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David Sarkisian 21. Senior Policy Project Manager. "Clean Energy Standards Gaining Attention Across the U.S. — DSIRE Insight." DSIRE Insight. 7-28-2021. https://www.dsireinsight.com/blog/2021/7/26/clean-energy-standards-gaining-attention-across... |
02961a5a90712316636938727ecf6bc1e6e94416430479bd1de08f8d67e60a35 | Courts adopt rules | Adopt.
McMurdie et al 20 [Paul J. McMurdie, Presiding Judge, joined by Judge Jennifer B. Campbell and Vice Chief Judge Kent E. Cattani, delivering the Opinion of the Court of Appeals of Arizona, Division One, The Neth. v. MD Helicopters Inc., 2020 Ariz. App. LEXIS 284, 3-19-2020, NexisUni]
"adopt" is not so limited C... |
04563b38ad842ded6fbddf4ed1af5cf4b408dbd3c2e6818e921cb1bf2908d8b9 | productive pessimism | Averting extinction is not colonialist---mobilization against and study of precipitous conditions is preferable to fatalism that sacrifices humanity to extinction.
Dr. Tim Stevens 20, PhD, Reader, International Security, King’s College, London. Lecturer, War Studies, King’s College, London, "Productive Pessimism: Reha... |
02cbaa4fd1df64beb1735f7d5eec6a47dd318a3a9d63d6cbaa3d1983cdfce99f | Sufia Alam | US leadership is possible and necessary to meet global climate targets.
Sufia Alam 23. Senior Communications Advisor. Emily Becker, Deputy Director of Communications for the Climate & Energy Program. When America Leads: Why the US Should Lead the Clean Energy Transition. Third Way, 22 September 2023. https://www.third... |
012ccb1ad519878b5e847bda38f0a32d99a5b071ac01e0d851ce8508b1150620 | russian economic outlook | 6--- Short-term Russian economic collapse is inevitable.
Pierre-Marie Meunier 9/11. Served in the French armed forces as an intelligence officer, currently operations director of a communications consultancy, holds a double master’s degree in information/communication and international relations. “Russia is on a Slow ... |
01a8a69c3be67c212a51caa7b3611a98e626c8690089b5df050006b83a437338 | carbon tax penalties | No link---a tax is only a nominal MBI.
Komanoff and Delucchi 20, *Director of the Carbon Tax Center, A.B., Applied Math, Harvard University, **Professor at University of California, Berkeley (*Charles Komanoff, **Mark Delucchi, October 8, 2020, “The main value of a carbon tax is normative.” Carbon Tax Center, https://... |
001be1150989e5975c7f2ee9086fce2e67c6040c5a3e9263a232e5d67838a1b9 | Rising authoritarianism and degrowth | Backlash ensures it
Alexander 22 (Dr. Samuel Alexander, lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a research fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute; and Brendan Gleeson, Emeritus Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Aust... |
01cb71eacdb01b3f67729f78f94ae0baccb369b9106c8422bb0cc94e0ce3e8fa | Biden doesn't invoke TA | 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... |
018546711b38ed657047b1c419abde6a8099cfed4d0d7e14cccf55814a4af42c | Carbon Tax incentivize biofuel | Carbon Tax would incentivize biofuel usage.
Carbon Taxes Center 20 4-8-2020 “Should a Carbon Tax Apply to Bioenergy?”, https://www.carbontax.org/issues/should-a-carbon-tax-apply-to-bioenergy/ --- ECM
a carbon tax would encourage production of bioenergy to the extent it reduces emissions deployed in their absence |
01dbd78d88c0897eb54683b9e374ddb7a82d627fd3f45096ed746cdf98f534d1 | net emissions decline to zero | Pricing models consistently overestimate achievable emissions reductions. Adjustments are too little, too late.
Tvinnereim & Mehling '18 – Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Bergen; Professor at the University of Strathclyde Law School and Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environ... |
0407ba868be37dcb03c2081c540fcbe36c7e1446e718f6927dcba4c7f15aa721 | Climate change spreads plant disease | Climate change spreads ag disease globally
Saifi, et al., 2024. Rayane Saifi (Research Laboratory of Sciences and Environment: Bioresources, Geochemical-Physics, legislation and socio-economic development, Faculty of Science and Technology, Department of Biology, University of Tamanghasset, Tamanghasset, Algeria) Hyse... |
0306394aab041316f89961815f30a4274eddbbf57755f414437626d53e381885 | Technical hurdles hinder adoption | 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... |
033c9c6b42af312bedc06bebccbb10ef9d1b29ead561a84a0855924d63573014 | nuclear energy high emissions | It increases carbon emissions and water vapor fluxes.
