| 09/19/2012 | Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 4 | Opponent: USC | Judge: Philip Johnson-Freyd
New great powers are rising and will soon be on par with the us—prefer our evidence because it cites the two most important indicators of a power shift Layne 12
[Chris, Professor of IR and Political Science at Texas AandM, “This Time It’s Real: The End of Unipolarity and the Pax Americana”, p. online wyo-tjc]
American decline is part ... themselves to challenge the United States. Multipolarity will arrive in two decades as other powers catch up to the US—transition to offshore balancing now is key to avoid unending cycles of warfare Layne 9
[Christopher, Professor of Political Science at Texas AandM, Review of International Studies, “America’s Middle East grand strategy after Iraq: the moment for offshore balancing has arrived”, 2009, p. asp]
Some primacists... will emerge in the next decade or two. We outweigh- only a risk of a global nuclear war in a world of US primacy Layne in 6
[Christopher, Professor of Political Science at Texas AandM, The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy from 1940 to Present, Cornell University Press (Ithica), p. 176 wyo-tjc] If we assume,...r economic reasons (and, probably, for any reason). |
| 09/19/2012 | Tournament: Gonzaga | Round: 5 | Opponent: Fullerton | Judge:
Big Framework
OUR INTERPRETATION: The resolution asks a yes/no question as to the desirability of the United States Federal Government action. The role of the ballot should be to affirm or reject the actions and outcomes of the plan. - THE TOPIC IS DEFINED BY THE PHRASE FOLLOWING THE COLON – THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS THE AGENT OF THE RESOLUTION, NOT THE INDIVIDUAL DEBATERS
Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing 2K
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm
Use of a colon before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a clause that can stand by itself. Think of the colon as a gate, inviting one to go on… If the introductory phrase preceding the colon is very brief and the clause following the colon represents the real business of the sentence, begin the clause after the colon with a capital letter. 2. “RESOLVED” EXPRESSES INTENT TO IMPLEMENT THE PLAN American Heritage Dictionary 2K
www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=resolved To find a solution to; solve …
To bring to a usually successful conclusion 3. “SHOULD” DENOTES AN EXPECTATION OF ENACTING A PLAN
American Heritage Dictionary – 2K
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3 Used to express probability or expectation 4. THE U.S.F.G. is the three branches of government
Dictionary.com 2k6 [http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/united+states+government] noun
the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States Policymaking is critical now- “willful ignorance” in the face of climate change is ethically bankrupt, we must act in the realm of policy before all questions of science are settled because the risk that we’re right produces catastrophic impacts
2011
[Donald A. Brown, Associate Professor of Environmental Ethics, Science, and Law, April 18, 2011, New York Times Krugman Claims That US Congressional Hearings Are A Moral Failure: The US Congress and The Ethics of Willful Ignorance., http://rockblogs.psu.edu/climate/2011/04/new-york-times-krugman-claims-that-us-congressional-hearings-are-a-moral-failure-the-us-congress-and.html, uwyoamp] Introduction In an ...conducting the hearings. Engaging the state is critical to the ability of citizens to break into the project of solving global challenges: Engagement relies on an existing internationalist state and refocuses its energies through citizen participation in national institutions that solve for war as well as environmental and social challenges
Sassen 2009
[ColumbiaUniversity, istheauthorof TheGlobalCity (2ndedn, Princeton, 2001), Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages (Princeton, 2008) and A Sociology of Globalisation (Norton,2007), among others, 2009, The Potential for a Progressive State?, uwyoamp] Using state power for a... on war but on environmental and social justice projects. Policy debate is good for education, the development of empathy, and producing real world engagement from participants. Clear rules, a stable topic, and institutional role playing and simulation are integral to the process. The things you criticize about debate make it a unique exercise in active learning.
Lantis 8
[Jeffrey S. Lantis is Professor in the Department of Political Science and Chair of the International Relations Program at The College of Wooster, “The State of the Active Teaching and Learning Literature”, http://www.isacompss.com/info/samples/thestateoftheactiveteachingandlearningliterature_sample.pdf uwyoamp] Simulations, games, ...Powner and Allendoerfer 2008), though there is room for much improvement in this area. Switch side debate is good-direct engagement, not abstract relation, with identities we do not identify with is critical to us to overcome the existential resentment we feel towards those with whom we disagree.
