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Mike Hills and Libby Rogers 9-13-24, BBC news reporters on the Visual Journalism and Data teams, "US election polls 2024: Who is ahead", Bbc News, https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4x71znwxdo
polls are not accurate in battleground states polls are very tight There a... |
03bf4800d58891c19b5dc117c3d0b6a37250ca161395cec0e02c17a3f872159c | Trade doesn’t solve anything | Trade doesn’t solve anything.
Clare ’22 [Stephen; February 15th; Research Fellow at the Forethought Foundation for Global Priorities Research, B.A., McMaster University, Sustainability Studies, M.A., McGill University, Natural Resources Management and Policy; “How likely is World War III?”; Effective Altruism Forum; h... |
01e5c9ad872285272caca395620ca575b6df21efc582c46aab1f2db25a6e4828 | US food collapse causes conflict | Collapse of US food causes global conflict eruption.
Thomas Benson 22 (is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at a major scientific research organization, and was previously an Environmental Defense Fund Climate Corps Fellow at the American Security Project in 2022. His research focuses on urban sustainability, local go... |
016c5bcf08926d22665c8cf1030ccd3930aa4e56825277b722abd19df96be497 | Trump Biden foreign policy | 2---They’re wrong---Harris and Trump are two different beasts
Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://for... |
02e2c1152cbcec0ec4ae8c9a6c33d6f7098498b3990ac1554bd7447a8730a177 | no recession 2025 | No recession---every metric projects solid growth.
Lauren Schwahn 3-3, personal finance writer, “Are We in a Recession?”, Nerd Wallet, 3-3-25, https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/are-we-in-a-recession
the economy has been resilient the U.S. is not in a recession economy is quite strong , according to most meas... |
03ed204c37eac41351c02be6fe2b4e524a5f842fd4bae40387b2f571713a894b | Kitakufe 24 | The tax incentivizes innovation, relieves taxes elsewhere, increases competitiveness and jobs
Kitakufe 24 (DOREEN KITAKUFE Maharishi International University, Fairfield, SHALLON ASIIMIRE Kalmar US, COURAGE OBOFONI ESECHIE Southern University, Baton Rouge , THOMAS ANDREW WALUGEMBE Maharishi International University, Fa... |
029f08fa23eefcdfef5b0d604523ed650d2bf72e42e9c3c0ad6af07e3261395a | policy debate good | We should use debate to hash out what alternative foreign policies look like. Scenario planning is more effective than pure resistance AND there is a unique opening for ideas to take hold---our method provides necessary preparation.
Loren Dejonge Schulman 18, Deputy Director of Studies and Leon E. Panetta Senior Fello... |
004fc2a15708b4a66ad55c06f4a7502cdbeaed83f48e3ffee27c615767168647 | Middle East collapse | 6---Middle East collapse inevitable; renewables and warming.
Yahya 22, Director of the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center (Maha Yahya, March 22, 2022, “The Middle East Is on the Brink Again,” Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2022-03-22/middle-east-brink-again) Thx 2 Kansas ... |
0074f65e84b57f3781f3e29b678236c8781f00dfdf64590e6716bfa3d7eed212 | Bates 23 | The CP is competitive--- “For” means that a policy’s purpose must be “decarbonization.”
John Deacon Bates 23. Judge; US District Court for the District of Columbia
The word "for" matters "for" indicate[s] the object or purpose of an action One dresses " for " dinner or studies " for " an exam even if the exam neve... |
02f8c648e6af3e3b4eca375c74dfa0f552ab484eef875538cb5b80a08e41ae5e | Picon politico | The plan specifically shatters GOP Unity.
Picon ‘24 – et al; Andres Picon covers Congress and energy policy for E&E/Politco. He previously was a POLITICO fellow. He came to POLITICO from the San Francisco Chronicle, where he was a general assignment reporter. “What Congress must get done during the lame duck” - Enviro... |
014fae438be0ea0a865fe3046c36f0f972973b0b503e29d9d4eab66ae71a54bb | Dania Thafer | The rentier model can endure boom and bust cycles---only the obsolescence of oil ends it.
Thafer 20, PhD, Executive Director of Gulf International Forum, Professorial Lecturer at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies at Georgetown University. (Dania, 6-1-2020, "Saudi Arabia is addicted to the rentier model until th... |
039a71ae12299f4f0ecbb23f48cb6378a0dcba249402dca424eb68227c09c0c9 | Sareen 22 | Pakistani foreclosure collapses the state.
Sareen 22, Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation, MA in Economics from the University of Delhi (Sushant Sareen, June 25, 2022, “Pakistanis confident the world won’t let a nuclear state collapse. They forget Soviet Union,” The Print, https://theprint.in/opinion/pak... |
0451e5c2bd4baa8646c872d6edfbd14ee911e7a8a05951ea7fd27ac99549b467 | legal form commodity form | AND, shatters law’s commodity form
Fornasari 24 [Riccardo Fornasari, temporary teaching and research associate at Paris Nanterre University, former post-doc researcher at University of Bologna, PhD private law, University of Bologna and University of Paris Nanterre, LLM Dickson Poon School of Law, King’s College Londo... |
0442273583ec3dd161fd03c870314443e84cdcac8a8d65322f74c600409af9df | violent conflict little support | Best data goes neg.
