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Colman, Politico climate change writer, 8-23-24
The climate activist are pursuing a new strategy Get Harris elected now, ask questions later. Green activists are taking a do-no-harm approach to Harris’ candidacy, ditching demands for p... |
01be73d43dd61153562e8645da0a8e531be22c15dce4c9949af3e0dc49937ea6 | climate shock economic consequences | A carbon tax is a prerequisite to the alternative. Only capitalism, not moralizing, can solve the climate crisis.
Gernot Wagner & Martin L. Weitzman 15. **Austro-American climate economist at Columbia Business School, where he is a tenured full professor, holds an AB and a PhD in political economy and government from ... |
039a1f9577a189b02609c95d389cfe5ca67e67e3a31d6f377b6a9bb96ffa6eb1 | China AI overhyped | AI leadership is resilient.
Cooper 22 --- James and Kashyap Kompella; February 3; Professor of Law and Director of International Legal Studies at California Western School of Law in San Diego and a research fellow at Singapore University of Social Sciences; Technology industry analyst; The Hill, “No, China is not winn... |
0254def6d10ededb397ef2865743838206c9c266c4e359d938ba7d513c2ac3d4 | history proves resistance | “Elites will crush the movement” accepts failure before trying — multiple examples prove global movements are possible and coming now.
Tavan '21 [Luca; 3/7/21; writer for Red Flag; "Worldwide revolution is possible and necessary," https://redflag.org.au/article/worldwide-revolution-possible-and-necessary/]
In 2011, a... |
0306394aab041316f89961815f30a4274eddbbf57755f414437626d53e381885 | Accenture climate risk | 2---Technical hurdles hinder adoption.
1AC Morris ’24 [James; May 7; Climate Risk and Resilience Manager for Accenture in the UK. James works extensively with Accenture’s global clients to manage the risks and opportunities to their business from the impacts of climate change; Karve International, “The Future of Susta... |
0379afb95de8c931c54935c2431e1f00854a2a0227888c74aacc745f874acb8d | magnitude versus timeframe | That makes timeframe the ultimate question over magnitude.
R. Quentin Grafton et al. 12. is Professor of Economics, ANU Public Policy Fellow, Fellow of the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the A... |
017b49ff5ab2b286ffab9937bce582f577b32c9cf94e14503e6587b69efbdd5c | carbon tax no political support | 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... |
01274591279e2b34019faba62e8c4525a3c1c5456a593e6e91d9b1c35a2342b1 | Sterk 03 | 2. Audience costs of breaking promises dissuade repeal.
Sterk 03 [Stewart E. Sterk (H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Director, Center for Real Estate Law & Policy, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; J.D., Columbia University), 2003, “Retrenchment on... |
01a08c96ba957d196252ba8cff24cbcd78571acf4ff6a91804764dcd9b74a4a4 | climate change techno-managerial approach | A techno-managerial approach to climate change is a tool of settler colonial oppression – relegating climate change to a question of mere amounts of carbon represses the systems of coloniality and racist thought that created the current situation;
ERICKSON 18 Bruce Erickson, Bruce Erickson is an Assistant Professor in... |
043fa2e8f5302c230146c02517b2d8e2d62c4b99fa1f896f6ce11b539d75aa10 | Fed independence fragile | Fed independence exists but is fragile now – changing mandates politicizes the fed.
John Crawford, Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco., 6-22-2024, William and Mary Business Law Review. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4873544
Fed’s independence is fragile e... |
0438d934d0820c3516c61540de186ba0b06a9055b371867701bf3d5221e78510 | Superintelligence won't exist | --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 ... |
00fabcc07d3a11d7af9a94f2fa5a5085d0c7826471ba4c3ad36055010f2581c4 | Moarif 12 | More evidence
Moarif ’12 [Sara and Namrata Rastogi; December 2012; Head of the Environment and Climate Change Unit at the International Energy Agency; International Fellow at the Pew Center on Global Climate Change; Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, “Market-Based Climate Mitigation Policies in Emerging Economie... |
0031b7911bb448a225f31cc55d81b6ce05f01681973b2fffc9dc57c385e09419 | Urrego 2020 | Wetland degradation is existential.
Urrego ’20 [Martha; January 31; Secretary General of the Ramsar Convention; World Economic Forum, “Why We Need Wetlands,” https://www.weforum.org/stories/2020/01/wetlands-nature-preservation-ecology-biodiversity/]
All planet depend on healthy ecosystems for air , water , and food r... |
00c33141ec6d793fafbb1aa9f4fb690be0306e71f04eded4aeb2d19fd5c83030 | source materials from other countries | 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... |
0188d563903bca421a67309cb6af091d55126139ccad9173a89a3618abca3b24 | dormant foreign commerce clause | 4. The counterplan is illegal---it either gets rolled back or destroys global trade
Donald J. Kochan 2020, Professor of Law and Deputy Executive Director of the Law & Economics Center, George Mason University Antonin Scalia Law School, “The Meaning of Federalism in a System of Interstate Commerce:The Meaning of Federa... |
018ac88546b8bad9ade508bba84e9dd81016cac5fdd16ac5edec5f659d5c4f3a | Alessio Terzi | 8—Capitalism is the only way out of the pending climate catastrophe–there is no time for an economic revolution
Terzi 22 [Alessio Terzi is an Economist at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. Prior to this, he was an Affiliate Fellow at the think tank Bruegel and a Fulbrigh... |
04514f21c43ead4659266d84aa57604e4269cad5ff49283f73c861b61e3dacf9 | Trade is an authoritarian weapon | 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... |
0320296412285274854904cb6caced89e26584613ecaf05609383024da0058a8 | prioritizing innovation carbon tax | It solves & avoids backlash, but the perm and the plan link.
