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+====We reject the affs use of the term "production" in favor of the word "extraction"==== |
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+====The affirmative's deployment of "production" reifies a deadly linguistic spillover that glorifies calculative, economic thought—this is uniquely true of energy usage. The more accurate term is extraction. ==== |
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+Catton '73 (William Jr., Well-known American sociologist, former professor of sociology at Wash. State., "EXTENSIONAL ORIENTATION AND THE ENERGY PROBLEM," http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/articles/etc/63-3-catton.pdf,) |
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+The semantic malfunction that accounts for the president's enormously inadequate recognition of "stark fact |
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+how these processes may be articulated with other natural processes that affect us. |
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+====Clinging to outdated word-maps like "production" turns the case==== |
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+Catton '73 (William Jr., Well-known American sociologist, former professor of sociology at Wash. State., "EXTENSIONAL ORIENTATION AND THE ENERGY PROBLEM, http://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/articles/etc/63-3-catton.pdf) |
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+Humanitarian attitudes to which many of us have been proud to adhere have caused us |
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+will make a bad situation worse as long as we cling to them. |