Steven Pinker 12, Psychology Professor at Harvard, “The New Peace,” Chapter 6 of the Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence has Declined, Stras
scientists are skeptical people fight wars Hunger shortages are common wars are not war requires forces be organized and armed Reviewing “Those who for... |
02284cae46673e1bd7a8453ec0f3ff83ea59a22ccc16498bcf3f7a025da53719 | Brands 24 | Backsliding, norm violations, AND coercion.
Brands ’24 [Hal; May 27; Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Foreign Affairs, “An “America First” World,” https://www.foreignaffai... |
0011344857f2c5a4763eb724937585d0b304b835c76447a9b4e76dde4bb2da92 | ocean ecosystem hasn't changed | Oceans resilient – fossil records prove
Fleming 16 (Johnnie, “Ocean May Be More Resilient to Climate Change Than We Expected,” May 20, )
ocean life . managed to survive millions of years of changing climates and disasters recent study looked at 85 million years of fossil records and found that the ocean ecosystem ha... |
03669d24ffbbfd565b79d944465492beff4af55fb6651941f610dcfb945eac3a | dissolutionism ruins analytic purchase | The 1AC’s dissolutionism flattens nuance and ruins analytic purchase.
Kornbluh, 23—Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago (Anna, “Prospective criticism: on private and public things,” Textual Practice, 37:2, 256-278, dml)
dissolutionism ’ extrapolat aesthetic qualities into political ideals confl... |
00d389db827e61607734099c1684a5f25cf580f20a00294646c7aeeb8702af6b | tarrying with the infinite emissions | Tarrying with the infinite is the only pathway to minimizing emissions---any other regulatory policy allows too flexible compliance mechanisms.
Bouchery et. al. 11. [Yann Bouchery is Associate Professor in Operations Management and a member of the Center of Excellence in Supply Chain at KEDGE Business School. Asma GHA... |
0381ba37049a851200d4c4a781214d425d0a184f1cd919cade36f756f4286870 | Folley 2024 | Abnormality like the plan kills Senate negotiations.
Folley ’24 [Aris; November 8th; "Trump wins tip scales for GOP on government funding;" Hill, https://thehill.com/business/budget/4979972-gop-control-government-funding/]
said deciding how to spend is “ important I would hope we would put a greater priority on decid... |
036c6fdace430d49f505290a50f01e39f0daed312219c8d77c9e93a24bd00f43 | Economist 11-7 | 1 -- Double Bind – Either Trump ignites global trade wars on day one.
Economist 11-7, (11-7-2024, “The world faces its worst trade wars since the 1930s,” The Telegram, https://www.economist.com/international/2024/11/07/the-world-faces-its-worst-trade-wars-since-the-1930s)
THE WORLD stands on the brink of multiple tr... |
03e1777984188cf06aceb25e715c2ddc78382df84efe171f2b27abbe04decbe6 | learning communities shape desire | Their reliance on performativity strengthens the operations of semiocapitalism -- learning communities like higher educational institutions and the debate community specifically construct and shape desire in capitalism through communication.
Peters 2019 [Michael A. "Affective capitalism, higher education and the const... |
00f670e525831247b67f3e295d8b7e95161442a874baa3d66c93c1de4c3132dc | public ownership introduced gradually | Market socialism improves social democracy – that the only viable means for transition
Lane, D. (2023). Global neoliberal capitalism and the alternatives: From social democracy to state capitalisms. Policy Press. Accessed 8/7/2024 CSUF JmB
The objective is to create a political transfer of ownership and control of c... |
0255e08fdc8878e858eade627472681ea07288a83425330e1756ad47cd39af61 | forces fed maintain price stability | It forces the Fed to maintain price stability, ie. rate hikes.
Irene Lauro 22, Environmental Economist; Schroders, 2/15/22, “What net zero means for inflation,” https://www.schroders.com/en-us/us/individual/insights/what-net-zero-means-for-inflation/
Carbon tax will lead to inflationary pressures more pronounced for ... |
0346dfcaa843498340b06be41d8a696778beec1c21b39848b4966c1ed31e5574 | innovation through public investment | Tech breakthroughs are insufficient to solve ecocatastrophe, but the alt solves innovation better
Hickel 23 – professor at the Institute for Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB) and the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona
degrowth embraces tech change Bu... |
00df099afe26b244310768fe6595d90cf94ea294eed5d2da1ec45409a68975a8 | impact is overkill | The impact is overkill. ‘Case outweighs’ is wholly unresponsive when the queer subject exists in a zone of death.
Stanley ’21 [Eric; Haas Distinguished Chair in LGBT Equity, Associate Professor in the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley; Duke University Press, “Atmosphere... |
0438d934d0820c3516c61540de186ba0b06a9055b371867701bf3d5221e78510 | superintelligence is a dead end | --Superintelligence won’t exist.
