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+A singular focus on environmental reform allows capital to turn labor forces and other groups against environmental movements and destroys the possibility of truly challenging capital. |
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+Foster and Soron 4 (John Bellamy, Professor of Sociology at University of Oregon and Dennis, researcher with the Neoliberal Globalism and Its Challengers Project at the University of Alberta, where he also teaches part-time in the sociology department, Ecology, capitalism, and the socialization of nature) |
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+JBF: The piece that you mention was written in the early 1990s at the |
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+that it strives to protect the natural environment. This would help to develop |
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+Focusing on specific types of oppression, such as structural violence, obscures the underlying root causes, which turns the case. |
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+Slavoj Zizek 99, Senior Researcher at the Institute for Social Studies, Ljubljana, 1999, The Ticklish Subject, page 352-355 |
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+The big news of today’s post-political age of the ‘end of ideology’ |
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+AND |
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+more than ever caught in an inexorable compulsion that effectively runs his life. |
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+We should completely withdraw from the logic of capitalism—individual criticism is key to solve. |
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+Adrian Johnston 4 Dept of Philosophy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, “The Cynic’s Fetish: Slavoj Žižek and the Dynamics of Belief”, International Journal of Zizek Studies, Volume 1, 2004, BE |
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+Perhaps the absence of a detailed practical roadmap in Žižek’s political writings isn’t |
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+AND |
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+comforting fiction (“Capitalist commodity fetishism or the truth? I choose fetishism.”). |
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+The plan causes oil prices to spike |
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+Tverberg 11 (Gail E, writer @ Oil Prices, “What The End Of Nuclear Power Would Actually Mean For The World,” March 16, 2011, http://www.businessinsider.com/what-would-be-the-impact-if-we-discontinued-nuclear-energy-2011-3) |
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+4. Rolling blackouts would likely result in many areas, because of the difficulty |
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+AND |
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+might even rise also, since oil can also be used for generation. |
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+High energy prices cause a huge increase in food prices |
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+Thompson 8 (John, is the director of public relations for the Idaho Farm Bureau Federation, “Commentary: Don't throw ethanol under the bus,” The Idaho Business Review, 9/8/08, pg nexis) |
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+The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the White House Council of Economic |
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+AND |
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+that dollar goes to the actual cost of food inputs such as grains. |
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+Food insecurity causes global instability, war, political upheavals, and extinction |
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+Winnail 96 (Ph.D., M.P.H, 1996 (Douglas S., "On the Horizon: Famine," September/October, http://www.kurtsaxon.com/foods004.htm) |
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+As a result grain prices are the highest on record. Worldwatch Institute's president, |
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+AND |
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+~-~-at a time when the total destruction of humanity would be possible! |
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+High energy prices collapse minority businesses |
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+Inhofe 3 (James, US Senator, Senate floor statement, 7/28. http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climate.htm) |
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+Among the many questions this provokes, one might ask: Won't be a burden |
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+AND |
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+remedy our cast-away-ness among our ideological tendencies and politics. |