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+====I affirm==== |
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+====Part one is the Reality of Speciesism==== |
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+====56 billion animals are killed every year to sustain the expansion of humanity. There is no world in which humanity can continue to develop without the continued and unending genocide of the inhuman animal.==== |
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+====Nuclear power centralizes energy systems, disconnecting humanity from nature==== |
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+**Bodain and Naess **88 – Norwegian philosopher and the founder of deep ecology. Former professor at the University of Oslo, founder of the deep ecology movement |
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+(Arne, "Simple in Means Rich in Ends An interview with Arne Naess in Deep Ecology for the 21st Century, ed. George Sessions, p. 32-33) |
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+S.B.: In connection with that, it has been pointed out that |
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+of all manmade ecological catastrophes, nuclear war would be the most devastating. |
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+====The speciesist nature of nuclear power justifies environmental degradation ==== |
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+**Aaron 14** |
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+(Aaron. "'The Simpsons' and Anthropocentrism: Can a Cartoon Show Demonstrate Society's Detachment from Nature?" Medium 3 Aug. 2014) |
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+However, the plant and its position in Springfield society serves as an allegory of |
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+catastrophic event such as the Chernobyl disaster could wipe out an entire ecosystem. |
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+====This is a form of environmental colonialism that allows endless environmental atrocities==== |
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+**Koensler and Papa 13** |
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+(Koensler, Alexander and Cristina Papa, 2013, Introduction: beyond anthropocentrism, changing practices and the politics of 'nature', Journal of Political Ecology) |
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+Another element is often overlooked. The conduct of individuals alone cannot explain cases of |
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+environments are more intricate than is often assumed in everyday or public discourses. |
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+====This speciesist ethic will culminate in ecological collapse and extinction==== |
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+**Ahkin** 10 – Monash University |
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+(Melanie Ahkin, 2010, "Human Centrism, Animist Materialism, and the Critique of Rationalism in Val Plumwood's Critical Ecological Feminism," Emergent Australian Philosophers, a peer reviewed journal of philosophy,http://www.eap.philosophy-australia.com/archives.html) |
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+These five features provide the basis for hegemonic centrism insofar as they promote certain conceptual |
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+more hopefully by the abandonment and transformation of the human centric framework.15 |
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+====Speciesism is an form of oppression that is equivalent to slavery—-subjugates species to domination—that's the worst form of ethics==== |
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+**Best 1** 06 |
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+(Steven, Intl Journal of Inclusive Democracy, http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/journal/vol2/vol2_no3_Best_rethinking_revolution_PRINTABLE.htm) |
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+The next great step in moral evolution is to abolish the last acceptable form of |
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+, one based upon ecological and non-speciesist principles and universal justice. |
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+====Speciesism is the root cause of every type of domination and oppression—-it creates a biological inferiority that allows other types of domination like racism and patriarchy to be modeled upon ==== |
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+**Best 2** 07 – American animal rights advocate, author, and associate professor of philosophy at the University of Texas at El Paso |
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+(Steven, Review of "The Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust," Journal for Critical Animal Studies, Vol. V, Issue 2, 2007, http://www.drstevebest.org/EternalTriblenka.pdf) |
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+While a welcome advance over the anthropocentric conceit that only humans shape human actions, |
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+and stewardship, which however was Judaic moral baggage official Chistianithy left behind. |
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+====We control the question of all hierarchies—the non-human body is the binary upon which the spectrum of "deviant" sub-populations are assigned value==== |
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+**Bailey** 07 – Professor of Gender and Women's Studies @ Western Michigan University |
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+(Cathryn, "We Are What We Eat: Feminist Vegetarianism and the Reproduction of Racial Identity," Hypatia vol. 22, no. 2 (Spring 2007), http://ethik.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/inst_ethik_wiss_dialog/Bailey__C._2007._Veg_in._Hypatia_24127089.pdf, AM) |
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+It is in part because women and men of color, white women, and |
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+be regarded as fully human was correlated with one's perceived need for meat. |
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+====Put your util cards away—-ecocide is the pre-cursor to nuclear war and extinction—-we control the direction of all impacts==== |
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+**Bookchin** 87 (Murray, co-founder of the Institute of Social Ecology "An Appeal For Social and Psychological Sanity" 1987) |
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+Industrially and technologically, we are moving at an ever-accelerating pace toward a |
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+natural world disempowered of its capacity to reproduce a green and living world. |
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+===Framing=== |
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+====Part two is Framing ==== |
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+====The role of the ballot is challenging speciesism within the debate space—-it's a crucial sphere to displace anthropocentric types of knowledge==== |
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+**Domanska** 10 – professor @ Stanford in Department of Anthropology |
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+(Ewa, "Beyond Anthropocentrism in Historical Sciences," Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznon Poland, Stanford University, 2010, http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~~ewa/Domanska,20Beyond20Anthropcentrism20in20Historical20Studies.pdf) |
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+It seems that in contemporary intellectual practice scholars are not connected by methods or theories |
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+the human subject from the centre of historical, archaeological and anthropological studies. |
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+====Starting points are key—-educates others about the issue and increases public pressure in order to solve==== |
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+**Perlo** 07 – animal rights activist since 1983, obtained a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Dundee, for a thesis about worldviews and animals |
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+(Katherine, "Extrinsic and Intrinsic Arguments: Strategies for Promoting Animal Rights," Journal of Critical Animal Studies 5.1, p. 11, http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/strategies.pdf) |
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+While there is, of course, much more to an intrinsically based animal rights |
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+the public pressure necessary to defeat exploitative industries and those industries' governmental servants. |
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+====Radical environmental movements are more effective at creating change than legislative reform==== |
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+**Best 3** 06 |
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+(Steven, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Texas El Paso, "Revolutionary Environmentalism: An Emerging New Struggle for Total Liberation" 2006) |
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+Revolutionary environmentalism is based on the realization that politics as usual just won't cut it |
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+anger, awaken, inspire, and empower people toward action and change. |
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+====Incremental policy reform is worse because it disavows the unethical violence in their political paradigm. ==== |
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+**Kochi and Ordan **08 |
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+~~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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+The banality of action hits against a central problem of social-political action within |
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+either valid and worthwhile, or false and a sham. ~~8~~ |
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+====Empirically proven with animal rights organizations that gained political power but now fail to take action against animal cruelty==== |
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+**Singer **15 – Australian moral philosopher |
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+(Singer, Peter. Animal Liberation: The Definitive Classic of the Animal Movement (40^^th^^ Anniversary Edition). Accessed via Google Books) |
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+*RSPCA = Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals |
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+*ASCPA |
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+rather to reassure the public that nothing further needed to be done.6 |
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+===Underview=== |