Tournament: SFSU | Round: Several | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The affirmative is managerialism—nature and all its inhabitants become objects, awaiting for the subject’s (ie USFG) action. Under such object/subject dualisms, the entire world becomes a standing reserve—the annihilation of all beings in the world are inevitable in this world view.

McWhorter 92

Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 6

The danger of … may never dream

Ontology outweighs nuclear war—absent an authentic relationship with the Being, ontological damnation would destroy all value to life.

Zimmerman 94

Michael: Professor of Philosophy at Tulane. Contesting the Earth’s Future, p.104

Heidegger asserted that … "disclosed" by humanity.

In contrast to the affirmative’s attempt to enframe nature as a resource, we must embrace its radical otherness - its strangeness and alterity which we cannot explain in human or technological terms. We must not succumb to the “quick fix” advocated by the affirmative but instead rethink how we relate to nature and Beings. 
Ross 7

Andrew Peter Ross, Professor at Queen’s University, “Rethinking Environmental Responsibility: Heidegger, Profound Boredom and the Alterity of Nature”, September 2007

In contrast, Heidegger … disclosure of nature. 

Tournament: SFSU | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge: 

The 50 states and all relevant U.S. territories should _______

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/org/publication/climate-policy-in-the-state-laboratory, TGA)

America has a...economy of the future.

Tournament: SFSU | Round: Several | Opponent:  | Judge: 

Obama wins now—polling and the Romney video. Prefer our evidence—Silver’s the best prediction.

NBC 9/27:

PRESS Pass: Nate Silver, NBC’s Meet the Press, 9/27/12, http://presspass.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/09/27/14126999-press-pass-nate-silver

New York Times numbers guru ... about predicting elections.

And, the plan sparks public backlash – the GoP will spin energy policy as unpopular which swings the election PTC extension unpopular among public – high costs and low energy contribution

Styles 12

August 2, 2012 Geoffrey Styles  Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, LLC, an energy and environmental strategy consulting firm “Last Hurrah for the Wind Power Tax Credit?” http://theenergycollective.com/node/99336

As the Reuters ... cliff in 2013.

And, that means the link turns the case – republican win will roll back the plan – empirically proven

The Island Packet ‘8

The Island Packet, 6/30/2008, “Don’t hold energy policy hostage to partisan politics,” http://www.islandpacket.com/opinion/letters/story/536168.html

Dealing with our ... in the USA.

And, Romney election derails compromise and drives the US off the fiscal cliff – triggers another recession – CBO agrees

Britt 9/6

Russ Britt, Los Angeles Bureau Chief at MarketWatch from Dow Jones, columnist, 9/6/12 Obama re-election needed to avoid fiscal cliff, Democrats say September 6, 2012, 12:39 PM http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2012/09/06/obama-re-election-needed-to-avoid-fiscal-cliff-democrats-say/

Democratic leaders said ... waste,” he said.

And, renewed economic recession risks extinction

O’Donnell ‘9

Baltimore Republican Examiner writer and Marine Corps Reserve squad leader, 09 Sean O’Donnell, 2-26-2009, “The Baltimore Republican Examiner, "Will this recession lead to World War III?," http://www.examiner.com/x- 3108-Baltimore-Republican- Examiner~y2009m2d26-Will-this- recession-lead-to-World-War- III

Could the current ... sometimes history repeats.

And, their defenses don’t apply – there’s strong historical data that economic interdependency solves war, but decline leads to escalatory global conflict

Royal 10

Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215

Less intuitive is ... deserves more attention.

Tournament: SFSU | Round: 4 | Opponent: Fresno GR | Judge: 

A. Interpretation- To increase something requires its preexistence.

Buckley 6

(Jeremiah, Attorney, Amicus Curiae Brief, Safeco Ins. Co. of America et al v. Charles Burr et al, http:~/~/supreme.lp.findlaw.com/supreme_court/briefs/06-84/06-84.pdf)

First, the court...See Hibbs v.  Winn, 542 U.S. 88, 101 (2004) (“a phrase gathers meaning from the words around it”) (citation omitted).

