Tournament: State | Round: 4 | Opponent: Katy Taylor CR | Judge: Cameron

Attempting to include women in society without considering the environment is the problem with the feminist starting point. It doesn't understand our world of domination that causes violence to oppressed groups, like other species.

Plumwood, University of Tasmania Professor of Philosophy, 93 (25s)
~Val, "Feminism and the Mastery of Nature", pg. 29, TYBG~
But even if the absorption of women into the master model of human culture were
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, as we shall see, the challenge to other forms of domination.

Anthropocentric violence against the non-human has been institutionalized- their complicity in patriarchal conceptions of ethics lend credence to the act of ecocide. (22s)

Kheel, visting scholar of Environmental Science @ UC Berkeley, '93
~Marti, 1993, Temple University Press, "From Heroic to Holistic Ethics," http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/948_reg.html, 12/16/2017, KL~
Frequently, aggressive conduct is not prohibited under patriarchy, merely restrained and controlled.
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have sought the redemption of "Man" and hence the greater good.

The patriarchal systems of oppression that hold captive and murder the nonhuman are the same as those which controlled the female body- sexism and speciesism are one and the same. (26s)

Jones '11
~Pattrice, 2011, University of Illinois Press, "Fighting Cocks: Ecofeminism Versus Sexualized Violence," Project Muse, 12/17/2016, KL~
Like many people raised to respect "freedom of religion," I used to shy
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up together across the centuries, are codependent siblings of dysfunctional patriarchal families.

The alternative is border-crossing- traversing boundaries allows the development of a contextual feminist ethic that can identify with the nonhuman. (32s)

Gaard, professor of English @ University of Wisconsin-River Falls, '01
~Greta Claire, Winter 2001, Indiana University Press, "Tools for a Cross-Cultural Feminist Ethics: Exploring Ethical Contexts and Contents in the Makah Whale Hunt," project Muse, 12/22/2016, KL~
The strategy of distinguishing between the different relationships inherent in the contexts and contents of
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to initiate and support dialogue toward cross-cultural feminist and ecofeminist ethics.

Ecofeminism is an intersectional approach to oppression. (10s)

Hoetzer, contributor to Inter-Disciplinary.net, No Date
~Irene, Inter-Disciplinary.net, "Ecofeminism and Environmental Justice", http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/hoetzerpaper.pdf, 12/27/16, KL~
According to Drucilla Cornell, Rawls' theory lays out the  significance of the culture
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methodology for understanding the world to bring about  a capacity for change.

The ecofeminist perspective is intersectional- the alt provides the tools necessary to combat multiple forms of oppression simultaneously. (20s)

Mallory, contributor to Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World, 2013
~Chaone, 2013, "Environmental Justice, Ecofeminism, and Power", Linking Ecology and Ethics for a Changing World, Volume:1, 251-258, KL~
Struggles for environmental justice that do not incorporate an explicitly gendered  and ecofeminist analysis
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and world founded on systemiceconomic, racial, and gendered inequalities.

Tournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
I'm new at this. Prob will only put stuff on here for Nats. At locals just talk to me and I'll disclose. Also, debate should be inclusive, so if I read anything potentially controversial just tell me. Ciao.

Tournament: JanFeb | Round: Finals | Opponent: any | Judge: any
I read generic DA from good debater's wikis.

Tournament: Strake Jesuit | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any

Cameron Okeke:

I would know. During my four years as an undergraduate at UChicago from 2011 to 2015, I grew increasingly dissatisfied with the university's willful ignorance of students' concerns, especially students of color. As a first-generation black student, I needed safe spaces like the Office of Multicultural Student Affairs — not to "hide from ideas and perspectives at odds with my own," but to heal from relentless hate and ignorance, to hear and be heard. My ideas were always challenged, but never my humanity. I mattered. Full of robust dialogue, safe spaces are not a bubbled-wrapped echo chamber, but a places where "civility and mutual respect" actually matter. Though spacious, the multicultural student affairs office was always full of students sharing their struggles and grappling with oppression. Underfunded and understaffed, it was a house-turned-sanctuary for students and student groups alike. I even slept there during a particularly brutal finals week. I, like many other students, wouldn't have survived UChicago without this place to call my home. If you want diversity, you have to have safe spaces Alas, UChicago does not seem to get it. The university claims that it values diversity, boasting about its history of championing black, LGBTQ, poor, and femme-identified students. But you do not get our "diversity" without safe spaces, trigger warnings, or some institutionalized form of respect for people with different experiences. You want the perspective of someone with PTSD, then you better be prepared to do the work to make them comfortable enough to speak up in class, and that means giving them a heads up when discussing potentially triggering topics. Classrooms should not be a form of exposure therapy. The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs always started its dialogs with trigger warnings and had people on staff trained to handle PTSD flashbacks. You want the greatness femme-identified folks have to offer, then you have to support them in their endeavors and take sexual assault and harassment seriously. While the university continually failed to take rape and rape threat seriously, the Phoenix Survivor Alliance held solidarity circles to support survivors at Hull Gate. You want low-income and first-generation students to focus in class and thrive in your elitist institution, then you better fund the Student Support Services (for undocumented and low-income students) and address the classist onslaught inherent in UChicago culture. When the dining halls closed on Saturday nights, low-income students (myself included) went hungry. Where did we go? The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs. You want trans and LGBTQ students to show up to class and elevate the conversation with their brilliance, then you need to create a culture where misgendering and deadnaming are taboo. Fully staff the Office of LGBTQ Student Life and make more places where these students can speak freely about their struggles. You want me to elevate mediocre conversations about race with my personal experience and critical lens, then you better do something about the students muttering about affirmative action every time I speak, or the campus police who stop me on the street for not looking "UChicago enough." During my time on campus, I met more than couple people who believed in the genetic inferiority of black people. I was never afraid of their thinly veiled bigotry, just bored and disappointed. I needed a space where I, a biology major, was not expected to give free race theory classes. You want black women and other women of color to do anything at all for your gentrifying, police-protected institution, then you better just do better.

One's perspective does not merely define where they speak from but has a direct relation to the epistemic credibility of what is being said. Alcoff 91 

The recognition that AND
who are less privileged than me?
 

Interrogating the purported objectivity of discourse requires recognizing that while it is impossible to completely abstract from a site of privilege, we have an ethical imperative to examine the latent effects of our topical discourse. Alcoff 91 

The impetus to speak AND
words, hearers, location, language, and so on.
 

Focusing directly on the perspectives of the oppressed is the only way to promote liberation. Freire 70 

This, then, is the great humanistic AND
clothed in false generosity. 

Narratives are key to understanding the perspectives of the oppressed.

Rowland 5 
The important
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the death camps.
 

Ignoring narratives creates serial policy failure. Narratives are required for policymaking. McDonough 6 

Why is narrative so central to policymaking?
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makes more sense to most of them than does the value of the r-square. 

Empirically proven. Narratives are key to Congressional action. Rowland 5 

Consequently, great
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to regulate the industry.
ANALYTIC

CP Text: Public Colleges and Universities ought to restrict constitutionally protected speech in safe spaces.

ANALYTIC

Solvency Advocate:

Guterl, Matthew Pratt. "Students Deserve Safe Spaces on Campus (essay) | Inside Higher Ed." Students Deserve Safe Spaces on Campus (essay). University of Chicago, 09 Aug. 2016. Web. 15 Dec. 2016. https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/08/29/students-deserve-safe-spaces-campus-essay.
One of the big
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 the very mission of higher education.

Net Benefits:

Safe Spaces are key to protect marginalized people of color.

Ansari, Aeman. "Ethnic Minorities Deserve Safe Spaces Without White People." The Huffington Post. N.p., 18 May 2015. Web. 16 Dec. 2016.
It's not just important, but it's essential, for marginalized groups to have safe
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the world not controlled by individuals who have power, who have privilege.

Safe Spaces Offer a place for women to share feminist values, and nurture an environment to resist sexism.

Moyer, Justin Wm. "Harvard Women Protest Sanctions on Single-gender Clubs." The Washington Post. WP Company, 09 May 2016. Web. 16 Dec. 2016.
Three days after Harvard University announced steps to combat gender discrimination in student social organizations
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and we feel it's important that we have space for women on campus."

Safe Spaces are a place where LGBTQ+ students can educate and feel safe from discrimination.

Morais, Betsy. "Transgender Students Search for Campus Niche." Columbia Daily Spectator. N.p., 07 Dec. 2007. Web. 16 Dec. 2016.
Grosz said he was surprised by the amount of ignorance he has encountered from Columbia
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. "People say a lot of really ignorant things about transgender people."