Lack of switch-side facilitates a refusal to accept that our position is within question
Glover 10
[Robert, Professor of Political Science at University of Connecticut, Philosophy and Social Criticism, “Games without Frontiers?: Democratic Engagement, Agonistic Pluralism, and the Question of Exclusion”, Vol. 36, p. asp uwyoamp] In this vein,... condition of human being.’ |
| 11/09/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Reg-neg is the only appropriate structure to ensure solvency—coordination in energy policy is the vital internal link
Nolon 11
Sean Nolon, Associate Professor of Law and Dispute Resolution Program Director. Vermont Law School 2011 Negotiating the Wind: A Framework to Engage Citizens in Siting Wind Turbines Wyo-BF
The U.S. has enough wind capacity to generate a significant amount of
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them reach agreement on the types of impacts and appropriate mitigation measures.202
Solves case—reg-neg facilitates a consensus decision that’s legitimate and quickly enforced
Harter 97
Philip J., Visiting Associate Professor and Director of the Program on Consensus, Democracy, and Governance – Vermont Law School, "Fear of Commitment: An Affliction of Adolescents", Duke Law Journal, April, 46 Duke L.J. 1389, Lexis Wyo-BF
The most well-developed of these techniques, other than the public hearings and
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was one of the aspects of the process they considered most valuable.O |
| 11/09/2012 | Tournament: Kentucky | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Text: The 50 states, Washington D.C., and relevant territories should expand loan guarantees for small modular Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors in the United States.
States solve nuclear power production
NEI, Nuclear Energy Institute, “Industry Applauds Recognition of Nuclear Policies in NCSL Energy Task Force Report”, July 26, 2010
WASHINGTON,D.C.—The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL),
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this comprehensive policy guide to lawmakers across the country at a crucial time.” |
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Production focus to problems fails—the only solutions it engenders are more production, this only contributes to environmental problems
Princen et al, 2002
Thomas, Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, 1988, Harvard University and Associate professor at the Univ. of Michigan school of natural resources and environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, Program Director the School of Global Environmental Politics at American University, Confronting Consumption, “Confronting Consumption.” Pg. 1-20. Published by The MIT press /Wyo-MB
Combining the elements of socially embedded consumers and linked chains of resource-use decisions
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as depleting value, as risking ecological overshoot, as stressing social capacity.
Second, the Impact—consumption focus is the only way to solve for overconsumption and misconsumption that threaten human survival
Princen, 2002
Thomas, Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, 1988, Harvard University and Associate professor at the Univ. of Michigan school of natural resources and environment, Confronting Consumption, “Consumption and its externalities: where economy meets ecology.” Pg. 23-42. Published by The MIT press /Wyo-MB
A strictly ecological interpretation takes consumption as perfectly ‘‘natural.’’ To survive,
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however, undermine collective survival. Such consumption can occur along several dimensions.
Third is the alt, rejection of the 1ac’s production focus in favor of a consumption based approach to energy resources. Challenging consumption solves consumer sovereignty and solves for the health of the planet
Princen et al, 2002
Thomas, Ph.D., Political Economy and Government, 1988, Harvard University and Associate professor at the Univ. of Michigan school of natural resources and environment, Michael Maniates, Professor of Political and Environmental Science at Allegheny College, and Ken Conca, Program Director the School of Global Environmental Politics at American University, Confronting Consumption, “Confronting Consumption.” Pg. 1-20. Published by The MIT press /Wyo-MB
Consumption and consumerism have long been consigned to the edges of polite talk among North
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. It is no exercise— intellectual or practical— for the timid. |
| 11/09/2012 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Phase Out CP
Phase out declines cost of wind, and tech improvements and solves by allowing the wind industry to mature The Energy Collective, 8/3
“Advancing Wind Power” http://theenergycollective.com/breakthroughinstitut/100936/advancing-wind-power, accessed 9/13/12, WYO/JF PTC reform …mature American wind industry. Subsidizing existing tech means that new tech can’t compete. This kills solvency—it will be new tech that solves warming and replaces oil, not existing tech.
Rosendahl et al 2001
Kverndokk, Snorre. Corresponding author. Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research, Oslo, Norway. Rosendahl, Knut Einar. Research Department, Statistics. University of Oslo. Rutherford, Thomas F. Department of Economics, University of Colorado. “Climate policies and induced technological change: Which to choose the carrot or the stick?”October 2001. Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo. URL Accessed July 26, 2008. The lessons from these …to a larger extent encourage the innovation of new, carbon-free energy. |
| 11/09/2012 | Tournament: UNLV | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Check the UNLV debate |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: ISU CI | Judge: OUR INTERPRETATION: The resolution asks a yes/no question as to the desirability of the United States Federal Government action. The role of the ballot should be to affirm or reject the actions and outcomes of the plan.
