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Rubén Martínez interviewing Thea Riofrancos 22. **Journalist, Author, and Musician. **Associate Professor of Political Science at Providence College. “‘We could be enroute to eco-socialism or to eco-fascism: there are multiple layers of uncertainty.’” 6/29/22. https://lapublica.net/e... |
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Fiona Harvey 23, Environment Editor for the Guardian, 3/20/2023, "Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late," https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c
warning only drastic a... |
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R. Quentin Grafton et al. 12. is Professor of Economics, ANU Public Policy Fellow, Fellow of the Asia and the Pacific Policy Society and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the A... |
01d7e3586f3c2f35693dfc200d656b9ed7429c52b0af10952a2b6304246b7304 | fragmentation reduces GDP | Global fragmentation and future crises make economic crash inevitable.
Kristalina Georgieva, 8-22-2023, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, "The Price of Fragmentation," Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/world/price-fragmentation-global-economy-shock, KL
cooperation is in retreat the w... |
0244833577e0d5076ad6b468a89eb14e1751b5d426f752626b2b3e8d763c7fef | climate change cannot disentangle ourselves | 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... |
03b9417f6bd3878d4e3199168d1a4027466890b7660c9a378c740d699fc34d2d | uncertain policies double transition cost | 3. Counterplan is uncertain – it’s clearly illegal AND subject to the whims of the administration. That’s key to investment and planning for transition – that’s Metcalf AND…
Dr. Benjamin Carton and Dr. Jean-Marc Natal 22. Senior economist, IMF; PhD, Economics, University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne. Deputy Chief, World... |
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TORRES Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies 2016 (Phil, affiliate scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, “Biodiversity Loss and the Doomsday Clock: An Invisible Disaster Almost No One Is Talking About”, Common Dreams, Feb 10, https:/... |
0329b1d8a36cd73e51479f984f7db0d6afd476ae4fe1ce7ac14814a33ed8a6d4 | ESG investing practices challenges | The SEC climate disclosure rule failed to resolve the root cause of ESG failures.
Vlahos 24 “SEC's Proposed ESG Disclosure Rule: Why It Fails to Remedy the Underlying Challenges Facing ESG Investing Practices” Nikki Vlahos is *JD. expected May 2024, The George Washington University Law School; B.A. in Political Scienc... |
024b8a40710d314aea3b1f4905d8e46e9f3badb5b8c614ea7c31889d07e63a7d | nuclear power market failure | 5. Can’t solve SMRs. Nuclear is structurally disadvantaged in markets.
Stover '16 – Contributing editor at the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (Dawn Stover; "“Market failure” and nuclear power"; Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists; https://thebulletin.org/2016/08/market-failure-and-nuclear-power/; 8-4-2016; NC)
carbo... |
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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... |
0301caadda54553b47d5013d83f7e77d68fefd1f2deb969bb6dcd95c46954a78 | Mintz-Woo 24 | “Alternative community formation” fails. Only targeted government action reworks current societal structures to challenge anti-black relations of power, rectify injustices, and combat climate change.
Mintz-Woo 24 – Tenured lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Environmental Research Institute Associate at Unive... |
0317135d4890c4d9918985e9a02af9faa53eb4a9a15355bb4e35c492a956c891 | nuclear war biodiversity loss | Biodiversity loss causes extinction AND nuclear war
TORRES Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies 2016 (Phil, affiliate scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, “Biodiversity Loss and the Doomsday Clock: An Invisible Disaster Almost No One Is Talking About”, Common Dreams, Feb 10, https:/... |
03ea0a57fc104a6e7e997a27b063c2b80437b0c577db5c16c70e5fa8bf97109a | Jeuk & Spang 22 | 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... |
010ab56a21bc293fad0dfeba6908823b643545426a04abf27f912103b443ac7a | fetishizing revolution | Tactical harm reduction is good---the alt makes the perfect the enemy of the better.
