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Human Rights K – 1NC

The affirmative’s appeal for "human rights" is fundamentally exclusive – it perpetuates and legitimizes speciesism

Tittle 98 – Peg, author; former Professor of Philosophy
~["The Humanist View of Animal Rights," http://tittle.humanists.net/humview.htm~~]cn
First, if humanism ’just’ emphasized human-as-opposed-to-god
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on instrumental grounds. It seems then that humanism must condone sport hunting.

Speciesism makes possible "systematic beastilization," which justifies non-criminal putting to death of the Other – this is the root cause of all oppression

Rossini 6 – Manuela, Postdoctoral Fellow at Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis
~[Sept, "To the Dogs: Companion speciesism and the new feminist materialism," Kritikos, Volume 3, http://intertheory.org/Rossini~~]cn
What is equally sobering, however, is the fact that the most radical metaposthumanists
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means limited to its overwhelmingly direct and disproportionate effects on animals.~[26~]

The alternative is to reject the affirmative and demand that "sentience" not "humanness" be the basis for rights.

Basing rights on sentience rather than "humanness" vacates an arbitrary standard and allows us to carry the evolution of rights out to its logical, nonspeciesist conclusion.

Best 5 – Steven, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the University of Texas El Paso
~["The New Abolitionism: Capitalism, Slavery and Animal Liberation," http://www.drstevebest.org/papers/vegenvani/new_abolitionism.php~~]cn
Just as nineteenth century abolitionists sought to awaken people to the greatest moral issue of
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that speciesism is another ~[an~] unsubstantiated form of oppression and discrimination.

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Securitization K

Securitizing the environment triggers prolif and great power war

Brzoska 8 – Michael Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg
~["The securitization of climate change and the power of conceptions of security," Paper prepared for the International Studies Association Convention 2008~]gw
In the literature on securitization it is implied that when a problem is securitized it
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military preparedness against the other major powers, thus leading to arms races.

Framing energy policy as a security issue makes environmental crisis, militarism, and extinction inevitable – investigating their epistemology must be a prior question to solvency

Ahmed 11 – Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex
~["The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace %26 Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis~]gw
The twenty-first century heralds the unprecedented acceleration and convergence of multiple, interconnected
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turn radicalising the processes of social polarisation that can culminate in violent conflict.

Individual rejection creates resistance movements that challenge the dominant security paradigm

Burke 2 – Anthony, School of Political Science and International Studies University of Queensland
~[Aporias of Security, Alternatives 27 pg. 22-23~]gw
It is perhaps easy to become despondent, but as countless struggles for freedom,
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is a world after security, and what its shimmering possibilities might be.

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Now is key – we can’t wait to see the added effects of wind turbines

Subramanian 12 – Meera, Nature article
~[June 20, "The trouble with turbines: An ill wind," Nature.com, http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849~]sr-http://www.nature.com/news/the-trouble-with-turbines-an-ill-wind-1.10849%5dsr
Other species at risk include the critically endangered California condors (Gymnogyps californicus) —
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impacts, we might be in a place we don’t want to be."

A substantial increase in wind turbines would kill hundreds of thousands of avians

Driessen 12 – Paul
~[Aug 7, "Wind-energy tax credits fund bird murder; Eagles being sliced back toward extinction," Washington Times, Lexis~]sr
America’s turbines also are sending some of our most important and majestic sovereigns of the
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golden eagles have been killed by Altamont turbines in the past 25 years.