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Tutton 22 [Richard Tutton is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Lancaster University, UK, and co-editor of Genetic Databases: Socio-Ethical Issues in the Collection and Use of DNA. "The Sociology of Futurelessness." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/003... |
00163d3cb65ef85355be2bbb6b512f440933970077e69551479f08885cffde31 | Trump will end US order | Trump will end the U.S.-led order. The second term will make the first look like a “garden party.”
Drezner 23 – Professor of International Politics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Trump scrambled the network of alliances the U S had built Trump blasted allies for not contributing He t... |
040ab9696ab9b54252ec7d9d9256e8b06eba388195d4502eb247260094bb6356 | existing institutions must cut emissions | 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... |
043b782d3f71343feb129cf72c23513bff4aaeae2280737c419b5d4e6a80519a | Budolfson 21 | 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... |
03d6cc7b87d9afba6178b33a3822134166a51fac3e366494edd881d7a3e0e361 | rejecting colonial project | Speculative fabulation draws a map out of colonialism by rejecting the idea that the colonial project is inevitable and unending, and by imagining a future beyond settler futurity. Narratives like the 6th world center Indigenous cosmologies as the guideposts for new models of relationality outside of hierarchicalized a... |
030315689b0044784cf2e88134393f2765ad36a4382bfa619beac4df2e5dff02 | election uncertainty weak sales | Businesses are pessimistic AND uncertain.
Reuters ‘9-10 [Reuters; September 10; news agency present in 200 locations worldwide, citing the National Federation of Independent Business; U.S. News and World Report, “US Small Business Sentiment Ebbs in August Amid Rising Uncertainty,” https://money.usnews.com/investing/ne... |
000814f4f5e782576fd960488053937963c03cca5da658547fe42d946de14a1b | Tim Rayner | Global climate coordination repeatedly gets stuck at the level of broad promises and concepts but no plans for action
RAYNER 2021 (Tim, Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences “Keeping it in the ground? Assessing global governance for fossil-fuel supply r... |
02c21fa350d1e225178bd0a555c9a0ed06610f02fe8e677e61b9ab6a1ff6380d | Condon 22 | Plan’s key to solve bubbles
Condon 22 [Madison Condon, Associate Professor at Boston University School of Law, former attorney at New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity, JD Harvard Law School, MALD Tufts University’s Fletcher School, “Market Myopia’s Climate Bubble,” Utah Law Review, 1, 202... |
025ae364b28d6daa9521693eb1540ace9b1efadd4b41bfac31bb4cd8a6223e06 | North Korea sell nukes increase | Revenue shortfalls cause nuclear selloffs---leads to prolif, nuke terror, and Middle East war.
Toby Dalton 21, PhD, MA, co-director and a senior fellow of the Nuclear Policy Program @ Carnegie, 4/15/2021, "The Most Urgent North Korean Nuclear Threat Isn’t What You Think", Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ht... |
010eaca13ca3e31389c7b1a2640874b4ade1eb3075fb7b527e2c6a97e623916c | effective and realistic strategy | 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... |
00d19b80e32d3e82f3c21b7f59d882672b3e85ad327d8235ae87247f562700b1 | state addiction | 4. Quan is a criticism of conflating the government as deserving of rule leadership or authority. Quan never says we can’t criticize the state then propose something else it ought do instead, which is what the resolution requires.
Quan 17 (H.L.T. Quan is an Associate Professor of Justice and Social Inquiry in the Scho... |
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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... |
002d7b66aada7ca4c6b1c5b204b9a53b9ccf66f7847ea9d7bfcb122c3861c9c5 | jump of enslaved women liberation | JUMP!
Sam C. Tenorio ’24 (he/they) is an Assistant Professor of African American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. degrees in African American Studies, with a subfield in Political Theory, from Northwestern University and a B.A. in History and W... |
02b98af9c28d7a1c3c722404275478b003aef7ee2501bd7c0780d20a2a05037f | spirituality and decolonization | Chief Seattle once said: “The White man will never be alone. Let him be just and deal kindly with my people, for the dead are not powerless. Dead, did I say? There is no death, only a change of worlds.”
