Tournament: UMKC - JV | Round: 1 | Opponent:  | Judge:
The way energy is distributed and incentivized ignores the particular needs of women in the energy sector – hierarchizing male needs over female needs.
Gaynor and Jennings 03 [Cathy and Mary “Annex on Gender and Infrastructure” http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/ssatp/Resources/HTML/Gender-RG/Source%20%20documents/Issue%20and%20Strategy%20Papers/GandT%20Rationale/ISGT11%20%20Gender%20and%20Infrastructure%20WEDC.pdf]

Gender Related Issues in Energy: For more than 90% of the 650 million
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of women’s and girl’s heavy work burden due to the existing energy patterns.

The affirmative relies on a Western, dualist mindset that creates binaries between woman and man, humanity and nature… these dualisms  are hierarchally ordered to continually devalue that which is feminine.
Kamrar 8 [Jenn: writing professor at Portland Community College “Toward An Ecofeminist
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same, to make¶ these constructions more whole (Sandilands, 1994).

Human-centered rationality treats humanity as separate from nature, which paves the way for humans to use nature at their disposal as a mass of undifferentiated beings
Plumwood 02 [Val: Australian Research Council Fellow at University of Sydney –002 Environmental Culture: The ecological crisis of reason [Routledge nb] p. 111-113]
The centric parallel as a practical model Liberation movements have not provided a significant source
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such systematic changes is what political action for ecological sustainability is all about.
Constant usage and consumption of nature depletes nature – culminating in extinction.
Nhanenge 07 [Jytte: Master of Arts at the development studies at the University of South Africa “Ecofeminism: Towards Integrating the concerns of women _{poor people and nature into development” http://uir.unisa.ac.za/bitstream/handle/10500/570/dissertation.pdf?sequence=1].
Nature is by the economic individual perceived as being a heap of dead parts laying
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with one logical blunder: when nature dies, also humanity will perish.} 

The state is historically patriarchal
Connell 90 R. W. (Professor of Education at the University of Sydney in Australia.)“The State, Gender, and Sexual Politics: Theory and Appraisal” Theory and Society, Vol. 19, No. 5, pp. 507-544 http://www.jstor.org/stable/657562 [Shoell]

Is the state patriarchal? Yes, beyond any argument, on the evidence discussed
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arena for challenges to patriarchy. Here liberal feminism is on strong ground. 

The desire to ‘protect mother earth’ and ‘stop’ global warming reveals and re-enforces heteronormative thought. This internalizes the impacts that the aff attempts to solve.
Salleh 10 Ariel, sociologist who writes on social ecology and ecofeminism “How the Ecological Footprint Is Sex-Gendered” http://www.springerlink.com/content/k4884u82194210xj/ [Shoell]

When governments and think tanks deliberate on strategies for combatting climate  change, you can
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thermodynamically), this is essentially a form of ‘deferred or displaced  responsibility’.

Patriarchy guarantees wars, ecocide, genocide, and extinction.
Nhanenge 7 Jytte Masters @ U South Africa, paper submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of master of arts in the subject Development Studies, “ECOFEMINSM: TOWARDS INTEGRATING THE CONCERNS OF WOMEN, POOR PEOPLE AND NATURE INTO DEVELOPMENT [Shoell]
The androcentric premises also have political consequences.  They protect the ideological basis of  exploitative
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3233; Schumacher 1993: 20, 126, 128, 130).

The alternative is to embrace the dialectic mode of discussion through the rejection the mechanical hierarchy of the 1AC. By doing so, we can promote direct action, mutual aid, shared responsibility, and non-violence.
Sutapa 12 Chattopadhyay researcher at UNU-Merit and Maastricht University If Not Eco-Socialism Now, Then When? Infiltrating universities with eco-feminist and anarchist practices. Class War University; composing resources for anti-capitalist, anti-authoritarian movements on the terrain of universities and beyond. http://classwaru.org/2012/07/05/if-not-eco-socialism-now-then-when-infiltrating-universities-with-eco-feminist-anarchist-practices/ {Shoell}