Mark Z. Jacobson 23. Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering & Director of the Atmosphere/Energy Program, Stanford University. “7 reasons why nuclear energy is not the answer to solve climate change.” One Earth. 12-1-2023. https://www.oneearth.org/the-7-re... |
0109a84341496cc894f582d115bea7f4385c9e705742e053faea99057f767db7 | federal law preempted | 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... |
00eb6cd7a33ccdbe648d8708a210a2dc439e6727781eeec48469bdb160e5c03e | Grunwald 19 | It’s a fight they’d rather not have – it’s counterproductive to their overall strategy to bash a popular industry
Grunwald 19 [Michael Grunwald is a senior staff writer for Politico Magazine. 3-5-2019 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/05/2020-democrats-ethanol-225517/]
It’s a delicate line the Green Ne... |
02b5e3a8d1cff6384c24ddfe50e1961f32d6fa3f0332abdca88145ffb0f7f460 | sacrifice zones sustain global north | 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... |
03fa815bde5451c736f20199a498d9005c4b8d47f0f34325844e9032be17dd21 | secure the border and deport millions | Trump is focused on immigration now, but Congress holds the key
Payne, 1-20 – POLITICO Fellow
president unlock authorities and resources to follow through on secure the border and deport millions Trump may run into trouble is his mass deportations agenda and he’ll be looking to Congress for help. Lawmakers will have ... |
011fa0cec26b5f606c3626ab450f07612253a0c063b84ef477616355bf2d9bfa | dangers of decoupling | Growth drives destabilizing tech-innovation that proliferates and facilitates bioterrorism---degrowth solves.
Albert 20, is a lecturer in International Relations working at the intersection of IR and political theory, critical political economy, and the transdisciplinary study of socio-ecological systems. (Michael J.,... |
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PARR-CORTES veterinary school PhD student 2022 (Zoe, b bachelor's degrees in Veterinary Science and Cellular and Molecular Medicine from the University of Bristol. She worked as a small animal veterinarian in general practice before starting her PhD at Bristol Vet... |
01b6804e8b9c50dc67b1c4e04a014c39cdca7eaddab9bda1b9cd7fdf349c4400 | High interest rates tech layoffs | 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... |
0389e6927f9ffa09cf255f6d7adf70810aefb666bba1ef6b4c12a3c815f78a6d | water scarcity agriculture | INDEPENDENTLY, water scarcity causes extinction.
Hughson 23, [Lindsey Angus Hughson has a long history of success in diverse fields such as mining, diamonds, and water security. In the world of dam design and construction, Angus Hughson has emerged as a prominent figure, making significant contributions to the field t... |
00d5477752050c0976990bd66364e70622e39960685295083d8e24a51096266b | ascetic tourism debate | 3---Exclusion DA---the NEG’s fear that the K- AFF will ruin debate is anti-black and the same fear that motivated the PRL or Fishback---framework is a way to redline K teams out of the community---they’re a grid of exclusion that attempts to exert humanistic control over a limitless topic and paint black theorization a... |
0244833577e0d5076ad6b468a89eb14e1751b5d426f752626b2b3e8d763c7fef | Climate change and settler colonialism | It’s especially true in the context of climate change.
Kerstin Reibold 23. Postdoctoral Fellow at the Good Integration project at the Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø. “Settler Colonialism, Decolonization, and Climate Change.” Journal of Applied Philosophy. Vol 4, No 4. August 2023. Pp. 635-636.
climate change ma... |
000a064a2ed2e6c851497178d5fe27149a4c19044d7f433cb7a4e248e0f78459 | US self reliant rare earth | Recycling and reuse solves pollution – clean energy and security outweigh short-term costs
Erdmann 23 (Major Tyson E. Erdmann, 03-31-2023, "Diversifying the U.S. Rare Earth Element Resource Base is Vital to National Security", US Naval War College Writing & Teaching Excellence Center, https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/... |
0346dfcaa843498340b06be41d8a696778beec1c21b39848b4966c1ed31e5574 | Tech progress does not need growth | 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... |
03a169040eefe24876e64f3aa7ab050ebedbc70c9e0bb2cac523cc89b66c85ae | Washington post energy | 7. The energy transition is inevitable, its only a question of if it can happen fast enough
Maxine Joselow & Vanessa Montalbano 23 Maxine Joselow is a staff writer who covers climate change and the environment, with a focus on U.S. climate policy and politics. Vanessa Montalbano is a researcher for The Climate 202, a ... |
0011ce60334848ac212cf69f4e8e3a84ac7b8ae7e14551ed31c26a5fe7f95255 | Congress and the Reconstruction of Foreign Affairs Federalism | [5] TRADE OFFICES---states cant monitor exports.