Webster’s Guide to Grammar and Writing 2K
http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm-http://ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/marks/colon.htm Use of a colon before a list or an explanation that is preceded by a clause that can stand by itself. Think of the colon as a gate, inviting one to go on… If the introductory phrase preceding the colon is very brief and the clause following the colon represents the real business of the sentence, begin the clause after the colon with a capital letter. American Heritage Dictionary 2K
www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=resolved-http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=resolved To find a solution to; solve …
To bring to a usually successful conclusion
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3 Used to express probability or expectation
Dictionary.com 2k6 ~http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/united+states+government-http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/united+states+government~~ Noun
the executive and legislative and judicial branches of the federal government of the United States Decisionmaking skills and engagement with the state energy apparatus prevents energy technocracy and actualizes radical politicsHager, Bryn Mawr College political science professor, ’92
~Carol J., "Democratizing Technology: Citizen %26 State in West German Energy Politics, 1974-1990" Polity, Vol. 25, No. 1, p. 45-70, accessed 10-7-12, AFB~ During this phase, the citizen initiative attempted to overcome its defensive posture and implement
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a space for a delibera-tive politics in modern technological society.61 Limits outweighs: Need a balance between predictability and creativity—debatinf within a common framework enhances education because it maximizes elaboration and testing of ideas
Goodin 03
~Robert E. Goodin and Simon J. Niemeyer- Australian National University- 2003, When Does Deliberation Begin? Internal Reflection versus Public Discussion in Deliberative Democracy, POLITICAL STUDIES: 2003 VOL 51, 627–649, uwyoamp~
Suppose that instead of highly polarized symbolic attitudes, what we have at the outset
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invariably have a considerable impact on changing the way jurors approach an issue.
Glover 10
~Robert, Professor of Political Science at University of Connecticut, Philosophy and Social Criticism, "Games without Frontiers?: Democratic Engagement, Agonistic Pluralism, and the Question of Exclusion", Vol. 36, p. asp uwyoamp~ In this vein, Connolly sees the goal of political engagement as securing a positive
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others to overcome existential resentment of this persistent condition of human being.’ |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: ISU CI | Judge: Braidotti 2011
~Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects : Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (2nd Edition). New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press, 2011. p 5.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16-http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16 Copyright © 2011. Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Uwyoamp~ A third related phenomenon in this respect is the recent emergence in the international debate
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critical language and systems of knowledge as well as scientific discourse at large. Queering sexuality through the politics of eroticism reifies advanced capitalism and simply plays into the commodification of bodies and pleasure that capitalism desiresBraidotti 2011
~Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects : Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (2nd Edition). New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press, 2011. p 5.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16-http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16 Copyright © 2011. Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Uwyoamp~ The real reason for my relative silence on the issue of sexuality is theoretical,
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of longing, the need for accountability, and my attraction to complexity. Braidotti 2011
~Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects : Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (2nd Edition). New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press, 2011. p 5.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16-http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16 Copyright © 2011. Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Uwyoamp~ Whenever I fail to forget the continuing patterns of marginalization of women, I simply
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what I yearn for is the gay knowledge of an affirmative critical spirit. Escaping from the embodied subject justifies bare life and exterminationBraidotti 2011
~Braidotti, Rosi. Nomadic Subjects : Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory (2nd Edition). New York, NY, USA: Columbia University Press, 2011. p 5.
http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16-http://site.ebrary.com/lib/uofw/Doc?id=10464453%26ppg=16 Copyright © 2011. Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. Uwyoamp~ The blurring of sexual difference as well as the powerful social trend toward androgynous,
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the other. I shall return to this paradox in the next chapter. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 4 | Opponent: ISU CI | Judge: Their focus on queer eroticism is blind to intersections of gender and racial oppression- this monolithic understanding papers over violence against raced and gendered bodies.Lee ’3
Wenshu Lee, PhD Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn in Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) edited by Gust A. Yep, Karen Lovaas, John P. Elia. (147-167) 2003
Queer theory25 and the gay liberation movement have increased the visibility of lesbians, gays
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theory in the flesh, taking an interventionist stance in performing critical praxis.