Stearn 22’ – Joseph, Independent Institute. “reviewing “The Myth of Artificial Intelligence” by Erik Larson at Harvard University.”, The Independent Review, Vol. 26, No. 4, https://www.independent.org/publications/tir/article.asp?id=1702, xx-xx-2022
errors in intelligence have led to ... |
02b5e3a8d1cff6384c24ddfe50e1961f32d6fa3f0332abdca88145ffb0f7f460 | New shape of green colonialism | The resolution’s move to center market-driven decarbonization and clean energy policy is a commitment to a colonial imaginary that intensifies ecological destruction, resource extraction, and devastates indigenous communities in the Global South. Any energy transition initiated under green colonialism generates sacrifi... |
0436cc43e009b7bca112eba6accada59ab6cd803594f79636b9a026f28d1a949 | Disease can't cause extinction | Disease can’t cause extinction
Ord ’20 [Dr. Toby Ord, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University, DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Hachette Books, Kindle Edition, p. 124-126]
pandemic fall short of a threat to humanity biolo... |
0359ab6f5655888fd221cd83bd8a843309c170ba06167379a94da11af941ea30 | Cooper 21 | Causes follow on and avoids politics.
Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention]
Constitution provides a path through states a convention r... |
0417e1b55347393186e1ef88c7ee674cfa70b43b7af0b665bb617eda96c11524 | Daniel Santabárbara carbon taxes | No "perception" link---credible monetary policy authorities look past carbon taxes.
Santabárbara '22 [Daniel, Marta Suárez-Varela; October; Head of Advanced and Systemic Economies Unit, Banco de España; Senior Economist, Banco de España; Bank of Spain; "Carbon Pricing and Inflation Volatility," https://www.bde.es/f/we... |
002d907b786303c5c3b0e60b207bcb780fab8ec873f09f01fad472bff0fc139c | 538 forecasting Harris win chances | That’s consistent with 538 forecasting – their model has Harris win chances at 55%
538 9-12 [538 uses statistical analysis — hard numbers — to tell compelling stories about elections, politics, economics, and American society, ABC News, 9-12-2024 https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2024-election-forecast/]
538 uses ... |
0312bd76fe00053c57ef136a9c2e9f57fb5e6b677f92c212d544d8778430b374 | biomass emissions | Carbon pricing incentivizes biomass---worsens emissions and lowers global carbon stocks
SELC 22. Southern Environmental Law Center, Mar 28 2022. Southern Environmental Law Center “New study confirms harmful impacts of biomass industry” https://www.southernenvironment.org/news/new-study-confirms-harmful-impacts-of-biom... |
026f58f4412a005c342a449691078d0e961e5f4a4f71578fbf98e535261aae62 | critic is active agent of change | The 1AC’s value stands on its own---responding to it with judgement and the ballot is a hollow validation that siphons off political energy and draws them into the oppressive gaze of the academy.
Dr. Kendall R. Phillips 99, Professor of Communication at Central Missouri State University, PhD in Speech Communication fr... |
025aa9bccf14828ccb2acc1ef37262ceac68d60a6e15597d527930fca5d4ba37 | equities remain attractive | Business confidence is NOT relevant for growth
Doll 16 – Bob Doll, Chief Equity Strategist at Nuveen Asset Management, “Despite Lackluster Growth, Equities Remain Attractive”, Financial Advisor, 8-9, http://www.fa-mag.com/news/despite-lackluster-growth--equities-remain-attractive-28409.html
Tailwinds such as improvin... |
00ad3da73642efa23e79be19091295cbc880066921f287358fbd866f85245d24 | hard truths climate change | Highlighting the gravity of climate change is key to respond to it.
Einhorn et al. 24 (Gill Einhorn, Head, Innovation and Transformation, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum. Rosie Ponting, Lead, Expert Community, Centre for Nature and Climate, World Economic. Forum Flora McCrone, Lead, Immersive Inter... |
00eaf79851c3c3c467ce5a385c1641824fe90795e640b715bf4154de1818c665 | benefits of RPS | RPS is net-pollution reducing.
Ryan Wiser et al. 16. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With Galen Barbose, Jenny Heeter, Trieu Mai, Lori Bird, Mark Bolinger, Alberta Carpenter, Garvin Heath, David Keyser, Jordan Macknick, Andrew Mills, and Dev Millstein. A Retrospective Analysis of the Benefits and Impacts of U.S... |
02b70e4d84743907d510f739d56d06277f9196d456d89893561bddad570fd849 | China dominates supply chains | It’s latent, but unreachable absent favorable domestic conditions for clean energy development---otherwise, China dominates the green market.
Dawes ’24 [Allegra and Joseph Majkut; April 10; Former Associate Fellow at the Energy Security and Climate Change Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, ... |
0109a84341496cc894f582d115bea7f4385c9e705742e053faea99057f767db7 | wiseman and osofsky 16 | 8. Their authors agree its illegal without Congress
Wiseman and Osofsky 16 [Hannah J. Wiseman and Hari M. Osofsky Attorneys' Title Professor, Florida State University College of Law. J.D., Yale Law School, A.B., Dartmouth College. * Professor, University of Minnesota Law School; Faculty Director, Energy Transition Lab... |
00d176f0e00131c3f5bc118f9ed736de34282fcc779b5ede60aa0bf5efd663b0 | climate case coming to a close | 1. Injunctions fail---unenforceable, causes massive delays, and gets watered down
Richard M. Glick 2020, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, “Children’s Climate Case Coming to a Close”, January 21, https://www.dwt.com/blogs/energy--environmental-law-blog/2020/01/ninth-circuit-climate-case-decision, accessed 9/13/24, HMc
an in... |
00a14d97fa32ef37934ad429af53d73a70eb0af6d1d413bef0d963af6c83c8bf | US protectionism trade agreements | 4. They read an aff card---it’s bad for the global south because the US hasn’t done anything! Michigan is in green.
