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+====The earth is undergoing a techno-scientific transformation in which the political is retreating, unwilling to face the ecological devastation it has wrought upon the planet. The 1AC is an articulation of this logic, bound to remedies that paternalize the other.==== |
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+**Guattari **89 (French militant, institutional psychotherapist and philosopher, a founder of both schizoanalysis and ecosophy. "The Three Ecologies" pp. 27-29) |
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+The Earth is undergoing a period of intense techno-scientific transformations. If no |
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+the case, for example, with the dreadful rise of religious fundamentalism. |
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+==== ~~ecomagerialism link if 1^^st^^ aff~~ ==== |
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+====The fears of climate change are predicated not on the destruction of all life on the planet, because life will inevitably go on. Rather, the fears of climate change are fears predicated on the fact the human body will no longer be able to exploit the resources of the earth, that we will no longer be kings.==== |
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+**Martin McQuillian, **Professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston University, "Notes Towards a Post-Carbon Philosophy" in "Telemorphosis: Theory in the Era of Climate Change", Vol. 1, edit. Tom Cohen and Claire Colebrook, Open Humanities Press, 2012 |
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+For either side of the present debate on climate change, say, to name |
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+terms like "crisis" and "irreversible" were no longer appropriate. |
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+====Their extinction claims require a defense of the intrinsic value of human survival as separated from other forms of life. This involves the image of distinctly good human life contrasted to the banal useless existence of the genes. This makes the aff's political subjectivity an affect of a species-contingent survival paradigm which abandons bare life.==== |
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+**KOCHI and ORDAN 2K8** ~~tarik and noam, queen's university and bar llan university, "an argument for the global suicide of humanity", vol 7. no. 4., bourderlands e-journal~~ |
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+If only some of our genes but not our species has survived, maybe the |
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+the drives, motivations and thoughts that led to the Holocaust for example? |
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+====Anthropocentrism is the root cause of all forms of oppression – you misunderstand human relations.==== |
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+**Best 1 7** (Steven, Chair of Philosophy at UT-EP, JCAS 5.2) |
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+While a welcome advance over the anthropocentric conceit that only humans shape human actions, |
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+sexual norms, and to rape them as they forced breedingin their animals. |
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+====*Status quo Human methodologies are a virus that is destroying the biosphere - Thus the Role of the Ballot is to vote for the methodology that best reconfigures humanity's values toward the environment. ==== |
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+**Best 2 04**, (Steven, professor of philosophy at Texas El Paso, "From Earth Day to Ecological Society" http://www.drstevebest.org/Essays/FromEarthDay.htm, date accessed: 7/27/11 |
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+Homo sapiens have embarked on an insane, destructive, and unsustainable path of existence |
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+par excellence — not "nature's favorite" but rather nature's bete noir. |
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+====The alternative is to imagine global suicide—this throws into question the ideology of humanist value systems and ruptures the ontological supremacy we hold dear.==== |
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+**Kochi and Ordan 8 **(Tarik, lecturer in the School of Law, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, and Noam, linguist and translator, conducts research in Translation Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel, 'An argument for the global suicide of humanity', Borderlands, December) |
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+The version of progress enunciated in Hawking's story of cosmic colonisation presents a view whereby |
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+human species. The moral act would be the global suicide of humanity. |
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+====The methodology of constant death meditation is integral in any alteration of the status quo. We must recognize our deaths not as individuals, but as a civilization. This is the only ethical option.==== |
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+Roy Scranton (Served in the United States Army from 2002 to 2006. He is a doctoral candidate in English at Princeton University, and co-editor of "Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War." He has written for The New York Times, Boston Review, Theory and Event and recently completed a novel about the Iraq War), "Learning How to Die in the Anthropocene"; November 10, 2013; http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/learning-how-to-die-in-the-anthropocene/?_r=0 |
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+The challenge the Anthropocene poses is a challenge not just to national security, to |
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+to live in the Anthropocene, we must first learn how to die. |