I fully embrace Johnson’s move from queer to quare. Here is a theory that
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wo/men and radical quare wo/men in the United States. That solves and avoid the impact- Kuaer is a subversive word play that combines notions of energy, play, and movement to create more critical assessment of queer theory.Lee ’3
Wenshu Lee, PhD Kuaering Queer Theory: My Autocritography and a Race-Conscious, Womanist, Transnational Turn in Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s) edited by Gust A. Yep, Karen Lovaas, John P. Elia. (147-167) 2003
Resonating with the sensibility of quare theory without fulminating against queer studies, I extend
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an ambiguous "celibacy," while the latter champions unambiguous "sexual pleasure." |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
Native Sovereignty K
1NC “Sovereignty” is rooted in Westernized conceptions of power relations—as such, focusing the goal of Native politics on sovereignty is problematic when implemented in the framework of the state because it becomes a tool designed for the subjugation of Native peoples. Things like ‘alternative energy incentives’ simply loosen the leash while maintaining the falsehoods of current power relations
Alfred 99 Taiaiake Alfred, professor at the University of Victoria, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto, Oxford University Press, 1999.
To summarize the argument thus far, sovereignty is an exclusionary concept rooted in an
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the political economy of the modern state is nothing less than a betrayal.
The alternative is to deconstruct the mythologies of current Native-state power relations. Thus we offer the counter history of imagining the US as having never existed
Churchill 96 (Ward, Prof. of Ethnic Studies @ U. of Colorado, Boulder BA and MA in Communications from Sangamon State, “From a Native Son”,mb)
The question which inevitably arises with regard to indigenous land claims, especially in the
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“impossible realism,” isn’t it time we all worked on attaining it?
Case args-
Not suff to solve self-d Exploitation args- corporations exploit the tribes to suck profit out of them Consequences 1st/xtinction 1st
Scenario planning good 2NC K Turns Case
The only way to solve for indigenous rights is to reject the concepts of sovereignty offered to us as a state tool to contain indigenous peoples. That is the second Alfred piece of evidence from the 1nc. The root cause of the colonialist mindset is the integration of Native politics into the framework of the state- attempts at decolonization fail without disengaging state power
Alfred 99 Taiaiake Alfred, professor at the University of Victoria, Peace, Power, Righteousness: An Indigenous Manifesto, Oxford University Press, 1999.
The colonial mentality is recognizable in the gradual assumption of the values, goals,
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between themselves and the state. This is symptomatic of the colonial mentality.
True indigenous politics are ANTITHENTICAL to the concept of sovereignty. In traditional indigenous politics, Individual autonomy and collective decision-making are the basis for all political action. Authority is earned through persuasion and consensus, not presumed based on a position held. The Aff’s model of Sovereignty presumes a top down, authority based model of decision-making that makes traditional indigenousness politics impossible and mentally colonizes attempts at autonomy
Alfred, 1999 Taiaike, A leading Kanien’kehaka scholar versed in both indigenous and western traditions, PhD at Cornell, direct of the Canadian Indigenous Governance Program, “Peace, Power, Righteousness: an indigenous Manifesto, p. 24-28 Returning to indigenous traditions of leadership will require an intensive effort to understand indigenous political
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in its grip and keeps them from working to overturn the colonial system. 2NC AT: Framework The impact of this sort of language is MOST important and a PREREQUISITE to Indian culture, autonomy, and self-determination existing—concepts like sovereignty are western poison that upholds mental colonization and continues genocide by another name. This evidence is comparative—even if they help Indians superficially, mental colonization is a prerequisite.
Alfred, 1999 Taiaike, A leading Kanien’kehaka scholar versed in both indigenous and western traditions, PhD at Cornell, direct of the Canadian Indigenous Governance Program, “Peace, Power, Righteousness: an indigenous Manifesto, p. XI-XIV If we are to emerge from this crisis with our nations intact, we must
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what indigenous nations were before those wrongs began. Indigenous people cannot forget. We don’t call for roleplaying or posit ourselves as the state. The 1AC is a productive and effective means of analysis that is necessary for change
Shulock 99 Nancy, PROFESSOR OF PUBLIC POLICY --- professor of Public Policy and Administration and director of the Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy (IHELP) at Sacramento State University, The Paradox of Policy Analysis: If It Is Not Used, Why Do We Produce So Much of It?, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, Vol. 18, No. 2, 226–244 (1999) In my view, none of these radical changes is necessary. As interesting as
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, can reshape the policy landscape. Policy analysis can supply the ideas. 2NC Links
Link-
By using renewables as a means for tribes to attain self-determination, the affirmative uses Western epistemology to frame the indigenous as being naturally connected to the environment- this replicates dehumanization and is inherently colonialist
Shepard Krech III, PhD and Professor of Anthropology and Environmental Studies at Brown University, 1999, “The Ecological Indian: Myth and History”, W. W. Norton and Company, New York: London, acc. 2/15/13, p. 15-27 Even though an invention of Madison Avenue, the Crying Indian is an effective image
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fathom or confront the evidence for relationships between Indians and the environment.50 2NC AT: Perm
The Perm still links to the kritik. An inclusion of plan necessitates the mythologized approach of “sovereignty” Native-state power relations that creates the impacts in the first place.
