Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 2 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma | Judge: 

Starting with ecology as a rallying cry fails for three reasons – it creates an environment hostile to revolutionary change

Bennett 11   Jane, Professor Political Theory - Johns Hopkins University, Eurozine, 10-19, http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-10-19-loenhart-en.html

JB: Your question prompted me to go back to Zizek's problematic talk, "

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ecological thinking tends to harbour a distrust of grand and speedy collective acts.

ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENTS become single-issue movements that FRAGMENT THE LEFT.

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

Some of the things they have been taught not to think of when they think

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environmental boundaries that would allow American progressives to compete more effectively with conservatives.

THE AFF REPRESENTS A FORM OF EDUCATING THE PUBLIC.  THIS PLEA FOR AN EDUCATED PUBLIC AS THE ENVIRONMENTAL REDEMPTION IS A DENIAL OF WHAT IT WILL TAKE TO CONSTRUCT A SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY.  IT WILL FALL ON DEAF EARS

Environment, Capitalism and Socialism 2004                (www.resistancebooks.com)

Nonprofit organisations ranging from international environmental groups to neighbourhood churches — collectively called "civil

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-Green coalitions. Some at least are imposing eco-taxes."22

Our argument is not just a K of your starting point, we have evidence that says don’t do the aff: VOTE NEG TO CONCLUDE THAT ECOLOGY SHOULD NOT BE OUR STARTING POINT

YIH 90, Ecologist - New World Agriculture Group

(Katherine, Monthly Review, Oct, v42, EXAC)

In sum, if capitalism is the problem, then it is logically incomplete and

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but more acutely toxic pesticides (e.g., organophosphates like parathion).

WE SHOULD ACKNOWLEDGE ENVIRONMENTALISM’S DEATH.  POLICY-SPEAK FAILS TO MOTIVATE.

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.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 2 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma | Judge: 

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.

IF ECOLOGISM IS TO SUCCEED, ARGUMENTS MUST BE FRAMED IN A WAY THAT IS UNDERSTANDABLE AND ACCESSIBLE

Humphrey 6    Mathew, Reader in Political Philosophy, Faculty of Social Sciences at University of Nottingham, Taking Ideology Seriously - 21st Century Reconfigurations

In terms of the language of contemporary liberalism, ecologism has to become a ‘

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, excpet insofar as they contribute to the existence of ‘primary goods’.

PRESSURING OBAMA TRADES OFF WITH DEVELOPING INDEPENDENT MOVEMENTS

Botz 9, Authentic Labor Front United Electrical Workers and the Resource Center of the Americas, (Dan La, Working Paper: Obama, The Crisis and The Movements, 7/10, http://www.zmag.org/znet/viewArticle/21947)

When leftists argue for supporting Obama and the Democrats, they disorient the movements and

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- a Democratic Party administration or coalition will weaken and disorient the movements.

Reject the aff’s understanding of politics of the debate space – AS AN ACADEMIC FANTASY. 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.

They are many many many examples, here’s just two:

A. SUSTAINABILITY MOVEMENTS ARE GROWING: EVEN WEST COAST AND NEW YORK POLITICIANS ARE COMMITTING THEMSELVES TO A SUSTAINABLE ENERGY PATH

Barber 4, Integrative Strategies Forum, Jeffrey, Making Sustainability a Political Priority, http://www.citnet.org/newsletters/2004-09/PoliticalPriority.aspx)

Yet increasingly we have been seeing a movement growing across the country and around the

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on efforts by New York politicians to commit to a sustainable energy path.

B. OIL COMPANY HACKING

Zetter 12 July 16, 2012  Kim, Wired, Oil Companies Spring a Leak, Courtesy of Anonymous, http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/07/oil-companies-hacked/

Five top multinational oil companies have been targeted by members of Anonymous, who published

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their rigs and use giant hoses to melt floating ice with warm water.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 2 | Opponent: Central Oklahoma | Judge:
The affirmative engages in a framework of ordering in which, through progressive solutions, they attempt to solve problems through an externalized global framework.  This top-down methodology produces global ordering and replicates violence.
Nayar 99
Jayan, associate professor at the School of Law at University of Warwick, “SYMPOSIUM: RE-FRAMING INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: Orders of Inhumanity,” Fall 1999, 9 Transnat'l L. and Contemp. Probs. 599, lexis
The discussion in this article thus far on the technologies of ordering may be regarded
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cannot speak; what we refuse to see, we dare not speak. 