Rhee and Subedi 14 (Jeong-eun, assistant professor of education @ Long Island University, B.A. @ Ewha Women’s Univer... |
0324d1e2dce14dd35ab04453853a97c56ff1af37a6f2f91ffd9c20e9c5bccea9 | low oil prices demand | 1—Oil prices are low.
Webb 9—13 [Shelby Webb covers oil and gas for E&E News by POLITICO. "Oil prices could shake up Trump-Harris energy fight", E&E News by POLITICO, https://www.eenews.net/articles/oil-prices-could-shake-up-trump-harris-energy-fight/ published 9-13-2024, accessed 9-13-2024]
oil prices fell to the lo... |
00227d7fb3075d7d169791828b2326b95bcd3eb1f96064865f247ec442e65a3e | McFarland 16 | 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... |
00542e1cbd537b1f9b2b0f99dfb4ca8e571866812f71b165a98fb942e4daa3df | Abandoning market structures cedes power | Market-based instruments are inevitable for responding to the environment, the only question is whether we can properly utilize them to avoid impending catastrophe. Abandonment of those structures cedes power to bureaucratic elites that will accelerate extinction. This generation is key, we do not have time for theoriz... |
04021a0ff80516e35b31809c1e1a8f5111040382b4808c13995fb963ea0ea6eb | land degradation | 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:/... |
018f5fee13e5c052bc9ac6dbe1fdba8c8ad74f456c3d52042645f646bbc2cb73 | Thoreson queerness not structural | 4. Queerness is not inevitably “a structural antagonism.” Anti-queer animus is shaped by local and contextual histories, politics, and ideologies---theorizing the law’s pivotal role in regulating and institutionalizing queerness and orientations toward it is necessary to understanding how anti-queer violence is uniquel... |
004fbd51b53275e61f821c30f77fd412f4861795e1a15d2d9030508d62ae9318 | Battleground states Harris | Newest polls show a lead but it’s razor-thin.
Sara Dorn 9-25. "Trump Vs. Harris 2024 Polls: Harris Leads In 2 New Surveys—Amid Virtual Tie In Swing States." Forbes. 9-25-2024. https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2024/09/25/trump-vs-harris-2024-polls-harris-leads-by-2-points-in-latest-survey/
Harris and Trump close... |
01e248e41168d71c3894f34ddcde34df0f7e639288aca80cb5859f6a6c33ce0f | BIPOC futurisms | The fictive imaginaries surrounding human extinction at play in these representations are carefully designed to influence the beliefs of policy-makers and citizens alike, reproducing the colonial discourse of “whiteness under siege”.
Mitchell and Chaudhury 2020 (Audra Mitchell and Aadita Chaudhury “Worlding beyond ‘th... |
029dbe0fa204a8e450b50204ae2e1bb224f1fd7b22d444684180d82e843ae43d | fossil subsidies muddy the 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... |
025ae364b28d6daa9521693eb1540ace9b1efadd4b41bfac31bb4cd8a6223e06 | North Korea cyber attacks revenue | Revenue shortfalls cause nuclear selloffs---leads to prolif, nuke terror, and Middle East war.
Toby Dalton 21, PhD, MA, co-director and a senior fellow of the Nuclear Policy Program @ Carnegie, 4/15/2021, "The Most Urgent North Korean Nuclear Threat Isn’t What You Think", Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, ht... |
01b5c9df408b9dde6e55c3a407019a1feb41062147e9c62f2488b3aa35891011 | companies bank permits | 1---Companies subvert rules and the price on carbon isn’t sufficient.
Lisa Song '19—Lisa Song reports @ ProPublica on the environment, energy and climate change, 11-15-2019, "Cap and Trade Is Supposed to Solve Climate Change, but Oil and Gas Company Emissions Are Up," ProPublica, https://www.propublica.org/article/cap... |
019c67ff9c4b1d4d373a9eca73d7ff6d995753c9ed2167066c9123066f32914c | China not a threat | China’s a status quo power pursuing liberalism NOT revisionism.
Wilson 20 – Master’s Degree Student-International Relations, School of Politics, Law and Public Administration, Hubei University, China
China’s rise is centered on trade and market system It makes no sense to pursue confrontation participation in rule... |
03f0d34348344836eb66a30606d189aae0bb93b19becb55a7aa40bf207e2bdbe | Muresianu and Bray 22 | The plan solves --- Only a domestic tax with accompanying CBAM can protect US companies while incentivizing global action.
