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taxing fuels and power
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...
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IPCC climate inevitability
Warming inevitable is doomerism. Scientific consensus errs aff. Damian Carrington 24. Staff Writer, The Guardian. “‘The stakes could not be higher’: world is on edge of climate abyss, UN warns.” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/09/world-is-on-verge-of-climate-abyss-un-warns series of leading c...
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International trade fragile protectionism
International trade is high, but fragile. Further protectionism pushes it over the edge. Yin Zou 24. Executive Vice President of Corporate Development, DHL Group. “The pandemic exposed fragile supply chains: Here are 3 ways to strengthen them and build on global trade.” World Economic Forum. January 2, 2024. https://w...
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No energy wars
No energy wars---barriers and payoffs check. Meierding 20 (, E. L (2020) The Oil Wars Myth [Project Muse]. Cornell University Press. https://doi.org/10.1353/book.84316. Emily Meierding is Associate Professor of National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School. Her research has also examined international res...
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Solves federal lands specificity matters
Solves federal lands – specificity matters – requiring compliance rather than categorical ban avoids preemption Biber 16 --- Eric, law prof @ Berkeley, environmental and natural resources law, administrative law, and property. Prior to joining Berkeley in 2006, he worked as a litigator in the Denver office of Earthjus...
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climate policy instruments EU
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...
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Border adjusted tax compels
There’s momentum now. Border-adjusteded tax compels follow through. Bistline 24 approach reliant on subsidies has received mixed response tensions unlikely to disappear CBAM drive change in other countries U.S. influences climate policy abroad through credibility in negotiations and reducing costs of low-carbon tech
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Leonard 10
Bargaining. Perm vaporizes opposition both by preempting the condition AND aligning the states with the fed. Elizabeth Leonard 10. Professor of Law at the University of Kansas and Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Georgia, J.D. from the University of Georgia; Hofstra Law Review, “Rhetorical Federalism: Th...
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multilateral banks obligation to monitor
The ICJ will say: unilateral declarations that manifest intent are binding---that gets the U.S. on board. Radavoi ’18 [Ciprian N.; Spring 2018; Lecturer in Law, University of New England, Australia, “Indirect Responsibility in Development Lending: Do Multilateral Banks Have an Obligation to Monitor Project Loans?,” 53...
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beliefs conform to evidence
1. Only empirical reflection can produce moral judgements. Gertler 18, Provost for Academic Affairs and Commonwealth Professor in the Corcoran Department of Philosophy at the University of Virginia. (Brie, 2018, “Self-Knowledge and Rational Agency: A Defense of Empiricism,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vo...
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China retaliate immediately
Alert levels are kept exceptionally low. Wu ’22 [Riqiang; 2022; Associate Professor of International Studies at the Renmin University of China, Ph.D. in Political Science from Tsinghua University; International Security, “Assessing China-U.S. Inadvertent Nuclear Escalation,” vol. 46 no. 2] China’s nuclear forces are...
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Harrison environmental justice
4---Environmental justice requires insider activism that tactically engages the State without reaffirming its hegemony. Harrison et al. 24 [Jill Lindsey Harrison – Department of Geography, University of Colorado Boulder, Jonathan K. London – Department of Human Ecology/Community and Regional Development, University of...
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Rejecting climate policy cedes political
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...
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unchecked war powers escalate conflict
Unchecked war powers cause conflict escalation globally. Ted Galen Carpenter 22. Senior Fellow at CATO. “Congress Is Willingly Abdicating Its War Powers Again.” 6/14/22. https://www.cato.org/commentary/congress-willingly-abdicating-its-war-powers-again The Constitution gives Congress authority Yet the U S has launche...
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trade during conflict
4. Interdependence doesn’t prevent war---countries continue to trade during conflict. Leda Zimmerman 21, Writer, editor and communications strategist, citing a paper by Mariya Grinberg, assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, “Solving puzzles of international trade, war, and order,” MIT News,...