Additionally, the affirmative externalizes through role-play – they conceive of a problem to be addressed by the state or other grand institutions, upholding the mindset that responsibility rests solely on someone else’s shoulders.  This makes violence inevitable.
Kappeler 95
Susanne, Professor at Cal-Berkeley and Al-Akhawayn University, The Will to Violence: The Politics of Personal Behavior, pg 10-11
‘We are the war’ does not mean that the responsibility for a war is
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our values’ according to the structures and the values of war and violence.  

And, this global order inevitably requires ordering – this comes in the form of violent colonialism and invasion, resulting in the never-ending destruction of all possible others
Nayar 99
Jayan, associate professor at the School of Law at University of Warwick, “SYMPOSIUM: RE-FRAMING INTERNATIONAL LAW FOR THE 21ST CENTURY: Orders of Inhumanity,” Fall 1999, 9 Transnat'l L. and Contemp. Probs. 599, lexis
 *606 Distinguishing these two meanings of "order" provides us with
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-ing" within the historical epoch of colonialism is now plainly visible. 

The only political tool we have is our own thoughts and actions – vote negative to answer the question ‘what should we do?’ instead of ‘what should they do?’
Kappeler 95 (Susanne now works as a freelance writer and teaches in England and Germany. She is also the author of The Pornography of Representation, The Will to Violence, ISBN 9780745613055, pgs 18-19)

The question which poses itself, then , is rather how we act in situations
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, why don 't we do it anyway, for a start.'

Good intentions are irrelevant – it’s the structure of political practice that matters
Kappeler 95 (Susanne now works as a freelance writer and teaches in England and Germany. She is also the author of The Pornography of Representation, The Will to Violence, ISBN 9780745613055, pgs 12-13)

The feminist critique of sexual violence has not only analysed patriarchal power relations as the
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can afford to prioritize the question of aims over the question of means.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge: 

A – Interpretation: Increase means to make greater – excludes extending duration

Martinez, 06 – Justice for the Supreme Court of Colorado (SUPREME COURT OF COLORADO, 129 P.3d 988; 2006 Colo. LEXIS 395, Plaintiff-Appellee: DOUGLAS BRUCE, v. Defendants-Appellants: CITY OF COLORADO SPRINGS and KATHRYN YOUNG, City Clerk, in her official capacity as election officer for the city, 2/27, lexis)

Turning, then, to the language of section (3), itself, we assess the plain meaning of "tax increase" as it appears in that section.

*995  In examining "tax increase" as it appears in Amendment

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practical, everyday meaning of "increase" is synonymous with "extension."

A tax "extension" suggests the continuation of a tax, whereas a tax

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latter suggests a change that will impose a greater cost on the taxpayer.

B – Violation: the aff extends the duration of an incentive. It doesn’t create an increase.

C – Standards:

1 – Limits: they could extend an incentive that ends in 2030 – no way we can predict their time sensitive advantages in that long of timeframe.

2 – Ground: we can’t get good links to unique disads if your aff doesn’t happen for over a year.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge: 

The aff’s beliefs in energy switching and scarcity is a form of green education that normalizes consumption. It is a betrayal of the commitment to a wider project of social change. We need to understand the act of framing energy solutions as FOUNDATIONAL to the solution itself. Our frames should attempt to envision deep changes in hegemonic social relations and stay grounded in day-to-day realties.

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

Given the obvious seriousness of climate change and depth of the problems with the dominant

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of the future while remaining grounded in day-to-day realties.

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/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.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge: 

The U.S. is the world’s biggest oil importer – the plan will devastate global oil producers’ economies

Miller ‘10—assistant professor of political science at the University of Oklahoma (Gregory D., April 2010, © Center for Strategic and International Studies, The Washington Quarterly 33:2, “The Security Costs of Energy Independence,” http://www.twq.com/10april/docs/10apr_Miller.pdf

The United States only gets about 15 percent of its oil from the Middle East

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, even those that do not sell much oil to the United States.

Saudi Arabia will flood the oil market if they perceive a reduction in US demand – crushes oil prices

Energy Tech Stocks ‘8 1-27-2008 (“Petro-politics Expert Marcel: Saudis Have Oil But Not Enough; OPEC May Flood Market To Hurt New Techs,” http://energytechstocks.com/)

Saudi Arabia still has a lot of oil; nevertheless, the world doesn’t have

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industry, the world keeps asking, “Why should we trust them?”

