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+==PT 1 - Framework== |
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+I value morality. |
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+====We need to create systems that focus on strategies to stop oppression and make our ethical categorizing meaningful – otherwise people are arbitrarily excluded. Winter and Leighton 99=== |
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+(Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5)) |
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+Finally, to recognize |
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+to reduce it. |
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+Thus the standard is Minimizing Structural Violence. The standard is aggregative – we want to reduce in the aggregate as many instances of institutional oppression, arbitrary disparities, and material inequality as possible. Prefer this standard additionally because: |
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+==PT 2 – Inherency and Plan== |
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+====Nuclear propulsion is on the docket for NASA – their program is restarting imminently Godwin 16=== |
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+ (CURT GODWIN, "NASA discusses SLS and Orion progress at ‘Day of Mars’ event" Read more at http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-centers/marshall-space-flight-center/nasa-sls-orion-mars-event/~~#pUrEG1ih3qyYB5FS.99, AUGUST 22ND, 2016) |
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+**Tony Kim, project |
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+AND |
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+about his rationale. |
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+====And the trend is global – Russia plans to test propulsion tech by 2018 Atherton 16=== |
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+ (Kelsey D. Atherton, "RUSSIA WANTS TO TEST A NUCLEAR SPACE ENGINE IN 2018," March 11, 2016, http://www.popsci.com/russia-wants-to-test-nuclear-space-engine-in-2018)==== |
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+Space is expensive. |
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+AND |
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+space to Earth. |
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+====Thus the plan: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear propelled rockets and nuclear propelled technology used for space exploration. Gagnon and Grossman are the solvency advocates – they’ve been writing against propulsion for over 15 years. The plan bans RTGs currently in use, nuclear propulsion, and other nuclear propelled spacecraft.==== |
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+==Pt 3 - Contention== |
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+===C1: Accidents=== |
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+====Accidents are likely and devastating – the nuclear industry manipulates space discourse to erase potential dangers. ==== |
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+**Grossman 15:** (Karl Grossman, "NASA's warning - SpaceX crash highlights dangers of nuclear power in space", 2nd July 2015 http://www.theecologist.org/blogs'and'comments/Blogs/2929123/nasas'warning'spacex'crash'highlights'dangers'of'nuclear'power'in'space.html) |
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+A month ago NASA released a study claiming there is a need for continued use |
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+AND |
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+estimated by independent scientists as anywhere between 950,000 to 40 million. |
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+====Nuclear tech will spillover risking accidents with other technology but public resistance keeps it in check – preventing nuclear in space is key to dismantling the industry’s line of justification. ==== |
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+**Grossman 12** (Karl Grossman, Investigative reporter, "The Deadly Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead", 04/12/2012 01:57 pm ET ~| Updated Jun 12, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/the-deadly-folly-of-nucle'b'1417149.html) |
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+The crash last week of a U.S. drone on the Seychelles Islands |
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+AND |
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+~~ Tennessee to Idaho. Every single part of this process deeply concerns us |
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+====Plutonium 238 is uniquely toxic –NASA officials concede there’s no cleanup plan. ==== |
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+**Gagnon ‘11:** (Bruce, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space group, 7/1/11, http://www.space4peace.org/articles/plutonium'space'launch.htm) JPG |
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+NASA sadly appears committed to maintaining their dangerous alliance with the nuclear industry. Both |
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+AND |
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+nukes into space. It's not a gamble we can afford to take. |
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+====Accidents hurt the poor the most – they lack resources to escape and cope with radiation damage. ==== |
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+**Cousins et al. ’13:** (Elicia Cousins, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta. "Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience."Carleton College, Environmental Studies Comprehensive Project Northfield, MN, USA. 2013//FT) |
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+A similar trend is evident in the United States, where low-income populations |
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+people coping with stress and the associated health impacts of a nuclear accident. |
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+===C2: Plutonium-238=== |
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+====Nuclear propelled rocket development requires production of plutonium-238. ==== |
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+**Ambrose ’16:** (Mitch Ambrose Government Relations Division American Institute of Physics mambrose@aip.org 301-209-3095, "Oak Ridge Scientists Produce First Plutonium-238 in 28 Years" AIP. Publication date: 2 February 2016) |
