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	1	+=AC – Environmental Racism=
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	3	+
	4	+==1AC==
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	6	+
	7	+===~~2:00~~ Part 1 is the Role of the Ballot===
	8	+
	9	+Assume all cards bracketed for grammar and gendered language.
	10	+
	11	+
	12	+====Identities have a normative structure – every identity is governed by rules or norms. For example, to be a writer, one must meet the necessary conditions by writing. For something to serve as a reason to act, it must appeal to one~’s identity. Identities are the product of social relations with others, so sufficient reasons must be found in relation to others. ====
	13	+Butler 1 ~~Judith Butler, Giving an Account of Oneself New York: Fordham UP, 2005. Print.~~
	14	+
	15	+In all the talk about the social construction of the subject, we have perhaps
	16	+AND
	17	+I am both subjected to that norm and the agency of its use.
	18	+
	19	+
	20	+
	21	+====And, Recognizing the other requires recognizing that their otherness is undecideable. There is no way of apprehending how we might be changed through a relationship with the other. Due to the unknowable alterity of others, we expose ourselves to the very thing that could eradicate or violate us. There is no way to control it – attempts eliminate the other by eliminating their otherness. Constant exposure to otherness which could destroy us is the precariousness of life – precariousness reveals our exposure and dependence on others.====
	22	+
	23	+Butler 2 ~~Judith Butler, "Frames of War." London: Verso, 2009. Print.~~
	24	+
	25	+To say that a life is injurable, for instance, or that it can
	26	+AND
	27	+have are precisely those that disrupt any established notion of the "we."
	28	+
	29	+
	30	+====Grievability is required for apprehending precariousness and sustaining the conditions that make life possible.====
	31	+
	32	+Butler 3 ~~Judith Butler, "Frames of War." London: Verso, 2009. Print.~~
	33	+
	34	+Over and against an existential concept of finitude that singularizes our relation to death and
	35	+AND
	36	+living being as living, exposed to non-life from the start.
	37	+
	38	+
	39	+====Thus, the role of the ballot is to endorse the advocacy that best renders ungrievable lives grievable.====
	40	+
	41	+
	42	+====Implications:====
	43	+
	44	+
	45	+====1. Humans are initiated into certain norms that render lives ungrievable. Because norms are social, they can be interrogated and replaced with better ones—this interrogation is ethically necessary.====
	46	+
	47	+
	48	+====2. Practices that remove grief become norms through historical wrongs such as racism and patriarchy. The only way to rectify ungrievability stemming from historical racism is to carry out rectificatory justice. ====
	49	+
	50	+Mills 14 ~~Charles W. Mills, "White Time: The chronic Injustice of Ideal Theory" Du Bois Review. 2014.~~
	51	+
	52	+"Would it be in the least surprising, then, if the version
	53	+AND
	54	+created by human~~s~~ beings whose moral equality is reciprocally recognized.
	55	+
	56	+
	57	+====Rendering ungrievable lives grievable requires rectification of historical wrongs.====
	58	+
	59	+
	60	+===~~3:00~~ Part 2 is Ungrievability===
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	62	+
	63	+The Department of Energy website and its brochures state that "no one in the United States has died or been injured as a result of operations at a commercial nuclear power plant." (Richards 13)
	64	+
	65	+
	66	+====The Native American lives lost to nuclear power have never been acknowledged, let alone grieved.====
	67	+Richards 13 ~~Linda Richards, "On Poisoned Ground." The Chemical Heritage Foundation, Spring 2013. https://www.chemheritage.org/distillations/magazine/on-poisoned-ground Richards was the Chemical Heritage Foundation~’s 2010–2011 Doan Fellow. She is researching nuclear and environmental justice history for a PhD at Oregon State University.~~
	68	+
	69	+Nuclear-industry spokespersons, U.S. government agencies, and nuclear scientists
	70	+AND
	71	+. Mine waste was dumped in piles where children played until the 1990s.
	72	+
	73	+
	74	+====The government targets the Navajo Nation for uranium mines.====
	75	+LaDuke 9 ~~Winona LaDuke, "Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path." Orion Magazine, February 07, 2009. https://orionmagazine.org/article/uranium-mining-native-resistance-and-the-greener-path/ Winona LaDuke is an American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development. A Native American with Ojibwe ancestry, she is the executive director of both White Earth Land Recovery Project and helped found the Indigenous Women~’s Network in 1985.~~
	76	+
	77	+Over one thousand uranium mines gouged the earth in the Dine Bikeyah, the land
	78	+AND
	79	+communities, many of which suffer astronomical rates of cancer and birth defects.
	80	+
	81	+
	82	+====This was not an isolated incident – Native American communities are targeted as sites for all nuclear activity, since the risks are high. ====