It snowballs - flood crushes other oil producers including Russia

Mohamedi ‘3 – Chief Economist at PFC Energy (Fareed Mohamedi, Chief Economist, The Petroleum Finance Company Ltd.,” In the Wake of War: Geo-strategy, Terrorism, Oil Markets, and Domestic Politics,” http:~/~/www.mepc.org/forums_chcs/31.asp

A more aggressive strategy and actually a better strategy for the Saudis in many ways

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of low oil price for a period of 18 months to two years.

Russian collapse causes nuclear war

Filger ‘9 – Sheldon Filger, columnist and founder of GlobalEconomicCrisis.com, May 10, 2009, “Russian Economy Faces Disastrous Free Fall Contraction,” online: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sheldon-filger/russian-economy-faces-dis_b_201147.html

The Medvedev/Putin regime has initiated a host of policy responses to mitigate the

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the financial impact of the Global Economic Crisis is its least dangerous consequence.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge: 

US-China COLLABORATIONS UP IN THE SQ – they recharge the overall relationship BUT PUSHING US COMPETITION WILL diminish CLEAN ENERGY AGREEMENTS

CBR, ’12 China Business Review, April-2012, “Special Report: Energy and Environment Chinese Investment in Clean Energy.”

The seven bilateral clean energy agreements signed by PRC President Hu Jintao and US President

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and a sound platform from which the two countries can build stable relations.

Emphasizing domestic production turns renewable energy into a tool for economic nationalism – it’s counter-productive to economic integration

Halff 8 --Antoine, a member of the Beijing Energy Club and serves on the board of directors of the New York Energy Forum and the editorial board of Geopolitics of Energy.  Deputy Head of Research, Americas, at Newedge, and Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. Stanford Law and Policy Review, 19 Stan. L. and Pol'y Rev 402

Lost in the debate is the fact that the perverse effects of biofuel production are

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lower-cost imports have aggravated, rather than narrowed, those differences.

And, protectionism causes extinction

Pazner 8 (Michael J., Faculty – New York Institute of Finance, Financial Armageddon: Protect Your Future from Economic Collapse, p. 137-138)

The rise in isolationism and protectionism will bring about ever more heated arguments and dangerous

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between Muslims and Western societies as the beginnings of a new world war.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 4 | Opponent: Mary Washington | Judge: 

aff creates a green bubble—renewed PTC means the bubble pops and collapses the econ.

Edmonton Journal 9 “Investors waking up to lure of clean-tech; Climate change furor has unlocked financing” December 30

The past decade saw investors do a tap dance to the tune of Boom and

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energy firms to drop as the bubble bursts," said Mr. Dewees.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 6 | Opponent: Louisville | Judge: Jay Frank

Interpretation – the aff must affirm either an increase in financial incentives or removal of restrictions on energy production through the federal government.

“USfg should” means the debate must include a policy established by governmental means

Ericson 3

(Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4)

The Proposition of Policy: Urging Future Action In policy propositions, each topic contains

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compelling reasons for an audience to perform the future action that you propose.

Increase is in the resolution. It means to make greater in size, amount or degree

Dictionary.com No Date Given http:~/~/dictionary.reference.com/browse/increase?s=com/browse/increase?s=ts(% style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt" %) increase - Show IPA verb, in·creased, in·creas·ing, noun verb (used with object)

to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: “to increase taxes.”

Restrictions are regulatory prohibitions

Words and Phrases 2004 v37A p410

N.D.Okla. 1939. "Restriction," as used in the statutes concerning restriction on alienation of lands inherited from deceased Osage allottees, is synonymous with "prohibition." Act April J8, 1912. §§ 6, 7, 37 Stat. 87, 88.—U.S. v. Mullendore, 30 F.Supp. 13, appeal dismissed 111 F.2d 898.— Indians 15(1).

the aff does nothing to change current energy production—rather, their advocacy is an anology to what we should do as debaters in this community.

C: vote neg:

This interpretation is necessary to fair ground for both sides. The resolution is a neutral site of stasis for controversy. The topic selection process might be problematic but the important thing is that neither the AFF team nor the NEG team is able pick the exact question of the resolution. If they are they can define the debate in ways that make it near impossible for us to compete and really easy for them to win. We aren’t calling them cheaters. The point of debate is to make it harder for your opponent to win. That’s what good debaters do. The point is that there need to be limits on their ABILITY to control WHAT THE DEBATE IS ABOUT.