Although vilified by the state, police and media, anarchism or anarchists are no
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, even if they struggled with racism, patriarchy, sexism and capitalism.
Patriarchal governments are divorced from reality, and are destroying the earth in the name of capitalism.
Lough 99 Thomas S. Kent State University Emeritus and Sonoma State University Human Ecology Forum 100 Human Ecology Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Energy, Agriculture, Patriarchy and Ecocide1, 7064 Avenida Cala, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 USA http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her62/62lough1.pdf [Shoell]

Patriarchal militaries, multinationals, and governments have acquired unprecedented power and pay at least
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destroying our life support systems in the service of extremely powerful international organizations.
The hierarchy of the state destroys efficiency, turns case.
Lough 99 Thomas S. Kent State University Emeritus and Sonoma State University Human Ecology Forum 100 Human Ecology Review, Vol. 6, No. 2, Energy, Agriculture, Patriarchy and Ecocide1, 7064 Avenida Cala, Rohnert Park, CA 94928 USA http://www.humanecologyreview.org/pastissues/her62/62lough1.pdf [Shoell]

Civilizations always sacrifice energy efficiency for¶ power. A civilization is a hierarchy of
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(Leacock 1987 and her references, Note 8, 35-36).

Tournament: Gonzaga | Round:  | Opponent:  | Judge:
Renewable energy is the latest trend in capitalism and allows the global spread of capital under the guise of a greener world.
Pernick and Makower in 2012 [Joel, is the executive editor of Greener World Media. and Ron co-author of The Clean Tech Revolution and co-founder and principal of Clean Edge, is "an accomplished market research, publishing, and business development entrepreneur with two decades of high-tech experience," "The New New Economy." Whole Earth 104 (2001): 8. Academic Search Premier. Web. 13 Aug. 2012]
For all the hype about the New Economy--the irrationally exuberant e-world
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in a sandwich container made from limestone, potato starch, and cellulose. 

Capital turns and outweighs all other impacts – life without capital is possible and it’s the only way to survive
Kovel and Lowy in 1
[Joel an American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist, Michael is an emeritus Research Director at the National Center for¶ Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes¶ en Sciences in Paris, “An Ecosocialist Manifesto,” http://www.iefd.org/manifestos/ecosocialist_manifesto.php,   ITPIRATE]¶ 

The idea for this ecosocialist manifesto was jointly launched by Joel Kovel and Michael Lowy
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envision an "ecosocialist international?" Can the spectre be brought into being?

Our alternative is to reject the hyper-consumerism of the affirmative and endorse ecosocialism.
Kovel 2007 [Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE]
We call ecosocialism that society in which production is carried¶ out by freely associated
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labor that will not be pushed¶ around by massified and totalizing institutions.

Capitalism is at the root of the “renewable energy” movement it depoliticizes all of the ecological costs and re-instates imperialism and produces militarism – at the end of the round you have two options Socialism or Barbarism.
Kovel and Lowy in 1
[Joel an American politician, academic, writer, and eco-socialist, Michael emeritus Research Director at the National Center for¶ Scientific Research (CNRS) and lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes¶ en Sciences in Paris, “An Ecosocialist Manifesto,” http://www.iefd.org/manifestos/ecosocialist_manifesto.php,   ITPIRATE]
We reject all euphemisms or propagandistic softening of the brutality of this regime: all
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assumes the countenance of ecocatastrophe, terror counterterror, and their fascist degeneration.

The green economy has already stalled out – there’s no hope of saving the environment in the status quo
Sweeney 2012 [Sean was Chief of staff to White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel (since January 2009-October 2010); Staff director to the House Democratic Caucus (2007 to 2009); Political director for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (2006); “Earth to Labor: Economic Growth Is No Salvation” New Labor Forum, Volume 21, Issue 1, Winter 2012, pp. 10-13 (Article, The Murphy Institute/City University of New York, MUSE,  ITPirate]
Today, however, ecological¶ modernization faces a double crisis—a striking¶
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[the]¶ aggregate than the national economy between 2003¶ and 2010.”
Valuation of the natural world makes it a standing reserve and causes ecocide
Kovel 2007 [Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE] 

The process is a manifestation of the ascendancy of exchange value¶ over use-
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disaster is now played¶ out more slowly and on a planetary scale.