Smucker ’14 [Jonathan; 2014; Ph.D in Sociology from UC Berkeley; Wagingnonviolence, “The danger of fetishizing revolution,” wagingnonviolence.org/feature/danger-fetishizing-revolution/]
Do we imagine a restructuring of relations as a... |
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Emily de La Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic 20, senior fellows at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) with a focus on China policy, and the co-founders of Horizon Advisory, a consulting firm focused on the implications of China’s competitive... |
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Nicholas Bianco 20. acting deputy director for WRI United States. He previously served as director of regulatory analysis and strategic partnerships at the Environmental Defense Fund. In that role, he oversaw the analytical research conducted in support of the domestic cl... |
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Cohen 19, Rachel Cohen, a reporter who focuses on US social policy. Based in Washington, DC, she keeps a close eye on the politics influencing policy development and the leaders, activists, and researchers spearheading those ideas, The Intercept, 09-20-2019, [“The Environme... |
02a3d942bde108837c5f066a254fac862a091ea400091e4532d5af0b051e42fd | Carbon pricing compensate low income | All other options are worse for inequality. NEG evidence is too generalizing.
Andrea Baranzini et al. 16. **Professor of Economics, Director, Geneva School of Business Administration, Switzerland. **Jeroen van den Bergh, Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies Research Professor at Universitat Autònoma d... |
0002a82038b544fd273f5b2b451faf60887e0000d5f80919b33ec6ac81612107 | drop in prices masking shortage | Mineral shortages doom the green agenda
AFP ’24 [staff, “International Energy Agency Warns of Key Energy Mineral Shortage Risk,” AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE, 5—17—24, https://energy.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/renewable/international-energy-agency-warns-of-key-energy-mineral-shortage-risk/110200125, accessed 8-19-24]
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Toronto 15 [Dr. Nathan W. Toronto is an associate professor of Strategy and Security Studies at the United Arab E... |
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Sarin and Mazur 24 [Natasha Sarin, associate professor at Yale Law School, and Mark Mazur, former director of the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, interviewed by Bob Goulder, contributing editor with Tax Notes. 2-28-2024 ht... |
0080bb10f907152ff06c19f68212de00fa83675fab40db3fcf07d9759fd7b20c | ICAO hates unilateral measures | ICAO objectively HATES unilateral measures—says mulilat is better—and unilateral causes confusion and undermines the organization itself UMN read yellow—also like why do we not have a single paragraph break in here?? Lets do better gang
Mayer and Ding 23 — Benoit Mayer is Professor of Climate Law at the School of Law ... |
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Church 24, Fisheries Policy Director at the Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen’s Alliance, Professional Science M.A. from UMass Dartmouth’s School for Marine Science and Technology (Aubrey Church, July 8, 2024, “Comment submitted by Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen... |
00d34c1d19a28c30d2b0d99bf45abf5bb852912a17c7fc02028fc97937f85105 | Putin nuclear threat hollow | No Russian nuclear use.
Shinkman 23’ – Paul, Senior Writer of National Security at U.S. News. “Putin’s Hollow Nuclear Threat”, U.S. News, https://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2023-02-24/why-ukraine-wont-lead-putin-to-nuclear-war, 02-24-2023
likelihood of Russia to use nuc s is astronomically low should no... |
00eaf9c99ac563830190d3dd193466e0c54ac25fa327261cf8e6ecf49452ae0f | litigation swells backlogs in biotech sector | 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... |
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Shannon O’Lear 23, Professor of Geography in the Geography and Atmospheric Science Department and Director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, “Geographies of Envi... |
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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/... |
012733f37ae0c2735bb9d4b2cbe9be9f1ba3a2f57bf8d41b1ab4862de8032386 | virtual energy only theoretical | Getting a VER on the wholesale market is entirely theoretical---counterplan is the key first step.
Eisen – AFF SOLVENCY ADVOCATE et al 24 [Joel B. Eisen, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law Felix Mormann, Professor of Law, Dean’s Research Chair, Texas A&M University School of Law; Professor of Engin... |
0197b3b8703bf87a8e3c1d9c39a44c36e6fa2b1f59fb2e8e6c4c9153fc90d5df | Accessible Canada Act good | Legal reform is good in the context of disability. The Accessible Canada Act is one example of how liberal states can have a positive relationship to disability.
Michael J. Prince 23, Lansdowne Professor of Social Policy at the University of Victoria, Canada, 2023, “17: The Accessible Canada Act: a political expressio... |
0066c82b4e3fbec6d2aeb4c8cffd1cea5aa43cc5fdedfecf62d66283922cc452 | China dissatisfaction revisions | China is revisionist power---military modernization causes war
Jagannath P. Panda, Research Fellow and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre at MP-IDSA, New Delhi, 5-19-20, ‘“China as a Revisionist Power in Indo-Pacific and India’s Perception: A Power-Partner Contention” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA2020, AHEAD-OF-PRINT... |
0414042a9b41daba1d6dd1cdfd08e84a826ac11529fab2da9f5313052888ba25 | GCMs inadequate | 4. No existential climate impact.