Julie de los Reyes & Jewellord Nem Singh 24. *Assistant professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Hakubi Center for Advanced Research at Kyoto University. **Assistant Professor, Internation... |
03eb75b008637df5dea17eb79a8407b6332d1ae86b1c33d683311686d2c07c25 | Ted Galen Carpenter 22 | Unchecked war powers cause conflict escalation globally.
Ted Galen Carpenter 22. Senior Fellow at CATO. “Congress Is Willingly Abdicating Its War Powers Again.” 6/14/22. https://www.cato.org/commentary/congress-willingly-abdicating-its-war-powers-again
The Constitution gives Congress authority Yet the U S has launche... |
02f885632e361f3cc42f12049219096f8f7b392e3308e05dfb67c8a060f6fa47 | environmental features neglect disabled | Climate realism solves the terminal impact.
Molly M. King 22. Santa Clara University, “Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate Justice”. King, M. M., & Gregg, M. A. (2022). Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice. Sociology Compass, 16(1), e12954. https://d... |
002342617b5b49b31eb6caca2bf213464408dc4776a2d29b5b3f3da8971532f6 | animal use disease spillover | Zoonotic disease outbreak could kill billions – prevention is key.
Reed, Rachel 23. Interviewing Ann Linden. Reed is a writer and editor focusing on higher education and healthcare communications. Linden is the associate director of policy and research at the Brooks McCormick Jr. Animal Law and Policy Program at Harva... |
045bb385dc437f195caa1ae3dd16cdb6b77910a182fe224a7fb92c0d90ed1581 | Żuk & Żuk 22 energy order | Adhering to hegemonic regimes of energy policy relevance erodes sustainable planning, crowds out democratic control of the energy sector, and locks in global ecological catastrophe. Endorsing counterhegemonic politics against the AFF’s “regime of truth” is a prerequisite for effective energy politics.
Żuk & Żuk 22 – P... |
03c19107e57977ee36f1a7f8f07afdb47edcac01fa5e064c8d780db8cec398d3 | SCC price too low | Second, the SCC is conceptually incompatible with extinction from climate change, which cannot be valued in a calculation of the marginal damage from CO2. The aff’s price will be too low to avoid catastrophe.
Martin L. Weitzman 12, professor of economics at Harvard, “GHG Targets As Insurance Against Catastrophic Clima... |
014a9bf46e819cbafa00651d1f3cb53c5ca1d6ce713a1c3827e9c81c05b42a58 | economic consequences of war | B---War.
Apel and Ohlsson 22, * Senior Advisor at the Riksbank’s Monetary Policy Department, **Deputy Governor of the Riksbank (Mikael and Henry, “Monetary policy and inflation in times of War,” https://tinyurl.com/yw53azxb)
research on economic consequences of war It is clear war leads to inflation |
00eb1ff03061cdbe5e2ce62ea20068426d546405df8532dbbf43f5d419509a73 | carbon pricing bad | 1) Demand is inelastic, so consumers won’t shift.
Leah C. Stokes & Matto Mildenberger 20, Stokes is an assistant professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, the author of Short-Circuiting Policy, Mildenberger is an assistant professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, “The Trouble with Carbon... |
02b114a96e92938492d8fa0af39d8c27ee791f207f709a6f3ab34a0959ae9b24 | global coop system destroyed | Unraveling the LIO causes extinction.
Kallenborn 24 – Adjunct Fellow in the Strategic Technologies Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
nuclear war would blast kill over five billion An asteroid g e bio weapons super volcanoes climate change nanotech and a i generate existential harm humanit... |
006cf0a429b2c2203740c325aad5804676fbf74590792f4458899da7e602a73c | Denman et al. 22 | Decarbonization is coming now.
Denman et al. '22 – Leader of Bain's Utilities & Renewables Practice in the Americas and is a Partner in the Chicago office (Aaron Denman, Cate Hight, and Michael Short; "The Inflation Reduction Act Is a Decarbonization Game Changer"; Bain; https://www.bain.com/insights/decarbonization-g... |
00e2656f16f1e02c80baa6611d6efeac8ba8817281a4d0c1f6374575b4899b15 | Integration is a necessity | Integration’s a necessity.
Kaur ’24 [Silky; March 4; Ph.D. from Jawaharlal University in Diplomacy and Disarmament, Associate Fellow at the Center for Air Power Studies; The Equation, “Artificial Intelligence and the Evolving Landscape of Nuclear Strategy,” https://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/artificial-intelligen... |
02cadc0da6ff213951869f87cd44d1bce910084e6bcb61a5f3e050c558e10854 | natural gas delays transition | The aff props up dirty oil – natural gas reinforces carbon lock-in and is a convenient messaging tool for the same corporations that have caused every environmental problem in the first place – this is as much a clean energy policy as it is hegemonic consolidation for the fossil fuel industry
Si et al ’23 – School of ... |
03c8cf6b77648c856961fce68cab8c7c2c73a0b0c52111b3134577b463cae6fb | user fee vs tax | The CP is functionally identical to the plan but isn’t a tax---it competes and revives Chevron deference.