Baasch ’16 [Ryan and Saikrishna Prakash; 2016; Law Clerk to Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson; James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law; Michigan Law Review, “Congress and the Reconstruction of Foreign Affairs Federalism,” vol. 115]
... |
0086df87e03c858346140ccb6d3d57d3cb17928ee60663b168827911d36c387e | stop emitting carbon dioxide | Decarbonization means EVERYWHERE.
Zopeful Climate Ltd., 2024, "Decarbonization Definition", CLIMATE DICTIONARY, https://zopeful.com/climate-dictionary/decarbonization
Decarbonization is disconnecting all the things from creating carbon emissions. It is the process to stop emitting Carbon Dioxide into the atmosphere.... |
01efa74607b0f345a0d26437d218b43f4719f1b7bfdc3c9ea89569c3a0da60e1 | crypto financed emissions | The plan penalizes cryptocurrency’s energy intensive financed emissions.
Alessio Pezzotta 24, Senior ESG Risk Manager, 12-29-2024, "Crypto and Digital Assets Risk Management", Medium, https://medium.com/exponential-science-foundation/crypto-and-digital-assets-risk-management-e14021f3d494
cryptocurrency markets experi... |
016fd01768f24a84f1b3eb88cedfc9807fff2c3c2d6d5d59d0f31a73ffe1c187 | global environmental law | The EPA’s efforts solve international environmental challenges AND is a key pillar of the rule of law/democracy.
Yang 12 – Deputy General Counsel, United States (US) Environmental Protection Agency. (Tseming; Published: April 2012; "The Emerging Practice of Global Environmental Law"; Transnational Environmental Law 1,... |
03b34de71ab13f682effca380c6a1066dbc867790ecd76100fe66bb399a78c1f | coster and reid | The debate reinforced that she has no policy platform beyond Trump bad.
Coster and Reid 9/11. Helen Coster (U.S. Presidential Election Correspondent at Reuters, Princeton University graduate) and Tim Reid, 9/11/2024, “Some undecided voters not convinced by Harris after debate with Trump,” Reuters, https://www.reuters.... |
017284d1b0241ba628c535cda175a45baa28d79bea230ce4842b5d2f8bc0f66e | corporations subvert voting rights | 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... |
0098cee22997dd1f6ce109bc1b01924095c8a13a7fa5e708268b684266a7e20f | Biases create failed research | 2---Cognitive biases---creates failed research and policymaking.
Zayne Seibert 21. Writer citing Bjorn Lomberg, former director of the Danish government’s Environmental Assessment Institute. “Cooling down environmental panic: Are we biased in the way we approach climate change? .” B.Bias. 12-20-2021. https://bbiasblog... |
032257a62190ab53b8a51eb99d683969ceb85d01d129ae7e81977d015157aa22 | Sino-American relations ideological struggle | Leadership impact activates America’s crusader mentality and stokes the new Cold War with China
Layne 20, University Distinguished Professor of International Affairs and Robert M. Gates Chair in National Security at Texas A&M University. (Christopher, “Preventing the China-U.S. Cold War from Turning Hot”, The Chinese ... |
046f92c7282bc4c3ad2378e9f8395d2d937ae209fa0d580dfea4c9da5c436fff | WTO raises standards of living | WTO is not a Trojan Horse and is not spreading the “neoliberal Agenda”
James Bacchus 23 is known worldwide as a global jurist, activist, writer, scholar, and statesman. “The World Trade Organization: Myths versus Reality”. September 26th, 2023. https://www.cato.org/publications/world-trade-organization-myths-versus-re... |
03ed204c37eac41351c02be6fe2b4e524a5f842fd4bae40387b2f571713a894b | tax incentivizes innovation competitiveness and jobs | 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... |
0321430a485cfb4933da3313dafae817b8858cf6f3f590d584456edeca30f319 | Control problem is intractable | Control problem is intractable – only solution is to never build AI
Geist 15 [Edward Moore Geist, MacArthur Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation, 8/9/15, “Is artificial intelligence really an existential threat to humanity?,” http://thebulletin.org/artifici... |
035b29efe8f1fd86bdddf80ed8abb8b98c355b8b1d9b27e15fd24b1f529be657 | clean lending | 5. Clean lending. Banks are prioritizing low-carbon funding now.