Nicola Scafetta 24. Ph.D.; Associate Professor, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Naples Federico II. "Impacts and Risks of ‘Realistic’ Global Warming Projections for the 21st Century." Geoscience Frontiers, Volume 15, Issue 2.
IPCC acknowledged a hot model problem accordin... |
0317135d4890c4d9918985e9a02af9faa53eb4a9a15355bb4e35c492a956c891 | biodiversity loss causes extinction | Biodiversity loss causes extinction AND nuclear war
TORRES Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies 2016 (Phil, affiliate scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, “Biodiversity Loss and the Doomsday Clock: An Invisible Disaster Almost No One Is Talking About”, Common Dreams, Feb 10, https:/... |
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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... |
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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 ... |
0066c82b4e3fbec6d2aeb4c8cffd1cea5aa43cc5fdedfecf62d66283922cc452 | China revisionist power military war | China is revisionist power---military modernization causes war
Jagannath P. Panda, Research Fellow and Coordinator of the East Asia Centre at MP-IDSA, New Delhi, 5-19-20, ‘“China as a Revisionist Power in Indo-Pacific and India’s Perception: A Power-Partner Contention” JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA2020, AHEAD-OF-PRINT... |
02fb92320954802009adc71decd81f7706d03719ff96067ace7bc8060c19d25d | Lincicome 23 | Trade is resilient and companies easily adapt.
Lincicome 23, Vice President of General Economics at Cato’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, J.D., University of Virginia School of Law (Scott Lincicome, September 12, 2023, “Globalization Isn’t Going Anywhere,” CATO Institute, https://www.cato.org/publ... |
001772b5799449099c69bc2f7fe72b79f13bf0938d13a583c7e5d354dcbba39a | Harvey 20 | Climate change requires pragmatism. Proposing and rejoining specific climate policies in debate provides students the problem-solving and critical thinking to unlock alternative futures.
Harvey, 20
Mobilizing can’t lead to change on its own no matter how ethically appealing cannot draw a line from protests to mothbal... |
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Colman, Politico climate change writer, 8-23-24
The climate activist are pursuing a new strategy Get Harris elected now, ask questions later. Green activists are taking a do-no-harm approach to Harris’ candidacy, ditching demands for p... |
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Harriot - 22[Michael Harriot; April 13; 2022 Top 10 reasons why lineage-based reparations is a bad plan https://reparationscomm.org/reparations-news/10-reasons-why-lineage-based-reparations-is-a-bad-plan/|DOA: 7-24-23]-rrm
limit the re... |
030dd75e2af2b3e95cefe32eb66f624c426152a2efbd1b2f550cbebb6dc31f91 | cost competitiveness of renewables | Renewables are phasing out fossil fuels.
McMeekin ’23 [David; March 10; Junior Research Fellow in Physics and a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Oxford; St. Edmund Hall, “The Inevitable Energy Transition,” https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/blog/the-inevitable-energy-transition]
Ukrain caused major shift in t... |
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Esposito ’24 [Dina Esposito, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security, “Testimony of Dina Esposito, Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Secur... |
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Baker et al 20 – James A. Baker III is a Honorary Chair of Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy and served as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 and U.S. Secretary of State from 1989 to 1992, George P. Shultz is a Distinguished... |
041cec67949c366125653b1eea0beeddac565417dbce769b10e79895c9d902ac | Wang 19 China LIO | 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://... |
03ee172a815d90b229519f5abb60f4b00d2e2e220d61be2ec416d98f19dccd73 | Harris VP no link | No link---it’s not tied to Harris.
Marc A. Thiessen. 24. fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and the former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush. “A sitting VP has won once in 188 years. Harris isn’t likely to be next.”. The Washington Post. 8-27-24. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/08/2... |
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Aissa Dearing 5-2 (Aissa Dearing ,May 2, 2024, environmental justice activist and a PhD student at the University of Oxford "Renewable Energy and Settler Colonialism", JSTOR Daily, https://daily.jstor.org/renewable-energy-and-settler-colonialism/)
colonialism is a shape-shift... |
010c2f9acd4fe9001ad30b80c8152025e35f3cbebe8ac59650bd4d0ff5b541d9 | capitalism and climate change | Capitalism is sustainable and solves warming.