This interpretation is key to useful debates. Argument by definition requires limits—the existence of clash in this round doesn’t mean there’s an appropriate frame of reference.  This proves ground is key—not because we’d have nothing to say, but because setting the agenda makes us negate descriptive facts or moral truisms instead of collectively reason

Rowland 1987 – professor of communication at the University of Kansas (Robert, Philosophy and Rhetoric, 20.3, “On defining argument”, p. 155-6, EBSCO)

The final two characteristics identified by Brockriede--a willingness to risk confrontation and a

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risk the self, there is little chance of rationally resolving a dispute.

Conclusion                                                                                                      

The functional approach to the study of argumentation is valuable because it provides a clear

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believes that he or she is arguing then essentially all communication is argument.

A more useful definitional move is to treat argument as the symbolic form(s

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for distinguishing between weak and strong arguments, as the functional definition does.

Some will perhaps object that the functional definition of argument for which I have contended

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Traditionally and contemporaneously "argument" is philosophically and etymologically the appropriate name.

We don’t link to their turns. Identifying goals and changes isn’t the type of teleology they indict—they link more because any alternative lapses into futility or reverts to Marx-style endpoints

Eagleton 1996 – Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Lancaster (Terry, “The Illusions of Postmodernism”, p. 106-110)

If history is fundamentally random, in the sense, for example, that there

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dim view of necessary conditions when it came to crossing the high street.

The oldest teleological tales of all tend to run in threes. First we have

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of a condition which combined the best of both worlds is groping for.

It may not be a feasible future, but at least it issues a salutary

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hubris and false utopia of trying to beam our actions directly at it.

Teleology usually involves the assumption that there is some potential in the present which could

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too it is a child of the modernity it claims to have superseded.

The rejection of so-called metanarratives is definitive of post-modern philosophy,

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, as postmodernists tend to do, is likely to help perpetuate it.

Prefer our evidence because it is more specific to the debate context. Game spaces like debate are distinct from other forms of education and public speaking.  There has to be a balance of ground or else one side claims the moral high ground and creates a de facto monologue

Hanghoj 2008 – PhD, assistant professor, School of Education, University of Aarhus, also affiliated with the Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials, located at the Institute of Literature, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Southern Denmark (Thorkild, http://static.sdu.dk/mediafiles/Files/Information_til/Studerende_ved_SDU/Din_uddannelse/phd_hum/afhandlinger/2009/ThorkilHanghoej.pdf)

Debate games are often based on pre-designed scenarios that include descriptions of issues

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dialogue as an end in itself” (Wegerif, 2006: 61).

FAIRNESS IS A FORM OF AGONISTIC POLITICS.  Rules don’t have to seen so cyncically.  Procedural rules are just an attempt for helping people be active participants in political contest.  We want able adversaries, competitive fairness, and both affirmation and negation – this is the stuff of agonistic respect.

Hatab 2 Lawrence J., Prof of Philosophy @ Old Dominion University, 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.

Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 6 | Opponent: Louisville | Judge: Jay Frank

Politicizing the resolution for the sake of the debate community turns witnessing into a selfish act.

Understanding the benefits of energy production in terms of what it does for the debate community is the opposite of altruism.  It uses a relationship with other people for the purpose of fixing the debate community.

Givoni 11    Michal, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 40(1) 43–63

Witnessing was at one and the same time a protective act, a sign of

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as to become new subjects endowed with both technical skills and humane capacities.

Keep em separate

Emphasis on the debate community is not your only effect.  Your aff says IN ORDER TO PAY ATTENTION TO THE DEBATE COMMUNITY, we first have to see ourselves playing humanitarians within the world.  You should feel free to vote that the debate community needs to change but you should not co-mingle caring about the debate community with caring about the aff.  You’re instrumentalizing the world to fix debate

Givoni 11    Michal, Department of Politics and Government, Ben Gurion University, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 40(1) 43–63

The autonomy of humanitarian witnesses, which lent their testimonies epistemic and moral credibility,

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witness that was far more calculated and reflective than presence or even sensitisation.

The only thing the aff hopes to influence is the politics that resides within the debate room – people who determine democracy assistance will never listen to academic ideas like the aff

Alford 2K William P. Professor and Director, East Asian Legal Studies, Harvard Law School. Harvard Law Review, May, 113 Harv. L. Rev. 1677

Although Carothers acknowledges that the notion of a gradual, sequenced process of democratization bears

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often ideologically ill-disposed toward the American government (p. 94).

Your subjectivity-centered focus narrows politics

Grossberg, 92 Lawrence, “Professor of Communications Studies at the University of North Carolina, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture, p. 365-366

Identity politics is an extension of feminists' argument that the personal (i.e

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forms, legitimacy or at least pragmatic necessity of particular moments of subordination.