Tournament: Flomo | Round: 2 | Opponent: idk | Judge: Breann

CP: Public colleges and universities ought to restrict journalistic speech in the cases of satirical newspapers publishing hate.

Kowalski 16, Allison. "College Comedy Papers Struggle With 'Political Correctness' Climate." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 17 May 2016. Web. 03 Jan. 2017. KL
At MTU, a Daily Bull article in November called "Sexually Harassed Man Pretty Okay with Situation" (and an accompanying list of "Signs that she wants the D" that included items like, "she only screams a little") prompted university administrators to place the Bull on probation for two years. The student government voted to withdraw some of the Bull's funding and to withhold more until staffers had attended Title IX training.

Administrators slash funding to campus publications when satirical papers go too far. Means the CP lets universities single out satire papers while strengthening and legitimizing real journalism—solves the aff.

Kowalski 16 (2), Allison. "College Comedy Papers Struggle With 'Political Correctness' Climate." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 17 May 2016. Web. 03 Jan. 2017. KL
The accusation had come in light of recent actions taken at a sister school's comedy
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racial slurs — the article spurred UCSD administrators into publicly denouncing the Koala.

Satire is counterproductive to civic engagement—strengthens the alt-right and turns the aff. People don't know when news is fake and when it's real, and now that Trump won fake news has an even broader reach. Solon 16

Solon, Olivia. "Facebook's failure: did fake news and polarized politics get Trump elected?" The Guardian. 11/10/16. KL
Facebook will need to change its business model if it does want to address these
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" that spreads on Facebook, creating a "dust cloud of nonsense".

Trump's embrace of fake news and disregard for truth destroys civic engagement and leads to extinction. Granoff 16

Johnathan Granoff, president of the Global Security Institute. "Donald Trump is an Existential Threat to America and the World." TIME.com Nov 7, 2016. KL
By invoking a return to an imaginary past and ignoring reality, Donald Trump is
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car on a real road with an imaginary map will lead to catastrophe.

Tournament: NovDec | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Didn't debate much on this topic. I read mostly lay stuff except for Spec Limit T, and bell hooks K.

Tournament: SepOct | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any

Ethical agnosticism means we should default to minimizing existential risk, Bostrom,:12

These reflections
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a lot of value.  

Extinction comes first under consequentialism because of future generations. Bostrom¹³

Holding probability constant,
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positive value of the direct benefit of such an action.10  

Counterplan Text: The ~insert aff actors~ will increase production of nuclear power through denatured molten salt reactors.
Williams 16

Stephen Williams ~Software engineer and former technical writer.  Focuses now in many issues surrounding energy use, such as climate change, ocean acidification, energy poverty, and pollution.~ July 4, 2016. How Molten Salt Reactors Might Spell a Nuclear Energy Revolution, ZMEScience.com August 23, 2016 SH

The Intergovernmental Panel
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that most everyone can embrace.
 

MSRs create no longer-term radioactive waste and expend current waste stockpiles.  Williams 16

Stephen Williams ~Software engineer and former technical writer.  Focuses now in many issues surrounding energy use, such as climate change, ocean acidification, energy poverty, and pollution.~ July 4, 2016. How Molten Salt Reactors Might Spell a Nuclear Energy Revolution, ZMEScience.com August 23, 2016 SH

Conventional reactors use solid ceramic fuel rods containing enriched uranium. The fission
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of the rest of the available fuel in these rods to make electricity. 

MSR's can't be used for proliferation, so I de-link from all the AC impacts

Williams. "Molten Salt Reactors: The Future of Green Energy?" ZME Science. N.p., 04 July 2016. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
No nuclear reactor can be made proliferation proof, but MSRs have some significant advantages
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stockpiles of plutonium, making these materials unavailable for use in nuclear weapons.

MSR's are cost-effective and efficient, because they can be made quickly and cheaply.

Williams. "Molten Salt Reactors: The Future of Green Energy?" ZME Science. N.p., 04 July 2016. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
MSRs can be made cheaply because they are simple compared to conventional reactors that have
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and can make the ramp up of nuclear power much faster.
 