Muresianu and Bray, 22 (Alex Muresianu and Sean Bray, Muresianu is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Tax Foundation, focused on federal tax policy. Bray is Director of European Policy at the Tax Foun... |
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Stone and Marinescu 20, [Ioana Marinescu is an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Andy Stone is producer and host of ... |
00c56d1c5e6f5c16905063007e22e7f8e0364aacf313eb372f51a597d9ea227b | expert staffers politics | It creates a conflict-resolution mechanism that acts as an off-ramp for hyper-partisanship---that’s Cross.
The congressional bureaucracy, in many ways, reflects Weber's description of what an ideal bureaucracy looks like. Congress' internal institutions, too, share a fierce commitment to objectivity and nonpartisanshi... |
009e2bca68b7261da65f1339ff44fd5d69acbe3194f2f547f7b2de27cb23d817 | small modular nuclear reactors bad | SMRs fail and are counter to solving climate change---laundry list
Michael Barnard 21. Chief Strategist, TFIE Strategy; Board Observer and Strategist, Agora Energy Technologies. “Small Modular Nuclear Reactors Are Mostly Bad Policy.” https://cleantechnica.com/2021/05/03/small-modular-nuclear-reactors-are-mostly-bad-po... |
03e18d9aaebbe0553b17a4093ef55fdaadf282ccee17d4a5e814890c002f81d4 | hatred of women and death | utilitarianism driving fear of death explains the long history of violence.
Thomas Nail 20. Thomas Nail is a distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver. “Introduction” in Lucretius II: An Ethics of Motion. Edinburgh University Press. 2020. ISBN: 978 1 4744 6665 3.
privileging life,... |
0454d1b1b9aae5395c2f0adbe4ae9300cc8636dbc0b04130b6b140bbeff11b9c | Caro 22 biodiversity loss | 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... |
03c0614c38e7d5f5d803127d164c873cccb10ddee009727072b92b722145cb67 | struck down vagueness | Vagueness. That’ll be struck down.
Fred A. Blanche 83, former justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court, 3/25/1983, “State v. Union Tank Car Co.,” 439 So. 2d 377 (La. 1983),
the words challenged as vague are struck down words adjudged vague because they have no recognized meaning |
0037be18b15dd9e29c2b334e2ef212fde48668794e5080b81f2e28256e077c17 | Trump 2.0 geopolitical instability | Trump 2.0 causes extinction---great-power-wars, U.S. belligerency, AND trade collapse.
Feaver 24, PhD, Professor of Political Science. (Peter, 2-19-2024, “The Real Challenge of Trump 2.0,” Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/real-challenge-trump-20)
Trump 2.0 less likely to restrain worst im... |
03493d5e4c83e772df0c544d03bf37e70d50c252124b543e9c4e1d710800161e | Federal action best climate | Only federal action solves.
Nicholas Bianco et al. 20. Program Director at Sequoia Climate Foundation. **Franz Litz, JD in Environmental Law from Boston College. **Devashree Saha, Ph.D in public policy from UT Austin. **Tyler Clevenger, Presidential Management Fellow at the Department of Transportation. **Dan Lashof, ... |
0086df87e03c858346140ccb6d3d57d3cb17928ee60663b168827911d36c387e | Decarbonization disconnecting all the things | 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.... |
01c3480fc847e3d80eee9ef084ef10063db270fd10e522cde0ce825cb667deda | No lithium shortages | No lithium shortages – African Markets, Consumer Preferences, and Market Slowdown Solves
Homes, Andy 7-11-24 Senior metals columnist who previously covered industrial metals markets for Metals Week and was EMEA commodities editor at Knight-Ridder (subsequently Bridge). Started up Metals Insider in 2003 and sold it to ... |
023fd2a0db490836443df1546bf7f1b78ab57caf571e14720783270432a76e90 | antibody drug combination products | Pharma Innovation is high now.
S&P Global 2/3 (Standards and Poor Global is an American company focusing on stock market information and American innovation.; “Pharmaceutical Industry 2025 Credit Outlook Is Stable as Healthy Revenue Growth Mitigates Pressures.” Spglobal.com, 2025, www.spglobal.com/ratings/en/research/... |
01bf8b461ce9404898913e612dc03d4e6b83b34bf7e49d0032f50d542893eb6f | China India Africa emissions | Can’t solve.