THE QUESTION SHOULD NOT BE THE SELFISH POLITICS OF THE JUDGE, it should be how to ensure the left survives

Grossberg, 92 Lawrence, “Professor of Communications Studies at the University of North Carolina, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: Popular Conservatism and Postmodern Culture, 1992 p. 388-390

If the Left can give up its demand for purity, it may be able

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defeats in one place, in order to win a victory somewhere else.

YOU SHOULD REFUSE A POLITICS THAT IS FOCUSED ON ENDING PERSONAL COMPLICITY INSTEAD OF LARGER EFFECTIVE CULTURAL CHANGE.  Refusing complicity becomes a form of moralism that fails before it even succeeds.

Caffentzis 88 (George, "Review: Power and Terror in Bomb Philosophy: A Review of Joel Kovel's Against the State of Nuclear Terror, Social Text 19/20, 305-314)

Third, we must realize that Gandhi's is an extremely "aristocratic" philosophy whose

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the reasons behind the nuclear buildup and star wars scenarios of the 1980s.

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southwestern MN | Judge: Aninda Chowdhury
Interp—topical energy sources are: natural gas, coal, oil, solar, wind.
Hunt 79 Manager, Energy Systems Division, McLaughlin Research Corporation
V. Daniel, ENERGY DICTIONARY, p. 81
coal. A solid, brittle, stratified,
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 third power of the wind velocity. (See Fig. p. 493)

Violation—plan incentivizes hemp—not a topical energy source
That’s a voter
Limits—infinitely many sources that produce energy—justifies geothermal, mechanical, tidal, hydrogen, zero point energy affs—makes it impossible to research.
Predictable ground—topical energy sources is key to core generics—all our links are predicated off topic
Framers intent—particular true in this context—excluded generic “renewables” to provide equitable ground and limits.

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southwestern MN | Judge: Aninda Chowdhury
The 50 states and all relevant U.S. territories should legalize cannabis and nationalize its use for energy production 

State action gets modeled due to local innovation
Lash ’07 (Jonathan, “Climate Policy in the State Laboratory: How States Influence Federal Regulation and the Implications for U.S. Policy,” World Resources Institute, September, http://www.wri.org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory, TGA)

America has a long and inspiring tradition of policy innovation and activism that is incubated
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wellspring from which we build the low-carbon economy of the future.

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southwestern MN | Judge: Aninda Chowdhury
Will pass, pocap key
Sink 2-19 (Justin, The Hill, http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/283877-obama-seeks-to-repair-rift-with-with-gop-on-immigration, accessed: 22 February 2013)

President Obama reached out to key Senate Republicans on Tuesday in an effort to smooth
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secure comprehensive reforms this year.¶ “Both appear committed,” she said.

Incentives for energy production creates a firestorm of controversy – powerful lobbies, industry leaders, environmentalists and conservative economists guarantee political backlash
NY Times ‘11 New York Times 11, By JOHN M. BRODER, Published: January 31, 2011, Obama’s Bid to End Oil Subsidies Revives http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/01/science/earth/01subsidy.html//ZY
Previous efforts have run up against bipartisan opposition in Congress and heavy lobbying from producers
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American Petroleum Institute, the oil and gas industry’s main lobby in Washington.

Comprehensive reform is key to a sustainable US ag industry
Fitz 12 - Director of Immigration Policy at the Center for American Progress
Marshall, “Time to Legalize Our 11 Million Undocumented Immigrants,” CAP, http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/immigration/report/2012/11/14/44885/time-to-legalize-our-11-million-undocumented-immigrants/
Nowhere is the tension between immigrant labor and the economy more obvious than in agriculture
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destructive path that Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, and others have pursued.

Leads to world war 3
Droke 12
Clif Droke 3-14, editor of the daily Gold and Silver Stock Report, “Rising fuel costs and the next Revolution”, http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article33595.html
The economic and political importance of high food prices can’t be underestimated. To take
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to as the Revolution Cycle, with 2014 the Revolutionary low.”

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southwestern MN | Judge: Aninda Chowdhury
The united states federal government should legalize cannabis and nationalize its use for electricity  production 

Invoking the term “energy” makes wars and violence inevitable.
Hildyard et al 12
Nicholas Hildyard is a founder and Director of The Corner House, a U.K. research and advocacy group focusing on human rights, the environment, and development, Larry Lohmann, co-founder of the Durban Group for Climate Justice, Sarah Sexton, researcher at The Corner House, Energy Security For What? For Whom?, 16 February 2012, http://www.thecornerhouse.org.uk/resource/energy-security-whom-what
But it is more than the vagueness of the concept of “energy” that
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¶ is what energy is, there can never be enough of it.
Inevitably, fairness or justice themselves become measured partly by¶ how evenly energy is
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of nature (for example, of oil deposits or¶ plant growth).