B. Violation- The affirmative creates a new incentive

Standards

1. Limits

2. Ground

3. Real World

D. Topicality is a voter for competitive equity.

Tournament: SFSU | Round: Several | Opponent:  | Judge: 

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 ... narrowed, those differences.

Renewables are overly nationalistic in design and purpose – this version of energy policy is a form of resource nationalism

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

The unintended consequences ...the broader economy.

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 ... build stable relations.

And, protectionism causes terrorism, China conflict, and Iran expansion – culminates in nuclear 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 ... a new world war.

And, their defenses don’t apply – there’s strong historical data that interdependency solves war, but protectionism leads to escalatory global conflict

Royal 10

Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215

Less intuitive is ... deserves more attention.

Tournament: SFSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Chico LP | Judge: 

The United States federal government should allow foreign investors to apply for a license to operate a nuclear facility in the United States

Spurs investment in the US

The Energy Collective 12

http://theenergycollective.com/skutnik/109611/cost-free-way-open-nuclear-investment

Late last week, ... to say, "Oui."

­

Tournament: SFSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Chico LP | Judge: 

Energy independence provides political cover for protectionism.

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”

“The voices that ... Gulf and globally.

And, protectionism causes terrorism, China conflict, and Iran expansion – culminates in nuclear 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... new world war.

And, their defenses don’t apply – there’s strong historical data that interdependency solves war, but protectionism leads to escalatory global conflict

Royal 10

Jedediah, Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense, 2010, Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises, in Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives, ed. Goldsmith and Brauer, p. 213-215

Less intuitive is ... deserves more attention.

­

Tournament: SFSU | Round: 5 | Opponent: Chico LP | Judge: 

Financial incentives must be directly targeted at energy generation.

O’Brien 8

Mike, “Minister of State, Department for Energy and Climate Change, UK Parliament, 11/18, Clause 20 — Terms and conditions,” http:~/~/www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2008-11-18b.159.3url:http://www.theyworkforyou.com/debate/?id=2008-11-18b.159.3

I have quite ... feed-in tariff scheme.

RandD is an indirect incentive.

EIA 92

Energy Information Administration, Office of Energy Markets and End Use, U.S. DOE, “Federal Energy Subsidies: Direct and Indirect Interventions in Energy Markets,” ftp:~/~/tonto.eia.doe.gov/service/pdf

Research and development. ... an indirect subsidy.

Standards—

A. Predictable Limits

B. Ground

C. FX T

Voter for competitive equity

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan HL | Judge: 

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_php/Glossary:Primary_production_of_energy

Primary production of ... 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 ...reactors,' says Karamoskos.¶

That’s a voter –

First, Limits

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 ... the final word.

Second, Precision

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan HL | Judge: 

Obama win now – incumbent advantage, predictions market, economic improvements, and likely voters

Bocelli 10/11 Thursday, October 11, 2012 Costas Bocelli, “Will Obama Win Re-Election?“, http://www.ifii.com/articles/697663147/will-obama-win-re-election

In fact, I ... the White House.

Nuclear power is unpopular with the public – multiple reasons

Mariotte 12 – executive director and the chief spokesperson for NIRS, has testified in the United States Senate and before the U.S. House of Representatives on nuclear power, a graduate of Antioch College. (Michael, Jun 5^th, “Nuclear Power and Public Opinion: What the polls say” http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/05/1097574/-Nuclear-Power-and-Public-Opinion-What-the-polls-say) Jacome

These are all ... and political lines.

the GoP will spin energy policy as unpopular which will be the deciding factor in the election

Belogolova 12 – reports on energy and environment policy for National Journal and manages the bi-monthly Energy and Environment Insiders Poll, holds bachelor’s degrees in Journalism and European Studies from Boston University. She studied abroad at Oxford University, was one of 10 American journalism students selected for a press trip to Jordan. (Olga, May 17^th, “Insiders: Outreach to Oil Industry Won’t Help Obama” http://www.nationaljournal.com/energy/insiders-outreach-to-oil-industry-won-t-help-obama-20120517) Jacome

 “It may be ... to mask it.”

