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+==Framework== |
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+====The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that presents the best governmental policy option – key to out of round advocacy skills.==== |
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+Nixon 2K (Themba-Nixon, Makani. Executive Director of The Praxis Project, a nonprofit organization helping communities use media and policy advocacy to advance health equity and justice~~, "Changing the Rules: What Public Policy Means for Organizing" Colorlines 3.2, 2000) |
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+Getting It in Writing Much of the work of framing what we stand for takes |
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+should be. And then we must be committed to making it so. |
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+====I value morality, as per the evaluative term, 'ought' in the resolution.==== |
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+====The standard is minimizing suffering.==== |
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+====We ground our existence through experience. Practical reason is arbitrary, meaning sentience is the only non-arbitrary source of normativity. Pain is universally bad and pleasure is universally good. ==== |
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+Thomas **Nagel '86** ~~"The View From Nowhere", 1986~~ //AG |
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+I shall defend the unsurprising claim that sensory pleasure is good and pain bad, |
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+such cases. There can be no reason to reject the appearances here. |
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+==Plan== |
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+====Plan Text: Countries should prohibit the production of Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the OSPAR region. I reserve the right to clarify anything about the plan in cx.==== |
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+====Floating Nuclear Power Plants are specifically bad in the arctic – high risk of accidents and annihilation of marine ecosystems.==== |
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+**KIMO 11 **(KIMO International (Kommunenes Internasjonale Miljøorganisasjon) a local authorities international environmental organization designed to give municipalities a political voice at regional, EU and international level. Greenpeace International is an independent global campaigning organization that acts to change attitudes and behavior, to protect and conserve the environment and to promote peace. "Concerns on Floating and Submerged Nuclear Power Plants," The OSPAR Commission. Deep Sea Research Part B. Oceanographic Literature Review 31.12. 2011. http://www.nuclearpolicy.info/docs/news/KIMO_OSPAR_Sellafield_FNPP.pdf) //WW JA 8/26/16 |
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+*** OSPAR is basically the Arctic region. |
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+Recent developments in nuclear energy technology |
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+requested to consider a ban on their use within the OSPAR Maritime region. |
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+==The Advantage is Environmental Damage== |
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+===Two Internal Link Scenarios=== |
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+====1 – Warming==== |
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+====We're on track to solve warming in the status-quo.==== |
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+**Khomami 16.** Nadia Khomami is a news reporter at the Guardian. She also writes features on music, politics and popular culture. You can follow her on Twitter. , 9-3-2016, "G20 summit: US and China ratify Paris climate change agreement," Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2016/sep/03/g20-summit-obama-to-make-climate-change-announcement-as-may-heads-to-china-live //RS |
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+The US has joined China to formally ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate- |
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+expect a surge of ratifications around the UN Climate week later in September." |
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+====FNPPs erode the Arctic environment.==== |
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+**Nikitin 04** (Alexandr Konstantinovich Nikitin is a retired first rank captain and a former nuclear installations safety inspector for the Russian Ministry of Defense (1987-1992). He is an author of multiple publications concerning the problems of radiation safety in the northern seas. Vladimir Mikhailovich Desyatov is a trained shipbuilding engineer. He has also been a representative of the President of Russia in the Khabarovsk region Igor Victorovich Forofontov is the coordinator of the Greenpeace nuclear campaign in Russia. He graduated from the physics faculty of Leningrad State University. Yevgeney Yakovlevic Simonov is a senior engineer and chief of shift at the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant (NPP), a nuclear operator on board the 900 series nuclear submarines and one of the heads of laboratory involved in the technical expert review of NPP project documentation. Ilya Borisovich Kolton was a scientific collaborator in the Kurchatov Institute within the technological-scientific centre of GosAtomNadzor. Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science. He is a former environmental adviser to the Russian President and former chairman of the governmental commission on sea-dumping of radioactive wastes. Vladimir Mikhailovich Kuznetsov is a former head (1986-1993) of the Russian Federal Inspectorate for Nuclear and Radiation Safety's (GosAtomNadzor) department for supervision and inspection of nuclear and radiation safety at atomic engineering installations. "FLOATING NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS IN RUSSIA: A THREAT TO THE ARCTIC, WORLD OCEANS AND NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY," Green Cross Russia Third edition Edited and published by "Agenstwo Rakurs Production" Ltd Moscow, 2004 ISBN 2004. http://www.greencross.ch/uploads/media/gc_fnpp_book.pdf) //TruLe |