Elliott ’19 [E. Donald; Professor of Law at Yale University and former EPA Assistant Administrator and General Counsel; 2019; EPA’s Existing Authority to Impose a Carbon “Tax”; https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/f... |
017b49ff5ab2b286ffab9937bce582f577b32c9cf94e14503e6587b69efbdd5c | Biden and carbon tax | Everyone says no.
Shannon Osaka 20. Climate reporter covering policy, culture, and science for The Washington Post, previously PBS. “Both parties used to love the carbon tax. So why are they giving up on it?” September 24, 2020. PBS. https://www.pbs.org/wnet/peril-and-promise/2020/09/both-parties-used-to-love-the-carb... |
0149a5e4bf9a34c8ca4f88c6ce006cfe0801faf12755cb911f4ade443d886ce8 | federal funding for TVA | ---TVA nuclear power plants.
Stafford 24 – Decarbonization Contributor at The Nation.
The Case for Public Nuclear Power there’s an easy solution funding from the federal government The TVA received appropriations |
0360cca481ee5e774a168f3a554198fde21ae1cfd9853c0a8e4867887329afae | Mining destroys environment | Mining for these materials causes mass destruction to the environment
Cho 2023 [Renee regular contributor to the Columbia Climate School. She has written over 200 articles for State of the Planet on a broad range of topics. She was previously published by www.insideclimatenews.com, and other environmental magazines. R... |
00c33141ec6d793fafbb1aa9f4fb690be0306e71f04eded4aeb2d19fd5c83030 | US needs rare earths | Particularly, a lack of renewable sourcing will force the US to go abroad to secure rare earths, producing a supply shortfall.
Stratte 24, JD, Partner at Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP (Martin Stratte, June 13, 2024, “Securing America’s Critical Materials Supply Chains and Economic Leadership,” https://democrats-energycomme... |
0413bce793c94fb9d7b8dae84fec88d2fa7d9ea80c21d1023ccaa91bfe2f6d90 | national government definition | ‘Federal’ government is national.
Thompson ’21 [Thompson School District; 2021; Public school district for Loveland, Colorado and surrounding area; Thompson Schools, “Structures of Government,” https://www.thompsonschools.org/cms/lib/CO01900772/Centricity/Domain/3627/Structures%20of%20Government.pdf]
In the U S ‘ Fed... |
03c5a8eb79a040637dbc92679120d8b4bed6c3268d25205945480f185980a6e7 | peridotite cure warming | Plank 1 soaks up all emissions.
Andrews 10, nature writer; citing geologist Professor Peter Kelemen and geochemist Dr. Juerg Matter, both at Columbia. (Candice Gaukel, 4-19-2010, "‘Rocking the Cure’ for Climate Change," Good Nature Travel Blog, https://www.nathab.com/blog/rocking-the-cure-for-climate-change/)
peridot... |
022ccce4332c2c08b59c316d2acbbda49f292870126d5a03109257f9558f37de | Davies et al 24 | A] Mich State’s 1AC ev clearly says the court could decide as EARLY AS SEPTEMBER, GMU reads [BLUE]
1AC Davies et al 24 [Paul A. Davies, Partner in the London office and Global Co-Chair of the Environmental, Social, and Governance Practice at Latham & Watkins LLP, member of the Board of Directors of Environmental Law I... |
0438f84a098a174900f5967cfddfdb21300eff73532f381f9e2d6e6f1046d60d | legislature establish by law | ‘Resolved’ means to enact a policy by law.
Words and Phrases 64. Permanent Edition.
Definition of “resolve,” to express an opinion by resolution or vote; as ‘it was resolved by the legislature ;” meaning “to establish by law”. |
04021a0ff80516e35b31809c1e1a8f5111040382b4808c13995fb963ea0ea6eb | public lands biodiversity | US public lands are key to global biodiversity.
Raus 19, B.A., Journalism, Pontifical Catholic University, M.A., Liberal Arts, Johns Hopkins University, Digital Content Producer, Energy & Climate. (Carla, August 26th, “How do we tackle climate change? Look no further than public lands”, The Wilderness Society, https:/... |
01b6804e8b9c50dc67b1c4e04a014c39cdca7eaddab9bda1b9cd7fdf349c4400 | startups growth slowdown | Sustained high rates crush tech startups.
Mark Williams 23. Professor of finance at Boston University's Questrom School of Business, 12/10/2023, “After layoffs at Spotify, high interest rates may come for other tech companies next,” https://www.npr.org/2023/12/10/1218432988/after-layoffs-at-spotify-high-interest-rates... |
010eaca13ca3e31389c7b1a2640874b4ade1eb3075fb7b527e2c6a97e623916c | de-growth no popular support | Attention to the concrete details of different political strategies is necessary. We should pay attention to how effective and realistic a strategy is, not merely whether an idea is good in the abstract.