Ben Ho 22, Professor of economics at Vassar College and former lead energy economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers, “Prioritising innovation: the case against the carbon tax”, Economist Impact, 11-16-22, https://impact.economist.com/sustai... |
040bdf4e9aa80908e66c716b30a47e7e3f1fedaf2a7a3e650f05949d125ddcec | Ziosi et al 22 | There’s no such thing as ‘smart city innovation.’
Ziosi et al. 22, Marta Ziosi, Ph.D. candidate at the Oxford Internet Institute, Co-Founder of AI for People, M.Sc. in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics; Benjamin Hewitt, M.Sc. in the Social Science of the Internet from the Oxford Internet... |
02a7a2032ebade1545450bc202d08c1c6c67c701a4e57c105a0a9028a45ea1fe | patnaik and kennedy 21 | The U.S. is not on track to meet emission reduction goals. A carbon tax ensures cuts before critical thresholds are passed.
Patnaik & Kennedy 21
pricing is the most efficient way to mitigate climate change fee grows over time reduce 40 percent by 2030 revenue offset costs border adjustments ensures similar costs d... |
014ae5d710f49fd3380b09d1055f07afbf580bf04d2187f1abdf4f180bb07743 | low-carbon economy | Decarbonization requires reducing emissions of all kinds
Doleski et al. 22 [Oliver D. Doleski, studied economics at the University of Munich; Thomas Kaiser; Michael Metzger; Stefan Niessen; and Sebastian Thiem; "Decarbonization as a Strategic Issue," 1-17-2022, SpringerLink, https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/9... |
0166c8fc5cca44166897128bc8c8dea64cb4495f53e1f031d41799d0c1014aa5 | Busbridge 18 | Settler Colonialism has a narrative deficit – ontological frames make indigenous liberation impossible by setting terms of victory as all-or-nothing – reifies acquiescence to subtler settler power
Busbridge 18—Research Fellow at the Centre for Dialogue, La Trobe University (Rachel, “Israel-Palestine and the Settler Co... |
00092a37d4255c6f1665c3b481f30cdd6b93f87355aba087451670dc547d257e | critical perspectives influence | 2---pedagogy---prioritizing theory and representation over policy relevance suppresses ethical subject formation and empowers corporate -washing
Kubota et al 17 [Ryuko Kubota, Department of Language and Literacy Education, University of British Columbia; and Charlotte Miller, Department of English, University of North... |
0472a25297b03f841874ce9145cf6bb636abaf19036fd1ccb58a9bcdc21b7a3f | Belfield 23 | That locks in existential risks---democracies solve them.
Belfield ’23 [Haydn; 2023; Research Associate and Academic Project Manager at the University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk; How Worlds Collapse: What History, Systems, and Complexity Can Teach Us About Our Modern World and Fragile Futu... |
0312bd76fe00053c57ef136a9c2e9f57fb5e6b677f92c212d544d8778430b374 | biomass industry incentives | 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... |
00da0edbc9a4ec57438e863a9fa204c0d1f24367a67b76861cfa384b5968a977 | clean energy lowers energy prices | High electricity prices now are caused by overreliance in fossil fuel and existing infrastructure. Accelerating the shift to renewables solves.
Estes 24. [Adam Clark, Senior technology correspondent @ Vox, previously technology and politics at Gizmodo, Vice, and The Atlantic. BA History and Literature from Harvard. "T... |
01916c9458e517414b07c04a1b83fe8a2402b86933e8506c8c6e19e8babe57bb | Speaker Johnson and Trump agenda | Johnson is retaining unity with The Freedom Caucus now. It’s reversible.
Bowdey ’25 - Suzanne Bowdey serves as editorial director and senior writer for The Washington Stand – “Johnson Races to Ready for Trump: ‘This Is an Around-the-Clock Operation Right Now’” – The Washington Stand - January 15, 2025 - https://washin... |
00caf0f5e9a5d461ea709408304bf491eeba30a2bc19ca2e27e645d245aa006a | Planning incorporates social reproduction | Planning incorporates social reproduction – not just production. This avoids the GND consent requirement radically transforms US relation to indigenous people
Funes 19 – editor-at-large for Atmos with bylines in The Guardian, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, i-D, and more (Yessenia Funes, https://gizmodo.com/the-green-new-deal-i... |
0228dc657a1d98d86b99f44bb99f8a406b4fb626524efc5b3dbc0ad699cf9e9c | clean energy mission DOD | 3. MISSION DISTORTION. The plan injects “clean energy” as a new agency-wide mission. That restructures the entire DOD’s decision calculus.