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+*** IRG – Inert Radioactive Gases*** |
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+When normal operating of NPP the designers |
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+as transit through a cavity of a protective shell and a vent pipe. |
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+====2 – Oil spills==== |
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+====FNPPs will be used to power oil rigs – the impact is major oil spills and annihilation of marine ecosystems.==== |
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+**Hunziker 15.** (Robert Hunziker. "Drilling and Nuclear Power in the Arctic", Counter Punch, 6-10-2015, http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/10/drilling-and-nuclear-power-in-the-arctic/)//DM Accessed 9-8-2016 |
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+Not only that, but astonishingly, Russia is doubling down on its risky energy |
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+to Shell's response capabilities and to those of U.S. agencies. |
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+===Impacts=== |
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+====Arctic oil spills and warming cause planetary extinction – the Arctic is a keystone ecosystem. ==== |
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+WWF 10 (World Wildlife Fund, "Drilling for Oil in the Arctic: Too Soon, Too Risky" 12/1/10, http://assets.worldwildlife.org/publications/393/files/original/Drilling_for_Oil_in_the_Arctic_Too_Soon_Too_Risky.pdf?1345753131)//WL |
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+The Arctic and the subarctic regions surrounding it are important for many reasons. One |
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+of any credible and tested means of responding effectively to a major spill. |
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+====Biodiversity loss and warming destroy Arctic indigenous communities.==== |
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+**Stepien 14** (Adam Stepien is a researcher at the Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, Finland. "Arctic Indigenous Peoples, Climate Change Impacts, and Adaptation," E-International Relations. April 10, 2014. http://www.e-ir.info/2014/04/10/arctic-indigenous-peoples-climate-change-impacts-and-adaptation/) //WW JA 8/27/16 |
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+Identified impacts are numerous. Many Arctic indigenous communities are characterized by mixed economic systems |
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+the appearance in the North of invasive species and vector-borne diseases. |
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+====Russia is shifting to renewables in the status-quo regardless of the plan.==== |
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+**Breyer 15.** Christian Breyer, Professor, 12-30-2015, "Russia can become one of the most energy-competitive areas based on renewables," LUT, http://www.lut.fi/web/en/news/-/asset_publisher/lGh4SAywhcPu/content/russia-can-become-one-of-the-most-energy-competitive-areas-based-on-renewables //RS |
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+A fully renewable energy system is achievable and economically viable in Russia and Central Asia |
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+-East Asia, South-East Asia, South America and Finland. |
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+==Underview== |
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+====Even if my representations aren't completely accurate- Our framing drives action that's necessary to resolve problems in the status quo.==== |
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+**Schatz 12** (Jul. 2012. Dr. JL Schatz is a PhD. and professor at Binghamton University. He teaches Media and Politics, Argumentative Theory, and Literature and Technology. "The Importance of Apocalypse: The Value of End-of-the-World Politics While Advancing Ecocriticism" The Journal of Ecocriticism. A peer reviewed journal. http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/joe/article/viewFile/394/382) //WW JA 7/14/16 |
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+It is no longer a question that human interaction with the world is destroying the |
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+either ecological metaphors or environmental reality we only get part of the picture.` |
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+====Role play impacts outweigh—deliberative debate models impart skills vital to respond to social problems==== |
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+Christian O. Lundberg 10 Professor of Communications @ University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Tradition of Debate in North Carolina" in Navigating Opportunity: Policy Debate in the 21st Century By Allan D. Louden, p. 311 |
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+The second major problem with the critique that identifies a naivety in articulating debate and |
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+with the existential challenges to democracy ~~in an~~ increasingly complex world. |
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+====Intrapersonal resistance should occur within a political framework==== |
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+Ella **Myers 13**, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Gender Studies at the University of Utah, 2013, Worldly Ethics: Democratic Politics and Care for the World, p. 44-45 |
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+Unfortunately, Connolly is inconsistent in this regard, for he also positions Foucauldian self |
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+may have value, but it is not an ethics fit for democracy. |