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US India ties fragile
Relations cooked. Reject their snapshots. Grossman 24, senior defense analyst at RAND, adjunct professor at the University of Southern California (Derek Grossman, April 7, 2024, “U.S.-India Ties Remain Fundamentally Fragile,” RAND, https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2024/04/us-india-ties-remain-fundamentally-fragile...
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Trump budget freeze Congressional stability
Trump’s budget freeze and nominees implode Congressional stability, triggers massive controversy. Cama and Picon 1/31 [Timothy Cama and Andres Picon are reporters for E&E News by Politico. “The fight over spending just got a lot more complicated.” 1-31-25. https://www.eenews.net/articles/the-fight-over-spending-just-g...
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economic vulnerabilities build potential
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...
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Salvador Pueyo
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] ...
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CO2 storage instead of EOR
Permanent storage is an alternative to EOR. Serin 23, Esin Serin, Policy Fellow working on UK energy and climate policy with a particular focus on sustainable growth, economic opportunities of net zero and decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors. Esin works in collaboration with the LSE’s Centre for Economic Performa...
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fuel prices like US consumption
Taxes are the most powerful tool for large-scale change. Marshall 22, Economics Research Coordinator for Citizens’ Climate Education (Jonathan Marshall, May 6, 2022, “How Carbon Taxes Reduce CO2 Emissions in Transportation,” https://static.prod01.ue1.p.pcomm.net/cclobby/content/resources/economics/Transportation-Paper...
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prices reduce poverty
No food wars. Vestby et al. 18 – Jonas, Doctoral Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, Ida Rudolfsen, doctoral researcher at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University and PRIO, and Halvard Buhaug, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO); Professor of Politica...
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IRA transformed the economy
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...
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Ellissa Cavaciuti-Wishart
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...
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Helen Meekosha
Sidelining the impact of hunger and resource deprivation is colonial scholarship that we must reject. Meekosha 11 (Helen, School of Social Sciences and International Relations, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia “Decolonising disability: thinking and acting globally” Disability & Society, 26:6, 667-682) ...
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Green 21
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...
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RPS not carbon price
RPS is not a price on emissions. Kayla Young et al 22. doctoral candidate in political science at Purdue University. Kayla Gurganus, doctoral candidate in Political Science & Ecological Sciences & Engineering at Purdue University. Leigh Raymond, professor of Political Science at Purdue University. “Framing market-base...
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Dr. Eric Toder
Other countries overwhelm Dr. Eric Toder 21, PhD, Nonresident Fellow, Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, Urban Institute, "A Carbon Tax Is Not the Solution to Global Climate Change," Tax Policy Center, 10/05/2021, https://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/carbon-tax-not-solution-global-climate-change. emissions are glob...
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Indigenous political engagement is successful
Indigenous political engagement is extremely successful because it co-opts the language of the state to strategically advance native interests while continuing to engage in movements outside the state. Noisecat 17, 11th Hour Fellow at New America as well as a Fellow of the Type Media Center. Enrolled member of the Can...
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climate monetary policy difficult
Warming causes inflation. Emissions reductions are the only way to stabilize price volatility. Maximilian Kotz et al. 24. **Post-doctoral researcher in the Research Department for Complexity Science and member of the working group Data Based Analysis of Climate Decisions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Res...
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Capitalism causes climate change
Capitalism is unsustainable. That enables a slew of existential societal and environmental downsides including climate change, inequality, resource wars, food insecurity, fungal pathogens, pandemics, and others. Extinction. The alternative is a planned economy. It’s mutually exclusive. Dr. Charles Fletcher et al. 4-2,...
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closed economies of domination
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.” ...
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CO2 increase plant growth 40
C02 solves food insecurity. CO2 Coalition 15 [This white paper summarizes the views of the CO2 Coalition, a new and independent, non-profit organization that seeks to engage thought leaders, policy makers, and the public in an informed, dispassionate discussion of how our planet will be affected by CO2 released from t...
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US standards nonproliferation
That’s key to maintain international non-prolif norms and break Russian dominance. Ahn et. al 23 – Alan Ahn, Deputy Director for Nuclear for Third Way’s Climate and Energy Program, Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) from Tufts University; Josh Freed, led Third Way’s clean energy and climate advocacy efforts; R...