Robyn '22-- Dr. Robyn is a public policy expert who writes and consults on policy issues related to energy, transportation, and telecommunications (Dorothy Robyn; "Mission, Money, ... |
013a289b9782deb5d1d200f2d995f153f9b4c4cea9c39d78302823a8ed1f06da | Koonin climate science wrong | b. Koonin.
Gary Yohe 21. Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies at Wesleyan University, former lead author for many reports of the IPCC, vice-chair of the Third National Climate Assessment. "A New Book Manages to Get Climate Science Badly Wrong." 5-1-2021. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-boo... |
017284d1b0241ba628c535cda175a45baa28d79bea230ce4842b5d2f8bc0f66e | voter ID restrictions registration difficult | Continuing…
Daniel Faber ’23, Associate Professor of Sociology at Northeastern University, “American Oil-Igarchy: How the Corporate Assault on Liberal Democracy and the Climate Are Connected”, CAPITALISM NATURE SOCIALISM 2023, VOL. 34, NO. 3, 1–21, https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2023.2242653, DA: 9/7/24, DMurph
The... |
0329b1d8a36cd73e51479f984f7db0d6afd476ae4fe1ce7ac14814a33ed8a6d4 | ranking agencies ambiguity | The SEC climate disclosure rule failed to resolve the root cause of ESG failures.
Vlahos 24 “SEC's Proposed ESG Disclosure Rule: Why It Fails to Remedy the Underlying Challenges Facing ESG Investing Practices” Nikki Vlahos is *JD. expected May 2024, The George Washington University Law School; B.A. in Political Scienc... |
000ec825109ce98f4f991bff9cdb33a8d0e3812bc4c02530564358af4fd5387f | Odell 2023 | US critical energy mineral reform - domestic and imports – is key
Odell ’23 Scott D. Odell 2023 is a visiting assistant professor at George Washington Uni- versity and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Environmental Solutions Initiative., “Cooperate Internationally, Reduce Demand,” Ma... |
00710cdcd0fcf1f60b0c3e9eb788fc34ab5b5d9a2ff89d7e1c4b6d9e4ed120c2 | immigration won't effect the macroeconomy | Tax cuts and immigration won’t effect the macroeconomy.
Mickey D. Levy 24, chief US economist of Berenberg Capital Markets, 12/19/24, “An Evenhanded Analysis of Trump’s Economic Policies,” https://www.hoover.org/research/evenhanded-analysis-trumps-economic-policies
tax cuts is likely to be extended campaign tax propo... |
03dc473507fffbd39b956bf6be7af89dce2ac8a4ca37186fe606380a3c9ba3fc | definition of should | Should’s not immediate
Dictionary.com 10 – (“Definition: Should”, dictionary.com, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/should)
should used to express condition See also shall intend to I shall go later |
009baeafcf1a01402bca37f1ce6d7449c02201c0327e5eaec7dfeb6c65212bd7 | field precision | field precision
Ekins et al 17 [Paul Ekins, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London; Paul Drummond, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources, University College London; and Benjamin Görlach, Ecologic Institute, “Policy instruments for low-carbon development based on work from the EUFP7 projec... |
03e330953fc9ce9c062ff08340f7554a9f751f0612ccdcd5a5ebb6477d5e44aa | GOP slash climate funding | The GOP will fight tooth and nail against any climate bill – it’ll take a lot to get clean energy policies through
Tamborrino & Siegel 23 [Kelsey Tamborrino and Josh Siegel, "Big winners from Biden's climate law: Republicans who voted against it," POLITICO, 1-23-2023, https://www.politico.com/news/2023/01/23/red-state... |
03a62c3a288791adcdb0a37174f3ecfa6ab79666ebe16b1a4485837ef599f8d0 | global risks report 2024 | Fiscal miscalibration decimates markets. That guarantees extinction, escalating global tinderboxes and ruining societal adaptation.
Ellissa Cavaciuti-Wishart et al. 24, MPhil, Head, Global Risks, World Economic Forum; Sophie Heading, MA, Lead, Global Risks, World Economic Forum; Kevin Kohler, MA, Specialist, Global Ri... |
030f3daded675cbbe3e93cf234d50f69ef5bd92f183a201e7602e4cda91f9146 | climate policy rejects eco-fascism | Rejecting climate policy cedes the political to eco-fascists, who will use the climate crisis to normalize their own violent ‘solutions.’
Knights 20 [Sam Knights is a writer, actor, and climate activist. He is the coeditor of This Is Not a Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook. 11-16-20, The Climate Movement Must Be... |
03b14145f0f9ae01eead16092b2a8a4cfc0df58a150f77348fa4156b4760f4df | renewable energy adoption | Clean energy policies promote adoption of renewable energy.