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 2 | Opponent: Southwestern MN | Judge: Aninda Chowdhury
Environmental calculation turns the world into objects

Rutherford 7 (Stephanie, Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, “Green governmentality: insights and opportunities in the study of nature’s rule”, Progress in Human Geography 31(3) (2007) pp. 291–307, RT)

Green governmentality theorists propose that Foucault’s work can be centrally important in analyzing the production
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becomes an object of analysis and its management a key aspect of governance. 

This form of calculation allows liberalism to kill

Lundborg and Vaughn-Williams, 11(Tom, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, and Nick, Associate Professor of International Security at the University of Warwick, “Resilience, Critical Infrastructure, and Molecular Security: The Excess of “Life” in Biopolitics.” International Political Sociology, Vol. 5. Issue 4. December 2011, 367-383 RT)

Bennett’s problematization of the notion of a superior, totalizing structure and her appreciation of
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of life that is forced to obey and adapt within the biopolitical system.

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 4 | Opponent: Sacramento State | Judge: Corey Turoff
New nuclear inventions are the logic of technological solutions designed to HIDE root causes and unintentional consequences

Clark and York 8  Brett Clark is assistant professor of sociology at North Carolina State University. Richard York is coeditor of Organization and Environment and associate professor of sociology at the University of Oregon, Monthly Review, Volume 60, Issue 06 (November)

Although the ecological crisis has captured public attention, the dominant economic forces are attempting
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which continues to the present, and our contemporary energy and climate crisis.

Producing more nuclear power will only create more mainstream understandings of energy security which become an obstacle to better policy-making

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
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
AND
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. 

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
AND
“energy security” and the most pragmatic starting point for practical action.

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 4 | Opponent: Sacramento State | Judge: Corey Turoff
Text: The Strategic Environmental RandD Program and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program should support research and development for small modular liquid thorium reactors.

Solves the entire aff without increasing incentives
Marqusee 12
Executive Director of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program and the Environmental Security Technology Certification Program at the DOD (March, Jeffrey, Energy Innovation at the Department of Defense: Assessing the Opportunities, White Paper, “Military installations and energy technology innovation”, http://bipartisanpolicy.org/sites/default/files/Energy%20Innovation%20at%20DoD.pdf, WEA) *note a typo, this dude’s last name is actually spelled Marqusee…

DoD and Environmental Technology: A Successful Innovation Model¶ The impediments that new facilities
AND
ensures that key questions that relate ¶ to real DoD needs are addressed. 

It’s competitive—RandD to make technology viable is not topical—interpreting the CP to include the aff is illegitimate
Painuly, UNEP Collaborating Centre on Energy and Environment @ Risø National Laboratory, ‘1
(J.P., “Barriers to renewable energy penetration; a framework for analysis,” Renewable Energy Vol. 24, Issue 1, p. 73–89)
5. Measures to overcome barriers¶ It may not be possible to achieve technical
AND
.) has been arranged by some governments and also facilitated through GEF projects.

Tournament: D1 Districts Non-Qual | Round: 4 | Opponent: Sacramento State | Judge: Corey Turoff
The United States Federal Government should station an aircraft carrier off the coast of North Korea and engage in regular and sustained bilateral and multinational naval exercises with South Korea.

Solvency is their Mazza evidence.

1NC:
Welsh
Global/Local
Ecopedagogy Starting Points K

2NC:
Welsh

1NR:
Ecopedagogy starting points K

2NR:
Welsh

1NC:
Enclosure K
Trade DA
T - Increase not extension
Russian Oil DA
Bubble Turn

2NC:
Enclosure K
Bubble Turn

1NR:
Trade DA

2NR:
Enclosure K
Bubble Turn

1NC:
Topicality
Selfish Politics K

2NC:
Selfish Politics

1NR:
Topicality

2NR:
Topicality

1NC:
T Energy Production
CIR Politics
States CP
Energy PIC
Enclosure K
Environmental Calculations DA
CO2 Turns
Case D

2NC:
T
Politics
States
CO2 Turns

1NR:
Energy PIC
Enclosure K
Case D

2NR:
Energy PIC