Warming DA

Nuclear power is currently progressing – many reactors are being built with only more planned – AFF halts development Groskopf '01/26

Christopher Groskopf – reporter. "New nuclear reactors are being built a lot more like cars." Quartz. January 26, 2016. http://qz.com/581566/new-nuclear-reactors-are-being-built-a-lot-more-like-cars/ JJN
At its birth, nuclear power was a closely guarded national enterprise, only accessible
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small oversight or production flaw could make a much greater difference.  
 

Prohibiting nuclear power means warming can't be solved – impracticality of renewables combined with a switch to coal only makes warming worse. Harvey '12

Fiona Harvey - award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian, used to work for financial times. "Nuclear power is only solution to climate change, says Jeffrey Sachs." The Guardian. May 3, 2012. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2012/may/03/nuclear-power-solution-climate-change JJN *bracketing in original
Combating climate change will require an expansion of nuclear power, respected economist Jeffrey Sachs
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more powerful than the arithmetic of climate scientists," he said.
 

MSR Reactors pave the way for nuclear innovation and cut Co2 emissions Cala 16

ANDRÉS CALA, THESE SCIENTISTS MAY HAVE FOUND A WAY TO STOP NUCLEAR MELTDOWNS, OZY.com, MAY 31 2016 EE

Nuclear power currently provides 11 percent of the world's energy. But that
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, a nonprofit organization advocating the use of advanced nuclear technology.
 

Warming leads to extinction – multiple scenarios prove. Roberts '13

David Roberts - staff writer for Grist. "If you aren't alarmed about climate, you aren't paying attention." Grist. January 10, 2013. http://grist.org/climate-energy/climate-alarmism-the-idea-is-surreal/ JJN
There was recently another one of those (numbingly familiar) internet tizzies wherein someone
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"alarmist" in this context. What level of alarm is adequate? 

EXTINCTION WILL HAPPEN BY 2020 IF WE DON'T SOLVE NOW

Harris, Paul, and Mark Townsend. "Pentagon Tells Bush: Climate Change Will Destroy Us." The Guardian. Guardian News and Media, 21 Feb. 2004. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.
Climate change over the next 20 years could result in a global catastrophe costing millions
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mega-droughts, famine and widespread rioting will erupt across the world.

Desalinization DA

People are starting to die, if we don't solve for desalinization right now

UN Water, 2013 "Facts and Figures." 2013. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Aug. 2016.
783 million people do not have
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and water-related diseases. 

We are running out of sustainable water

Frankel, Todd. "New NASA Data Show How the World Is Running out of Water." Washington Post. The Washington Post, 16 June 2015. Web. 18 Sept. 2016.
Twenty-one of the world's 37 largest aquifers — in locations from India and
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term problem that's likely to worsen as reliance on aquifers grows.
  

Nuclear power key to stable desalinization

IAEA 15 ~— widely known as the world's "Atoms for Peace" organization within the United Nations family. Set up in 1957 as the world's centre for cooperation in the nuclear field, the Agency works with its Member States and multiple partners worldwide to promote the safe, secure and peaceful use of nuclear technologies, "New Technologies for Seawater Desalination Using Nuclear Energy," IEAE TecDoc Series,
2015~ ~Premier~
_{It is anticipated that}by 2025, 33
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delivering the copious quantities of energy required for large-scale desalination projects. 

And MSR's specifically are the nuclear reactor in solving the growing water crisis

McGinnis, Rob. "Molten Salt Reactors and Desalination." EGeneration. Egenerations, 6 Feb. 2012. Web. 18 Sept. 2016.
Molten Salt Reactor (MSR) technology offers a powerful potential solution to the impending
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, clean potable drinking water for agriculture, industrial, and domestic use.

Without sustainable water, extinction ensues.

Whitty, Gone: Mass Extinction and the Hazards of Earth's Vanishing Biodiversity." Mother Jones. N.p., 2007 Web. 23 Aug. 2016.
IN THE FINAL STAGES OF DEHYDRATION the body shrinks, robbing youth from the young
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background extinction rate estimated at about one species per million species per year.

THE TIME IS NOW, WE HAVE TILL 2020 UNTIL WE SEE THESE IMPACTS

Natron, By Sharing This. "Could the World Run Out of Fresh Water by 2040?"NaturalON. N.p., 04 Oct. 2014. Web. 24 Sept. 2016.

In fact, by 2020,
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power plants operate.

Tournament: SeptOct | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
It was the Gerson intentionality Nonsense. I should be ashamed.