Noonan 19 – Professor of Public & Environmental Affairs, IU Indianapolis
to organize clean-energy policies we begin with a taxonomy of instruments clean energy policies promote adoption and diffusion of low-carbon energy such as RE we group c e p measures in... |
035f6066af127a09e1fb6f1939ac59ad7067fbf2236ff6321a62e6c0420794cf | carbon tax inflation Europe Canada | 5. Studies prove that effects don’t spill over to core inflation, plus independent central bank checks.
Konradt & Mauro 23 Maximilian Konradt, Geneva Graduate Institute. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Switzerland Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, INSEAD, France. “CARBON TAXATION AND GREENFLATION: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE ... |
0418ff1cf236f1e4b2dc1eaf39c47c12a08ab58ba684710baa62b03b1dd82f63 | Tanzler and Gordon | Decarbonization hurts exporting countries economically especially Saudi Arabia.
Tänzler & Gordon, 20 – Tanzler is a Director International Climate Policy. His research focuses on climate and energy policies as well as on peace and conflict studies. In 2007 and 2008 he served the Policy Planning Unit of the German Fore... |
002342617b5b49b31eb6caca2bf213464408dc4776a2d29b5b3f3da8971532f6 | Rachel Reed | 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... |
00e1fd3fb7f86c5b6d9ec6b2831c839d19861b5fc1839457c7bf42be379af78c | Arctic borders settled | No Arctic war.
Valberg ‘24 [Anna; January 24th; MA in Political Science, University of Oslo. Head of communications at Fridtjof Nansen Institute. “War in the Arctic? Researchers debunk three myths about the High North.” https://partner.sciencenorway.no/arctic-climate-conflict/war-in-the-arctic-researchers-debunk-three... |
007f1ffd952bbcfd67e63e4edb5bff69f05f851d267efee6b4459fc0de885dd0 | Shannon Winnubst fungibility | The neoliberal episteme reduces life to economic calculation. That flattens social difference and makes lives fungible, resulting in an extortion of labor rooted in anti-blackness. As market efficiency replaces the law, the internalization of the market abstraction places Blackness as ontologically external to market r... |
0451a11d0dbf0cd3e9f3a96caa2069a4b3dff43d768c6773617e6457dcd67ef4 | compact for parolees | Compacts have been the cornerstone of energy policy.
Kevin J. Heron 85 (J.D., 1983, The National Law Center, George Washington University; B.S. in Economics, 1980, Villanova University; Staff Attorney, Pacific Legal Foundation. “The Interstate Compact in Transition: From Cooperative State Action to Congressionally Co... |
0293d14f508007bffd824349d65b106de262df23cefb8ec7612d97d0cdd8885e | Wet'suwet'en people water source | The Costal GasLink pipeline was ILLEGALLY beginning construction over the last clean water source of the Wet’suet’en people’s territory --- this is not an isolated case
(Amnesty Staff, October 2, 2022, Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who ... |
00ecc1155ba6970864f8d3e97b4dd08a65d116a93cc9b9c714bba315f5299d01 | nuclear disarmament not viable | States won’t reciprocate because they’ll fear cheating or rearmament.
Glaser 19, PhD, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs @ GW. (Charles L. Glaser, 2019, “Was nuclear disarmament ever alive?” in Nuclear Disarmament: A Critical Assessment, pg. 27-29)
The problem with disarm is cheating A state wit... |
0238bfcabdf75e73a8d6b00eeaa84f04b144a62264d675f5fac0c9a5e3df3f20 | communication machines constrain | Environmental education coheres through order-words like “green technology” and “clean energy” which shapes debaters into talking heads. In an economy of talking heads, order words regulate the production of energy to ensure the communication machine’s stability despite numerous interlocking crises.
St. Pierre, Joshua... |
01140b587a72e1bcb47216d2b134090c4836b042befd413cdc3e9c38be6a85c1 | Caitlin Talmadge | Trump escalates every nuclear hot spot.
Talmadge ’24 [Caitlin; July 8; Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Political Science, and International Affairs at The George Washington University; Brookings, “How Would Trump and Biden Handle US Nuclear Policy Upon Reelection?” https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-would-trump-and-... |
023dafbd98a9fa5c0816f3d684e394758cad450f829d852f23ec66443129d3c0 | society without prohibitions undesirable | If they win radical negation of prohibitions is both possible and necessary, then that means they devolve into oppressive neoliberalism—turns the case
Landa, 15—The Open University (Ishay, “Bataille: The Master, the Slave, and Consumption”, Critical Sociology 2015, Vol. 41(7-8) 1087–1102, dml) [French translation prov... |
01e39a801687714dc6b035c27b9a9469c237e9cfaec539f4a491b75f866b7c0f | alternative transmission imaginaries | Their rendering of blackouts is shot through with the logic of energy security. The plan risks extinction by trading off with alternative transmission imaginaries that are more sustainable.
