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-==Role of the Ballot (:30 all)== |
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-===The role of the ballot is to take a stance against the neoliberalist structures that plague society. The AC tries to cure the symptoms but fails to realize that the root cause of the harms is what must be targeted, thereby only further perpetuating neoliberalism.=== |
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-==Role of the Judge== |
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-===The role of the judge is to act as a critical educator combating oppression—while obviously signing the ballot won’t make neoliberalism disappear, voting for strategies to combat oppression in this round makes us better activists in the future.=== |
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-**Giroux 13** (Henry, American scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, "Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University," 29 October 2013, http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19654-public-intellectuals-against-the-neoliberal-university)//ghs-VA |
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-Increasingly, as universities are shaped by an audit culture, **the call to |
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-relations with others, and transform, when necessary, the world around them |
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-==Root Cause – Nuclear Power== |
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-===Neoliberalism is behind the nuclear power industry and empirically Britain proves=== |
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-**Nadel 16 (Nadel, Simon. "The Quandary of State Steering v Neo-Liberal Thinking: The Case of Nuclear Power Policies in the UK, 1979-2015." Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, June 24, 2016. https://sase.confex.com/sase/2016am/webprogram/Paper5313.html.)** |
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-Since 2005, the United Kingdom has joined many nations across the world on the |
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-updating the current theoretical models of state capacity in neo-liberal economies. |
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-===Nuclear power’s flaws are a product of class society. The aff’s focus on banning the technology completely ignores it’s emancipatory potential for workers. === |
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-**SLP 81** "Socialism and Nuclear Power" A Socialist Labor Party Statement 1981 http://www.slp.org/res'state'htm/soc'nuc'power.html. |
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-Socialists can bring many important insights to the questions and concerns raised by nuclear technology |
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-the horror it currently is to the benefactor of an emancipated working class**. |
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-==Link – Renewables== |
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-===CX is binding – they say we will switch to renewables, which only furthers entrenchment into the neoliberalist mindset. Renewables production through neoliberalism drives overconsumption – reducing the price of energy by creating alternative energy ensures less reflexivity about the environmental impact of the economy=== |
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-**Foster et al 10** |
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-(John Bellamy, prof of sociology @ U of Oregon, Brett Clark, asst prof of sociology @ NC-State, Richard York, associate prof of sociology @ U of Oregon, The Ecological Rift, pgs. 183-191) |
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-Eco-Efficiency of National Economies Stephen Bunker, an environmental sociologist, found that |
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-to be modified if technological advances are to be translated into natural resource conservation93 |
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-==Link of Omission (1:33)== |
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-====Neoliberalism perpetuates structural violence against marginalized groups—to remain silent is to be complicit in the abuse. By not discussing the harms of neoliberalism in the AC, they perpetuate them. The debate functions as a starting point. (:57)==== |
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-**Springer ‘12** |
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-(Simon, assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Victoria. "Neoliberalising violence: of the exceptional and the exemplary in coalescing moments", Royal Geographical Society, Wiley Online) //RGDM |
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-But what is not spoken in Klein's account, nor is it foregrounded in most |
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-and other academic geographers**) is implicated in the perpetuation of neoliberalised violence**. |
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-====Critiquing neoliberal discourse in the AC is key. Only by ridding the educational sphere of corporatization can we contest the regime. (:36)==== |
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-Giroux, PhD, 2005(Henry A., College Literature, Volume 32, No. 1, p. 1-3) |
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-**Just as the world has seen** a more virulent and brutal form of |
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-as the model for organizing all facets of everyday life (Henwood 2003). |
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-====These environmental justice movements only rentrench neoliberalism because of the interests for transnational capital and therefore causes more structural violence==== |
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-**Cleere 3 (Cleere, Rickie. "Environmental Racism and the Movement for Black Lives: Grassroots Power in the 21st Century." Pomona College, 2016. **http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1153andcontext=pomona'theses.) |
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-Opal Tometi, BLM co-founder, has said that environmental issues are " |
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-the interests of transnational capital and perpetuate the slow violence of environmental racism. |
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-====And, Cap causes extinction and endless structural violence – it is a try or die for the alt. ==== |
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-**Farbod 15 ( Faramarz Farbod , PhD Candidate @ Rutgers, Prof @ Moravian College, Monthly Review, http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/2015/farbod020615.html, 6-2)** |
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-Global capitalism is the 800-pound gorilla. The twin ecological and economic crises |
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-enhancing natural and social systems will soon reach a point of no return. |
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-==Alt – Ecosocialism== |
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-===Socialism is possible and solves neoliberalism=== |
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-Charles **Masquelier and** Matt **Dawson**, Sociology professors at the University of Surrey and University of Glasgow (respectively), June 11, 20**15**, "Beyond capitalism and liberal democracy: On the relevance of GDH Cole’s sociological critique and alternative," No Publication, http://csi.sagepub.com/content/early/2015/06/10/0011392115588354.full |
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-**Cole’s remedy to the ills of capitalism assumes the form of a libertarian socialist |
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-of social life could only be achieved through a reorganization of economic life. |
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-===The debate is about starting points- the AFF pursues the increase of energy production by the means of renewables. The alternative is ~~to reject the aff and to promote ecosocialism~~ The alt=== |
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-**Löwy 05 (Löwy, Michael. "What Is Ecosocialism?" Capitalism Nature Socialism, June 2005. http://www.havenscenter.org/files/Ecosocialism.CNS.final.version.pdf.)** |
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-What then is ecosocialism? It is a current of ecological thought and action that |
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-species. The protection of the natural environment is thus a humanist imperative. |
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-===It’s a legitimate and feasible alternative to capitalism=== |
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-Jason **Schulman**, Investment manager and partner of Long Ridge Partners,4-1-20**15**, "S.O.S.: Alternatives to Capitalism," Taylor and Francis, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/07393148.2015.1022965~~#. |
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-Swift’s central argument is bold and forceful: **capitalism is destroying our world**, |
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-, socialization of finance, and the introduction of a universal basic income** |
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-===Alt solves for the AFF by targeting the root cause of growing human need of energy over the environmental harms that entrenches the structural violence. We solve for the increasing energy production that is the root cause of the AC=== |
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-Kovel 07 **~~Joel is Distinguished Professor¶ of Social Studies at Bard College. He has¶ written ten books, including the first¶ edition of The Enemy of Nature (2002) and¶ Overcoming Zionism (2007). He has edited¶ Capitalism Nature Socialism, a journal of¶ radical ecology, since 2003 and has been¶ active in green politics, running for the¶ US Senate in 1998, and seeking the Green¶ Party’s presidential nomination in 2000, The Enemy of Nature: The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?, Second Edition Publication Date: December 9, 2007 ~| ISBN-10: 1842778714, IT//PIRATE~~** |
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-We call ecosocialism that society in which production is carried¶ out by freely associated |
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-labor that will not be pushed¶ around by massified and totalizing institutions. |