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... ... @@ -1,118 +1,0 @@ 1 -==1AC – K Version== 2 -===Framing=== 3 - 4 -====The role of the judge is to combat oppression through the promotion of critical thought==== 5 -Giroux 05 Giroux, Henry A. Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005. Print. 6 -"The terrain of struggle on which the social reconstructionists chose to fight focused on 7 -AND 8 -of this position in his description of how a curriculum should be organized:" 9 - 10 - 11 -====The role of the ballot is to endorse the best liberation strategy for the oppressed. That mandates engagement with the real, material world – that's the best form of education- abstraction doesn't do anything==== 12 -**Matsuda 89**. Mari Matsuda, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, "When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method", 11 Women's Rts. L. Rep. 1989 13 -Abstraction and detachment are ways out of the discomfort of direct confrontation with the ugliness 14 -AND 15 -for these writers as they enter into mainstream debates about law and theory. 16 - 17 - 18 -===Harms=== 19 - 20 - 21 -====The section 8 voucher housing program has caused America's poor to be trapped in dangerous, impoverished neighborhoods, cutting off any chance at upward social mobility==== 22 -**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 23 -When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to 24 -AND 25 -more reliable source of rent than other low-income tenants have available. 26 - 27 - 28 -====Specifically, states and landlords are determined to keep section 8 voucher holders in areas of concentrated poverty, using legal, but discriminatory tactics amounting to modern-day redlining==== 29 -**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 30 -The failings of Section 8 go far beyond flaws in how the program was designed 31 -AND 32 -in, they can't do it because the properties won't take the voucher." 33 - 34 - 35 -====This is especially prevalent in our home Texas- the legislature passed a bill 2 years ago that made it legal for landlords to refuse renting apartments to section 8 voucher holders==== 36 -**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 37 -Some cities have tried to prevent this. Last year Austin passed a "Source 38 -AND 39 -minorities) in buildings because they might drive away market-rate tenants. 40 - 41 - 42 -====This legal discrimination makes it difficult to find housing, and when housing is found, it's usually in horrible conditions, leading to horrendous living conditions and loss of value to life, especially in Texas cities==== 43 -**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 44 -But in Dallas, the Inclusive Communities Project found that some landlords who owned many 45 -AND 46 -sleep, and I'm stressed out the whole time," he told me. 47 - 48 - 49 -===Plan and Solvency=== 50 - 51 - 52 -====Plan: The United States federal government ought to guarantee the right to housing by replacing metro-wide fair market rents with ZIP-code level fair market rents for Section 8 voucher holders.==== 53 - 54 - 55 -====The ZIP-code model has literally no downside- landlords don't lose anything while the voucher recipients and their children get better housing==== 56 -**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 57 -We also analyze the impact of "tilting" the rent ceiling toward higher- 58 -AND 59 -with similar program impacts cost upwards of $3,000 per year. 60 - 61 - 62 -====AND- It spurs people to move into higher quality neighborhoods==== 63 -**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 64 -For each intervention, we construct a cost estimate and summary measure of the change 65 -AND 66 -however, operates like a substitution effect and tenants substitute to higher quality. 67 - 68 - 69 -====Dallas test case proves people move out of high crime and poverty neighborhoods==== 70 -**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 71 -Finally, Table 4 shows that across Dallas, average voucher rents were about constant 72 -AND 73 -because recipients were leaving distressed public housing with a high concentration of poverty. 74 - 75 - 76 -====Plan causes recipients to move out of rodent infested buildings into better quality structures==== 77 -**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 78 -Rents at the ZIP code-level were highly responsive to the policy change, 79 -AND 80 -important benefit for voucher recipients, which we examine in the next section. 81 - 82 - 83 -====Err aff on solvency- it's been modeled in multiple cities and the results are great==== 84 -**Semuels 15** Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. "How Housing Policy Is Failing America's Poor." The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 85 -The Housing Choice Voucher program is the nation's largest housing subsidy, serving 2. 86 -AND 87 -the point of winning the lottery if there's nowhere safe to spend it? 88 - 89 - 90 -====Comparative analysis proves we are best housing program for section 8 recipients==== 91 -**Collinson and Ganong 14 **Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, "The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity", http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 92 -We examine the incidence of a narrowly-targeted voucher program, allowing for consumer 93 -AND 94 -rank of children in families with vouchers by 4.3 percentage points. 