming Adv (Framing DA)
1NR - Oil Dependence Adv
2NR - Warming Adv (Framing DA)

Round 4 vs CSUF BS (Anti-blackness)
1NC - Welsh K, T - defend the topic, case
2NC - Welsh K
1NR - kicked T; case
2NR - Welsh K, case

Round 6 vs Stanford LS (k of topic/feminism)
1NC - Welsh K, Cap K, T - defend the topic, case
2NC - welsh, cap
1NR - T, case
2NR - cap

Round 2 vs UCF JV (Energy Apartheid)
1NC: Summit CP, Cap K, Nuclear Industry Good DA, case
2NC: kicked k; CP, case
1NR: disad
2NR: disad, case

Round 4 vs Puget Sound CK (Thorium SMRs)
1NC: T-must be primary production, politics (CIR), enclosure K vs DOD SMRs, case
2NC: kicked politics; enclosure k
1NR: t, case
2NR: k, case

Round 5 vs Kentucky GS (CFIUS)
1NC: T - CFIUS not restrictions, Carroll CP, politics (CIR), enclosure k, case
2NC: kicked CP and ptx; enclosure k
1NR: case
2NR: case - prolif good turn, china liberalization turn