Hill ‘20 [Victor; 11/3/20; Financial Economist with the International Finance Corporation at the World Bank, lead writer for Master Investor, holds degrees from the University of Oxford, Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires, and Canterbury Christ Church Universi... |
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Alex Gilbert 22, Project manager at the Nuclear Innovation Alliance, “The opportunity cost of not using nuclear energy for climate mitigation”, 2-3-2022, Utility Drive, https://www.utilitydive.com/news/the-opportunity-cost-of-not-using-nuclear-e... |
03a8340df0747757e3fbc0289393f8977a9de33ca9ccce41200bcdb0bb8cddef | Turns Saudi | TURNS SAUDI. Ends the global alliance system.
Wolf 24 [Martin Wolf is chief economics commentator at the Financial Times, London. He was awarded the CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in 2000. “A Trump win would change the world.” https://www.ft.com/content/4a14c19e-8285-4688-aa19-542023520798]
Trump’s transaction... |
034e8b9b7ba54d56b8a3f0b784cc36efdce169b9a5367f80c19b0cfb251bd2c3 | carbon tax administration EPA | EPA assistance solves.
Calder Jack 15 is a CEO of Growth Wise, former research assistant and B.A. from the University of Chicago. “Administration of a U.S. Carbon Tax” March 1st, 2015. https://www.elibrary.imf.org/display/book/9781138825369/ch003.xml DOA: 1/17/25 Rslish.
It should be straightforward for IRS to admin... |
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Irene Lauro 22, Environmental Economist; Schroders, 2/15/22, “What net zero means for inflation,” https://www.schroders.com/en-us/us/individual/insights/what-net-zero-means-for-inflation/
Carbon tax will lead to inflationary pressures more pronounced for ... |
00ce8c56eef9bf24063d5b64335806d18e871c97f1ef29c091e27b7b468d7b24 | dumping oil gas stocks improves investment | They’re already divesting.
Vetter ’24 [David; February 9; climate writer and communications consultant at The Climate Laundry, Master’s in Sustainability, Enterprise, and Environment from the University of Oxford; Forbes, “Dumping Oil and Gas Stocks Improves Investment Returns: New Report,” https://www.forbes.com/site... |
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Gina Potthoff 24, March 7; Deputy Digital Editor; Chicago Booth Review, “How High Interest Rates Harm Innovation,” https://www.chicagobooth.edu/review/high-interest-rates-harm-innovation
high rates discourage investing in tech leading to slo... |
04323035ac8f8d3f32e4b471f44653b538465e5de03e3d868b37b257d36ceea8 | Climate change and security | 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... |
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Vinjamuri 24 [Leslie Vinjamuri, professor of international relations at SOAS University of London, director of the U.S. and the Americas program at Chatham House, “What Another Trump-Biden Showdown Means for the World,” Foreign Policy, 01-03-24, https://... |
00163d3cb65ef85355be2bbb6b512f440933970077e69551479f08885cffde31 | Trump foreign policy | 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... |
040dff8a6ae8743b83924830ab47c1d07305ea0f5d0460279f41de9d0d8c59af | William Robinson | 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... |
034d694fc6f49760a6d00c6aa0681617b5c71dc70457d460f7d8ef4bc8f42daa | climate securitization is colonial | 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... |
02f885632e361f3cc42f12049219096f8f7b392e3308e05dfb67c8a060f6fa47 | risk assessment policy actions | Climate realism solves the terminal impact.
Molly M. King 22. Santa Clara University, “Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate Justice”. King, M. M., & Gregg, M. A. (2022). Disability and climate change: A critical realist model of climate justice. Sociology Compass, 16(1), e12954. https://d... |
0006b2b480c32587c5845b7c562bf170d2db4cdd7f12ea5e972302a8bd343a04 | Deglobalization talk | No global fragmentation.