Michael J. Albert 23, lecturer in International Relations at SOAS University of London, 28 July 2022, “Ecosocialism... |
03b12e1ed5b336cc4c63873877837acd269324e6acbf351f3c5f29e3603e6436 | Bioenergy pushes tipping points | Bioenergy pushes us past the tipping points to be able to stop warming. Extinction.
Sterman et al. 22, *Professor of Management, and the current director of the MIT System Dynamics Group at the MIT. **Emeritus professor of international environmental policy and founding director of the Center for International Environ... |
023cedd4790437dc33b11f549000a43395916881a3b514c77458c0140578ca49 | public transport neutral production | The alternative is eco-socialism---that entails a set of restorative economic and ecological alterations that fundamentally reshapes the relationship between humanity and nature---utopic imaginations are key.
Aidnik 22 [Martin Aidnik, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, Envisioning a Utopi... |
0049797e4ace7e83db0b84781f0df394df3f280302a9c80b276482d841f7609e | EJ through the state | 4---Environmental justice requires insider activism that tactically engages the State without reaffirming its hegemony.
Harrison et al. 24 [Jill Lindsey Harrison – Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Jonathan K. London – Department of Human Ecology/Community and Regional Development, University of... |
02a8b2f8b72a2ad08cccb0fcdc8fd78207ffe218ef53bc37df04a1eec434f499 | US decarbonization | The IRA kickstarted U.S. climate leadership, but further policy is critical to cement geopolitical influence.
Dawes 24
IRA opens new opportunities for leadership Clean energy key for competition Countries lead by example ability to drive negotiations prevalent in climate leadership embrace of green policy opens new... |
00ec6a42bf159af8f76addf1be1deaa3df02d81875fe402d018618fc5d98adbf | India sees EU carbon tax | That makes modelling a nonstarter, guarantees zero follow-on from China and South Africa too, AND turns trade.
Manoj Kumar & Nikunj Ohri 24. Senior Economics Correspondent. Reporters, economic specialist. "India sees EU carbon tax proposal as unfair and not acceptable, official says." Reuters. 7/29/2024. reuters.com/... |
01f834fecbb78a38d9302b80b37e8d8d4782f3c122662aced64aa23cf5ec9b6c | forgone sequestration emissions | 2---The link alone turns warming---bioenergy is a net-increase in emissions and lost sequestration.
Stashwick 21 [Sasha Stashwick, Sami Yassa, Nathanael Greene, October 2021. Natural Resources Defense Council “A BAD BIOMASS BET WHY THE LEADING APPROACH TO BIOMASS ENERGY WITH CARBON CAPTURE AND STORAGE ISN’T CARBON NEG... |
01a12748939ffe2244d2e3eb3133f39155ca03ae74ecaca5acd29deeaae9319c | EPA report climate change | Warming inflicts structural violence which falls disproportionately on marginalized communities.
EPA ‘21 [US Environmental Protection Agency; September 2; “EPA Report Shows Disproportionate Impacts of Climate Change on Socially Vulnerable Populations in the United States;” EPA; https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-rep... |
038fa1fab7f78d1a9edab00fa2a95e6ade214be016924488717bbc8716995b3a | corporate energy transition colonialism | That is energy colonialism – claims to its inevitability sanction genocide.
Contreras 23, *Department of Sociology, University of Granada, **Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Granada, ***Department of Energy Engineering, Faculty of Engineering of Gipuzkoa, ****Centre for Sámi Studies, UiT—The Ar... |
007a3d3453a9197ea9a5d088ca74cc039c7ccb9cff27b7c8c46509637b96d265 | system collapse broad range of conditions | Thumper – there is no definition of what an actual collapse would look like – they can label everything as a disaster -
Pamlin and Armstrong ’15 [Dennis and Stuart; February 2015; Executive Project Manager at the Global Challenges Foundation; James Martin Research Fellow at the Oxford Martin School at the University o... |
0347ae98a534b3b7d1d899f828e1f8172ed2755ddd679b7c01cfa4cd8be0b639 | China overwhelms Navy warship sensors | Capabilities.
Tom O'Connor, award-winning senior writer of foreign policy at Newsweek, and Naveed Jamali, Editor @ Newsweek, ’21, "As China gray zone warfare escalates, U.S. may stand to lose first shooting battle," Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/china-gray-zone-wars-us-lose-first-battle-1573318
The U S and China... |
039f9acd6a07f71518b8266f3c724c0170a6c5be6dd0d4213272ea6d5ec16415 | climate risk banks need to move | Rapid devaluation causes fire sales that collapse the global economy.
Bateson and Rothstein 24 (Blair Bateson is the director of the company network at the sustainability nonprofit Ceres, Steven Rothstein is the managing director of the Ceres Accelerator for Sustainable Capital Markets, “Will climate risk trigger the ... |
02284cae46673e1bd7a8453ec0f3ff83ea59a22ccc16498bcf3f7a025da53719 | illiberal leaders | Backsliding, norm violations, AND coercion.
