Tournament: UNI | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
We affirm the resolution through hip hop, Wayne State BB Advocates that we should investigate the environmental consequences that are the byproducts of fossil fuel energy production in the United States via an ecological hip hop pedagogy, as a means to discuss United States Federal government incentives for Solar and Wind renewable energy options

Mos Def 99’

(Dennis)New World Water make the tide rise high Come inland and make your house go "Bye" (My house%21) Fools done upset the Old Man River Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead nigga Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin So I’ma throw a rope that ain’t tied to nothin (JMFB)Tell your crew use the H2 in wise amounts since) it’s the New World Water; and every drop counts You can laugh and take it as a joke if you wanna But it don’t rain for four weeks some summers And it’s about to get real wild in the half You be buying Evian just to take a fuckin bath Heads is acting wild, sippin poor, puffin dank Competin with the next man for higher playin rank See I ain’t got time try to be Big Hank, Fuck a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank Cause while these knuckleheads is out here sweatin they goods (Dennis)The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woods And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher They say, "Don’t drink the water%21 We need it for the fire%21" New York is drinkin it (New World Water) Now all of California is drinkin it (New World Water) Way up north and down south is drinkin it (New World Water) Used to have minerals and zinc in it (New World Water) Now they say it got lead and stink in it (New World Water) Fluorocarbons and monoxide(JMFB) Push the water table lopside Used to be free now it cost you a fee Cause oil tankers spill they load as they roam cross the sea Man, you gotta cook with it, bathe and clean with it (That’s right) When it’s hot, summertime you fiend for it (Let em knowDennis)You gotta put it in the iron you steamin with (That’s right) It’s what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out) The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That’s right) And everybody in the world can agree with this (Let em know) Consumption promotes health and easiness (That’s right) Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it (Shout it out) Americans wastin it on some leisure shit (Say word?) And other nations be desperately seekin it (Let em know) Bacteria washing up on they beaches (Say word?) Don’t drink the water, son they can’t wash they feet with it (Let em know) Young babies in perpetual neediness (Say word?) Epidemics hopppin up off the petri dish (Let em know) Control centers try to play it all secretive (Say word?) To avoid public panic and freakiness (Let em know) There are places where TB is common as TV Cause foreign-based companies go and get greedy The type of cats who pollute the whole shore line Have it purified, sell it for a dollar twenty-five Now the world is drinkin it Your moms, wife, and baby girl is drinkin it Up north and down south is drinkin it You should just have to go to your sink for it The cash registers is goin "cha-chink%21" for it Fluorocarbons and monoxide Got the fish lookin cockeyed Used to be free now it cost you a fee Cause it’s all about gettin that cash (Money) Said it’s all about gettin that cash (Money) ~[x9~] Johny cash (Money) Roseland cash (Money) Give me cash (Money) Cold cash (Money) ~[Repeat to fade~] Cash rules everything around me, Move%21====

====The extraction, production, and overall consumption of fossil fuels are intricably connected with massive water consumption. We are now in the era of limits we must step back and investigate our egregious consumptive patterns on freshwater and nonrenewable resources.====
Smith, Gleick 2012 
A Twenty-First Century US Water Policy
Christian-Smith, Juliet Gleick, Peter H. Cooley, Heather Amy Vanderwarker
Smith is a senior research associate with Pacific Research institute water program National Academy of Science Frontier Science Fellow, Fullbright fellow, Gleick is recipient of Macarthur Genius Award global expert on freshwater resources ; Varderwarker Environmental Justice Coalition for Water 220-222

Water and energy are intricably connected: We use water to produce energy and energy
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in the electricity generation capacity will destabilize markets in the Souhwestern United States .

Advantage 1: Eco-Apartheid

New World Water illustrates real world systemic environmental degradation and behemoth ~[behemoth is a monster of tremendous size – it doesn’t seem correct to use here. Replace this word~] over consumptive patterns and its correlation to Global North culture ~[do you mean Western culture? I’m not sure Global North is~]. The 1AC is an affirmation recognizing our over-consumption of fossil fuel energy and non-renewable resources

DEBRA J . ROSENTHAL May 2006 Debra J. Rosenthal is an associate professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH.’Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2006

It is in a similar turn to conventional nature imagery that I find ’’New
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, ’’Four carbons and monoxide/Push the water table lopside.’’ 