Daniel Bachman 6/15, Dr. Bachman is a senior manager with Deloitte Services LP, in charge of US economic forecasting for Deloitte’s Eminence and Strategy functions. He worked as a forecaster and economic analyst at the US Commerce Department, "United States Economic Forecast," https://www2.del... |
03b1a92a48bdafbac233be3e8f45807bf5b16c3eb6cf12e11d5950fad6a77a93 | Refuse the will to forget | Refuse the “will to forget” subaltern memories, expunging the infinite generations of loss.
Myles Lennon 20. Dean's Assistant Professor of Environment and Society and Anthropology at Brown University; Ph.D in Anthropology and Forestry & Environmental Studies from Yale University; B.A. in Development Studies from Brown... |
01274591279e2b34019faba62e8c4525a3c1c5456a593e6e91d9b1c35a2342b1 | breaking promises audience costs | 2. Audience costs of breaking promises dissuade repeal.
Sterk 03 [Stewart E. Sterk (H. Bert and Ruth Mack Professor of Real Estate Law, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; Director, Center for Real Estate Law & Policy, Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University; J.D., Columbia University), 2003, “Retrenchment on... |
0080aa32b5210edd99f594fc473da9a382aa110748cf5809f760d4120075ac6e | CCS locks in fossil fuel | 2. Turn - CCS locks in fossil fuel infrastructure.
Asayama '21 – Social Systems Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan (Shinichiro Asayama; "The Oxymoron of Carbon Dioxide Removal: Escaping Carbon Lock-In and yet Perpetuating the Fossil Status Quo?"; Frontiers in Climate, Vol. 3, Sec. C... |
038b9d71736fa16eb05a7b3716922f2ccf76dc395d8c4d7ab56701a24d7cf870 | Kaye 22 | No Middle East war and economic weakness prevents escalation.
Kaye 22, Senior Fellow, University of California Los Angeles Burkle Center for International Relations, former director, Center for Middle East Public Policy, RAND (Dalia Dassa Kaye, 2022, “America’s Role in a Post-American Middle East,” The Washington Quar... |
03fa1fc79f917f15556f0c60eb5ed22f2145e0520e6fbabb9b96643b8e80141a | permanent scarcity pre-capitalist societies | Capitalism is sustainable otherwise transition wars.
Karlsson 21 - (Rasmus Karlsson, Department of Political Science, Umeå University; 6-18-2021, Social Theory for the Anthropocene: Thinking and Acting in a Disrupted Planet, "Learning in the Anthropocene," doa: 2-25-2022) url: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/10/6/233
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01a8a69c3be67c212a51caa7b3611a98e626c8690089b5df050006b83a437338 | climate is bad | 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://... |
0073f1542c128f34c61cd3dadfea55c98be72c8407c6b83d2c9aa2c6fe7a0e85 | Oil earnings backstop Vision 2030 | Oil earnings are high enough to backstop Vision 2030---key to Saudi diversification.
Alsweilem 8-1-2024, PhD, economics; visiting scholar with the Stanford University Global Projects Center. (Khalid Alsweilem, Prof. Michael Lepech, Dr. Ashby Monk, and Dr. Malan Rietveld, “Saudi Arabia: From the Big Push to the Long Pu... |
00ce8c56eef9bf24063d5b64335806d18e871c97f1ef29c091e27b7b468d7b24 | fossil fuels deliver shocks | They’re already divesting.
Vetter ’24 [David; February 9; climate writer and communications consultant at The Climate Laundry, Master’s in Sustainability, Enterprise, and Environment from the University of Oxford; Forbes, “Dumping Oil and Gas Stocks Improves Investment Returns: New Report,” https://www.forbes.com/site... |
035f6066af127a09e1fb6f1939ac59ad7067fbf2236ff6321a62e6c0420794cf | independent central bank | 5. Studies prove that effects don’t spill over to core inflation, plus independent central bank checks.
Konradt & Mauro 23 Maximilian Konradt, Geneva Graduate Institute. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Switzerland Geneva Graduate Institute, Switzerland, INSEAD, France. “CARBON TAXATION AND GREENFLATION: EVIDENCE FROM EUROPE ... |
02c1cb8a4547a447ed493eabfc5d4d15efb2c7535f004477a93bc2ef147ac231 | trans life subjectivization | Spectrality hijacks perception as a tool of reality enforcement to generate trans livability
Montgomery 24, (Montgomery, Westley. "Becoming Spectral: Phantasmagorias of Late Capitalism and Trans Desubjectivity in Hyper-pop." Transgender Studies Quarterly 11.2 (2024): 370-384.)G$
perception i s a subjectifying force b... |
015408d71a963129b64447520dd875816ebc8332e9575434f9d5b120d735a4c0 | metaphysics of military planning | Fiat is a view from above---their model sustains a metaphysics of military planning, pacifying freedom struggle.