The permutation fails—it’s impossible to create change from within the tropes and culture of western politics.
Alfred 99 Taiaike, A leading Kanien’kehaka scholar versed in both indigenous and western traditions, PhD at Cornell, direct of the Canadian Indigenous Governance Program, “Peace, Power, Righteousness: an indigenous Manifesto, p. 32-33 So why do people do it? Jack Forbes has described a spectrum of identities
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individual conduct and values are crucial in determining who the real leaders are. And, they don’t get a permutation. This is a question of competing methodologies. The permutation would be impossible because it means taking the sovereignty methodology of the 1ac and pairing it to the deconstruction of this methodology. This skews out of 1ac representations. Defending those methodologies is key to negative ground. The aff shouldn’t be allowed to skew out of competing methodologies by arbitrarily claiming they can work together. This ground is key to fairness and a voter.
And the alternative is contextually different: undermining discourse of sovereignty more effective than indigenous re-appropriation
Alfred 99 Taiaike, A leading Kanien’kehaka scholar versed in both indigenous and western traditions, PhD at Cornell, direct of the Canadian Indigenous Governance Program, “Peace, Power, Righteousness: an indigenous Manifesto, p. 58 To argue on behalf of indigenous nationhood within the dominant Western paradigm is self-
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by carving out a small and dependent space for indigenous peoples within it. |
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1NC
Text:
The United States Federal Government should:
--remove the federal government liability waiver for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements
--clarify that the Secretary of the Interior, when evaluating applications for Tribal Energy Resource Agreements, must defer to the tribe's determination that the agreement is in its best interest, to the maximum extent possible.
--amend the Indian Mineral Development Act of 1982 by clarifying that the statutory definition of "mineral resources" includes solar power.
Counterplan solves the case:
Changing the Secretary’s approval process solves the whole case—spurs energy development and balances self-determination with the trust doctrine
Judith V. Royster 12, Co-Director – Native American Law Center @ University of Tulsa, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures,” March, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91
Nonetheless, there are steps that can be taken to tighten up the approval process
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resources, and do so with more direct say in the development itself. Redefining the IMDA spurs renewable power development by circumventing TERAs
Judith V. Royster 12, Co-Director – Native American Law Center @ University of Tulsa, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures,” March, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91
The heart of my proposal is a small and likely uncontroversial amendment to the Indian
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tribes' self-determination rights to choose the best approach for that tribe.
Deregulating TERAs allows corporate exploitation of tribes—worse for sovereignty
April Reese 3, reporter – High Country News (Colorado) and Energy and Environment, “Plains tribe harnesses the wind,” http://www.hcn.org/issues/255/14139
The legislation would also waive Interior’s trust responsibility to the tribes in energy dealings.
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laying out requirements that tribes would have to follow when conducting environmental reviews.
2NC
CP solves the cornerstone of self-d – single most important thing for self-d according to native groups
National Congress of American Indians, 2012, “Contract Support,” http://www.ncai.org/policy-issues/tribal-governance/budget-and-approprations/contract-support
The Indian Self-Determination Act represents the cornerstone of this nation’s federal policy toward
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Indian Country have repeatedly emphasized the importance of fully funding contract support costs.
Biggest internal link to the aff
Hobbs Straus Dean and Walker, law firm, 2012, “Contract Support Cost,” http://www.hsdwlaw.com/contract-support-cost
One of the biggest obstacles to tribal self-determination and self-governance has
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may be required to reduce services or to go without essential administrative activities. Changing the Secretary’s approval process solves the whole case—spurs wind development and balances self-determination with the trust doctrine
Judith V. Royster 12, Co-Director – Native American Law Center @ University of Tulsa, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures,” March, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91
Nonetheless, there are steps that can be taken to tighten up the approval process
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resources, and do so with more direct say in the development itself.