And, this criticism illuminate America’s unequal domination of others, mistreatment of freshwater resources, and capitalism’s grip on Western culture that caused epidemics of disease to spread across the world.

DEBRA J . ROSENTHAL May 2006 Debra J. Rosenthal is an associate professor of English at John Carroll University in Cleveland, OH.’Hoods and the Woods: Rap Music as Environmental Literature The Journal of Popular Culture, Vol. 39, No. 4, 2006

Mos Def clearly understands water’s possibility to be a transcendent unifier: ’’The rich
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be free now it cost you a fee’’ because of commercialization and exploitation.
He rails against the fact that ’’foreign-based companies go and get greedy
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em know)/There are places where TB is common as TV.’’ 

Your ballot represents your decision to recognize and reduce your consumptive patterns. The impact is systemic -  2.4 billion humans are vulnerable to disease and 2 million children die a year from water borne disease.

United Nations 3 7/3 UN Information "Service FRESHWATER ESSENTIAL FOR HUMAN SURVIVAL, HEALTHY ECOSYSTEMS, SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, SAYS SECRETARY-GENERAL TO GLOBAL FORUM"
http://www.unis.unvienna.org/unis/pressrels/2003/sgsm8841.html
Freshwater is essential for human survival, healthy ecosystems and sustainable development. Yet,
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targets and goals. I wish you all success in your important deliberations.

Acting locally inside this debate round  allows  us to be inside the movement and the flow of the system. Activities in one part of the system creates effects that appear in other distant places.  Our change affect the  global system

Grace Lee Boggs 2011 Over 7 decades of activist work, PhD philosophy, Bryn Mwar College "The Next American Revolution"~{ pg 48-49~} DLB

A quantum view explains the success of small efforts quite differently. Acting locally allows  
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and support positive struggles that create more human human beings and more democratic institutions 

Within a Critical Ecological Literacy framework, the process of using reading and writing to create messages that question, confront, and reconfigure how environmental problems are constructed by one’s own overlapping racial, cultural, and economic power relations, CEL produces citizens that are able to confront ecological crises

Cermak (2012):
Michael J. Cermak (2012): Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education:
Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy, The Journal of Environmental Education, 43:3, 192-203
To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579-http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579 Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy fourth-year doctoral student in the Sociology Department. founded an organization called org/

Today, reading the world and being critically-literate means understanding how large scale
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constructed by one’s own overlapping racial, cultural, and economic power relations.
  

Advantage 2: Whiteness

Incorporating themes of whiteness and social justice via hip-hop into an environmental curriculum is necessary to achieve environmental success

Cermak (2012): Michael J. Cermak (2012): Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy, The Journal of Environmental Education, 43:3, 192-203 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579-http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579 Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy fourth-year doctoral student in the Sociology Department. founded an organization called org/

Incorporating themes of race and social justice via hip-hop into an environmental curriculum
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balance this bias and speak to my students with engaging and creative language. 

And, White supremacy is the root cause of environmental destruction

Cone 2k (James H., Briggs Distinguished Professor at Union Theological Seminary and the author of many books on black theology of liberation, including Martin and Malcolm and America, WHOSE EARTH IS IT ANYWAY?, 2000, http://www.crosscurrents.org/cone.htm-http://www.crosscurrents.org/cone.htm) 

The logic that led to slavery and segregation in the Americas, colonization and Apartheid
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70 percent of its seventeen thousand residents are black and 96 percent are poor

And this environmental destruction results in Extinction

Les Kaufmann, Chief Scientist at Edgerton Research Lab, THE LAST EXTINCTION, 1981, p. 4

The fourth argument for preserving biological diversity is the simplest: Our lives depend on
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extinction could well be the last one that we will ever know about.

New World Water uses critical ecological literacy as an epistemology to empower marginilaged populations, by reading the "World" and not just the word the active CEL participant promotes a new epistemology that encourages marginalized populations to contextualize and break down previous racial power relations

Cermak (2012): Michael J. Cermak (2012): Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy, The Journal of Environmental Education, 43:3, 192-203 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579-http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579 Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy fourth-year doctoral student in the Sociology Department. founded an organization called org/

After collecting dozens of creative works from students I began to see a trend I
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allowing forms of writing like rap that challenge and re-work the accepted
System.