Özden-Schilling 24 – Canay Özden-Schilling is assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the National... |
029dbe0fa204a8e450b50204ae2e1bb224f1fd7b22d444684180d82e843ae43d | countervailing negative price | Fossil fuel subsidies alt cause. They muddy the plan’s price signal.
Green 21, PhD, assistant professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University. (Jessica F., “Beyond Carbon Pricing: Tax Reform is Climate Policy,” Global Policy, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12920)
pricing cannot establish clear market signal... |
03f3ce072962774e091600811b14f9f8765e8002e0a2a9c5bbe67b22f26b0664 | Anthony Moffa CERCLA | The plan, analogous to CERCLA, key to successful climate litigation and recovery.
Moffa 22 [Anthony Moffa, Associate Professor of Law, University of Maine School of Law. B.S.E., Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, J.D., Yale Law School. “From Comprehensive Liability To Climate Liability: The Case For A C... |
01ac225b788974b362547e0fd6e43729f21f42f4c685f59bd77327636f33f0a1 | collapsing chemicals causes immiseration | Collapsing the chemical industry causes planetary immiseration.
Danielpour ’14 [Steven; April 2014; Director of Specifications at HOK, Professor at the Pratt Institute; PaintSquare, “Sustainable Coatings: Shifting the Paradigm,” https://www.paintsquare.com/archive/?fuseaction=view&articleid=5271]
New tech deliver inn... |
0356cad44ebe3a159f93991a1ffc6028c09227a004667ac22df27ac20b601249 | plan triggers global uptake | The plan triggers global uptake of clean energy. Innovations here reduce the prices of oil, locks in low prices.
David Dreisen and Michael Mehling 2024, *University Professor, Syracuse University, **Deputy Director, Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research, MIT; Professor, University of Strathclyde Law Scho... |
0002bf76fbf5a5b88ad43aa0562f2856dbb0af426710ca189a93eb1c04ac801e | Szentes 8 | Structural violence spills up and causes extinction
Szentes 8
“invisible wars” manifested in oppression , racial and Other discrimination and degradation of environment generate social as well as international tensions paving the way for “visible” wars the prerequisites of lasting peace involve not only demilitarisa... |
045679d6e1c63cc0005f066a0b7000f7848efd7aaedaf989b70c3825abea2335 | Turns refineries speculation compliance prices | Turns refineries. That’s because intermediaries are able to engage in speculation which drives up compliance prices.
1AC Holman ’18 [Christopher M; Ph.D., J.D. is a Professor of Law at the University of Missouri – Kansas City; University of Missouri Kansas City Law Review, “Article: The Renewable Fuel Standard Reimagi... |
0006046cc1102c495fd2f5cdaa2fc28f0d4d7b6ac9b89b2918074631270a8b58 | carbon border adjustments nightmare | Calculation problems confound effectiveness
Beaumont-Smith ’24 [Gabriella Beaumont-Smith, Policy Analyst, Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute, “Are Carbon Border Adjustments a Dream Climate Policy or Protectionist Nightmare?” POLICY ANALYSIS n. 978, Cato Institute, 7—30—24, p. 5]
measu... |
018d45c49470711ac04693f4229e66a06fe0dd6ff5cd5d132af424878c8636fd | Vrolyk 19 | No nuclear conflict – mutually assured destruction.
Vrolyk 19 (John Vrolyk is a Master of Public Affairs student at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and a reserve Marine infantry officer.; “INSURGENCY, NOT WAR, IS CHINA’S MOST LIKELY COURSE OF ACTION”; War on the Rocks; December 19, 2019; https://waro... |
02a2043ed214fb0ba0981e04fd6f2c8158f215efc5f0283deed2ec1e76fc6800 | Giorgos Kallis 18 | 2---Even with decoupling collapse is inevitable.
Giorgos Kallis 18, ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology, formerly Marie Curie International Fellow at the Energy and Resources Group of the University of California a... |
015c09ef3cc9da136b63d33715d40c8ddc6d3d3d266a16ef6958cebd9bbe8215 | bees bring pollutants | Bees are uniquely effected
Ziani et. al. 23 [Khaled, Department of Clinical Laboratory and Food Safety, Faculty of Pharmacy, “Carol Davila” University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 020956 Bucharest, Romania. “Microplastics: A Real Global Threat for Environment and Food Safety: A State of the Art Review” https://pmc.ncbi.n... |
01f376827475428605034c2bd5dcb929b8898a0c663e2f17b6be749705eb3785 | Pueyo 18 | Growth-oriented AI ensures extinction---but degrowth solves
Pueyo ’18 [Salvador; October 1; Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology, and Environmental Sciences, Universitat de Barcelona; Journal of Cleaner Production, “Growth, Degrowth, and the Challenge of Artificial Superintelligence,” vol. 197, pp. 1731–1736]
... |
02deb7ae4aa6218bef407ada058f3f2f3f627ec9943870db0d37ace5b118adee | Article II Section 3 | that means President calls a special session
GEORGE T. WASHINGTON no date, Assistant Solicitor General, “Presidential Authority to Call a Special Sessions of Congress”, https://www.justice.gov/file/147601-0/dl#page=2.00, accessed 9/29/24, HMc
the President has the power, under Article II, Section 3 of the Constitutio... |
04200757af85a820fe63330ee965f47d0c2aa620022d230ef1e6679533cb29b7 | Inflation Reduction Act game changer | IRA transformed the economy. Decarbonization is happening in every industry.