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+On Dec. 22, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced in a |
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+." The Senate has yet to begin consideration of a NASA authorization bill. |
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+====And plutonium production is not politically neutral – the state frames land of indigenous people as "wastelands" to justify using them as sites of uranium mining. ==== |
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+**Endres ’09:** Danielle Endres, Department of Communication, University of Utah "From Wasteland to Waste Site: The Role of Disocurse In Nuclear Power’s Environmental Injustice." Routledge, November 2009//FT) |
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+Wasteland, like most words, is polysemous. In common parlance, wasteland is |
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+land being turned into a wasteland from toxic pollution (LaDuke 1999).9 |
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+====Plutonium is responsible for second worst nuclear event of all time – this supercharges AC impacts. ==== |
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+**Greenpeace No Date ** (Greenpeace, "The second biggest nuclear disaster in history", http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/mayak-nuclear-disaster280907/, No Date) |
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+The Mayak nuclear plant in the Southern Urals was one of the dark secrets of |
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+technologies and energy efficiency the world urgently needs to tackle the climate crisis. |
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+====And the Oak Ridge plant that produces US plutonium has a history of human experimentation, environmental harms, and damage to workers. ==== |
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+**McCally 94** (Michael McCally, MD, PhD, Christine Cassel, MD, Daryl G. Kimball, "U.S. Government-Sponsored Radiation Research on Humans 1945-1975", 4 Medicine and Global Survival 1994; Vol. 1, No. 1, At the time of publication, MM was Health Program Officer, Chicago Community Trust, and Lecturer in Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA; CC was Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Society, and Professor of Medicine and Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA; DGK was Associate Director for Policy, Physicians for Social Responsibility Washington, DC USA.) |
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+In early December 1993, a dark chapter of the United States' cold war experience |
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+AND |
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+veterans in which the leukemia rates were twice the expected rate ~~30~~. |
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+===Contention 3 is Framing – Prefer aff evidence on the technology debate:=== |
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+====Believe Grossman—he’s the leading expert in the field.==== |
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+**Dupre ’11:** (Deborah Dupre, Author for the examiner, The Huston Free Thinkers, 19 May 2011, "Exclusive Karl Grossman Interview: Fukushima Fallout over US Censored By News", http://www.houstonfreethinkers.com/index.php?option=com'contentandview=articleandid=507:exclusive-karl-grossman-interview-fukushima-fallout-over-us-censored-by-newsandcatid=63:japanese-tragedyandItemid=135) |
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+Karl Grossman: Nuclear investigative journalism excellence Over forty-five years ago, Karl |
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+the U.S. and around the world and represented in lecture. |
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+==PT 4 – Underview== |
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+====Space colonization will only replicate anti-black eugenics and the violence of European Colonialism.==== |
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+**Ball ’15:** (Charing Ball. “HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: WHERE ARE THE BLACK FINALISTS FOR THE ONE-WAY TRIP TO MARS?” Madame Noire. February 18, 2015//FT) |
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+Something intergalactically amazing |
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+ Black folks will. |
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+====Policymaking is key to political activism, which turns the K.==== |
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+**Coverstone 5:** Alan Coverstone MBA in communication, debate coach “Acting on Activism” 2005. http://home.montgomerybell.edu/~coversa/Acting20on20Activism20(Nov2017-2005).doc |
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+An important concern |
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+AND |
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+ in America today. |
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+====Solutions to oppression need to be grounded in policy rather than abstraction. K’s must be tied to an implementable, political solution to be effective.==== |
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+**Bryant 12:** Left,” Larval Subjects—Levi R. Bryant’s philosophy blog, November 11th, Available Online at http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/, Accessed 02-21-2014) |
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+Unfortunately, the academic |
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+AND |
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+luck with that. |
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+====Racial progress has occurred though legal change – pessimism ignores specific reforms that achieved lasting reductions in racial inequality==== |
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+**Omi and Winant 13:** Michael Omi (Sociologist at UC Berkeley, focusing on antiracism scholarship and Asian American studies) and Howard Winant (Professor of Sociology affiliated with the Black Studies and Chicana/o Studies departments of UC Santa Barbara), Resistance is futile?: a response to Feagin and Elias, Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, p. 961-973, Special Issue: Symposium - Rethinking Racial Formation Theory. 2013. |
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+In Feagin and |
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+ is not futile. |