95 - 96 - 97 -===Underview=== 98 - 99 - 100 -====Debating about government policies is a valuable heuristic — we can learn about the state without being it. Their radical framework eliminates the potential for political agency and oversimplifies complex, contingent relationships. Instead of rejecting government policies in general, we should analyze particular policies. ==== 101 -**Zanotti 13** — Laura Zanotti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University, 2013 ("Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World," Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 38, Issue 4, November, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via SAGE Publications Online, p. 299-300) 102 -In this article, I have argued that, notwithstanding their critical stance, scholars 103 -AND 104 -position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.''84 105 - 106 - 107 -====Theorizing about epistemology, ontology, and methodology is useless – only policy discussions will have an impact outside of this debate==== 108 -Lepgold and Nincic 1 (Joesph, associate professor of Government at Georgetown and Miroslav professor of Poly Sci at UC-Davis, Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance pg. 6-7) 109 -Unlike literature, pure mathematics, or formal logic, the study of inter- 110 -AND 111 -balance must be redressed if SIR is to resonate outside the Ivory Tower. 112 - 113 - 114 -====Criticisms that lack a political strategy re-inscribe existing structures==== 115 -Bryant 12 (levi, prof of philosophy at Collins college, Critique of the Academic Left, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/) 116 -The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction 117 -AND 118 -. 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... ... @@ -1,95 +1,0 @@ 1 -1AC – NSDA Version 2 - 3 -Framing 4 - 5 -I affirm. The role of the judge is to combat oppression through the promotion of critical thought 6 -Giroux 05 Giroux, Henry A. Schooling and the Struggle for Public Life: Democracy's Promise and Education's Challenge. Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2005. Print. 7 -"The terrain of struggle on which the social reconstructionists chose to fight focused on 8 -AND 9 -of this position in his description of how a curriculum should be organized:" 10 - 11 -The role of the ballot is to endorse the best liberation strategy for the oppressed. That mandates engagement with the real, material world – that’s the best form of education- abstraction doesn’t do anything 12 -Matsuda 89. Mari Matsuda, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawaii, “When the First Quail Calls: Multiple Consciousness as Jurisprudential Method”, 11 Womxn's Rts. L. Rep. 1989 13 -Abstraction and detachment are ways out of the discomfort of direct confrontation with the ugliness 14 -AND 15 -for these writers as they enter into mainstream debates about law and theory. 16 - 17 -Harms 18 - 19 -The section 8 voucher housing program has caused America’s poor to be trapped in dangerous, impoverished neighborhoods, cutting off any chance at upward social mobility 20 -Semuels 15 Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. “How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor.” The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 21 -When a woman in McKinney, Texas, told Tatiana Rhodes and her friends to 22 -AND 23 -more reliable source of rent than other low-income tenants have available. 24 - 25 -Specifically, states and landlords are determined to keep section 8 voucher holders in areas of concentrated poverty, using legal, but discriminatory tactics amounting to modern-day redlining 26 -Semuels 15 Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. “How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor.” The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 27 -The failings of Section 8 go far beyond flaws in how the program was designed 28 -AND 29 -in, they can't do it because the properties won't take the voucher.” 30 - 31 -This is especially prevalent in our home Texas- the legislature passed a bill 2 years ago that made it legal for landlords to refuse renting apartments to section 8 voucher holders 32 -Semuels 15 Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. “How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor.” The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 33 -Some cities have tried to prevent this. Last year Austin passed a “Source 34 -AND 35 -minorities) in buildings because they might drive away market-rate tenants. 36 - 37 -This legal discrimination makes it difficult to find housing, and when housing is found, it’s usually in horrible conditions, leading to horrendous living conditions and loss of value to life, especially in Texas cities 38 -Semuels 15 Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. “How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor.” The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 39 -But in Dallas, the Inclusive Communities Project found that some landlords who owned many 40 -AND 41 -sleep, and I’m stressed out the whole time,” he told me. 42 - 43 -Plan and Solvency 44 - 45 -Plan: The United States federal government ought to guarantee the right to housing by replacing metro-wide based calculations of fair market rents with ZIP-code based calculations of fair market rents 46 - 47 -The ZIP-code model allows families to move into nicer neighborhoods- also no net cost to the government because FMR increases in expensive zip codes are offset by decreases in less-expensive zip codes 48 -Collinson and Ganong 14 Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, “The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity”, http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 49 -We also analyze the impact of “tilting” the rent ceiling toward higher- 50 -AND 51 -with similar program impacts cost upwards of $3,000 per year. 52 - 53 -Dallas test case proves people move out of high crime and poverty neighborhoods 54 -Collinson and Ganong 14 Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, “The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity”, http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 55 -Finally, Table 4 shows that across Dallas, average voucher rents were about constant 56 -AND 57 -because recipients were leaving distressed public housing with a high concentration of poverty. 