Sarah LIGHT Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton AND Christina SKINNER Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton ’21 BANKS AND CLIMATE GOVERNANCE 121 COLUM. L. REV. 1895 p. 1937-1938
banks are taking steps to commit capital and expertise to the tra... |
034d694fc6f49760a6d00c6aa0681617b5c71dc70457d460f7d8ef4bc8f42daa | scarcity legitimizes land grabs | The 1AC’s securitization of ecological stress reflects a colonial research paradigm that authorizes land grabs and armed intervention.
Billings 24, Master of Science Thesis, Community and Environmental Sociology; Research Assistant @ University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Kristen R., 8-23-2024, “Resilient Empire: The Colon... |
010687ce9d48950d024799e567ea1c21b6825b68a252bc7874da86c983ce1621 | Clean energy marshall plan | 4—Green U.S. leadership revitalizes the liberal order
Deese ‘24 [Brian Deese is an American economic and political advisor who was the 13th director of the National Economic Council, serving under President Joe Biden. "The Case for a Clean Energy Marshall Plan", Foreign Affairs https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-st... |
0370126175d637225bd1f302aaa3b16c84de3e95ab6f7549c17582b249a93207 | plausible scenarios envision less than 3 degrees | No catastrophic warming.
Ronald Bailey 22. Science writer and author of multiple books, citing Roger Pielke, Jr., Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado, “Worst-Case Climate Change Scenarios Are Highly Implausible, Argues New Study,” 2/9/22, https://reason.com/2022/02/09/worst-case-climate-ch... |
0125ac253c60a6152ef09973c8ede866780bb9375ad2ea6821e11ac07e995436 | Peter Gleick water | 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... |
00591c9cfa6047b5e57a0491641adbb9392b8fcc72c68dc8560d4e860cfdbc27 | BCA gamed | BCA is useless – too simple and it will be gamed, too complex and it can’t be administered
Morris 18 [Adele C. Morris, senior fellow and policy director for Climate and Energy Economics at the Brookings Institution, Ph.D., Economics, Princeton University, M.S., Mathematics, University of Utah, 7-26-2018, “Making Borde... |
007bb1ae8491fec3e5a0d163c35d10c9cb13132dbc6d75d410aee838baa22b1d | law has emancipatory potential | The law has emancipatory potential despite its repressive history. Rejecting it dooms radical social change.
McCann and Lovell, 18—Gordon Hirabayashi Professor for the Advancement of Citizenship at the University of Washington AND professor of political science, department chair, and the Harry Bridges Endowed Chair in... |
0087bb13c626771e807ee2ab55ef9b94964e664cedefbee243fce1d2a2f287c9 | US underestimates Putin cyber strategy | Securitizing against cyber threats is good – the US has empirically underestimated Russia’s cyber aggression which has caused further escalation.
Alspach, '22 – Kyle Alspach ( @KyleAlspach) is a senior reporter at Protocol, focused on cybersecurity (Kyle Alspach; "‘Reckless cowboy’: U.S. may underestimate Putin’s cyb... |
036f205e510729bc14b12f86a71833e779f0dc88bb118181582ed1efdcddc222 | eco-ableism climate action | Text: The United States federal government shall enact a cripple energy policy [Insert plan]
Bell 24 (Sarah is a Senior Research Associate in Qualitative Research, Bristol Medical School (PHS) Bristol Neuroscience, Bell, S.L., Jodoin, S., Bush, T.N., Crow, L., Eriksen, S.H., Geen, E., Keogh, M. and Yeo, R., 2024. Bey... |
033d7c01c163ac883c288afd60c1be4cd93e2b9e33a52aa71bf6fe522c8d39b7 | social war encourages arming | Queering debate means you should find value in rejecting coming to the definitive resolution or limitations to argumentation before you are able to find intrinsic value---we find intrinsic value in social war right here, right now to encourage arming for the unpredictability of life and to still engage in debates about... |
039b774bc42e9ea866d816b8155b23dc1ba04229598ab6ca27713b6f1217e1ed | non-uniformity ensures residual uncertainty | 3---the legal possibility of non-uniformity ensures residual uncertainty---markets want CFTC
McQuhae 23 [Ben McQuhae, industry leading commercial lawyer in sustainable finance and environmental markets, Hong Kong representative of the United Nations Financial Centres for Sustainability network, more than 25 years of l... |
0148c37d3bff4f004739faccce761b5d15ef610a9e0e4dd3bd84d499b5825500 | students cannot imagine working at scale | It is try or die for students to develop solution oriented modes of politics. Preventing warming from continuing unabated is an ethical gateway issue
Levine 23 (Caroline Levine is a professor of humanities at Cornell University. 10/17/23, The Activist Humanist: Form and Method in the Climate Crisis, Princeton Universi... |
0053a3dbfb5f0da03770d40b4f2ad2ed159a7702c19b4dc86a1bf4dce857151c | divest from green technology | It entrenches cheaper polluting fuels and divests from green technology.