Return Fire 20, Anarchist Journal, Anonymously Published, “23 Theses Concerning Revolt,” Autumn 2020; Editor’s note, A text published by Distri Josep Gardenyes, which was formed “to share and disseminate te... |
022269bf9640e6b6b80cbc30b79b05a3565b34f23117702c7a00b3946f0963db | Freud neuroscience | Psychoanalytic drive theory is wrong---studies of localized human brain lesions and animal self-stimulus prove
Watt 12, senior clinical Neuropsychologist at the Boston University School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (Douglas, “Theoretical challenges in the conceptualization of motivation in neuroscience: Implica... |
000ec825109ce98f4f991bff9cdb33a8d0e3812bc4c02530564358af4fd5387f | international mining standards | US critical energy mineral reform - domestic and imports – is key
Odell ’23 Scott D. Odell 2023 is a visiting assistant professor at George Washington Uni- versity and a visiting scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Environmental Solutions Initiative., “Cooperate Internationally, Reduce Demand,” Ma... |
02e36db2f360830f365d5046e14f9f6fbf38852af2989eb92a28261b01082949 | ressentiment reversal of pre-existing values | 2 - Triggers ressentiment – the cessation of life-affirmation. Through passively nihilistic views of life, it forces hostility for its own sustenance.
Tuinen 24 - Sjoerd van Tuinen 2024 (Sjoerd van Tuinen is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Erasmus University Rotterdam. Driven by affinities across the arts and hum... |
00229b92bfa2cbffbc965bb5ce39db95594b359f0be7bf00fa0865ded5a7f1a4 | Develops detailed advocacy and research skills | It develops detailed advocacy and research skills.
Dybvig ‘2k [Kristin Chisholm Dybvig, Ph.D. in Interpersonal Communication/ Research Methods from Arizona State University; Joel Iverson, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Montana, Ph.D in Communication from Arizona State University Relations at... |
01a37669d1b4ef4d1bfe18d8462574e81541a4a09e11dd40abeb284e10be97a7 | ocean acidification plankton | Ocean acidification
Jodie Phillips 2024, “Ocean Acidification and the Food Web: The Impact on Fisheries and Aquaculture”, Sustainable Living Environmental Blog, January 24, accessed 6/25/24, https://www.environmentalconsortium.org/ocean-acidification-and-the-food-web-the-impact-on-fisheries-and-aquaculture/, HMc
acid... |
01a6bf92bca38d37b0adacc38baafd2886ed890718463a98adc20845b67c550a | Independent Texas take US oil | 2---AND an independent Texas would go after US oil and military
Holley 22. Peter Holley, Nov 2022. TexasMonthly “Are Texas Republicans Serious About Secession?” https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/are-texas-republicans-serious-about-secession/ ///mosuQ
senator Cruz said how little stood in the way of him chang... |
00dccefb42fdd8061e9bd80f5334a501a23b4c1fcff96bc95cfd3dce3a4e3b6a | Harvey 23 | Acting on warming now is uniquely good.
Fiona Harvey 23, Environment Editor for the Guardian, 3/20/2023, "Scientists deliver ‘final warning’ on climate crisis: act now or it’s too late," https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/20/ipcc-climate-crisis-report-delivers-final-warning-on-15c
warning only drastic a... |
039a50a45b2e60b07f83d1c0efd2bc4e16dd3df3203c77410b2048d62a275893 | Kei Kawashima Ginsberg | 2. POLYLITHIC---the youth are too diverse AND care about too much to focus on the plan.
Ginsberg ’24 [Kei Kawashima; July 11; contributor; US News, “Youth Are Turned Off by the 2024 Election. We Can Still Engage and Mobilize Them,” https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-11/youth-are-turned-off-by-the-2024-ele... |
037c8df11eac82ac23e62d38279ce7e6561339b083fd1ccee7353fed811ea42f | Carbon pricing boosts fracking | Plan’s popular in PA – it immediately boosts fracking.