The CP shifts the NEPA review process to explicitly prioritize tribal decisions---solves the entire case
Judith V. Royster 8, Co-Director – Native American Law Center @ University of Tulsa, ‘8, 12 Lewis and Clark L. Rev. 1065
There is no question that the environmental review process under a TERA will be costly
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indication that such provisions have proven problematic for the tribes that adopted them. Redefining the IMDA spurs renewable power development by circumventing TERAs
Judith V. Royster 12, Co-Director – Native American Law Center @ University of Tulsa, “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures,” March, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91
The heart of my proposal is a small and likely uncontroversial amendment to the Indian
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tribes' self-determination rights to choose the best approach for that tribe. IMDA empirically solves resource development
Royster 12, Co-Director – Native American Law Center @ University of Tulsa, ’12 (Judith V., “Tribal Energy Development: Renewables and the Problem of the Current Statutory Structures,” March, 31 Stan. Envtl. L.J. 91)
For tribes that wish to develop their fossil fuels or other traditional energy resources such
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before deals are struck, removing a potential impediment to renewable energy development. |
| 03/30/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge:
T Restrictions
Interpretation- - Restrictions must legally mandate a decrease in the quantity produced – regulations are distinct
Anell 89
Chairman, WTO panel
"To examine, in the light of the relevant GATT provisions, the matter referred to the
CONTRACTING PARTIES by the United States in document L/6445 and to make such findings as will assist the CONTRACTING PARTIES in making the recommendations or in giving the rulings provided for in Article XXIII:2." 3. On 3 April 1989, the Council was informed that agreement had been reached on the following composition of the Panel (C/164): Composition Chairman: Mr. Lars E.R. Anell Members: Mr. Hugh W. Bartlett Mrs. Carmen Luz Guarda CANADA - IMPORT RESTRICTIONS ON ICE CREAM AND YOGHURT Report of the Panel adopted at the Forty-fifth Session of the CONTRACTING PARTIES on 5 December 1989 (L/6568 - 36S/68)
http://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/dispu_e/88icecrm.pdf
The United States argued that Canada had failed to demonstrate that it effectively restricted domestic
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to what the situation would be in the absence of all government measures.
Plan changes regulations on how energy is produced not restrictions on how much is produced
Two impacts – first is limits - Including regulation cracks the curriculum—even full-time professionals can’t manage that research burden
Stafford 83
http://felj.org/elj/Energy%20Journals/Vol6_No2_1985_Book_Review2.pdf
Associate, Ross, Marsh and Foster, Washington, D.C. The assistance of David L. Wallace, a third
year student at the Georgetown University Law Center, in the preparation of this review is greatly appreciated.
FEDERAL REGULATION OF ENERGY by
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decisions in a single work.
Second - precision—restrictions must be a distinct term for debate to occur
Eric Heinze (Senior Lecturer in Law, University of London, Queen Mary. He has held fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation and the French and German governments. He teaches Legal Theory, Constitutional Law, Human Rights and Public International Law. JD Harvard) 2003 “The Logic of Liberal Rights A study in the formal analysis of legal discourse” http://mey.homelinux.org/companions/Eric%20Heinze/The%20Logic%20of%20Liberal%20Rights_%20A%20Study%20in%20%20%28839%29/The%20Logic%20of%20Liberal%20Rights_%20A%20Study%20in%20%20-%20Eric%20Heinze.pdf
Variety of ‘restrictions’
The term ‘restriction’, defined so broadly, embraces any number of familiar concepts
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of a formal model, for which any distinctions among them are irrelevant. Kills neg ground- changing regulations should be neg. counterplan ground and they get unpredictable actors making generic link ground impossible to access.
Limits and fair division of ground are key to education, limits are necessary for negative research and ground sets up the conditions for equitable debate
Topicality is a prima facie burden that should be evaluated through the lens of competing interpretaitons- |
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CIR DA
Immigration will pass: 90% there, but will compromise Moody, 3-27
Chris, “McCain: Nobody will be ‘totally happy’ with immigration bill,” Yahoo News, March 27, 2013, http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/mccain-nobody-totally-happy-immigration-bill-195849266~-~-politics.html uwyo-baj
After wrapping a tour of the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday, Arizona
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we are having to make compromises, and that's what makes good legislation."
Obama PC key-absent leadership, Republicans will rely on lip service
Huerta 3/15
Alvaro Huerta,The Progressive Media Project, 3/15, 2013, We need real immigration reform, http://www.bradenton.com/2013/03/15/4437160/we-need-real-immigration-reform.html, uwyoamp I don't find the deportation of more than 1.6 million undocumented immigrants during
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capital for the benefit of the estimated 11 undocumented immigrants in this country.