Stein and Royal 21, *Policy Advisor at The Heartland Institute, **MPP, writer for The National Interest (*Ronald Stein, **Todd Royal, 2021, “Introduction,” in ‘Clean’ Energy Exploitations: Helping Citizens Understand the Environmental and Humanity Abuses that Support ‘Clean’ Energy, Archway Publishing, Un... |
0156ba9b17b37a8179db8acf3d3330e0b0a92acea635695189a083d8faba8cf1 | Wakanda's true moment of emergence | Citation of killmonger turns the aff—allies them with black panther afrofuturism, ensures that the radical potential of the aff fades in time for Marvel’s next film
Canavan 18, Gerry---associate professor of 20th and 21st century literature at Marquette University (“The Limits of Black Panther's Afrofuturism,” Frieze,... |
00eaf79851c3c3c467ce5a385c1641824fe90795e640b715bf4154de1818c665 | RPS is net-pollution reducing | 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... |
03967f058bf280066e7bd56bf7ee5af0feaf2fb64ae0f3119e247b0cccbf0485 | GASSA would work | GASSA is useless and solves nothing.
Mehling et al. 24 – Professor at the University of Strathclyde, former Professor at Georgetown University, Deputy Director of the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research at MIT, LLD and LLM in International Law and Environmental Law from the University of Helsinki; Prof... |
02b72c04843d7cad13a9e6ca99d78202f33e1f3f3df3c398a08fbf96f9d32bce | Banks climate risk small | No physical risk or internal link – loans are short and climate change is slow, even overestimated affects don’t affect business
Cochrane 21 [John H, senior fellow of the Hoover Institution, an adjunct scholar at the CATO Institute, and the author of The Fiscal Theory of the Price Level, “The Fallacy of Climate Financ... |
011c20b85dee3164bd7a9c8b742e27f4d1744764b7ff61202ef605d7dc7ee714 | 'United States' Constitutional term of art | The ‘United States’ is a Constitutional term of art referring to federal actors, elevated by the Supremacy Clause. ‘We the people’ would require ‘of America’ to be in the resolution.
Mitchell ’15 [Paul; 2015; Previous Vice President for Legal Affairs and Counsel to an Arizona Trust and Founder of the Supreme Law; Supr... |
00c52f5a5213bfc856a9fb32512c37f7e07a8b96a9b555a36db7562c943086e2 | US maintains containment 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... |
00d5477752050c0976990bd66364e70622e39960685295083d8e24a51096266b | framework redlines K teams | 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... |
010687ce9d48950d024799e567ea1c21b6825b68a252bc7874da86c983ce1621 | US industries center innovation | 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... |
02f4a029bf56359cf3bdb3d883a04776d7ac19a139f9bfd6585659785b04bd4b | inflation eases amid booming production | 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... |
0114944fe730c22b5d0fe062c9264ab8df4ba030cbaf83c0633461cab1de680d | cap and trade effective | 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... |
03bf4800d58891c19b5dc117c3d0b6a37250ca161395cec0e02c17a3f872159c | Trade not enough for peace | 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... |
04106f0f167a2a12a9cd3e4df6c4ba0a45232c167a00b4f5e379f55e606895c3 | taxation deprives citizens of property | Independently, you must vote aff on ethics – status quo taxation violates citizen property rights
Gwartney, James, et al, 2023, (Fraser Institute, The Fraser Institute conducts and publishes studies on various economic and social issues, such as central bank policy, education, health care, and environmental regulatio... |
023a3a7cb255b09f2ad427f9a69fcd314b7e6858b52442468f38e9fd2142dab0 | No AGI abstract understanding | No AGI---it’s impossible without abstract and complex understanding of consciousness.