João Tovar Jalles 23. Senior Associate Professor of Economics at University Of Lisbon. “Financial Crises and Climate Change.” 2023. Springer Nature. Doi: 10.1057/s41294-023-00209-7.
financial crises lead to a deterioration in resilience to cl... |
04779849195486beecdd4916677117cf8df151e89f1d5e768a45ba83561254f6 | on farm energy use emissions | C] Economy-wide pricing is key to reach Paris.
Alessandro Flammini et al. 22. Flammini, United Nations Industrial Development Organization, Department of Environment. Xueyao Pan, Food and Agriculture Organization, Statistics Division. Francesco Nicola Tubiello, Food and Agriculture Organization, Statistics Division. S... |
0453c220b0afb904bb6fa0d5a16e51aa5df13d626bbba0549bddd337b13440a3 | Shannon Winnubst 6 | Instead of a restrictive economy, we think generally. ‘Solutions’ that follow status quo temporal registers of calculating and charting “effective” courses are conditioned inside of circuits of violence.
Shannon Winnubst 6. [Professor of Philosophy at Southwestern University. “Introduction: The Seduction of Freedom.” ... |
02ddf74842c25d7af77b781513ec906c3c5989bd8957eb3ce3751d141d653546 | melancholia conservative uses | Melancholia produces conservative attachment to absolute authority.
Greg FORTER English Language and Literature @ South Carolina ‘3 “Against Melancholia: Contemporary Mourning Theory, Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, and the Politics of Unfinished Grief” differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 14 (2) p. 142-... |
0291413368a38ba763a1b19d9972813452b430dc5ac450116dd3cd1e40c54848 | lawmakers not on same page | Shutdown inevitable.
Lauren Peller & Allison Pecorin 3-7. "Government shutdown watch: GOP moves forward with short-term bill as Democrats express opposition." ABC News. 3-7-2025. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/government-shutdown-watch-gop-moves-forward-short-term/story?id=119573970
lawmakers are not on the same pag... |
03ad86dc4044eb224baae3c4a4582827d8e1b0a45911d677536a70ec074f9447 | market failure climate change | Framing warming as a market failure is good---lack of pricing is the root cause of the problem, and any alternative fails.
Chun 21, Engineer at Tapestry, a company working on integrating renewable electricity into the grid, B.A., Computer Science and Economics at Dartmouth University (Steven Chun, January 21, 2021, “C... |
00eb1ab8b02f1e21a0b1c5330c589506c2a1335a766a1a6866e9e4372fa34786 | von Sydow 24 | No China war.
von Sydow 24, a China analyst at Swedish National China Centre. (Alexis, 2-23-2024, “Most Experts Agree: China Isn’t About to Invade Taiwan,” The Diplomat, https://thediplomat.com/2024/02/most-experts-agree-china-isnt-about-to-invade-taiwan/)
Alarmist overestimate risk of war China cannot be confident t... |
029d97e76999d59d01f115c812c5e9159b2549407c81c6dc603dfebdaaa273b6 | Carbon Management | Norway Solves.
Carbon, 6/12 – Carbon Management and ETS Compliance organization. (Carlton Carbon, 6-12-2024, "LNG Availability and EU Elections Keep EU ETS Allowances Flat", Maritime Executive, https://maritime-executive.com/corporate/lng-availability-and-eu-elections-keep-eu-ets-allowances-flat)//Neo
EU allowances s... |
01d7e4e6c8175f29ba37796c7a1c054ab7ea74405153e5c328de4b023debbc3f | green industrial policy | Solves internationally – the counterplan causes policy modeling and tech diffusion
Daniel A. Farber 24, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley, “Turning Point: Green Industrial Policy and the Future of U.S. Climate Action,” Te... |
031edbb3abc37f798e3c22818784fe2b54547443599af97faa7c60989c4f41ad | American Heritage Dictionary | B — A before a mass noun means single type
AHD 92 – American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language 1992 (Third Edition) p. 1
Used before a mass noun to indicate a single type or example |
02a8b2f8b72a2ad08cccb0fcdc8fd78207ffe218ef53bc37df04a1eec434f499 | US climate leadership | 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... |
02745af816313fe1da5792fd60b339f70880d926a80b1be5d0b627f2607f3caa | banks and climate governance | That’s how it’s classified
Light* and Skinner** 21, *Mitchell J. Blutt and Margo Krody Blutt Presidential Professor; Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics @ Wharton Legal Studies & Business Ethics Department. **Associate Professor of Legal Studies & Business Ethics; Co-Director: Wharton Initiative on Financial ... |
013e60aa444213ff5ebf8c888d897e0b1872e0ce86e7230471869d1b72607a8d | disability studies | Focus on ableist ideology and discourse cedes the political – concrete politics to address social disadvantage are key
Vehmas and Watson 14 (Simo Vehmas – Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Helsinki, and Nick Watson – Professor of Disability Studies at the University of Glasgow, “Moral wrongs, disadv... |
0454d1b1b9aae5395c2f0adbe4ae9300cc8636dbc0b04130b6b140bbeff11b9c | no biod internal | No BioD internal. Alt causes outweigh warming.