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rule of law and economic freedom
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...
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Americans want carbon tax
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...
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Russia China conflict nuclear
That goes nuclear. Saradzhyan 10 (Simon Saradzhyan, Director, Russia Matters Projec @ the Belfer Center, 5-4-2010, "The Role of China in Russia’s Military Thinking," Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/role-china-russias-military-thinking, accessed 2-17-2024) ...
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CPU shock negative supply
Otherwise, climate policy uncertainty makes decline inevitable Huang ’24 [Bihong and Maria Teresa Punzi; June; Economist at the International Monetary Fund, PhD in applied economics; Senior Research Fellow at the Singapore Green Finance Centre at the Sim Kee Boon Institute for Financial Economics, Singapore Management...
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Firms depend on energy costs
Firms depend on energy costs for expectations. Hensel ’24 [Jannik, Giacomo Mangiante, Luca Moretti; April; PhD in Economics University of Zurich; Research Fellow at the Central Bank of Italy, PhD in Economics, University of Lausanne; PhD in Economics, University of Zurich; Journal of Monetary Economics, “Carbon pricin...
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abolitionism relies on violent historiography
The 1ACs calls for abolition reify carceral institutions---vote NEG to reject it. Patrick Teed ‘23, PhD candidate in York University’s Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, “Whiter Abolition?”, Differences, Volume 34, Number 2, doi:10.1215/10407391-10713805, September 2023, DMurph abolition became a hous...
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clean energy CO2 bump
2---Co2 Bump and Global Development. Max Ajl 21, associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment and a postdoctoral fellow with the Rural Sociology Group at Wageningen University, 2021, “A People’s Green New Deal,” Pluto Press A huge problem the CO2 “bump” in transition: b...
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planned contraction of economic activity
MBIs are ineffective and lock in capitalist growth. The alternative is democratic socialism. Schmelzer ’23 [Matthias and Elena Hofferberth; July 1; Professor for Social-Ecological Transformation Research and head of the Norbert Elias Center at the University of Flensburg; Postdoctoral Researcher at University of Lausa...
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John Thomason 22
Climate change turns alt solvency. John Thomason 22. Articles Editor at Grist. BA in English from Pomona College. "Olúfémi O. Táíwò's theory of everything". Grist. 6-21-2022. https://grist.org/culture/olufemi-taiwo-climate-change-reparations-justice/ climate change disproportionate effects on populations for whom th...
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lower court decision law
they deny cert Johnson et al 17 [Ben Johnson, PhD candidate, Politics, Princeton University, JD Yale Law School; and Keith E. Whittington, Professor of Politics, Princeton University; “Why Does the Supreme Court Uphold so Many Laws?” University of Illinois Law Review, forthcoming, written 5-6-2017, https://papers.ssrn...
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air quality RPS
RPS is net-pollution reducing. Ryan Wiser et al. 16. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. With Galen Barbose, Jenny Heeter, Trieu Mai, Lori Bird, Mark Bolinger, Alberta Carpenter, Garvin Heath, David Keyser, Jordan Macknick, Andrew Mills, and Dev Millstein. A Retrospective Analysis of the Benefits and Impacts of U.S...
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private sector non-innovative
2—The internet, vaccines, and military all prove—the private sector is risk-averse and rent-seeking. Jeuk & Spang 22 (Alexander Jeuk, Magister in Philosophy, Sociology, Psychology from Goethe University, PhD in Philosophy from the University of Cincinnati; Friderike Spang, SNSF Senior Researcher, Faculty of Law, Crimi...
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Conger 24
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...
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US climate leader
IRA solved the advantage – the carrot approach put the us into the limelight. John Siciliano 24 (holds a Master of Science in Education from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He writes for S&P global with a focus on international and scientific events. “IRA Could Spur Trillions in Spending, Unseat Europe as Clima...
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nuclear disarmament cheating
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...
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Lipsky 24
Trump causes trade wars. Lipsky 24, [Josh Lipsky is the senior director of the Atlantic Council’s GeoEconomics Center. He previously served as an advisor at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Speechwriter to Christine Lagarde. Prior to joining the IMF, Josh was an appointee at the State Department, serving as S...