Lehewych ’22 [Daniel; March 31; M.A. in Philosophy from the City University of New York Graduate Center, professional freelance writer; Big Think, “The subtle art of language: why artificial general intelligence might be impossible,”... |
027caacbb65c4c40ac2bbd6b99c1c33a862691e7fe2edf1623ee43a720c5e184 | uranium shortages | Expansion = peak uranium
Elliot 11 [David Elliott is Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University, “Nuclear waste- no place to go,” 2011, http://blog.environmentalresearchweb.org/2011/02/19/nuclear-waste-no-place-to-go]
If a global nuclear renaissance occurs, demand for uranium will grow already shortages pe... |
02cbaa4fd1df64beb1735f7d5eec6a47dd318a3a9d63d6cbaa3d1983cdfce99f | US can lead clean energy | 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... |
018d45c49470711ac04693f4229e66a06fe0dd6ff5cd5d132af424878c8636fd | No nuclear conflict mutually assured destruction | 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... |
04779849195486beecdd4916677117cf8df151e89f1d5e768a45ba83561254f6 | economy wide pricing key Paris | 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... |
01c5ecaa5131af90106ca9e1db306dbd8d524763420f8217fe8cdce18a9d7f52 | MBIs vs regs | Market-based instruments require that the marginal damage caused by pollution be reflected in the marginal cost of polluting activities – the plan is a regulatory instrument which is distinct.
Johanna Arlinghaus 17, Assistant Professor of Economics and Sustainability at the Hertie School; and Kurt Van Dender, Head of ... |
016f4de2ff7b142709d3b77e44313fa3223768634aa380bf2db3aa705fc62780 | Devolution turn debate | C – Devolution turn. Reducing the scale of solvency to ‘debates about debate’ trains powerlessness and lets antiblackness adapt.
Rigakos & Law ’9 [George, Asst Prof of Law at Carleton University; Alexandra, PhD, Legal Studies, Carleton University. “Risk, Realism and the Politics of Resistance,” Critical Sociology 35(... |
01f41aa67c09f77bcd9250f42057d041d573353f1cafe2c97ea128b2258ca412 | decarbonization requires putting a price | Decarbonization requires “putting a price” on a resource that used to be free
Jean Pisani-Ferry 21, nonresident senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (Jean, “Climate Policy is Macroeconomic Policy, and the Implications Will Be Significant,” https://www.piie.com/sites/default/files/documen... |
0221316eaa33c1351c04dd8d08a93d2714263be84196d3a08f13b9abac010c86 | climate change military readiness | 1. LOW-CARBON MILITARY---it’s faster, stealthier, and more flexible---warfighting caps Chinese aggression and Arctic conflicts, solves disasters, Middle Eastern and African instability, and terrorism.
John Conger 24, Director Emeritus of the Center for Climate and Security, Senior Advisor to the Council on Strategic R... |
03fc6551ce833888558146ab40db4d9157b03c4d40f09885a5918434735442bd | hearing counter arguments negative outcome | The campaign effect outweighs positive polling.
Ioana Marinescu 20. Associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Interview with Andy Stone. "Why Americans Want a Carbon Tax, But Won’t Support One at the P... |
01ae39b829277918bcea2b6e8f8adc8aae0e8997896e4a5176c5349c2e0524b2 | sustainable aviation fuel | 5. AIRCRAFT RANGE.
Alman ’22 [David; October 25; Officer and pilot in the Air National Guard, B.S. and M.S. in aerospace engineering; War on the Rocks, "Sustainable Aviation Fuel: Investing in the Future," https://warontherocks.com/2022/10/sustainable-aviation-fuel-investing-in-the-future/]
in the 30s 100 octane prov... |
0048fd4558c0e40fe711067dc9d9b42034271ef146e4b0ce4afcf66a95952bc5 | Dedev doesn't solve tech downsides | Dedev doesn’t solve the downsides of tech
Andrew J. Wright 19. Leading the Maritimes Region Fisheries and Oceans Canada assessment of impacts of shipping noise on North Atlantic right whales (NARW) as part of Canada’s Oceans Protection Plan. 09/2019. “The End? Science, Conservation, and Social Justice as Necessary Too... |
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Constellation, 2024, "What are renewable energy certificates?", https://www.constellation.com/energy-101/energy-innovation/renewable-energy-certificates-explained.html, da 8/31/24, +=
REC make renewable energy tradeable certificate includ... |
0443de2a25c6abdf5bb591f05d9acb69788a086f75f59ee78abf4a32742a826d | carbon pricing criticisms | 2. Alternative instruments fail due to the rebound effect.
Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh and Wouter W.J. Botzen. 24. van den Bergh is a ICREA Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, is the deputy director for Research of its Institute of Environmental Science and Technology, is the professor of Environm... |
03dc6ed8da18e48715ec0e073cb8db91b26bc33906342b0b047c8db2f583330a | use them or lose them | Nuclear Terror Triggers global nuclear War.
Morgan, 09 (Dennis Ray Morgan, professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS) in South Korea. 2009, Futures Volume 41, Issue 10 , "World on fire: two scenarios of the destruction of human civilization and possible extinction of the human race", https://www.science... |
0158f1f582ae3ef1d102b0fe9390da79a4bcfdca0ab37b33eabb54930196b7a1 | warming continues to accelerate | Warming’s accelerating
Overpeck 25 [Jonathan Overpeck, Jonathan Overpeck, an interdisciplinary climate scientist and dean of the School for Environment and Sustainability, is an expert on climate and weather extremes, sea-level rise, the impacts of climate change and options for dealing with it. He served as a lead au... |
027e17ca37917d75c601d25aae9d471408f6946d627aa95469377d6608f68c91 | Against degrowth | Growth is sustainable.
Jonas Elvander & Leigh Phillips 23, PhD researcher at the European University Institute in Florence, editor of foreign affairs at Flamman, Leigh, Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions at the University of Victoria,“Degrowth Is Not the Answer to Climate Change”, https://jacobin.com/2023/01/agai... |
00c7000ffe018760f1d3f76737b7cc3277925cd7d682504625d7925471462e8d | align with supposed radicalism | Refusing to exhaust political engagement to align with supposed radicalism makes extinction and unprecedented structural violence inevitable
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 University Press)... |
023e1694fd7c47daf796980096560de4c66df1c4f60463850bae7468b916ca76 | disability demands coming to terms | 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 ... |
03dfb91bcf9d2423f58cbc24ae34a3e1b374512c1bed5ac113d7ee3d1fc15432 | Etoke freedom | 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... |
024c2356950606efa522aa30304d3753935d0ff55cfbdf3c50e0097ff3c39889 | Linguistic gymnastics don't make better treatment | Disability rhetoric doesn’t reinforce ableism and rejecting it doesn’t solve – Their linguistic focus just papers over oppression - Turns the K
Pierce 2012 (Samantha Pierce, founder and Executive Director of NeuroDiversity Consulting, a firm dedicated to special needs families and educating parents and the community a... |
03264e8f6c1bf94ae302e0d8acd2d6ff420d74e0d450974b6c24cc6eb5a2ebaf | nationalist hostility nuclear | 2. ASIAN PROLIF.
Cimbala ’23 [Stephen and Adam Lowther; June 2023; Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin, Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Penn State University; Ph.D. from the University of Alabama, Director of Research and Education at the Louisiana Tech Research Institute; Sprin... |
005b2969044c02fe12d5373849ec3ea2356e79082f91bcb109ddec3ba32cfa7d | LCERC solves aff avoids net | LCERC solves the aff, avoids the net benefit and picking winners
Isabel Galiana 12, Professor of Economics at McGill University; Christopher Green, Professor of Economics, School of Environment, McGill University; and Jeremy Leonard, research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, July 2012, “A Techn... |
02ac6355c8c1fb47cd73adfdd856cba2855fc81b2a56f0a628142b1493d4d27e | Escalante 19 | Capitalist cycles of reproduction are causing climate change and widespread fascism which turns the K---only the alt grants the power for revolution.
Escalante ’19 [Alyson; September 8; M.A. in Philosophy from The University of Oregon. Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist Activist.; Failing Tha... |
02f98580e9c3c1b3e2f835b1416de9063fc15d28f29b4a7c19c373e0bec1249c | Anderson et al 23 | Say no---innumerable political, legal, and practical hurdles---the CP is the status quo!
Robert D. Anderson et al. 23, Honorary Professor, School of Law, University of Nottingham (UK) and formerly Senior Counsellor and Team Leader for Government Procurement and Competition Policy, World Trade Organization (WTO), Anton... |
00461f80cf20b04103eb4fbf91ed10e685fd54f725ecef82c21b07446fdfd42d | ECB israel internal row | 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... |
0011344857f2c5a4763eb724937585d0b304b835c76447a9b4e76dde4bb2da92 | Fleming 16 | 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... |
042e60d44128606463356bfed543a4c1056126e3215ac818ca275db43d82077c | energy transition policies and rhetoric | 3 - LITERATURE BASE. Subsidization is the only “substantive debate” about energy transition.