Kristin Hayes and Dr. Marc Hafstead 20. Senior Director for Research and Policy Engagement, Resources for the Future. Fellow, Director for Carbon Pricing Initiative, Director for Climate Finance and Financial Risk Initiative, Resources for the Future; PhD, Economi... |
01701ad9eca26d7022d4573c639efb603e3088deea08b28e5fb37c2c606327c0 | drone proliferation arms race | 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... |
00d3143c8d6611a39807150cf891142af4a236f6b8523b8bfc12b0dd87de3790 | Eco-Sumud disrupts social relations | Eco-Sumud promotes diverse mechanisms to disrupt the material and abstract processes that structure social relations. Eco-Sumud represents the everyday efforts of Palestinians to stay on the land with environmentally sustainable ways of resisting occupation and living through the land.
Edwards, 24 [Nico is a researche... |
015978501a3756eaead67288dea060725194054e5c49db77686a13316aeeb516 | Trump PC insufficient mass deportation | Trump PC is insufficient for mass deportation now
Montanaro 1-15-2025, political columnist at NPR (“Trump will begin his presidency in delicate position, poll finds,” NPR, https://www.npr.org/2025/01/15/nx-s1-5259893/poll-trump-immigration-economy-favorability)
despite claims of a powerful mandate Trump may have to b... |
02f4a02bfd1dcd5d1444a9980c71f75541d85918f27f175da3e3bebeecf7d0ed | Cost institutional and infrastructure barriers | Cost, institutional, and infrastructure barriers overwhelm transition incentives from tax
Patt 18 [Professor Dr. Anthony Patt, head of the Climate Policy Group in the Department of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zürich, PhD from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, Coordinating Lead Author in Worki... |
036c86608c8a745ab55b61bef2748102a3e8f68b95710859500f32bd901e1662 | low-carbon firms credit | Warming. Investors won’t be able to or want to finance the green transition due to unfavorable lending policies.
Emilio Campiglio 14. Post-Doctoral Researcher at the LSE Grantham Research Institute, PhD from the University of Pavia. “Beyond carbon pricing: The role of banking and monetary policy in financing the trans... |
043fa2e8f5302c230146c02517b2d8e2d62c4b99fa1f896f6ce11b539d75aa10 | Fed should stay in its lane | Fed independence exists but is fragile now – changing mandates politicizes the fed.
John Crawford, Professor of Law, University of California College of the Law, San Francisco., 6-22-2024, William and Mary Business Law Review. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4873544
Fed’s independence is fragile e... |
0361eb4ff0493751eac0345c926574b65d6e1ea181a60e2ed64d1b5747b46c89 | algorithmic contracts are uncertain | 6. Algorithmic contracts are inevitable but uncertain.
Lauren Henry Scholz 17, McConnaughhay and Rissman Professor at the Florida State University College of Law, J.D. from Harvard Law School, “Algorithmic Contracts,” Stanford Technology Law Review, Vol. 20, No. 2, Fall 2017, https://ir.law.fsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi... |
034e31ba7c5aeda91fb9dd6216a9fec487171bd45fd9ad79aeb470388027700d | jobs vs environment debate bad | The topic locks discussions on climate policy in a forced choice between jobs and the environment. This can never account for the complexity of indigenous experience and cannot provide solutions that stop or deconstruct the settler state. Must avoid replicating decision making that is failing indigenous peoples in the ... |
03e4e72b66c256d010071a10f9ce9f3f0e16c9f7612e01094a9a0be394135f0b | Mexico most important relationship | Trump invades Mexico---that’s existential
De Loera-Brust 23 – former special assistant to the U.S. secretary of state
Bomb Mexico proposals are the most harmful ideas ever entertained the Mexico relationship involves daily coop on water c t trade Trump fantasized about military force on Mexican soil starting a war in... |
005df452965ef8dbf7c487b904192ef80dce362ce2a412908ed710b5bd0d4af4 | Asmin and Howell | Tax havens prove offshoring.
Asmin, Howell 16 – Ash Asmin, Professor of Geography in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, UK, Phillip Howell, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of Cambridge, 2016, “Releasing the Commons," Routledge Studies in Human Geography, https:... |
01602b859812f8947997bd0aa8eb484f9bf02cc596e5f6b9a6439193eb56b05f | Brenes 22 | 7. Failure to provide a clear alternative to hegemony and liberal foreign policy ensures their method remains insular.