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Robert Kaineg 13
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...
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Albert 2020
Rogue bioterrorism and synthetic biology. Albert ’20 [Michael J.; April 17; Lecturer in International Relations working at the intersection of IR and political theory, critical political economy, and the transdisciplinary study of socio-ecological systems; Global Policy, “The Dangers of Decoupling: Earth System Crisis...
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disease extinction unlikely
Disease can’t cause extinction Ord ’20 [Dr. Toby Ord, Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy at Oxford University, DPhil in Philosophy from the University of Oxford, The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Hachette Books, Kindle Edition, p. 124-126] pandemic fall short of a threat to humanity biolo...
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Trumper tariff roulette
Trumper. Lucy Raitano et al. 2/7 (is a reporter for Reuters, writing with Alun John and Dhara Ranasinghe in London, Greta Rosen Fondahn in Gdansk and Rodrigo Campos in New York.; Reuters. “Trump’s Tariff Roulette: The Markets Left Reeling from Trade Threats.” Reuters, 7 Feb. 2025, www.reuters.com/markets/global-market...
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taxation and decarbonization
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...
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public lands climate change solutions
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:/...
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ableist perspective
These phrases entrench ableism Schalk 13 Sami Schalk - MFA in Creative Writing (Poetry) from University of Notre Dame and PhD in Gender Studies from Indiana University. Was affiliated w. The Department of Gender Studies, Indiana University at the time of this writing – now is an Assistant Prof at UW-Madison.– “Ableist...
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trade prevents conflict
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...
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And widespread
And widespread Li 24 [Marie Li, High Meadows Climate Risk Fellow at the Environmental Defense Fund, “Investors, bipartisan former officials, others defend SEC climate risk disclosure rule,” Environmental Defense Fund, 8-22-2024, https://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2024/08/22/investors-bipartisan-former-officials-others-d...
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Biden expects Harris support
8---And he’ll explicitly tie Harris to it. Peter Lucas 24. Columnist at the Boston Herald. "Lucas: Kamala Harris’ biggest problem is being tied to Biden." Boston Herald. 8-19-2024. https://www.bostonherald.com/2024/08/19/lucas-kamala-harris-biggest-problem-is-being-tied-to-biden/ Harris’ problem tied to Biden’s econo...
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USFG should means fiat
“USFG should” means the aff has the burden of defending hypothetical government action, AKA fiat. Ericson 3 (Jon M., Dean Emeritus of the College of Liberal Arts – California Polytechnic U., et al., The Debater’s Guide, Third Edition, p. 4) in The U S should The verb means to put a policy into action though governmen...
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Adam Clark Estes Vox
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...
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Yan et al 23
Properly designed carbon tax is the only way to substantially reduce emissions while promoting fiscal sustainability---ETS trades-off with the economy. Yan et. al 23, (Keija Yan – GRA Fellowship of Chemistry at the University of Alberta, Rakesh Gupta – PhD & Department Chair of Economics at U Brisbane, Suneel Maheshwa...
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taxes on capital and income
It'd generate revenue through a hybrid tax swap, rebate, and green spending program. Split is likely 10% in direct rebates for the lowest income groups, 40% in tax swaps, and 50% in green spending. a hybrid approach of a carbon-for-capital tax swap plus rebates balance efficiency and equity remaining revenues financ ...
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courts adopt policy
Courts may adopt public policy in the absence of legislative action Keller 18 – Justice of the Kentucky Supreme Court, former Judge on the Kentucky Court of Appeals. Chairwoman Emeritus of the Kentucky Personnel Board. J.D. from Northern Kentucky University’s Chase College of Law. when organs of public policy are si...
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China upending Westphalia war
Chinese influence destroys the LIO---extinction through multilateral breakdown AND great-power war. Wang ’19 [Fei-Ling; October 24; Professor at the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania; The Cipher Brief, “The China Order: A Challenge for the U.S. and the World,” https://...
