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	1	+===Multiple Countries – T===
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	4	+====Interpretation: If the affirmative choses to parametricize an advocacy, they must specify at minimum two actors, with a solvency advocate that species both of them taking an action. ====
	5	+**GREG N. CARLSON, 1977, A UNIFIED ANALYSIS OF THE ENGLISH BARE PLURAL*, http://idiom.ucsd.edu/~~ivano/LogicSeminar'15W/Material/Carlson'1977'EnglishBarePlurals.pdf**
	6	+The notion that the null determiner is the plural counterpart of u is bolstered by
	7	+AND
	8	+. It is not clear to me how to state these restrictions formally.
	9	+
	10	+
	11	+====Violation:====
	12	+
	13	+
	14	+====Standards:====
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	16	+
	17	+====Textuality: "Countries" is a plural word. By definition, a plural noun must have more than one subject. Grammatically, the resolution reads that countries ought to prohibit production of nuclear power. Grammar is key to fairness because it is the only predictable, not arbitrary way of debating the resolution. Key to education because we cannot clash if you are unpredictable.====
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	20	+====Limits: There are 144 countries that the aff can spec—forcing the aff to spec at least two countries decreases the number of combinations the aff can specify. My interpretation is uniquely key on this topic because nuclear power initiatives are often multinational—empirically proven through Saudi-Korean relations. The topic already huge, don’t make it bigger. Limits are key to clash because you can only prepare so much—their interpretation means there will never be real substantive debate, just generic K rounds. And key to fairness because it ensures that one debater will not arbitrarily be ahead in the debate.====
	21	+
	22	+
	23	+===Counterplan===
	24	+
	25	+
	26	+====Counterplan Text: ====
	27	+
	28	+
	29	+====The Government of Brazil will prohibit the production of nuclear power except in the instance of nuclear power to fuel space exploration and coordinate deforestation and reforestation efforts through REDD. ====
	30	+
	31	+
	32	+====REDD solves Amazon Conservation ====
	33	+**Center for Strategic Studies and Management, 2011**, "REDD in Brazil: A focus on the Amazon. Principles, criteria, and institutional ¶ structures for a national program for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation ¶ and Forest Degradation – REDD. Brasília", www.cgee.org.br/atividades/redirect/7342 ~|~|RS
	34	+Tropical rainforests serve as massive storehouses of carbon, which, if protected, will
	35	+AND
	36	+could alter the historical course of development and economic growth in the region.
	37	+
	38	+
	39	+====Brazil is key to future space exploration – perfect launching spot ====
	40	+Keith **Veronese 12**, writer for io9, Could Brazil be the next space superpower?, 3/9/12, io9, http://io9.gizmodo.com/5891721/could-brazil-be-the-next-space-superpower ~|~|RS
	41	+The world's sixth largest economy is making giant leaps to bolster their launch capabilities and
	42	+AND
	43	+very well become the planet's spaceport of choice in the late 21st Century.
	44	+
	45	+
	46	+====We have already found an inhabitable planet====
	47	+**Placko 15 (Mereditch Placko – reporter specializing in future technology, "NASA Has Found Another Earth-like Planet, Only It’s 60 Bigger", **http://www.geek.com/science/nasa-has-found-another-earth-like-planet-only-its-60-bigger-1629209/, NT)
	48	+Did NASA just discover Earth 2.0? At a news conference Thursday afternoon
	49	+AND
	50	+should all the necessary ingredients and conditions for life exist on this planet."
	51	+
	52	+
	53	+====Space colonization not possible without nuclear energy – it’s the only source of energy that’s long-lasting and reliable enough to support a flight====
	54	+**Suciu 12** (Peter Suciu – Tech News Agency, "Nuclear Power Could Blast Humans Into Deep Space", http://www.technewsworld.com/story/76699.html, NT)
	55	+Although progress in manned space exploration beyond Earth's orbit is not progressing at light speed
	56	+AND
	57	+energy sources such as the one proposed would make such dreams more feasible."
	58	+
	59	+
	60	+====Colonization is the only way for humans to survive====
	61	+Baum 10 (Seth D., Ph.D in Geography from Pennsylvania State University and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Northeastern University and scholar at Columbia University's Center for Research on Environmental Decisions, "Cost–Benefit Analysis Of Space Exploration: Some Ethical Considerations", Space Policy Volume 25, Issue 2, May, pg 75-80, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0265964609000198)
	62	+Another non-market benefit of space exploration is reduction in the risk of the
	63	+AND
	64	+-effective means of increasing the probability of long-term human survival.
	65	+
	66	+
	67	+====We have already begun the sixth mass extinction – it’s try or die for space colonization and acting now is key====
	68	+**Hance 15** (Jeremy Hance – author and journalist focusing on climate change, "How Humans Are Driving the Sixth Mass Extinction", https://www.theguardian.com/environment/radical-conservation/2015/oct/20/the-four-horsemen-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction, EmmieeM)
	69	+Periodically, in the vast spans of time that have preceded us, our planet’s
	70	+AND