Plan leads to backlash—the existence of the law proves the link- saps PC
Miles 06 (Andrea, JD Candidate, “TRIBAL ENERGY RESOURCE AGREEMENTS: TOOLS FOR ACHIEVING ENERGY DEVELOPMENT AND TRIBAL SELF-SUFFICIENCY OR AN ABDICATION OF FEDERAL ENVIRONMENTAL AND TRUST RESPONSIBILITIES”. 30 Am. Indian L. Rev. 461, Lexis)
Opponents, including some environmental groups, have expressed concern that Title V will eliminate
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activities are in compliance with the TERA and applicable federal environmental law. n87
Critical to US economic recovery
Aaron Terrazas, Migration Policy Institute, July 2011, The Economic Integration of Immigrants in the United States: Long- and Short-Term Perspectives, http://www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/EconomicIntegration.pdf
The fate of immigrants in the United States and their integration into the labor market
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the past, generated substantial secondary demand for services that immigrants often provide.
There is a strong historical correlation between economic decline and war.
Mead 9 — Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow at the CFR, Professor at Yale (Walter Russel, "What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Stronger," The New Republic)
So far, such half-hearted experiments not only have failed to work;
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the world economy back on track, we may still have to fight. |
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A2 Conflict Adv. Self-Determination cannot be attained via the state- it must be created by the Native Americans themselves
Peter d'Errico, Legal Studies Department, University of Massachusetts/Amherst. October 24, 1997 American Indian Sovereignty: Now you see it, Now you don’t, http://www.umass.edu/legal/derrico/nowyouseeit.html (DS) Ultimately, it is land -- and a people's relationship to land -- that is
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We are talking about a human being way of life." Deere.
Turn: corrupt leaders undermine sovereignty and self-determination
Reynolds ‘4
Jerry; “Lobbying scandal highlights peril of tribal feuds”; Indian Country Today; Nov 3, 2004. ProQuest uwyo-baj "Fiscal mismanagement undermines sovereignty because ... inadequately accounting for the
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players and its role as the defender of the peoples' sovereignty is lost."
Natives hate the plan-they want to tap mineral resources.
Yamamoto 01
Eric K. , Visiting Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and Jen-L
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cynicism about environmentalists whosometimes treat them as mascots for the environmental cause. n52 All modern environmental law is rooted in anthropocentric Anglo-American values-the case can’t overcome it.
Yamamoto 01
Eric K. Yamamoto, Visiting Professor of Law at UC Berkeley and Jen-L W. Lyman, JD from UHawaii, Spring, 01
(Racializing Environmental Justice, 72 U. Colo. L. Rev. 311, p. Lexis) Bozman From this perspective, modern environmentalism thus implicitly promotes an anthropocentric ethic of nature as
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thus undermines the very thing it seeks to promote: genuine environmental justice. -- No extinction
Easterbrook 3 (Gregg, Senior Fellow – New Republic, “We’re All Gonna Die!”, Wired Magazine, July, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.07/doomsday.html?pg=1andtopic=andtopic_set=) If we're talking aboutdoomsday - the end of human civilization - many scenariossimply don't measure
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as he was, wrote Remembrance of Things Past while lying in bed.
-- Long time-frame
Kay 1 (Jane, “Study Takes Historical Peek at Plight of Ocean Ecosystems”, San Francisco Chronicle, 7-26, Lexis) The collapse of ecosystemsoften occur over along period. In one example, when Aleut
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otters for food because there are fewer seals and sea lions to eat. 2. Environmental catastrophes are hype and lies – Statistics go our way.
Dutton 01 - prof of philosophy @ U of Canterbury Dennis Dutton. “Greener Thank You Think. ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World' by Bjorn Lomborg.” The Washington Post. October 21, 2001.
That the human race faces environmental problems is unquestionable. That environmental experts have regularly
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typographical errors had been absorbed unchallenged into the folklore of environmental disaster scenarios. Prefer our evidence – Environmental apocalypse scenarios are always overblown and recent human advancements solve.
Ronald Bailey 2k, science correspondent, author of Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet, former Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, May 2000, Reason Magazine, “Earth Day, Then and Now,” http://reason.com/0005/fe.rb.earth.shtml Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions. “We have about five
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that passionate concern, however sincere, is no substitute for rational analysis. |
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1NC Solvency/Impact Framing Plan causes "fossil fuel colonialism" – becomes an "in" for big business exploitation.
