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... ... @@ -1,0 +1,114 @@ 1 +=1AC – Arctic FNPP= 2 + 3 + 4 +==Framework== 5 + 6 + 7 +====The role of the ballot is to vote for the debater that presents the best governmental policy option.==== 8 +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) 9 +Getting It in Writing Much of the work of framing what we stand for takes 10 +AND 11 +should be. And then we must be committed to making it so. 12 + 13 + 14 +====I value morality, as per the evaluative term, 'ought' in the resolution.==== 15 + 16 + 17 +====The standard is minimizing suffering.==== 18 + 19 + 20 +====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. ==== 21 +Thomas **Nagel '86** ~~"The View From Nowhere", 1986~~ //AG 22 +I shall defend the unsurprising claim that sensory pleasure is good and pain bad, 23 +AND 24 +such cases. There can be no reason to reject the appearances here. 25 + 26 + 27 +==Plan== 28 + 29 + 30 +====Plan Text: Countries should prohibit the production of Floating Nuclear Power Plants in the OSPAR region.==== 31 + 32 + 33 +====To clarify, that's just the Arctic.==== 34 + 35 + 36 +====Floating Nuclear Power Plants are specifically bad in the arctic – high risk of accidents and annihilation of marine ecosystems.==== 37 +**KIMO et al 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 38 +*** OSPAR is basically the Arctic region. 39 +Recent developments in nuclear energy technology 40 +AND 41 +requested to consider a ban on their use within the OSPAR Maritime region. 42 + 43 + 44 +==The Advantage is Warming== 45 + 46 + 47 +====We're on track to solve warming in the status-quo.==== 48 +**Khomami 9/3.** 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 49 +The US has joined China to formally ratify the Paris agreement to curb climate- 50 +AND 51 +expect a surge of ratifications around the UN Climate week later in September." 52 + 53 + 54 +====FNPPs erode the Arctic environment.==== 55 +**Nikitin et al 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 56 +*** IRG – Inert Radioactive Gases*** 57 +When normal operating of NPP the designers 58 +AND 59 +as transit through a cavity of a protective shell and a vent pipe. 60 + 61 + 62 +====Arctic environmental destruction accelerates warming, Arctic ecosystem is keystone for entire planet – multiple warrants. The impact is planetary extinction.==== 63 +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 64 +The Arctic and the subarctic regions surrounding it are important for many reasons. One 65 +AND 66 +of any credible and tested means of responding effectively to a major spill. 67 + 68 + 69 +====Biodiversity loss and warming destroy Arctic indigenous communities.==== 70 +**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 71 +Identified impacts are numerous. Many Arctic indigenous communities are characterized by mixed economic systems 72 +AND 73 +the appearance in the North of invasive species and vector-borne diseases. 74 + 75 + 76 +====Warming definitively causes extinction, tons of internal warrants which their impact defense won't take into account. ==== 77 +**Sharp and Kennedy 14 –** (Associate Professor Robert (Bob) A. Sharp is the UAE National Defense College Associate Dean for Academic Programs and College Quality Assurance Advisor. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Strategic Security Studies at the College of International Security Affairs (CISA) in the U.S. National Defense University (NDU), Washington D.C. and then as Associate Professor at the Near East South Asia (NESA) Center for Strategic Studies, collocated with NDU. Most recently at NESA, he focused on security sector reform in Yemen and Lebanon, and also supported regional security engagement events into Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Palestine and Qatar; Edward Kennedy is a renewable energy and climate change specialist who has worked for the World Bank and the Spanish Electric Utility ENDESA on carbon policy and markets; 8/22/14, "Climate Change and Implications for National Security," International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2014/08/22/climate-change-implications-national-security/) 78 +Our planet is 4.5 billion years old. If that whole time was 79 +AND 80 +investment patterns, and political decisions; it will be hard to fix! 81 + 82 + 83 +====There's an unquestionable scientific consensus about warming. ==== 84 +**Nuccitelli 16** — Dana Nuccitelli, Climate Writer for the Guardian, Environmental Scientist at Tetra Tech—a private environmental consulting firm, holds an M.A. in Physics from the University of California-Davis and a B.A. in Astrophysics from the University of California-Berkeley, 2016 ("It's settled: 90–100 of climate experts agree on human-caused global warming," Climate Consensus – The 97—a Guardian blog about climate change, April 13^^th^^, Available Online at https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/apr/13/its-settled-90100-of-climate-experts-agree-on-human-caused-global-warming, Accessed 07-15-2016) 85 +There is an overwhelming expert scientific consensus on human-caused global warming. Authors 86 +AND 87 +climate scientists, this paper should be the final word on the subject. 88 + 89 + 90 +====Russia will transition to renewables – multiple incentives and capabilities.==== 91 +**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 92 +A fully renewable energy system is achievable and economically viable in Russia and Central Asia 93 +AND 94 +-East Asia, South-East Asia, South America and Finland. 95 + 96 + 97 +==Underview== 98 + 99 + 100 +====1. Russia will have operating FNPPs in a month – plan uniquely key now.==== 101 +**Digges 15** (Charles Digges is an author for The Bellona Foundation and has a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Russian Literature from Harvard. He is also a journalist for a number of major newspapers and media companies worldwide such as The Moscow Times, the International Herald Tribune, BBC, The Nation and The Amsterdam Volkskraant. "Arctic-hopping Russian Deputy Minister promises floating nuclear plant by next year," The Bellona Foundation. April 23, 2015. http://bellona.org/news/nuclear-issues/nuclear-russia/2015-04-arctic-hopping-russian-deputy-minister-promises-russias-floating-nuclear-plant-next-year) //WW JA 8/27/16 102 +After years of delays and promises, Russia's first floating nuclear power plant is now 103 +AND 104 +not, it could end up as another orphaned, dangerous nuclear installation." 105 + 106 + 107 +====2. Ask if I will meet your interp in CX; avoids unnecessary theory- we can work something out; this allows for greater substantive debate which is the only form of education unique to debate – education at school is just soaking in information. Grant me an auto I meet on theory if the interp isn't checked in cross-ex to discourage non-checking.==== 108 + 109 + 110 +====3. Moving away from the state dooms the lefts' critique to failure - must work within the state without being statist==== 111 +Connolly 8 ~~William, Professor of Political Science at John Hopkins, Capitalism and Christianity, American Style, page numbers are at the bottom of the card.~~ 112 +Before turning to possible strategies to promote these objectives, we need to face an 113 +AND 114 +were it to occur, would undermine rather than vitalize democratic culture.29 - EntryDate
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