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; h... |
03dfb91bcf9d2423f58cbc24ae34a3e1b374512c1bed5ac113d7ee3d1fc15432 | ontology arguments bad | Reject ontology arguments---they generate passive subjectivity
Etoke 22, PhD, Africana Studies @ CUNY (Nathalie and Lewis Gordon, 12-28-20-2022, “What Does It Mean to Be Free?,” Boston Review, https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-does-it-mean-to-be-free/)
the problem when people think ontologically is they thin... |
00227d7fb3075d7d169791828b2326b95bcd3eb1f96064865f247ec442e65a3e | artificial trees effective CO2 removal | Artificial trees scale up and pull in emissions
McFarland 16 [Matt McFarland, January 12, 2016, “Could artificial trees be part of the climate change solution?,” The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/jan/12/artificial-trees-fight-climate-change]
Artificial trees are a great hope against climate c... |
01cb71eacdb01b3f67729f78f94ae0baccb369b9106c8422bb0cc94e0ce3e8fa | Harris campaign political cost | 2---Port strike thumps
Matthews ’24 [Chris; September 27; Washington Correspondent for MarketWatch; MarketWatch; “Port strike could come at a ‘high political cost’ for Harris campaign,” https://www.marketwatch.com/story/port-strike-could-come-at-a-high-political-cost-for-harris-campaign-c0b68ef5]
small disturbances c... |
040ab9696ab9b54252ec7d9d9256e8b06eba388195d4502eb247260094bb6356 | climate unravels all bets are off | Societal revamping is desirable, but not compatible with the immanence of warming---quick action using existing institutions is the only solution and opens space for critical alternatives
Dr. Christian Parenti 13, Professor of Sustainable Development at the School for International Training, Graduate Institute, Associ... |
0408136d89689638888f6cc6c3c67b96a3ce7ca5c2ea64368b6c0a0e3d83e0d2 | Colvin 9/21 US steel | Steel is decked.
Geoff Colvin 9/21 (is an award-winning thinker, author, broadcaster, and speaker on today's most significant trends in business. As a longtime editor and writer for Fortune, he has become one of America's sharpest and most respected commentators on leadership, globalization, wealth creation, the infot... |
0177dae8a8762fe725496526c6727e7fdaa07b39167872d2dad8e1ab1c688608 | commodities tax levied | There’s also flexibility on where to enforce the tax.
Robert Kaineg 13. Consultant with Thomson Reuters Commodities and Energy Advisory practice, focused on energy and environmental policy, M.S. in Economics. “CARBON TAXES: KEY CONSIDERATIONS FOR POLICYMAKERS AND STAKEHOLDERS.” https://www.thomsonreuters.com/content/d... |
00a4ebd66750f866bfaf3676647069e2a78adbb648beb2583102b6788db80e82 | carbon tariff negligible GDP | 4. No link---the effect is negligible.
Sun Ruihua and Jiao Yuanyuan 11, Economy and Management College of China University of Petroleum, citing Liu Xiaochuan, a Professor of the Shanghai University of Finance, “Study on How U.S. Imposing Carbon Tariffs will Influence China’s Export Trade and Its Countermeasure Strateg... |
029dbe0fa204a8e450b50204ae2e1bb224f1fd7b22d444684180d82e843ae43d | fossil subsidies negate carbon price | Fossil fuel subsidies alt cause. They muddy the plan’s price signal.
Green 21, PhD, assistant professor of political science at Case Western Reserve University. (Jessica F., “Beyond Carbon Pricing: Tax Reform is Climate Policy,” Global Policy, DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.12920)
pricing cannot establish clear market signal... |
0279f818bb9ce77f06d51cc19f3a2a1ca7e5cefb59d144c9fa69c1ee44e38b75 | assemblage definition | Defining the USFG as an assemblage does not mean that it does not require government action
Vanhanen 10 , Janne Vanhanen PhD in Philosophy from Univ of Helsinki, ENCOUNTERS WITH THE VIRTUAL The Experience of Art in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy , https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/19376/encounte.pdf?sequen... |
0280195dc74d1b4b77b6b6c05c58d213a19590b6b088f882f8a1d6f7b9d8814b | Implementation increases carbon in other markets | Implementation increases carbon in other markets.