Tournament: UK/Vandy | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge: 

We are a methodological pre-requisite to the following statement. Resolved: The  United States Federal government should increase financial incentives for decentralized Solar and Wind renewable energy options in the United States

New World Water

Mos Def 99’

(Dennis)New World Water make the tide rise high Come inland and make your house go "Bye" (My house%21) Fools done upset the Old Man River Made him carry slave ships and fed him dead nigga Now his belly full and he about to flood somethin So I’ma throw a rope that ain’t tied to nothing====

Contention I: New World Apartheid

And See Everybody wanna be a gangster
Wavin their flag for the set they claim
democrat, republican, crip or blood you can switch it up, really it’s all the same
Just corrupted agendas, public offenders, they ain’t come to defend us
Government is against us, workin’ for corporate interests, we’ve been hoodwinked.
They walkin’ all over you with carbon footprints (Talib Kweli Power from the people 2001)

Pahl 12
Greg Pahl Bachelors Journalism University of Vermont, former military intelligence officer Power From the People How to organize finance and launch local energy products DLB Page xvi 

 Unfortunately ,our political leaders especially in Washington, DÇ , still don’t get it ….. need to take action now at the local level to begin to provide for our basic needs from local resources

See I ain’t got time try to be Big Hank, Fuck a bank; I need a twenty-year water tank Cause while these knuckleheads is out here seatin they goods (Dennis)The sun is sitting in the treetops burnin the woods And as the flames from the blaze get higher and higher They say, "Don’t drink the water%21 We need it for the fire%21"

 Smith, Gleick 2012
A Twenty-First Century US Water Policy
Christian-Smith, Juliet Gleick, Peter H. Cooley, Heather Amy Vanderwarker
Smith is a senior research associate with Pacific Research institute water program National Academy of Science Frontier Science Fellow, Fullbright fellow, Gleick is recipient of Macarthur Genius Award global expert on freshwater resources ; Varderwarker Environmental Justice Coalition for Water 220-222

Water and energy are intricably connected: …… water availability and quality affects the nations energy securtty

Consumption promotes health and easiness (That’s right) Go too long without it on this earth and you leavin it (Shout it out) Americans wastin it on some leisure shit (Say word?) And other nations be desperately seekin it (Let em know) Bacteria washing up on they beaches (Say word?) Don’t drink the water, son they can’t wash they feet with it (Let em know)

Carmen G. Gonzalez February 25, 2012
Seattle University School of Law  ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL LAW, Shawkat Alam, Jahid Hossain Bhuiyan, Tareq M.R. Chowdhury, Erika Techera, eds., Routledge, October 2012
The primary cause of global environmental degradation is…. the ecological segregation of the world’s population along economic and racial lines as "eco-apartheid."

There are places where TB is common as TV Cuz foreign-based companies go and get greedy It’s what they dress wounds and treat diseases with (Shout it out) The rich and poor, black and white got need for it (That’s right) And everybody in the world can agree with this

Blue Water Network 12’ http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/facts-http://blueplanetnetwork.org/water/facts These statistics are generally accepted by United Nation, World Health Organization and Millennium Development Goals. Unicef/WHO Joint Monitoring Programme for Water Supply and Sanitation
1.1 billion people in the world do not have access to safe drinking water, roughly one-sixth of the world’s population. • 2.2 million people in developing countries, most of them children, die every year from diseases associated with lack of access to safe drinking water…… The water we drink today is the same water the dinosaurs drank—there is no new water

CEL  produces a new standard for education , challenging others to be the agents of change in their immediate surroundings. We can reverse the trends caused by overconsumption if we stop now

Cermak (2012):
Michael J. Cermak (2012): Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education:Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy, The Journal of Environmental Education, 43:3, 192-20To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579-http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579 Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy fourth-year doctoral student in the Sociology Department. founded an organization called Environmental Justice Action Media-http://www.ejmedia.org/

This student-to-student transmission of environmental knowledge is a crucial step in
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of education about nature and society and challenging others to do the same.

Personification of the environment enables us to create new relationships to Mother Earth,  A monopoly of scientific language obfuscates deeper connections to the environment

Cermak (2012):
Michael J. Cermak (2012): Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy, The Journal of Environmental Education, 43:3, 192-203 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579-http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00958964.2011.633579 Hip-Hop, Social Justice, and Environmental Education: Toward a Critical Ecological Literacy

Another linguistic tool that emerged and can be seen in David’s lyrics was personification.
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, pollution is "a buildup of more than just paper and trash"?