Awehali ’6
(Brian Awehali is an award-winning journalist and former Britannica
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05/06 – http://loudcanary.com/tag/energy/)
Now imagine, if you can, that you run a US-based energy
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It then subcontracted most of the work to the infamous multinational corporation Halliburton. Scenario planning is good. In a catastrophe-ridden world—it’s vital to make predictions about the future.
Kurasawa, 2004
Fuyuki, Professor of Sociology at York University, “Cautionary Tales: The Global Culture of Prevention
and the Work of Foresight.” 2004, Constellations, Vol. 11, No. 4
Independently of this room for maneuver and the chances of success. Humanitarian, environmental
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us, we come to be more concerned about the here and now. Preventing extinction is the highest ethical priority – we should take action to prevent the Other from dying FIRST, only THEN can we consider questions of value to life
Paul Wapner, associate professor and director of the Global Environmental Policy Program at American University, Winter 2003, Dissent, online: http://www.dissentmagazine.org/menutest/archives/2003/wi03/wapner.htm
All attempts to listen to nature are social constructions-except one. Even the
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, they deny their own intellectual insights and compromise their fundamental moral commitment. Consequentialism is key to ethical decision making, because it ensures beings are treated as equal—any other approach to ethics is arbitrary because it considers one’s preferences as more important than others
Lillehammer, 2011
Hallvard, Faculty of Philosophy Cambridge University, “Consequentialism and global ethics.” Forthcoming in M. Boylan, Ed., Global Morality and Justice: A Reader, Westview Press, Online, http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/teaching_staff/lillehammer/Consequentialism_and_Global_Ethics-1-2.pdf /Wyo-MB
Contemporary discussions of consequentialism and global ethics have been marked by a focus on examples
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therefore, you will have to show what is wrong with those principles.
Preventing death is the first ethical priority – it’s the only impact you can’t recover from.
Zygmunt Bauman, University of Leeds Professor Emeritus of Sociology, 1995, Life In Fragments: Essays In Postmodern Morality, p. 66-71
The being for is like living towards the future: a being
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acting morally, and sometimes even of being good, in the present. Great power conflict is possible – resource conflicts, environmental crises and rising powers could spark global war Dyer, 6
Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist, 'Has the world really changed since 9/11?,' September 7, http://www.straight.com/has-the-world-really-changed-since-9-11 Without 9/11 there would still be a “terrorist threat”, of course
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, could draw you up a dozen different scenarios of disaster by lunchtime.
Great power conflict is possible – terrorism and regional conflicts Dibb, 2
Paul, 'The Future of International Coalitions,' The Washington Quarterly 25.2 (2002) 131-144, pg. project muse
The assertion that the events of September 11 initiated a fundamentally new era in world
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front among almost all states and mute their disagreements on less pressing matters. Unmeasurable risks should still be mitigated – 9/11 proves Posner 04
(Richard A., Judge on US Court of Appeals for the 7th circuit, Catastrophe: Risk and Response, 2004, pg. 171-2
We know that people sometimes overreact, from a statistical stand¬point, to a slight
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the probability of such losses cannot be reliably es¬timated from insurance premium rates. |
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2NC Environment D 2. Environmental catastrophes are hype and lies – Statistics go our way.
Dutton 01 - prof of philosophy @ U of Canterbury Dennis Dutton. “Greener Thank You Think. ‘The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World' by Bjorn Lomborg.” The Washington Post. October 21, 2001. That the human race faces environmental problems is unquestionable. That environmental experts have regularly
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typographical errors had been absorbed unchallenged into the folklore of environmental disaster scenarios. Prefer our evidence – Environmental apocalypse scenarios are always overblown and recent human advancements solve.
Ronald Bailey 2k, science correspondent, author of Earth Report 2000: Revisiting the True State of the Planet, former Brookes Fellow in Environmental Journalism at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, May 2000, Reason Magazine, “Earth Day, Then and Now,” http://reason.com/0005/fe.rb.earth.shtml Earth Day 1970 provoked a torrent of apocalyptic predictions. “We have about five
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that passionate concern, however sincere, is no substitute for rational analysis. THEIR PREDICTIONS ARE FALSE –IT’S ALL PROPAGANDA
Kaleita, PHD, Assistant Professor Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering 07 Amy, “Hysteria’s History” Environmental Alarmism in Context”, http://www.pacificresearch.org/docLib/20070920_Hysteria_History.pdf
“We are moving towards the twilight of civilization,”14 and with “a
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and worldwide shortages of gasoline, heating oil, and jet fuel.26 |