58 - 59 -Changes in the FMR are associated with changes in housing quality 60 -Collinson and Ganong 14 Robert Collinson, third year doctoral student at NYU Wagner and a doctoral fellow at the Furman Center, and Peter Ganong, PhD Harvard University (2016), Assistant Professor at University of Chicago (2017-) October 2014 version of paper, this same paper was updated in June 2016, that is not the version of the paper we cut from, “The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity”, http://scholar.harvard.edu/files/ganong/files/collinsonganong105.pdf?m=1446135036, VM 61 -Rents at the ZIP code-level were highly responsive to the policy change, 62 -AND 63 -important benefit for voucher recipients, which we examine in the next section. 64 - 65 -Err aff on solvency- it’s been modeled in multiple cities and the results are great 66 -Semuels 15 Alana Semuels is a staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times. “How Housing Policy Is Failing America’s Poor.” The Atlantic. JUN 24, 2015 http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/06/section-8-is-failing/396650/, VM 67 -The Housing Choice Voucher program is the nation’s largest housing subsidy, serving 2. 68 -AND 69 -the point of winning the lottery if there’s nowhere safe to spend it? 70 - 71 -Underview 72 - 73 -1. Debating about government policies is a valuable heuristic — we can learn about the state without being it. Their radical framework eliminates the potential for political agency and oversimplifies complex, contingent relationships. Instead of rejecting government policies in general, we should analyze particular policies. 74 -Zanotti 13 — Laura Zanotti, Associate Professor of Political Science at Virginia Tech, holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University, 2013 (“Governmentality, Ontology, Methodology: Re-thinking Political Agency in the Global World,” Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, Volume 38, Issue 4, November, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via SAGE Publications Online, p. 299-300) 75 -In this article, I have argued that, notwithstanding their critical stance, scholars 76 -AND 77 -position leads not to apathy but to hyper- and pessimistic activism.’’84 78 - 79 -2. Theorizing about epistemology, ontology, and methodology is useless – only policy discussions will have an impact outside of this debate 80 -Lepgold and Nincic 1 (Joesph, associate professor of Government at Georgetown and Miroslav professor of Poly Sci at UC-Davis, Beyond the Ivory Tower: International Relations Theory and the Issue of Policy Relevance pg. 6-7) 81 -Unlike literature, pure mathematics, or formal logic, the study of inter- 82 -AND 83 -balance must be redressed if SIR is to resonate outside the Ivory Tower. 84 - 85 -3. Criticisms that lack a political strategy re-inscribe existing structures 86 -Bryant 12 (levi, prof of philosophy at Collins college, Critique of the Academic Left, http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/) 87 -The problem as I see it is that this is the worst sort of abstraction 88 -AND 89 -. Instead we prefer to shout and denounce. Good luck with that. 90 - 91 -4. Make them check T/theory interps in cx – key to resolving semantic issues to ensure a debate on substance - we can work something out – ensures a focus of the debate on substance which outweighs – the topic only lasts two months 92 - 93 -5. Neg must defend one unconditional advocacy. To clarify, they can’t win offense through different advocacies, like a counterplan and a kritik alt since it's unreciprocal - means the neg has at least 1 if not multiple more substantive advocacies to use as outs so quanitatively the aff is at the disadvantage since aff is bound to one unconditonal advocacy entire round. and qualitative strat skew since time crunched 1ar will inevitably undercover an advocacy. 94 - 95 -6. theory or T shells read in the 1NC need an RVI, otherwise they are devoid any in round implication since they merely challenge my view of debate introduced through the various functions, implications, and contents of my arguments just like counter interps so offensive neg interps are nonsensical - EntryDate