Brenes 22 (Michael Brenes teaches history at Yale University. His new book is For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy. 12-20-2022, "American Hegemony Is M... |
0317135d4890c4d9918985e9a02af9faa53eb4a9a15355bb4e35c492a956c891 | ecosystems weaken population losses increase | Biodiversity loss causes extinction AND nuclear war
TORRES Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies 2016 (Phil, affiliate scholar at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, “Biodiversity Loss and the Doomsday Clock: An Invisible Disaster Almost No One Is Talking About”, Common Dreams, Feb 10, https:/... |
03a66f6bab8dae1ada0206a805761bc43ed0a558c86c048202c3ba9292981c7a | Climate change burden | Warming causes structural violence.
Parsons et al. ‘24 [Ella Sandrine Parsons is a Senior Data Analyst at the Sean N. Parker Center for Allergy and Asthma; Ashley Jowell is an Internal Medicine Doctor, a Resident and a Primary Care Doctor; Erika Veidis is the Planetary Health Program Manager for the Stanford Center fo... |
03046f33c54a48c0ccbae047291873fb6b256bd6c7f642ea841607a5a1ce5f12 | solarpunk post capitalist post scarcity | [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... |
0061eededd6f998c0718810917370e27f09137f73be8aacfef4d0e4dad5c9813 | Financial policy attacks capitalism | Do both. Financial policy attacks the core of capitalist production.
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... |
02d27ff8bf7c1f479b1aaa7c2a8efff565453d721e4435da195677f6dc8346c1 | ripling re generation by 2030 | Clean energy is inevitable, but it’s not fast enough.
Ambrose ’24 [Jillian Ambrose is an energy correspondent for The Guardian. “Investment in Clean Energy Likely to be Double Figure for Fossil Fuels in 2024, IEA Says,” Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/business/article/2024/jun/06/investment-in-clean-energy-likel... |
043a924ac017609054de75c31eb1f939cd8b771f1237c254c6571d375ff3b1df | Decentralization solves warming | AND solving warming.
Balme 14 , Professor at the Paris School of International Affairs, (Richard, “Multi-Level Governance and the Environment: Intergovernmental Relations and Innovation in Environmental Policy”, Environmental Policy and Governance, Volume 24, Issue 3)
policies adopted by the fed remain limited coord... |
04133221244c4ad6578ae2a842a04516bfdea7d2911e11fd1cdea9d89ae014fa | Dollar heg is locked in | Dollar heg is strong and locked in by the Fed
Dr. Adam Tooze 20. Professor of History and Director of the European Institute at Columbia University, PhD from the London School of Economics, BA from King’s College at the University of Cambridge, “America Is Ailing—and Leading the World”, Foreign Policy, 4/1/2020, https... |
01581f1fb0834b5594f0f5ba753f2bedd86104ef7979950b25db06034516ce28 | carbon pricing reduce adverse health outcomes | Even if not existential, climate change risks heightening systemic inequalities and dooming marginalized populations to painful crises engendered by corporate pollution --- the plan’s a necessary and sufficient solution to the worst health-based impacts of extraction, while providing sustainable infrastructures of supp... |
0073f1542c128f34c61cd3dadfea55c98be72c8407c6b83d2c9aa2c6fe7a0e85 | Saudi diversification | Oil earnings are high enough to backstop Vision 2030---key to Saudi diversification.
Alsweilem 8-1-2024, PhD, economics; visiting scholar with the Stanford University Global Projects Center. (Khalid Alsweilem, Prof. Michael Lepech, Dr. Ashby Monk, and Dr. Malan Rietveld, “Saudi Arabia: From the Big Push to the Long Pu... |
03b2c678f1deb21ca3976f676554c56025f529160c24bdec2bde42613fedce56 | post-capitalist transition at the municipal level | 5---ALT fails absent the plan’s Constitutional precedent empowering localism
Carson 17 [Kevin Carson, senior fellow and Karl Hess Chair in Social Theory at the Center for a Stateless Society, “Libertarian Municipalism: Networked Cities as Resilient Platforms for Post-Capitalist Transition,” Center for a Stateless Soci... |
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