And, Romney election derails compromise and drives the US off the fiscal cliff – triggers another recession – CBO agrees

Britt 9/6 Russ Britt, Los Angeles Bureau Chief at MarketWatch from Dow Jones, columnist, 9/6/12 Obama re-election needed to avoid fiscal cliff, Democrats say September 6, 2012, 12:39 PM http://blogs.marketwatch.com/election/2012/09/06/obama-re-election-needed-to-avoid-fiscal-cliff-democrats-say/

Democratic leaders said...waste,” he said.

And, renewed economic recession risks extinction

O’Donnell ‘9 Baltimore Republican Examiner writer and Marine Corps Reserve squad leader, 09 Sean O’Donnell, 2-26-2009, “The Baltimore Republican Examiner, "Will this recession lead to World War III?," http://www.examiner.com/x- 3108-Baltimore-Republican- Examiner~y2009m2d26-Will-this- recession-lead-to-World-War- III

Could the current ...sometimes history repeats.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 1 | Opponent: Michigan HL | Judge: 

The affirmative is managerialism—nature and all its inhabitants become objects, awaiting for the USFG’s action. Under such object/subject dualisms, the entire world becomes a standing reserve—the annihilation of all beings in the world are inevitable in this world view.

McWhorter 92

Ladelle, Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies at Richmond, Heidegger and the earth: Essays in environmental philosophy, Thomas Jefferson University Press, pp. 6

The danger of .... may never dream

Specifically, the aff’s move to prevent the spread of weapons to new nuclear states extends managerialism to create a divide between the first and third worlds,

Gusterson 1999 (Hugh, Professor of Anthropology, George Mason University , “Nuclear Weapons and the Other in Western Imagination,” Cultural Anthropology, pg. 114)

http://people.reed.edu/~ahm/Courses/Stan-PS-314-2009-Q1_PNP/Syllabus/EReadings/Gusterson1999Nuclear.pdf

Thus in Western..."disclosed" by humanity.

In contrast to the affirmative’s attempt to enframe nature as a resource, we must embrace its radical otherness - its strangeness and alterity which we cannot explain in human or technological terms. We must not succumb to the “quick fix” advocated by the affirmative but instead rethink how we relate to nature and Beings. 
Ross 7

Andrew Peter Ross, Professor at Queen’s University, “Rethinking Environmental Responsibility: Heidegger, Profound Boredom and the Alterity of Nature”, September 2007
 In contrast, Heidegger ... disclosure of nature. 

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fullerton MR | Judge: 

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

1. impossible to be neg

2. your aff is so in-determinate and unfocused that its not debatable

3. critical thinking

Impacts – exclusion. 

FAIRNESS is critical to AGONISTIC RESPECT.

HATAB 2, Prof of Philosophy @ Old Dominion University,

(Lawrence J., The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 24 (2002) 132-147)

Moreover, the structure ... viable political practice.

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 ... should be solved.

Deliberative Argument is Critical to Prevent Marginalization and Violence

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 .... of democracy itself.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fullerton MR | 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, ... 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 ... consequential rhetoric scholarship.

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 ... responsibility to them.

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 3 | Opponent: Fullerton MR | Judge: 

Transgender right movements keep the structures of capital invisible, distracting from the underlying cause-

Hennessy 2k

(Rosemary, Professor of English and Director of the Center for the Study of Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Rice University,  “Profit and Pleasure”, pg. 8, VR)

Late capitalism’s new ... of capitalism invisible. 

Alternative visions serve as analytic tools—asking different questions expose the role of exploitation in the material system of power.

Noumoff, prof @ McGill University, 1 (Sam, “Globalization and Marginalization,” Labour, Capital, and Society, Vol. 34, Issue 1, p51-91)

Exploitation is an...test its limits.

Resistance to capital must be a total negation from the system—reform restabilizes capital and marginalizes labor as a social alternative.

Mezaros, prof Emeritus @ University of Sussex, 95 (Istavan, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, p. 738)

Thus the role ... power of capital

Capitalism’s preoccupation with endless accumulation will result in total ecological destruction and extinction

Foster, 11 John Bellamy  Dec. 2011, Capitalism and the Accumulation of Catastrophe, Monthly Review, Vol. 63 Issue 07, http:~/~/monthlyreview.org/2011/12/01/org/2011/12/01/capitalism-and-the-accumulation-of-catastrophe (Aug 2012)

Yet, the continued ... the twenty-first century.