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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,79 @@ 1 +Framing 2 + 3 +I value morality, defined as the sense of right and wrong because the word ought in the resolution is defined as a moral obligation. 4 + 5 +Utilitarianism, maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain, allows us to choose in a real world situation between two hypothetical choices, in this case, the resolution. 6 +Harsanyi 76 (John C. Rule Utilitarianism and Decision Theory. Berkeley: Center for Research in Management Science, University of California, Berkeley, 1976. Print). 7 +It proposes to exlain our multifarious and seemingly logically rather disconnected moral value judgments in 8 +AND 9 +and any alternative moral code we may wish to consider for possible adoption. 10 + 11 +Death should be avoided at all costs. 12 +Jonas 96 (Hans, Former Alvin Johnson Prof. Phil. – New School for Social Research and Former Eric Voegelin Visiting Prof. – U. Munich, “Morality and Mortality: A Search for the Good After Auschwitz”, p. 111-112) 13 +With this look ahead at an ethics for the future, we are touching at 14 +AND 15 +confession of faith we come to the end of our essay on ontology. 16 + 17 +Thus, the criterion, or way to reach morality, is minimizing death. 18 + 19 +Contention 1 is Terrorists 20 + 21 +Nuclear plants will be attacked by terrorists. It’s try or die, empirics prove. 22 +Early et al. 13 (Bryan R., Matthew Fuhrmann, and Quan Li, Faculty Expert in Economic Sanctions and Foreign Policy @ Auburn University, Associate Professor of Political Science @ TAMU, Professor of Political Science at TAMU, Atoms for Terror? Nuclear Porgrams and Non-Catastrophic Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism, 2013, http://people.tamu.edu/quanli/papers/BJPS_2013_nrterrorism.pdf, p. 12, Accessed 8/9/16) 23 +Table 1 presents the results from four statistical models. The baseline model (Model 24 +AND 25 +with an average sized program (Nuclear Program Size 5 0.79). 26 + 27 +Nuclear terrorism is a threat to humanity itself. 28 +Ayson 10 (Robert, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies: New Zealand at the Victoria University of Wellington, 2010 “After a Terrorist Nuclear Attack: Envisaging Catalytic Effects,” Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, Volume 33, Issue 7, July, Available Online to Subscribing Institutions via InformaWorld) 29 +A terrorist nuclear attack, and even the use of nuclear weapons in response by 30 +AND 31 +for the terrorists. This might not help the chances of nuclear restraint. 32 + 33 +Contention 2 is the Grids 34 + 35 +The electrical grid is under stress and on the brink of failing 36 +Trivella 08 (Anthony J., Executive Vice President at The Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company, One of the world's leading equipment breakdown insurers. "Mitigating Equipment Breakdown Risks," June 4, 2008, Industry Week, http://www.industryweek.com/articles/mitigating_equipment_breakdown_risks_16446.aspx Accessed 8/10/2016) 37 +What's the most vulnerable part of many businesses? For most, it's the equipment 38 +AND 39 +sometimes impossible, to restore the information due to rapid changes in technology. 40 + 41 +Nuclear plants are dependent on the electrical grid. 42 +Adams 11 (Mike, outspoken consumer health advocate, award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist and science lab director, “Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns”, 7/13/11, Accessed 8/10/2016) 43 +Why does all this matter? To understand that, you have to understand how 44 +AND 45 +, zirconium-clad rods and sparking fires that would release deadly radiation." 46 + 47 +A solar flare will collapse the grid and push it over the brink 48 +Heyes 14 (J.D., Seasoned writer, journalist and columnist specializing in politics, national security issues, healthcare, healthy living and technology coverage., “FEMA document admits solar flare could collapse U.S. power grid for years”, 12/21/14, Accessed 8/11/2016) 49 +Tens of millions of Americans face years of loss of electrical power if major solar 50 +AND 51 +in comparison to the devastation that an EMP attack could perpetrate on Americans." 52 + 53 +Mass nuclear power plant meltdown causes loss of life 54 +Adams 11 (Mike, outspoken consumer health advocate, award-winning investigative journalist, internet activist and science lab director, “Solar flare could unleash nuclear holocaust across planet Earth, forcing hundreds of nuclear power plants into total meltdowns”, 7/13/11, Accessed 8/10/2016) 55 +Fukushima was one power plant. Imagine the devastation of 100+ nuclear power plants 56 +AND 57 +planet? It's a very, very small fraction of the total population. 58 + 59 +Contention 3-Heat Radiation 60 + 61 +Nuclear Reactors are leaking right now in the US- this is causing mass environmental damage by cutting into biodiversity, polluting groundwater and oceans, warming the oceans and leaking mass amounts of lethal tritium into the environment causing mass death- this has happened consistently over time and regulations have consistently failed 62 +Awareness Act 16 "Two Nuclear Leaks in the United States, One Is Likely Worse Than Fukushima." Awareness Act. N.p., 26 June 2016. Web. 12 Aug. 2016. Awareness Act is an online news site based in Florida that aims to raise awareness about various societal problems and provide news. 63 +When a radiation leak happens in Japan the whole world hears about it, but 64 +AND 65 +the world is going to begin going downhill faster than it already is. 66 + 67 +2 Impacts: 68 + 69 +1) Death from elevated tritium exposure- that’s the card above 70 + 71 +2) Biodiversity loss causes extinction 72 +Coyne 7 Jerry Coyne, Professor of Ecology at UChicago and Hopi Hoekstra, Professor of Biology at Harvard (9/24/2007 http://www.truthout.org/article/jerry-coyne-and-hopi-e-hoekstra-the-greatest-dying) 73 +Aside from the Great Dying, there have been four other mass extinctions, all 74 +AND 75 +just another Great Dying, but perhaps the greatest dying of them all. 76 + 77 +Only through the prohibition of plants can we stop meltdown 78 + 79 +Thus, I urge an affirmative ballot. - EntryDate
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