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-Endless growth is taken for granted in capitalist discourse producing the mindset of overconsumption. This represents nuclear power as necessary in solving short term electricity supply, without questioning the underlying assumption of why we need that electricity in the first place. Smith 13 |
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- Thus, the role of the judge is to vote for the debater who best deconstructs overconsumption. Smith 16 |
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-Nuclear power production is justified through this overconsumption mindset, producing inequality. Maciejewska and Marszalek 11 |
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-Nuclear discourse legitimates itself in the language of profit while simultaneously painting the ecology movement as irrational. This creates denial of facts, decontextualizing nuclear power from its role in global energy production and painting it as the only alternative. Maciejwska and Marszalek 2 |
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-Advocacy: All countries will stop the production of nuclear power IMMEDIATELY. To clarify, this would not be a phaseout. I defend that the federal governments of countries take the action. I reserve the right to clarify. |
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-Plan collapses the world economy – energy shortages, inflation, and natural gas spikes. Bauschard 8/12 cites Our Energy Policy Organization 1/6, Cicio no date, and Bezdek and Wendling 4. |
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-Every crisis is an opportunity for radical change – Cuba proves. The aff is key to a mindset shift against overconsumption, a strategy of prefiguring political structures for change and creating that change. Alexander and Rutherford 14 |
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-*Two impacts*: |
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-1st Endless growth causes runaway warming – only economic collapse solves. Smith 13 |
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-Warming is a process of strategic refusal – wealthy countries refuse to acknowledge their complicity, resulting in large scale structural violence. Nelson 16 |
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-2nd Impact: nuclear power externalizes costs onto developing countries and poor individuals through uranium mining. This is structural violence of the worst kind. Maciejwska and Marsazalek 3 |