Rejecting the ethics of capitalism comes first. We must embrace an ethics of care for our human community as a whole. Escaping capitalism’s focus on power and possessions is the first step escaping the stranglehold of modern society to live the moral life.

Hedges ’11:

Chris, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress” 2011 http:~/~/books.google.ca/books/about/The_World_As_It_Is.html?id=html?id=Oq-N04JRvDgC

The consumer goods ... to be whole.

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) NG

The foregoing analysis,... for, the people.57

Tournament: UNLV | Round: 5 | Opponent: SFSU AT | Judge: 

You criticize one act of exploitation – mountain top removal – however, this undermines our ability to expose global capitalism’s role in exploitation’s underlying causes

Noumoff 01, prof @ McGill University, (Sam, “Globalization and Marginalization,” Labour, Capital, and Society, Vol. 34, Issue 1, p51-91)

¶ Exploitation is an ... test its limits.

And, specifically, environmental projects like the aff are manipulated to sustain capitalism,

Holcombe, 2012 (Research Fellow at The Independent Institute, DeVoe Moore Professor of Economics at Florida State University, past President of the Public Choice Society, and past President of the Society for the Development of Austrian Economics , Randall, “President Obama’s Energy Policy: Green Energy, Or Crony Capitalism,” 05/24/12, http:~/~/blog.independent.org/2012/05/24/president-obamas-energy-policy-green-energy-or-crony-capitalism/http://blog.independent.org/2012/05/24/president-obamas-energy-policy-green-energy-or-crony-capitalism/)

Today President Obama http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/President-Obama-Returns-to-Newton-to-Seek-Wind-Tax-Credits-153638765.html...** policies. Crony capitalism.

Crony capitalism co-opts the movement,

Bradley 2011 (Robert, “Most Green Energy Projects Are Thinly Veiled Exercises In Crony Capitalism,” 10/06/2011, http:~/~/www.forbes.com/sites/robertbradley/2011/10/06/most-green-energy-projects-are-thinly-veiled-exercises-in-crony-capitalism/print/http://www.forbes.com/sites/robertbradley/2011/10/06/most-green-energy-projects-are-thinly-veiled-exercises-in-crony-capitalism/print/)

In late September ... comes to jobs.¶

Resistance to capital must be a total negation from the system—reform restabilizes capital and marginalizes labor as a social alternative.

Mezaros 95, prof Emeritus @ University of Sussex, (Istavan, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, p. 738)

¶ Thus the role ... the twenty-first century.

Turns the aff –

A subpoint - capitalism creates a false dichotomy between nature and jobs that blackmails the public into submission,

Benesch ‘05

Klaus Benesch (Ph.D., U of Munich) is an assistant professor at the Institute for Northamerican Studies, University of Freiburg, Kerstin Schmidt, Space in America: Theory, History, Culture, 2005 http:~/~/books.google.com/books?id=com/books?id=uGXAeTnJ0IwCanddq**

Human communities and ...closest to nature.

B subpoint - Companies’ drive to compete in the market is what incentivizes mountaintop removal, meanwhile creating “redundant populations.” People in sacrifice zones become commodities that can be thrown out after they’ve been used up,

Fox ‘05

Julia Fox University of Oregon“Mountaintop Removal in West Virginia: An Environmental Sacrifice Zone” Leslie com/search?tbo=pandtbm=bksandq=inauthor:%22Leslie+King%22, Deborah com/search?tbo=pandtbm=bksandq=inauthor:%22Deborah+McCarthy%22, 2005. Environmental Sociology: From Analysis to Action http:~/~/books.google.com/books?id=com/books?id=ol2b0nmgGwECanddq

Given the disproportionate ... and ecological modernization.

Rejecting the ethics of capitalism comes first. We must embrace an ethics of care for our human community as a whole. Escaping capitalism’s focus on power and possessions is the first step escaping the stranglehold of modern society to live the moral life.

Hedges ’11:

Chris, American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress” 2011 http:~/~/books.google.ca/books/about/The_World_As_It_Is.html?id=html?id=Oq-N04JRvDgC

The consumer goods ... to be whole.

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,... for, the people.57