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Causes follow on
Causes follow on and avoids politics. Cooper ’21 [Charlie; 2021; President of Get Money Out Maryland and Retired Human Services Administrator; Get Money Out Maryland, “A Convention of States is Wise and Safe,” https://www.getmoneyoutmd.org/peoples_convention] Constitution provides a path through states a convention r...
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Miller data scientist
Their ev fundamentally misunderstands how betting odds and voting probabilities work, Georgetown reads green Shawn 2AC Tully 9/18, senior editor at Fortune, 18 September 2024, “Could there be a Kamala Harris landslide in November? The data scientist who correctly called the last election is betting yes,” Fortune, http...
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Global Risks 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...
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Financial system climate risk
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...
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endogenous emissions cap
Cap-and-trade creates a green paradox Gerlagh (gur-lak), Heijmans, Rosendahl 21. Reyer Gerlagh, Roweno J R K Heijmans, Knut Einar Rosendahl, 3-19-2021, "An endogenous emissions cap produces a green paradox", OUP Academic, https://academic.oup.com/economicpolicy/article/36/107/485/6178790. MSU-shARK cap-and-trade suf...
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st pierre order-words
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...
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agency action implements statutes
Adopted rules meet policy---and legislative Vida 13 [José Vida, Associate Professor, Department of Public Law, University Carlos III of Madrid, Visiting Scholar, Maurer Law School, IU and UC Berkeley Law School, “An Unquestionable Myth: The Consecreation of Cost-Benefit Analisys in the Regulatory State,” SSRN, 2-11-20...
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Andrew Wright
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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Presidential authority call special session
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...
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natural gas competitive longer
No link -- RPS stabilizes natural gas generation Avraam et al. 2021 [Charalampos Avraam, Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, Johns Hopkins University; John E.T. Bistline, Electric Power Research Institute; Maxwell Brown, National Renewable Energy Laboratory; Kathleen Vaillancourt, Esmia Consultants; Sauleh Si...
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Aramco profits 2023
Aaramco is seeing record profits Gambrell 24—Jon Gambrell (New director for the Gulf and Iran at the associated press). “Aramco announces $121 billion profit in 2023, Saudi oil giant’s 2nd highest on record” May 10, 2024, accessed September 11, 2024. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/aramco-announces-121-billion-pr...
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MENA vulnerabilities
MENA-based terror is a unique vector for CBRN incidents. Hassan Farhat et al. 24, MSc, Quality Improvement Mentor, Quality Patient Safety & Risk Management, Ambulance Service Group, Hamad Medical Corporation; Dr. Guillaume Alinier, PhD, Director, Research, Ambulance Service, Hamad Medical Corporation; Mariana Helou, M...
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climate change root cause
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...
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Dylan Rodriguez white supremacy
The global police order of white-supremacy is maintained through a fusing of juridical apparatuses with white bodily integrity such that racial geographies are terraformed into sites of extraction or waste --- not of just what is demarcated as nature, but of the very lifeworlds that Black, Brown, and Native people inha...
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James Rowe 23
Fossil civilization’s fear of death precludes hospitality, making it impossible to cultivate existential affirmation. James Rowe 23. [Associate Professor of environmental studies and cultural, social, and political thought at the University of Victoria. His interdisciplinary research program is motivated by a desire t...
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Erdmann 23
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/...
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WTO is not a trojan horse
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...
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deflating dragon
China’s officially in a recession. Yardeni 11-11, *President of Yardeni Research, Inc; **analyst at the NY Fed. (*Ed, **Eric Wallerstein, 11-11-2024, “China: A Deflating Dragon,” Yardeni: QuickTakes, https://www.yardeniquicktakes.com/china-a-deflating-dragon/) The recession was in China huge negative wealth effect of...
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David Sergeant 18
Affect doesn’t scale up to material transformation David Sergeant 18, Lecturer in English, University of Plymouth, School of Humanities and Performing Arts, University of Plymouth, “Representing the Planet: Affect, Scale and Utopia,” Novel: A Forum on Fiction, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/12724, [insert...