Caro 22, *PhD, Professor in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. *PhD Student, VU Amsterdam. *Department of FWC Biology, Colorado State University. *PhD, Professor, Ecology and Evolution, Princeton. (Tim, Zeke Rowe, Joel Berger, Philippa Wholey, Andre... |
03e48600a300e23f8b675bfab1939f38a87a7da760a02d0b2a6a15c2025c2750 | Eric Helleiner regulatory capture | 11. REGULATORY CAPTURE.
Eric Helleiner 13, Professor of Political Science and Faculty of Arts Chair in International Political Economy, University of Waterloo, “Subprime catalyst: Financial regulatory reform and the strengthening of US carbon market governance,” Regulation & Governance, Volume 7, 2013, pp. 496-511
li... |
001be1150989e5975c7f2ee9086fce2e67c6040c5a3e9263a232e5d67838a1b9 | Backlash ensures it | Backlash ensures it
Alexander 22 (Dr. Samuel Alexander, lecturer at the University of Melbourne, Australia, co-director of the Simplicity Institute and a research fellow with the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute; and Brendan Gleeson, Emeritus Professor at the School of Regulation and Global Governance, The Aust... |
01a12748939ffe2244d2e3eb3133f39155ca03ae74ecaca5acd29deeaae9319c | environmental justice studies | 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... |
017f4e5d8c0538a4e066a6450596ec066a15a8f95297995420e496c15aaf559b | COVID returns federalism | COVID marks a return to traditional federalism that emphasizes state authority and solves national polarization.
Lane 21 – Attorney Practicing Constitutional and Regulatory Litigation, JD from University of Pennsylvania Cary Law School.
Kaytlin Roholt Lane, “Federalism, Now More Than Ever”, Penn Law Journal Opinion, S... |
005aec4bae0b45b020d8dbd1acf2cda5656bf62496a2532f29de0c0d649cc98f | Gulf states reduce emissions | No link---Gulf states are prepared for the transition.
Amy Myers Jaffe 20. senior fellow for energy and the environment director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Stranded Assets and Sovereign States.” National Institute Economic Review, No. 25. 2-5-2020. https:... |
00df099afe26b244310768fe6595d90cf94ea294eed5d2da1ec45409a68975a8 | Stanley 21 | 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... |
022cf5436016f6372902e1b8ad759460d7e1b178c872350d2ea931c368ad6aaa | Forest biomass industry not price competitive | The forest biomass industry is not price competitive and cannot survive without subsidies
Pienaar & North 21, Professor Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of Georgia; and PhD Candidate Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida; and (Elizabeth & Benjamin, Continue... |
0085feb6302a67580a28a65bad777ab7043ba7bec95ca8926d439f189ccf4435 | FPF Act carbon border | Recent congressional proposals prove.
Denning 24 (Liam Denning is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy, holding a B.A. in history from the University of Caimbridge. A former banker, he edited the Wall Street Journal’s Heard on the Street column and wrote the Financial Times’s Lex column. Prior to journalism, ... |
006d4abcd7899ce50007f6843136a84a1a8ca414e2ad3f9ed6cc0b520ba3bfda | Harris reassemble coalition | Pennsylvania will be a close win for Harris – both sides have advantages
Levy, 24 [Marc Levy, covers politics and state government in Pennsylvania for The Associated Press, 9-8-24, abc news, “Little debate that Pennsylvania is key as Harris and Trump prep for Philly showdown”, https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/debat... |
04728476bb89beb85aeff47072c6497c65ab04bce4ab1416caf4b658740a8096 | Jon Mills non-falsifiable | It’s non-falsifiable. That matters because otherwise I theorize the negative wants to lose: would you like to recline on the couch to talk about it?