Mills 24, Mark P. Mills, contributing editor of City Journal, executive director of the National Center on Energy Analytics, a strategic partner in the energy fund Montrose Lane, and author of The Cloud Revolution: How the Con... |
03994e1049103da39af2b8e183a470507b761989df8b98675dc8c3288d8d5986 | global development improves long-term future | Developing economies cap existential threats.
Wong ’22 [Ruth and Eevee Ciara; September 1; Senior Cloud Systems Engineer, M.A. from Johns Hopkins University, M.Sc. in Bioinformatics from Western Univrsity; Machine learning engineer at PayPal, writer for the Effective Altruism Forum; Substack, “Rethinking longtermism a... |
01f0858b608636f57d08d20ba19435746c5150b1d47389656a9f47764c1a3b43 | tariffs give U.S. automakers chance | That crushes rust belt American auto---plan evens the field
Dayen 24, American economics author and columnist, Executive Editor at the American Prospect, B.A., English, University of Michigan (David Dayen, May 14, 2024, “Tariffs Give U.S. Automakers a Fleeting Chance,” The American Prospect, https://prospect.org/econo... |
0254def6d10ededb397ef2865743838206c9c266c4e359d938ba7d513c2ac3d4 | worldwide revolution possible | “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... |
015a30c0ab9548ce6bdfd4c70032e3cd28b7d341ff5e01b30d8b02b223076116 | Slavery doesn't structure the social | Slavery doesn’t structure the social. Social death is wrong and antiblackness is contingent.
Gordon 21 – Philosopher of Africana philosophy and Black existentialism and Professor, UConn
“ an antiblack world” is not “ the world is antiblack.” The latter is an antiblack racist project It is not the historical achieveme... |
0454d1b1b9aae5395c2f0adbe4ae9300cc8636dbc0b04130b6b140bbeff11b9c | habitat loss exceeds climate | 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... |
036c6fdace430d49f505290a50f01e39f0daed312219c8d77c9e93a24bd00f43 | global 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... |
02916c4b775176d65f5366295761f21d5ba4df44ec3c6a9a652043519e7001d4 | Illinois RPS reduces prices | National RPS wouldn’t noticeably increase energy prices.
Francesca F. Bochner 14. Duke University School of Law, J.D. expected 2015; Dartmouth College, B.A. 2010. Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum, Vol. XXV, p. 201, Fall 2014. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1311&... |
01201510a8f09b3a9afd5f9ca84c31272858384c46d61e3feb830678d72c6641 | recession is coming | ’07 level recession is coming.
Fox 9-19-24, [Matthew Fox, Senior Markets reporter for Business Insider. “The Fed's 50 basis point rate cut won't do anything to stop a recession, economist David Rosenberg says” https://www.businessinsider.com/recession-outlook-rosenberg-warns-economic-downturn-2007-fed-rate-cuts-2024-9... |
042fef96c229b8b0baf4270a829d6595e2bffb899b37ecea769ed58fe6332c2c | US grid large | The US electrical grid is resilient.
Rick Cragg 24. Project manager at Fossil Consulting Services. Technical consultant to utility, independent power, and government clients in the areas of fossil/cogeneration/hydropower plant training need assessments, design, development, and implementation, and auditing. “Is the US... |
03b39adb86d85aebf9050d9c46c9432632db6effd0a0874768913718f50582fb | capitalism right model radical shifts | This is a myth of green capitalism that simply correcting market failures can solve ecological destruction – all of our links assume the link turn, but not the other way around
Fox ’23 (Nick Fox is one of the UK's leading proponents of new materialist and posthuman social theory as applied to sociology, University of ... |
00beb7f1392835f8ea7aaf0bb15536da7a1adced17de27fb83096ef2dc3bb7e3 | child care deserts | Plank 4 is Key to long-run econ growth
Abott 21 [9-15; Sam Abott is a family economic security policy analyst at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth. Before joining Equitable Growth, Abbott was a child welfare and juvenile justice researcher and consultant at Child Trends and Georgetown University’s Center for ... |
00cb1c8b7db6d0d087e343ac797be1038521494932e8a1084041bd2f2002a3ea | corn ethanol emissions benefits | If there is an impact, its tiny compared to emissions benefits and improving.