Cash rules everything around me – and it’s bad, very very bad.
Kovel 2007 [Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE] 

Money – the form of capitalist value – abstracts and dissolves¶ all relationships,
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value, and this very fact makes the movement an¶ endless one.

Greenwashing causes the destruction of everything and makes the world suck more.
Kovel 2007
[Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE] 

The Enemy of Nature argues that, however capital may restructure¶ and reform itself
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help bring forth a way of being worthy of our¶ human nature.

Throw away your impact calc – capitalism is irrational and will lash out in irrational ways
Kovel 2007 [Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE]
Capital rules the world as never before; no substantial alternative¶ to it now
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liberated, so that people¶ self-determine their transforming of nature.

Capital’s valuation of the natural world creates no value to life conditions and makes us slaves to the machine
Burkett 1999
[Paul teaches economics at Indiana State University, “Marx and Nature A Red and Green Perspective,” St. Martin’s Press,   ITPIRATE]

The common ground of Marx’s materialism and Marx’s analysis of¶ capitalism is that all
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. This will also help set the stage for¶ the value analysis.

The collapse is inevitable only a question of how – our alternative preserves intrinsic value
Kovel 2007 [Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1842778714,   ITPIRATE]
The general motion toward ecosocialism is this: that as the¶ contradictions of society
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deepen its range of connections, an ecosystem that prefigures¶ ecosocialism itself.

Collapse will be fast—integration from globalization ensures it
David Korowicz 2011 [physicist and human systems ecologist. He is a member of Feasta’s executive committee and works as an independent consultant], “On the cusp of collapse: complexity, energy, and the globalised economy,” Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the Risks of Economic and Environmental Collapse” April 2011, New Society Publishers, Online Edition,  http://fleeingvesuvius.org/2011/10/08/on-the-cusp-of-collapse-complexity-energy-and-the-globalised-economy/ 

 The integration and speed of processes (financial information, capital movement, supply
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belle époque is passing and its future seems more uncertain than ever before. 

Continued exploitation of fossil fuels ensures collapse—ends in extinction
Fred Magdoff 10, Professor Emeritus, Plant and Soil Science, University of Vermont and John Bellamy Foster, Professor, Sociology, University of Oregon, “What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism,” MONTHLY REVIEW, 3-7-10, www.countercurrents.org/foster070310.htm, accessed 9-27-10.

It is beyond debate that the ecology of the earth—and the very life
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fuels but extends to the entire human-economic interaction with the environment.

Must reject the logical of the pointless “politics disadvantage” and ineffective environmental managerial solvency of the affirmative – we must make the responsible choice and categorically oppose capitalism as our starting point for discussion
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2011/08/20/anti-capitalism-and-environmentalism-as-a-political-alternative/
Esther Vivas Speech at a conference to commemorate José Saramago at the University of Granada, 28 April 2011. Published in International Viewpoint, August 2011.
Before the impasse to which the current model of civilization has led, we sense
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They represent two alternative destinations. For us, the choice is clear.

Individual action fails to address ecological crisis, only social action solves – Spain proves
Esther Vivas Speech at a conference to commemorate José Saramago at the University of Granada, 28 April 2011. Published in International Viewpoint, August 2011.  http://climateandcapitalism.com/2011/08/20/anti-capitalism-and-environmentalism-as-a-political-alternative/
But we must also bear in mind that individual action is not sufficient, not
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that control the food chain and put their own interests above collective needs.
We must celebrate necessary difference, but work to build bridges of mutual respect and common solidarity to produce an effective practice to collapse out common enemy, Capitalism
http://climateandcapitalism.com/2011/08/20/anti-capitalism-and-environmentalism-as-a-political-alternative/
Esther Vivas Speech at a conference to commemorate José Saramago at the University of Granada, 28 April 2011. Published in International Viewpoint, August 2011. [OG]
Although it is clear that the construction of local alternatives, in everyday life,
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system places walls, we must promote convergence between mobilizations and social struggles.