Mills 17, Clinical Psychologist, Ph.D., Philosophy, Vanderbilt University (Jon Mills, 2017, “CHALLENGING RELATIONAL PSYCHOANALYSIS: A CRITIQUE OF POSTMODERNISM AND ANALYS... |
0011344857f2c5a4763eb724937585d0b304b835c76447a9b4e76dde4bb2da92 | ocean ecosystem new equilibrium | 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... |
0291413368a38ba763a1b19d9972813452b430dc5ac450116dd3cd1e40c54848 | shutdown likely | Shutdown inevitable.
Lauren Peller & Allison Pecorin 3-7. "Government shutdown watch: GOP moves forward with short-term bill as Democrats express opposition." ABC News. 3-7-2025. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/government-shutdown-watch-gop-moves-forward-short-term/story?id=119573970
lawmakers are not on the same pag... |
003e74b373de40fb1b71ad707dd17ac9bc5ee1a74960bb18f4180d0d76f09641 | Bruce Robertson Carbon Capture Failure | Extinction.
Bruce Robertson 22. Energy Finance Analyst at the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, B.A. in Economics. "Carbon capture has a long history. Of failure." Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. 9/1/2022. https://thebulletin.org/2022/09/plagued-by-failures-carbon-capture-is-no-climate-solution... |
01431496de39a45d4911cee62e18b6dff1e2d614f9b03b9fe6a6916f00c5e4bc | biotech is dual use | 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... |
0280195dc74d1b4b77b6b6c05c58d213a19590b6b088f882f8a1d6f7b9d8814b | Christoph Böhringer carbon | 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... |
00ec6a42bf159af8f76addf1be1deaa3df02d81875fe402d018618fc5d98adbf | india cbam unfair | 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/... |
0137fd9fae578d1501248a85e37c71287c9865bcaf8b7db5871bb571d33a6080 | carbon price innovation | G—Plan is vital to accelerating green tech development
Bailey ’23 [David Bailey, senior advisor, CLC and instructor, Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, “Unlocking Net Zero Emissions: Accelerating Innovation & Deployment through Carbon Pricing,” Climate Leadership Council, 3—23, p. 2-17]
avoid the... |
005aec4bae0b45b020d8dbd1acf2cda5656bf62496a2532f29de0c0d649cc98f | Gulf transition to renewables | No link---Gulf states are prepared for the transition.
Amy Myers Jaffe 20. senior fellow for energy and the environment director of the Program on Energy Security and Climate Change at the Council on Foreign Relations. “Stranded Assets and Sovereign States.” National Institute Economic Review, No. 25. 2-5-2020. https:... |
024ed85233a280c794333331dc87047a4c468a02dcda1ca92c9336f1cb987e89 | officials disconnected from reality | Admin state fails.
Beek ’22 [Michael Van; July 23; Director of Research for the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, The Hill, “Pandemic failures expose problems of the administrative state,” https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/3570569-pandemic-failures-expose-problems-of-the-administrative-state/]
many blunders exp... |
02f4a029bf56359cf3bdb3d883a04776d7ac19a139f9bfd6585659785b04bd4b | economists expect inflation to fall | Inflation’s on the decline
Lee 12-31-24 [Anne Marie Lee, editor for CBS MoneyWatch, “Gas prices recede and could continue dropping in 2025, forecast finds,” 12-31-24, CBS News, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/2025-predictions-gas-prices-us/]
expect lower gas prices as inflation eases amid booming domestic oil production... |
00c44a02129247d04c7426b09632e20ba01acffd456b84bda925b59f1029ef65 | Complexity bad | Complexity is a negative argument. Star.
Boyd 14, Professor of Law and Professor at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. (William, “Public Utility and the Low-Carbon Future” UCLA Law Review 1614 (2014), https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1062&context=faculty-articles)
plan... |
006d4abcd7899ce50007f6843136a84a1a8ca414e2ad3f9ed6cc0b520ba3bfda | Trump unpopularity criticism | Pennsylvania will be a close win for Harris – both sides have advantages
Levy, 24 [Marc Levy, covers politics and state government in Pennsylvania for The Associated Press, 9-8-24, abc news, “Little debate that Pennsylvania is key as Harris and Trump prep for Philly showdown”, https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/debat... |
0051d4c0beea7cd6a246f439d1af3f5ef80944c901deb18b3f8dfd77fe6946e5 | Shadow banking is huge | Shadow banking is huge---it controls almost half of all financial assets AND is set to increase in risk.