Busse ’21 [Julie; January 28; Director of Renewable Fuels at National Corn Growers Association Strategic Leader; National Corn Growers Association, “New Study Highlights the Environmental Benefits of Corn-Ethanol Showing a Reduction in Carbo... |
033db4bb6b744a205b9279e2a460fe3c90699278edc5f2b8205dd6b1d7a17d32 | black humanity is a source strength | The reassertion of black humanity is a powerful way to turn blackness into a source of strength, rather than a pathology---ontology accepts the normality of a world that created blackness as a construct but sought to exclude it, and ignores life-affirming ways to think about blackness
Lewis R. Gordon 16, Ph.D. in phil... |
02716a0efeb67e712e6082cea836ec3cc7b4c6dc3d3cfb2541fa52312e9278b3 | Grammar strongest internal link | Grammar is the superseding principle of law---it’s the strongest internal link to predictability.
Scalia ’12 [Antonin; Supreme Court Justice; Brian Garner; Legal Scholar and Lexicographer; 2012; Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legislative Texts; https://jm919846758.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/rlilt.pdf... |
004cf553f94343b5a99fff1e5398c3ead50245f53c29f8a4e95a64875ed1d518 | Donaghy et al. '23 | The fossil fuel industry creates sacrifice zones that harm the most vulnerable—don’t fool yourself the alt leaves them to die.
Donaghy et al. '23 [Timothy Donaghy, Noel Healy, Charles Jiang, and Colette Pichon Battle, PhD in Physics at the University of Chicago; associate professor in geography department at Salem Sta... |
0347ae98a534b3b7d1d899f828e1f8172ed2755ddd679b7c01cfa4cd8be0b639 | China willing to strike first | 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... |
00567aea2618d7656487637bce90bcd354ff1473ec423485ed0bebb41571043f | ungovernability is organized | Amidst the ever present looming surveillance on queer life, governance is the disease not the cure. Planning fugitive pathways is the only path forward.
Stanley 21 (Eric Stanley – Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and coeditor of Trap Door: Trans Cultural Prod... |
0194068dcdd7924ba0b3d86adac8eb8eb93ea08375d4a01806e0be46a5edf373 | Slow violence and apocalypse | Thinking through apocalypse does not erase slow violence, it enables us to challenge it.
Julia Grillmayr & Christine Hentschel 24, Visiting Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Art and Design Linz, Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Vienna; Professor in the Institute for Criminologica... |
01701ad9eca26d7022d4573c639efb603e3088deea08b28e5fb37c2c606327c0 | Dr. Michael J. Boyle 13 | Extinction
Dr. Michael J. Boyle 13, Professor of Political Science at La Salle University, Former Lecturer in International Relations and Research Fellow in the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St. Andrews, “The Costs and Consequences of Drone Warfare”, International Affair... |
032b568c639d8adc33d2b1f8658f4e7750a5224f3b5b1735276df86d9e1bcca4 | Market based instruments exclude subsidies | “Market-based” instruments excludes subsidies. They are exclusively carbon pricing, tradable standards, EIS, CES / RPS.
Cleary et al. ’21 [Kathryne, Carolyn Fischer, and Karen Palmer; 2021; Senior Research Associate at Resources for the Future (RFF), Washington, DC, USA, and works on RFF’s Future of Power Initiative a... |
03c34d148b1fc5d40a26eba68aba2eca7ca90391df5d3c0629150cde17cce497 | adopt means to put into effect | “Adopt” means the US must put the plan into effect, not merely plan it.
Grayson P. Hanes et al. 4. Senior Counsel at Reed Smith, JD at George Washington University. Benjamin Leigh, attorney at Mims, Atwill & Leigh, P.C., J.D. at the University of Richmond. Deborah C. Welsh, attorney at Welsh & Lanham, P.L.C., JD at t... |
0258e7150dffa0aee5e4fac31549c8db07f1e89067a90b55f3890d355942ac13 | fossil fuel subsidies neg price | The plan’s market signal is trashed by fossil fuel subsidies
Green 21 [Jessica Green, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto, with a cross appointment at the School of Environment. She holds a PhD from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, May 2021 https... |
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