Brands ’24 [Hal; May 27; Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Foreign Affairs, “An “America First” World,” https://www.foreignaffai... |
039a18b16d2b7c7d5cd64d269727c3e81b5ea486742f6eac8faf111a6f696e74 | state power underestimated | 8---Their theory of power is from a resistance paradigm which exaggerates the impact of the individual and ideas and underestimates the complexity and importance of state power – this causes the AFF to pick the wrong goals and get coopted.
Asef Bayat 13. Sociology Prof @ University of Illinois. 2013. “Life As Politics... |
02147ce0afe93324c2cd161021b8872a9a71a5b23352f879a31e97b4616bb5b0 | Not a definition Tomain | This is NOT a definition---Tomain’s consciously, arbitrarily, over-limiting because he’s not intending to define what the term means generally, but outlining his particular preferred vision for policy---for example, why should all Affs have to advocate natural gas as a transition fuel?---the proof is when he says his a... |
023e1694fd7c47daf796980096560de4c66df1c4f60463850bae7468b916ca76 | Pothier & Devlin 06 | The affirmative participation Liberalism systematically ensures that disabled people are excluded from participation within society and affirms liberalism. This perpetuates exclusionary ideas of disability. Ensures perm fails.
Pothier & Devlin 06, * Dianne graduated and received several academic awards from Dalhousie ... |
015945a7243ee8d386939b52e041ad1c6c1d83af4f9bb3cb35260b630f1888ed | standing rock indigenous rights | Indigenous political engagement is extremely successful because it co-opts the language of the state to strategically advance native interests while continuing to engage in movements outside the state.
Noisecat 17, 11th Hour Fellow at New America as well as a Fellow of the Type Media Center. Enrolled member of the Can... |
032b631ad44c8c517ce4be1ef62ebc13c1dee8d126269e2e02cf146561dd6340 | climate education and national policy | 8. Effective climate education must include discussions and evaluations of national climate policy.
Hanne Svarstad ’21, Professor in the Department of International Studies and Interpreting at Oslo Metropolitan University, “Critical climate education: studying climate justice in time and space”, International Studies ... |
04514f21c43ead4659266d84aa57604e4269cad5ff49283f73c861b61e3dacf9 | trade dependence risks | Trade is an authoritarian geopolitical weapon. Severing dependence is essential to preserving global democratic resilience.
Alkebsi et al. ’24 [Abdulwahab Alkebsi; Managing Director for Programs at CIPE; Jeff Lightfoot, John Kay; Center for International Private Enterprise; April 2024; “Navigating Global Interdependen... |
006d07b4385426a84ac1bac668d0d9832ba2d3ea0814fc63cabf185e2254eb67 | K. Aarons | The ethicality of our advocacy does not derive from being authorized by the nearest black person, but rather from our commitment to pursue anti-racist political engagement for our own reasons in ways which do not inhibit black struggles for endurance
Aarons 16 (K. Aarons, researcher in philosophy, “No Selves to Abolis... |
023d5d572c555b5ed9bb06635ac02c11d1a51905b89e043df13910ba96e93ebc | degrowth not feasible | Reducing consumption fails – degrowth is locked in
Hubert Buch-Hansen ‘18, Professor of business at Copenhagen School of Business, “The Prerequisites for a Degrowth Paradigm Shift: Insights from Critical Political Economy,” Ecological Economics, Vol. 146
degrowth is nowhere near enjoying the support it needs The numb... |
003a1e7319a9878e53798a6895a0cf1820beb33d6a26766575c739505a2dfc14 | recycle federal revenue | Their plan recycles federal revenue to help carbon intensive sectors
Fedor and Carl 12 [David Fedor is a research analyst for the Hoover Institution’s Shultz-Stephenson Task Force on Energy Policy. He has worked in energy and the environment across China, Japan, and the United States. Formerly at APEC’s Asia Pacific E... |
00a14d97fa32ef37934ad429af53d73a70eb0af6d1d413bef0d963af6c83c8bf | US hasn't done anything | 4. They read an aff card---it’s bad for the global south because the US hasn’t done anything! Michigan is in green.
Julie de los Reyes & Jewellord Nem Singh 24. *Assistant professor at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies and Hakubi Center for Advanced Research at Kyoto University. **Assistant Professor, Internation... |
03ee172a815d90b229519f5abb60f4b00d2e2e220d61be2ec416d98f19dccd73 | Biden economic policies | No link---it’s not tied to Harris.
Marc A. Thiessen. 24. fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. “A sitting VP has won once in 188 years. Harris isn’t likely to be next.”. The Washington Post. 8-27-24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/2... |
02be3d3b9dac7047094e6161b36d4394e91cb344c17a02c326a6696338f53fa1 | no impact to loss | No impact to loss of leadership.
Swaine ’21 [Michael; April 21; PhD in Government from Harvard University, director of the East Asia program at the Quincy Institute; "China Doesn’t Pose an Existential Threat for America," https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/21/china-existential-threat-america/]
supposed threats consist... |
02a3d942bde108837c5f066a254fac862a091ea400091e4532d5af0b051e42fd | Baranzini et al 16 | All other options are worse for inequality. NEG evidence is too generalizing.