Alexander Jones 24. Senior Vice President of Portfolio Management overseeing over $1 billion in debt financing, B.S. in Finance, "Banks’ Ballooning Appetites for Private Credit Raise Shadow Banking’s Risks to the F... |
039a1f9577a189b02609c95d389cfe5ca67e67e3a31d6f377b6a9bb96ffa6eb1 | US ahead on AI | 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... |
030eaa5dbd2ae1948ff7baa6d9c76217598faab2d6c87dc2d84e44aee917ac50 | Movement for Black Lives climate | The plan ends it.
1AC The Black Hive 22, The Black Hive is a collective of more than 200 organizations and individuals representing Black CEJ expertise, ranging from organizers, cultural workers, advocates, and activists, to data scientists, engineers, technologists, and strategists. The Black Hive is at the heart of ... |
0071e17b358a0a1eaac417e832e183b29ed67929313ff0688f90db130a892120 | carbon trapping saltmarshes | 4. Salt marshes fail.
Smeaton and Garrett 24, *Lecturer in Physical Geography, University of St Andrews, **Lecturer, Physical Geography, University of York (*Craig Smeaton, **Ed Garrett, May 23, 2024, “Saltmarshes do store carbon, but their climate impact may have been overestimated,” The Conversation, https://theconv... |
01d7e4e6c8175f29ba37796c7a1c054ab7ea74405153e5c328de4b023debbc3f | international clean energy | Solves internationally – the counterplan causes policy modeling and tech diffusion
Daniel A. Farber 24, Sho Sato Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Law, Energy, and the Environment at the University of California, Berkeley, “Turning Point: Green Industrial Policy and the Future of U.S. Climate Action,” Te... |
00ec6a42bf159af8f76addf1be1deaa3df02d81875fe402d018618fc5d98adbf | CBAM modeling nonstarter | 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/... |
0472a25297b03f841874ce9145cf6bb636abaf19036fd1ccb58a9bcdc21b7a3f | Totalitarian bad at forecasting | 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... |
03046f33c54a48c0ccbae047291873fb6b256bd6c7f642ea841607a5a1ce5f12 | Gillam 2023 solarpunk | [LINK/ALT] Solarpunk solves – an anarchist future imaginary subverts the aff and the reactionary squo to which it belongs.
Gillam, William Joseph 2023. Gillam is a PhD candidate at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, focusing on conflict and security and environment and resources. “A Solarpunk Manifesto: Tu... |
00eaf9c99ac563830190d3dd193466e0c54ac25fa327261cf8e6ecf49452ae0f | Raidt '14 | Litigation swells backlogs in the biotech sector, disrupting innovation that stops existential collapse.
Raidt ’14 [John; 2014; Vice President and Jones Group International Scholar, Senior Fellow at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, M.A. in Public Administration from the Harvard University Kennedy School of Gov... |
04323035ac8f8d3f32e4b471f44653b538465e5de03e3d868b37b257d36ceea8 | NATO operations in contested environments | Terror scenario is worse---it just says that NATO has a commitment to fight terror NOT that those operations can ever be successful-inserted
John Conger 24, Director Emeritus of the Center for Climate and Security, Senior Advisor to the Council on Strategic Risks, and US Advisor to the International Military Council o... |
007f1ffd952bbcfd67e63e4edb5bff69f05f851d267efee6b4459fc0de885dd0 | Neoliberal episteme reduces life | 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... |
006e0cc2fa25e7ae7c9dc08edaf298ed752eff70cac78c2264f35bf60df47546 | financial policies climate justice | 6. Without the AFF, carbon lock-in is inevitable.
Jérôme DEYRIS Post-doctoral researcher @ SciencesPo Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics ‘23 From price stability to climate stabilization?: the political economy of green central banking. Economics and Finance. Université de Nanterre - Paris X, 2023 p.... |
007f1ffd952bbcfd67e63e4edb5bff69f05f851d267efee6b4459fc0de885dd0 | economic calculation flattens social difference | 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... |
040dff8a6ae8743b83924830ab47c1d07305ea0f5d0460279f41de9d0d8c59af | global war economy perpetual war | Racial Capitalism is unsustainable and its collapse is inevitable – leads to endless wars, climate change, rising fascism, and rampant inequality.
Robinson 21. William I. Robinson is a Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara and has a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of New Mexico. “What ar... |
03b742692443da3f06e29594fcaf339d598338f6f93f2df6aabb6e71b5624e75 | Gerson decarbonization | Decarbonization further electrifies modernity by circulating more energy and solidifying relationships of power that are anti-black. Siphoning energy can rework these structures of power.
Dr. Sage Gerson 22, Assistant Professor at the Rhode Island School of Design, June 2022, “Introduction: The Leaky Grid,” Introducti... |
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