Böhringer 22 [Christoph Böhringer, Professor of Economics at the University of Oldenburg, Carolyn Fischer, Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, Knut Einar Rosendahl, Professor of Economics at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Thomas Fox Rutherford, Profe... |
01987527165fc3e96fc068c88832bf79dbd5476dedf0206664ccf5b4dd7a788d | person experiencing that life | Value to life is inevitable and subjective – their assertions are the only scenario for negative value
Schwartz, et al 2 Lisa, Lecturer in Philosophy of Medicine, Department of General Practice, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; Paul Preece, Theme Coordinator of Medical Ethics, Dundee Medical School, Ninewells, Dun... |
0410254cab9ce84a2774ebd6d935e7e33dbf6a5de61d19d72f7ca6496bafda40 | rational debate | Communication is good and not pre-determined by ‘simulations.’
Horsthemke, 17—Bildungsphilosophie und Systematische Pägagogik, Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Kai, “‘#FactsMustFall’? – education in a post-truth, post-truthful world,” Ethics and Education, June 28 2017, dml)
Our post-truth era need not b... |
015408d71a963129b64447520dd875816ebc8332e9575434f9d5b120d735a4c0 | Fiat pacifying freedom struggle | Fiat is a view from above---their model sustains a metaphysics of military planning, pacifying freedom struggle.
Return Fire 20, Anarchist Journal, Anonymously Published, “23 Theses Concerning Revolt,” Autumn 2020; Editor’s note, A text published by Distri Josep Gardenyes, which was formed “to share and disseminate te... |
0109a84341496cc894f582d115bea7f4385c9e705742e053faea99057f767db7 | carbon emissions illegality | 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... |
00461f80cf20b04103eb4fbf91ed10e685fd54f725ecef82c21b07446fdfd42d | ECB staff do not agree | That matters---their evidence indicates the ECB staff do NOT agree. Yes, the ECB statement was bad, but that doesn’t Apply to Lamichhane and it’s their buden.
Treeck 23 (Johanna Treeck, “ECB’s display of solidarity with Israel sparks internal furor”, https://www.politico.eu/article/ecb-israel-solidarity-hamas-war-deba... |
02f7523735d32aab2f3b916b4b042fe88ed9a1e857491336c3717a7a9eb54f54 | transaction costs too high | The CP solves---avoids high transaction costs
1AC Matsuda 23
procedural downsides may outweigh benefits determining the social cost of g h g requires estimates and resources, and expertise For some those increased transaction costs may become high To limit the impact transaction costs the Council should establish a ... |
01b0f8657106f2955eb0083a6877ebcfab1e30e70f11e5609cd6058a6572ed81 | SAFc fuel producer | 2. COMPETITION---Fuel producers that exceed their obligations generate credits which can be sold, generating additional market signals and allowing them to outcompete other producers.
Soubly ’21 [Kevin Soubly, Lauren Uppink Calderwood, Christoph Wolff, Ned Harvey, Adam Klauber, Kathy Wight, Joukje Janssen, Milou Keijz... |
036c6fdace430d49f505290a50f01e39f0daed312219c8d77c9e93a24bd00f43 | Economist trade wars | 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... |
01431496de39a45d4911cee62e18b6dff1e2d614f9b03b9fe6a6916f00c5e4bc | biotech transforms medicine | Downside risks of biotech are existential, but upsides solve the case.
Stewart Patrick & Josie Barton 24, Patrick is the Senior Fellow and Director, Global Order and Institutions Program, Barton is a senior majoring in international relations at Stanford University and a former intern in Carnegie’s Global Order and In... |
03acf7abf7a4cb755db7000aa3e171533c16c59faad07e8d1f3a57ccfb7eab8f | House standing | Legislative standing is well-established.
Strand ’22 [Mark and Tim Lang; September 1; President of the Congressional Institute, M.A. in Legislative Affairs from George Washington University; Research Director at the Congressional Institute, A.B. in History from Georgetown University; Congressional Institute, “Student ... |
0125ac253c60a6152ef09973c8ede866780bb9375ad2ea6821e11ac07e995436 | climate change worsens water problems | Their evidence concedes that climate change is the root cause.
Peter Gleick 21, MacArthur Fellow, Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and Hydroclimatologist, B.S. from Yale University and M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, “Water Recommendation for the New Administration”, Bulletin o... |
007f1ffd952bbcfd67e63e4edb5bff69f05f851d267efee6b4459fc0de885dd0 | Winnubst 19 neoliberalism | The neoliberal episteme reduces life to economic calculation. That flattens social difference and makes lives fungible, resulting in an extortion of labor rooted in anti-blackness. As market efficiency replaces the law, the internalization of the market abstraction places Blackness as ontologically external to market r... |
0114944fe730c22b5d0fe062c9264ab8df4ba030cbaf83c0633461cab1de680d | cap and trade effectiveness | It’s effective and generates revenue.