	71	+current extinction crisis is being amplified by what the researchers call the technosphere.
	72	+
	73	+
	74	+====And independently, nuclear propulsion is the only way to solve for asteroids - moves them out of harmful orbit====
	75	+Spotts, 05 (Peter N., staff writer of the Christian Science Monitor, "To steer an asteroid away from Earth, try a space 'tractor", 11/14/05, http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1114/p02s01-usgn.html) AFL
	76	+If an asteroid ever threatens to collide with Earth, scientists have a toolkit of
	77	+AND
	78	+a replacement for the space shuttles, due for retirement in five years.
	79	+
	80	+
	81	+===Accidents===
	82	+
	83	+
	84	+====No impact to Brazil tBrazil is moving away from nuclear power to meet most energy requirements ====
	85	+**Technavio Research 16**, Stringent Regulations Post-Fukushima Accident to Create Opportunities for the Global Nuclear Decommissioning Market Through 2020, Reports Technavio, 6/15/16, Business Wire, http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160615005040/en/Stringent-Regulations-Post-Fukushima-Accident-Create-Opportunities-Global ~|~|RS
	86	+Despite being proficient in nuclear technology, Brazil is looking towards harnessing its wind capacity
	87	+AND
	88	+decommissioning market in the short to mid-term future," says Sayani.
	89	+
	90	+
	91	+====Nuclear power is safe now – post-Fukushima regulations====
	92	+Holt, Specialist in Energy Policy, CRS, 2012
	93	+~~6/20/12, Mark, Specialist in Energy Policy at the Congressional Research Service, "Nuclear Energy Policy," RL33558, http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL33558.pdf~~
	94	+The Fukushima accident has raised particular policy questions for the United States because, unlike
	95	+AND
	96	+not issue new licenses or permits until the revised regulations were in place.
	97	+
	98	+
	99	+===Prolif===
	100	+
	101	+
	102	+====No impact—prolif is slow, and their impacts are scare-mongering ====
	103	+Steve Kidd, June 8 2010. Head of Strategy and Research at the World Nuclear Association, where he has worked since 1995 ~~when it was the Uranium Institute~~. ("Nuclear proliferation risk - is it vastly overrated?" June 8, 2010 Nuclear Engineering International, Lexis, )
	104	+A significant amount of media attention has recently attached itself to the nuclear security meeting
	105	+AND
	106	+It is likely that more countries will foolishly choose to acquire nuclear weapons.
	107	+
	108	+
	109	+====Prolif good—de-escalates conflict and prevents conventional war. ====
	110	+Asal and Beardsley, 07 ~~Victor, Assistant Prof. Pol. Sci. – SUNY Albany, and Kyle, Assistant Prof. Pol. Sci. – Emory U., Journal of Peace Research, "Proliferation and International Crisis Behavior", 44:2, Sage~~
	111	+Other, more optimistic, scholars see benefits to nuclear proliferation or, perhaps not
	112	+AND
	113	+plausible loss of social value commensurate with the potential gains of an attacker’.
	114	+
	115	+
	116	+====Conventional war will kill hundreds of millions of people====
	117	+Arbatov et al ’89 (Alexei, Head, Nikolae Kishilov, Head of Section, and Oleg Amirov, Senior Researcher, Department on Problems of Disarmament – Institute of world Economic and International Relations, in "Conventional arms Control and East-West Security", Ed. Robert Blackwill and F. Stephen Larrabee, p. 76-78)
	118	+A large-scale conventional war, even if it would not quickly boil over
	119	+AND
	120	+rate" of people and equipment, of the share of irreplaceable losses.
	121	+
	122	+
	123	+====Also solves accidental conflict—risks are too clear ====
	124	+Roth ’7 ~~Ariel Ilan, Associate Dir. National Security Studies – Johns Hopkins U. and Visiting Assistant Prof. IR – Goucher College, International Studies Review, "REFLECTION, EVALUATION, INTEGRATION Nuclear Weapons in Neo-Realist Theory", 9, p. 369-384~~
	125	+No such potential for miscalculation exists in a nuclear conflict. In several papers and
	126	+AND
	127	+the probability of major war among states having nuclear weapons approaches zero.’’
	128	+
	129	+
	130	+====Solving nuclear prolif causes a shift to bio-weapons.====
	131	+**Cordesman 2K** (Anthony, Senior Fellow for Strategic Assessment – CSIS, Federal News Service, 3-28, L/N)
	132	+New, critical technologies are escaping our control One of the problems I have noticed
	133	+AND
	134	+tends to simply push proliferation into other weapons systems and modes of delivery.
	135	+
	136	+
	137	+====Bioweapon use causes actual extinction====
	138	+**Singer ‘1** (Clifford, Director of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security at the University of Illinois at Urbana—Champaign. "Will Mankind Survive the Millennium?" The Bulletin of the Program in Arms Control, Disarmament, and International Security, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 13.1, http://acdis.illinois.edu/assets/docs/312/articles/WillMankindSurvivetheMillennium.pdf, )*modified for gender, denoted by brackets.
	139	+In recent years the fear of the apocalypse (or religious hope for it)
	140	+AND
	141	+connected human family may be in question when and if this is achieved.

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	1	+Scott Wheeler

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	1	+Harker Pyda Neg

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	1	+Round 2 - Presentation - Harker RS - Rahul Shukla

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	1	+Presentation