	83	+Chatterjee 97 ~~Pratap Chatterjee. "Indigenous Groups Try to Ward Off Nuclear Waste." Inter-Press Service News Agency. May 20 1997. http://www.ipsnews.net/1997/05/us-environment-indigenous-groups-try-to-ward-off-nuclear-waste/ ~~
	84	+
	85	+California governor Pete Wilson, deciding that the federal government was not serious about plans
	86	+AND
	87	+," says Darelynn Lehto, the vice president of the Prairie Island Mdewankanton.
	88	+
	89	+
	90	+====Exploitation by the nuclear industry occurs around the world. ====
	91	+Rÿser et al. 16 ~~Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine via Truth Out. "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud." 27 March 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~
	92	+
	93	+Millions of indigenous peoples living in Fourth World territories around the world have been and
	94	+AND
	95	+to Fourth World ~~indigenous~~ peoples rarely noticed by the public eye.
	96	+
	97	+
	98	+====~~:20~~ Australia has largest uranium reserves. Legislation protecting the aboriginal populations has been altered in favor of the mining industry. ====
	99	+Green 14 ~~Jim Green, August 8, 2014. "THE NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST AUSTRALIA~’S ABORIGINAL PEOPLE." Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine – A Publication of the Center for World Indigenous Studies. https://intercontinentalcry.org/nuclear-war-australias-aboriginal-people-25148/ ~~
	100	+
	101	+Muckaty Traditional Owners have won a significant battle for country and culture, but the
	102	+AND
	103	+of these arrangements, and the government did not consult further than that."
	104	+ That disgraceful performance illustrates a broader pattern. Aboriginal land rights and heritage protections
	105	+AND
	106	+with the Aboriginal-led Australian Nuclear Free Alliance playing a leading role.
	107	+
	108	+
	109	+====I affirm that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. I reserve the right to clarify in CX on scope and implementation issues to deter silly bidirectional theory.====
	110	+Rozman explains the aff advocacy. ~~"Should or Should Not Nuclear Power Energy Be Banned Globally?" Izzati Rozman, Critical Analysis Report.~~
	111	+
	112	+Nuclear power should be banned globally not because of the availability of extensive reasons that
	113	+AND
	114	+the innocent lives at stake should be banned globally (Maclellan, 2014).
	115	+
	116	+
	117	+====Prohibition must be worldwide to ensure solvency. ====
	118	+Rÿser et al. 16 ~~Rudolph C. Rÿser, Yvonne Sherwood and Janna Lafferty, Intercontinental Cry (IC) Magazine via Truth Out. "The Indigenous World Under a Nuclear Cloud." 27 March 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/35381-the-indigenous-world-under-a-nuclear-cloud~~
	119	+
	120	+The Yakama Nation and her neighboring nations (Spokane, Confederated Tribes of the Colville
	121	+AND
	122	+unanticipated emissions and leaks remains the method for disposing of the deadly materials.
	123	+
	124	+
	125	+====Nuclear power production must be banned worldwide, or else patterns of exploitation will continue – the industry will move to regions of other indigenous populations to escape regulation, and concentrate damages there, exacerbating the problem. Prohibition must be complete to alter the corporate norms that refuse to grieve for indigenous lives. ====
	126	+
	127	+
	128	+====Prohibiting nuclear power will render lives grievable by ensuring historical exploitation is stopped and recognizing the effect of nuclear power on indigenous populations.====
	129	+
	130	+
	131	+===Underview===
	132	+
	133	+Presume aff
	134	+
	135	+Drop the arg
	136	+
	137	+Neg only gets one theory shell
	138	+
	139	+Denying a term doesn’t negate
	140	+
	141	+T with education doesn’t make sense
	142	+
	143	+====Storytelling is key to environmental justice movements. ====
	144	+Dickinson 12
	145	+~~ Elizabeth Dickinson, “Addressing Environmental Racism Through Storytelling: Toward an Environmental Justice Narrative Framework.” 9 February 2012. ~~
	146	+One primary reason
	147	+AND
	148	+ and cultural protectionism.
	149	+
	150	+====Dine storytelling explains the evil of nuclear power====
	151	+LaDuke
	152	+~~ Winona LaDuke, “Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path.” Orion Magazine, February 07, 2009. https://orionmagazine.org/article/uranium-mining-native-resistance-and-the-greener-path/ Winona LaDuke is an American activist, environmentalist, economist, and writer, known for her work on tribal land claims and preservation, as well as sustainable development. A Native American with Ojibwe ancestry, she is the executive director of both White Earth Land Recovery Project and helped found the Indigenous Women’s Network in 1985. ~~
	153	+In a Dine
	154	+AND
	155	+ The evil came.

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	1	+Christian Quiroz

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	1	+Stuyvesant KL

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	1	+Walt Whitman Caldera Aff

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	1	+SO16 AC - Environmental Racism

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	1	+Yale