Oktay Kurbanov 23. Head of Research at CLIFI. “California Cap-and-Trade: Positive Market Outlook Ahead of Upcoming Market Reforms.” KraneShares. 3-31-2023. https://kraneshares.com/california-cap-and-trade-positive-market-outlook-ahead-of-upcoming-market-reforms/
cap-and-trade wil... |
0279f818bb9ce77f06d51cc19f3a2a1ca7e5cefb59d144c9fa69c1ee44e38b75 | Janne Vanhanen | Defining the USFG as an assemblage does not mean that it does not require government action
Vanhanen 10 , Janne Vanhanen PhD in Philosophy from Univ of Helsinki, ENCOUNTERS WITH THE VIRTUAL The Experience of Art in Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophy , https://helda.helsinki.fi/bitstream/handle/10138/19376/encounte.pdf?sequen... |
0156656d3f2d0b4d95ece2c1c15210c1e6de934512c11140fc4c1ba8eb13a232 | Zelie Petit biotechnology | Petit zeroes uniqueness for the whole thing! It rose before rate cuts, and will rise after. OR, structural factors overwhelm.
Zelie Petit 24, M.A in Strategy, Cybersecurity, and Intelligence from John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, “The Strategic Imperative of Biotechnology: Implications for U.S. Na... |
026e4016167d09f2cdc88abb8364b79be9df0b51e0c48634fc4fbebc75b3f8a3 | Politics of naming pain narratives | 4--- Their politics of naming pain narratives inscribe the subaltern’s suffering onto its identity -- the subaltern is recognizable by academia only when depicted in its suffering which internalizes violence
Tuck & Yang 14 ( Eve Tuck and K Wayne Yang, 2014, Eve Tuck is Associate Professor of Critical Race and Indigeno... |
043b782d3f71343feb129cf72c23513bff4aaeae2280737c419b5d4e6a80519a | Ethics of capitalism | Perm---do the aff and embrace regulated capitalism. That solves---the alt throws out the baby with the bathwater, but the permutation solves.
Budolfson 21 – Associate Professor of Ethics, Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at the University of Texas at Austin. Ph.D. from Princeton.
capitalism is an essential compo... |
00c52f5a5213bfc856a9fb32512c37f7e07a8b96a9b555a36db7562c943086e2 | Michael Beckley China | China is no threat.
Beckley 18 Michael Beckley, International Relations Professor at Tufts University, PhD at Columbia. [Unrivaled: Why America Will Remain the World's Sole Superpower, an addition to the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt, Cornell Un... |
01e79c67c42b1761e45fc13adaa414fe8c6783a45e5817f8263bc8329d5cdb44 | RPS and REC | W/M. It’s a form of cap-and-trade.
Makoto Tanaka & Yishu Chen 13. *National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. **National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies. Market power in renewable portfolio standards. Energy Economics, Vol. 39, September 2013, 187-196. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eneco.2013.05.004. Accessed 2... |
02c99301fac9f6b485e4cad8d34c3cf26003eb791fd14007265edec08b27ab6f | chen 21 | No impact---dyadic trade dependence checks.
Chen 21 (F. R. (2021) 'Extended Dependence: Trade, Alliances, and Peace,' The Journal of Politics, 32(1). https://doi.org/10.1086/709149. Frederick R. Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Ohio State University. Chen's research focuses on h... |
0128cd1a8cc761a2fc413e18c319660a2108838432ae01b1d04845a9ba7a56d7 | Russia nuclear Ukraine victory | A successful Russian offensive in Ukraine goes nuclear.
Mariana Budjeryn 24. Senior research associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Why Russia is more likely to go nuclear in Ukraine if it's winning. Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 10-2-2024. https://the... |
02101af9f044016c025022b3613fd437d1703b3f432525b3c25aba3384d879f8 | marine life CO2 impact | No impact, a litany of alt causes, and their ev cherry-picks worst-case-scenario studies
Webster 16 (Ben, Environmental Editor for the London Times, “Scientists are ‘exaggerating carbon threat to reefs and marine life’”, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/scientists-are-exaggerating-carbon-threat-to-... |
034e732b9a8c8b35496b3076603dc0fc75ed47852a163c9affa9dd51039614f4 | Climate variability | Models prove.
Buhaug et al ‘15 [Halvard Buhaug, Peace Research Institute in Oslo an Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Tor Benjaminsen, Espen Sjaastad, Ole Magnus Theisen.] “Climate variability, food production shocks, and violent conflict in Sub-Saharan Africa” Environmental Research Letters, Volume 10, ... |
003e8c33adfc4836b47a9740ae3af506affee8f145872953eddcf9421c225ad3 | practical ways not taken into consideration | D. POLITICS: A model of debate where debater are incentivized to compare plans to alternatives to find the best solutions to the challenges of our generation is best for political organizing. “You link you lose” relegates the left to the margins of politics.
Rahnema 17 (Saeed, Retired Professor of Political Science an... |
030cec1ebf7d14416ac3eccc9133394f7c0add62e8e54a1ca2f483991588666b | peer review standards | Claims that “Science is real” and techno managerialism are good is not neutral but a rhetorical manuever that masks the relativity of the scientific process proven by a lack of stringent standards in the peer review process. Instead, understand the truth through mediated conditions of experience (that’s your answer for... |
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