Andrea Baranzini et al. 16. **Professor of Economics, Director, Geneva School of Business Administration, Switzerland. **Jeroen van den Bergh, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma d... |
00b7274e9ea936f8aeab11794476e27f83b14ed7f27bbde33aafcc84a7e5c2e1 | Guterl grid collapse nuclear war | Grid collapse is existential in it of itself --- but also nuclear war
Guterl 12 – Executive Editor and award-winning journalist, Scientific American
Backup generators would rely on fuel in high demand Businesses would run out of inventory deliveries would cease ( no gasoline trucks planes trains trucking in supplies ... |
01db1dd47890eb52ba3fe4a0bc98b0352f74b7fcd907ab4136e921848c1c4703 | Russian gas sales down | U.S. LNG prices are cheaper than Russia’s --- means they’re sufficient.
Stoppard 24 – Global Gas Strategy Lead and Special Advisor with S&P Global Commodity Insights, former Fellow at the Oxford University Institute for Energy Studies.
Sales of Russian gas are down Outside Europe there is scepticism surely Europe wil... |
023f923169f744c0b37adba7773e089f1ce876df612585a224f80506c0682ed4 | global spillover degrowth | No global spillover – Only engagement through international forums like the IMO solves!
Kallis ’15 [Giorgos; Feb; ICREA Research Professor at ICTA; “The Degrowth Alternative,” https://greattransition.org/publication/the-degrowth-alternatives]
engagement with governance absent from the discussions within degrowth glob... |
0103d02d36ceafa42474de75f2b5ba363cd1c3046657746360625fa8104ba84b | Alyson Escalante | Capitalism is accelerating toward extinction and global fascism — the fundamental question at the heart of the left is developing tools for organization and tactics to bring about revolution.
Escalante 19, M.A. in Philosophy at the University of Oregon, Marxist-Leninist, feminist and anti-imperialist activist. (Alyson... |
03fbf798bd173885c1a11af466c05cc3523c66ccdbe67423291df78c7f393411 | CO2 Coalition 15 | C02 solves food insecurity.
CO2 Coalition 15 [This white paper summarizes the views of the CO2 Coalition, a new and independent, non-profit organization that seeks to engage thought leaders, policy makers, and the public in an informed, dispassionate discussion of how our planet will be affected by CO2 released from t... |
02fa867fc2568a1692663f144a753416a738e8abc910018ffe86b28b3d1d3f56 | Innovation will decouple ecological crises | Growth and resource consumption are sustainable. Innovation will decouple and solve ecological crises, and a transition away from capitalism fails and causes their impacts.
*responding to the new 2023 “the future is degrowth book by schmelzer et al., as well as most popular arguments by Hickel, Klein, Kallis, Greensp... |
044d782fcf3b111089a579562c8e1cb1f460a4b480a5de59718b973247ce7ac6 | Clean Air Act RFS penalties | The RFS does not itself statutorily require penalties of any kind for violation. Instead, the EPA has authority to assign civil penalties pursuant to the Clean Air Act.
40 CFR Section 80 – 40 CFR § 80.1463 - What penalties apply under the RFS program?, https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/80.1463
Any person who is... |
03b040a0f905f00bf9cb72b463b7b3bada7d1512cbbe09ecaa7d8557c891740b | energy transition affects buildings | 17. That report says buildings are the largest stranded asset---that’s an alt cause because the plan’s only energy
IREA 17 (International Renewable Energy Agency, “Stranded Assets and Renewables: How the energy transition affects the value of energy reserves, buildings, and capital stock,” https://www.irena.org/-/medi... |
02923702694c7361c2f68e735f8da07693049a71fc25cdcc3ba525346bcd505d | avoiding economic collapse debt ceiling | The debt ceiling will be raised now, avoiding economic collapse---sustained Congressional focus is key.
Shutt ‘1-14 [Jennifer; January 14; reporter; Highland County Press, “US House Republicans seeking to settle debt limit alongside border, taxes,” https://highlandcountypress.com/headlines/us-house-republicans-seeking... |
016cccd56de1672f3d66ebd258d1ee6d0752a6633d3e727ec5628a4f5337e614 | Abolition reifies carceral institutions | The 1ACs calls for abolition reify carceral institutions---vote NEG to reject it.
Patrick Teed ‘23, PhD candidate in York University’s Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, “Whiter Abolition?”, Differences, Volume 34, Number 2, doi:10.1215/10407391-10713805, September 2023, DMurph
abolition became a hous... |
0322db37f8a2022fa6bcd3104c72cf0a48635efca0d5726a7752a47a53c86290 | experimentalist Fed to resolve existential threats | That experimental policymaking shores up Fed credibility and expertise necessary to avoid a slew of existential risks.
Peter Conti-Brown & David Wishnick 21. Assistant Professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Nonresident Fellow in Economics Studies at the Brookings Institution. Academic Fe... |
02ad0c5c296418d50640e9125716600c9ff309b961da1ba8a2cbadaa0868e512 | China rare earth war | Chinese chokepoints trigger World War III.
Anthony ’21 [Sebastian; 2021; Editor of Ars Technica UK at Condé Nast, ExtremeTech's Senior Editor, Owner of SA Holdings, Columnist at Tecca, Engineering at the University of Essex; Extreme Tech, “Rare Earth Crisis: Innovate, or be Crushed by China,” http://www.extremetech.co... |
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