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No Solvency – Fossil Fuel Subsidies
And – No Solvency – Fossil Fuel Subsidies are federal, even if States tax they can’t access Federal Lands or build on them. Biden’s “carbon tax” doesn’t price externalities, keeping pollution profitable. Revesz and Sarinsky 22, *AnBryce Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus, New York University School of Law, **Adjunct P...
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Trumpism cannot be fused with Reaganism
It is a historic betrayal. Schoenfeld ’24 [Gabriel; March 21; senior fellow at the Niskanen Center, is the author of Necessary Secrets: National Security, the Media, and the Rule of Law; Bulwark, “No, Trumpism Can’t Be Fused with Reaganism,” https://www.thebulwark.com/p/no-trumpism-cannot-be-fused-with-reaganism] Kro...
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Paul Joseph Kelly Jr. 11
Adopted means in effect Paul Joseph Kelly Jr. 11, Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, “Kerber v. Qwest Group Life Ins. Plan,” 647 F.3d 950, Lexis because adopt is not defined we give it common ordinary meaning in common usage an amendment can be adopted so long as that is put into effect
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sacrifice zones and pollution
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...
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crypto energy intensive 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...
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Industrial ag dependent on fossil fuels
Industrial Ag is DEPENDENT on fossil fuel extraction to fuel this growth. Controlled declines of intensity and consumption solve best. GAFF* 23 [*Global Alliance for the Future of Food {Alliance of philanthropic foundations aligned toward transforming global food systems}. Power Shift: Why We Need to Wean Industrial F...
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sustainable finance harm money
C – Capital’s focus on efficiency leads to deregulation and lobbying for exemptions. That causes accumulation. Spash 20 - Clive Spash 2020 (Clive is an economist, Professor of Public Policy and Governance at the Vienna University of Economics and Business, Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Values, and former President ...
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Stokes and Mildenberger
1) Demand is inelastic, so consumers won’t shift. Leah C. Stokes & Matto Mildenberger 20, Stokes is an assistant professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, the author of Short-Circuiting Policy, Mildenberger is an assistant professor at the University of California Santa Barbara, “The Trouble with Carbon...
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ocean acidification
Alternative causality – overfishing destroys ocean biosystems SEAS AT RISK 2023 (Headquartered in Brussels, Seas At Risk has strong connections with the European institutions and with the UN and regional bodies responsible for seas and oceans, as well as with other like-minded organisations in Europe and around the wo...
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climate emergency counterinsurgency tear gas
It is through this intimate investment into the fantastical power of social democracy that “hope policy rolls like tear gas into the undercommons”. Demos 23 [Life in the Posthuman Condition. Chapter 5: “Climate Control: From Emergency to Emergence” T. J. Demos. Collection Edited by S. E. Wilmer and Audrone. Žukauskai...
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nuclear testing Armageddon
Advisors causes extinction. Jackson ’24 [Van; June 18; PhD, Professor of International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington; Un-Diplomatic, “MAGA Geopolitics: Between Extinction and a New Dark Age,” https://www.un-diplomatic.com/p/maga-geopolitics-between-extinction] China hawks Pottinger called for regime ...
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Lisa Song ProPublica
Studies have disproved every program---despite promises new methods would solve Song 19 [Lisa Song, reports on the environment, energy and climate change for ProPublica, won the 2013 Pulitzer for national reporting, “An (Even More) Inconvenient Truth: Why Carbon Credits For Forest Preservation May Be Worse Than Nothin...
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Mark Mills energy transition
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...
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polling errors favor Trump
Toss up favors Trump. Douthat 9-6, Opinion Columnist for the New York Times with over a decade of experience writing on politics (Ross Douthat, September 6, 2024, “Why I Still Think Trump Will Win,” New York Times, https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opinion/trump-victory.html) why expect the coin to fall Trump ? if H...
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20 trillion IREA report
The “20 trillion” figure their ev cites is from an IREA report. Gregg Gelzinis 21. Associate director for Economic Policy, Center for American Progress; former graduate school fellow, Office of Financial Institutions, US Treasury; MA, American Government, Georgetown University. “Addressing Climate-Related Financial Ri...