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1 - Interps
Tournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any Interpretation: The negative must read all topicality and theory interpretations indicting the affirmative advocacy in cross examination, giving the aff an opportunity to concede the interp.
Interpretation: negative advocacies must be unconditional unless permed.
Interpretation: The neg must only defend the converse of the plan, Taiwan ought not prohibit the production of nuclear power.
Interpretation: Debaters may not read broken, carded positions that are not disclosed on the NDCA wiki if they do not provide contact information or some means of contacting them.
Interpretation: the negative may not claim util triggers permissibility, claim permissibility negates, and critique the aff.
Interpretation: Kritik alternatives must only be specific, solvent policy actions implemented by a single actor. The alt must have a solvency advocate that explains the implementation of the policy, and cannot be a rejection or mindset shift.
Interpretation: If the negative advances multiple prefiat voting issues, such as reading theory and a prefiat criticism with a distinct role of the ballot, then the negative must weigh between them in the 1NC or explicitly delineate which prefiat impact comes first if asked in CX.
Interpretation: the negative may only read paradigm issues on theory in the NC, and may not read any new paradigm issue arguments in the NR. To clarify, reading new arguments against the RVI in the NR is illegitimate.
Interpretation: Pics must have a solvency advocate, defined as an author that advocates for the exact text of the implementation of the cp in the card read during the round.
Interpretation: The negative must not read a pic against whole res affs – neg advocacies cannot include any component of the aff plan.
Interpretation: Kritiks must be entirely exclusive of the aff, textually and functionally.
Interpretation: if the negative introduces a role of the ballot of , they must specify and define what it means to (be the/do the/criticize) with minimally a sentence in their role of the ballot.
Interpretation: the neg must read an nc or alternative moral framework.
Interpretation: The neg may read at most 3 voters on theory shells without weighing between them in the text of the NC by explicitly prioritizing one.
Interpretation – If the neg reads a kritik, the text of the K alt must include a post-fiat advocacy taken by the same agent as the AC.
Interpretation – if the neg reads an alternative that focuses on eradicating capitalism, they must specify what economic and political system would replace it in the world of the alt.
Interpretation - the negative may not fiat action by every single person on earth.
Interpretation - if the negative reads an alternative framing mechanism, they must clarify a standard or roll of the ballot text in the nc which contextualizes how to weigh offense and cannot just claim that the cards provide a framing mechanism.
1/18/17
2 - Body Discourse K
Tournament: Bronx | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Success Academy SC | Judge: Chetan Hertzig, Cati Kalinoski, Andrew Monagle
The discourse of the body in language such as “black bodies” is ableist and marginalizes black women – turns and outweighs the K since even if it’s true, the way you read the K is net harmful and marginalizing.
Oyewumi 99: Oyeronke Oyewumi teaches in the Dept. of Black Studies at University of California at Santa Barbara. A sociologist by training, she received her Ph.D. at UC Berkeley. She is the author of The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses (University of Minnesota Press, 1997). Invention won a 1997 Distinguised Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Award of the African Studies Association. She is also the editor of an anthology. African Women and Feminism: Reflected on the Politics of Sisterhood due out fall 1999 from Africa World Press. “Multiculturalism or Multibodism: On the Impossible Intersections of Race and Gender in American White Feminist and Black Nationalist Discourses'” The Western Journal of Black Studies; Fall 1999; 23, 3; Periodicals Archive Online pg. 182 The politics of AND articulated the problem.
10/16/16
JANFEB - Resistance AC
Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lynbrook YZ | Judge: Abbey Chapman It's not letting me paste it here so check open source.
12/18/16
JANFEB - Resistance AC v Grant
Tournament: TOC | Round: Octas | Opponent: Millard North GB | Judge: Chris Castillo, Bob Overing, Paul Zhou Focus on materialism comes before metaphysical theorization Curry 14 (Tommy J, Associate Professor of Philosophy @ the University of Texas AandM, “The Cost of a Thing: A Kingian Reformulation of a Living Wage Argument in the 21st Century,” 2014, http://www.academia.edu/9798210/The_Cost_of_a_Thing_A_Kingian_Reformulation_of_a_Living_Wage_Argument_in_the_21st_Century//utd-va) Whereas the 20th …contemporary moral parameters. Critiquing metaphysical concepts and subjectivity doesn’t alter political realities---institutional engagement key Z Al-Mwajeh 5, Indiana University of Pennsylvania The School of Graduate Studies and Research Department of English, CRITIQUE OF POSTMODERN ETHICS OF ALTERITY VERSUS EMBODIED (MUSLIM) OTHERS, https://dspace.iup.edu/bitstream/handle/2069/23/Ziad20Al-Mwajeh.pdf?sequence=1 However, alterity-oriented postmodernism … and academic norms.5 Violence is proximately caused – root cause logic is poor scholarship Sharpe, lecturer, philosophy and psychoanalytic studies, and Goucher, senior lecturer, literary and psychoanalytic studies – Deakin University, ‘10 (Matthew and Geoff, Žižek and Politics: An Introduction, p. 231 – 233)
We realise that .. taking it seriously. The standard is minimizing structural violence. I contend speech codes are bad Speech codes on campuses have been disproportionately used against minorities Strossen 1: Nadine Strossen the first woman and the youngest person to ever lead the ACLU. A professor at New York Law School, Strossen sits on the Council on Foreign Relations. She has been called one of the most influential business leaders, women, or lawyers in National Law Journal and Vanity Fair “Incitement to Hatred: Should There Be a Limit” New York Law School. 25 S. Ill. U. L. J. 243 (2000-2001). -- South Africa, Russia, Turkey, Singapore, UK (multiple examples), United States, Germany, Canada (censored a bell hooks book), British Universities, University of Michigan, University of Connecticut, Trinity College Consistent with the … to disempowered groups. Speech restrictions don’t work – they make people martyrs, make bad speech more attractive, create resentment towards the oppressed, and give institutional sanction to hate; Minow 2k Martha Minow (Professor, Harvard Law School); REGULATING HATRED: WHOSE SPEECH, WHOSE CRIMES, WHOSE POWER?-AN ESSAY FOR KENNETH KARST; http://heinonline.org/HOL/PDFsearchable?collection=journalsandhandle=hein.journals/uclalr47anddiv=36andsection=36andprint=sectionandfrom=dropbox; 47 UCLA L. Rev. 1253 1999-2000 BWSWJ Nonetheless, those who … what it says."6 Speech codes put minority students on the school to prison pipeline – high school proves – Ross 16 Ross, Catherine J. (Professor of Law, George Washington; Catherine J. Ross specializes in constitutional law (with particular emphasis on the First Amendment), family law, and legal and policy issues concerning children. Her book, Lessons in Censorship: How Schools and Courts Subvert Students' First Amendment Rights (Harvard University Press, 2015) was named the Best Book on the First Amendment by Concurring Opinions’ First Amendment News, and won the Critics’ Choice Book Award from the American Education Studies Association. Professor Ross has been a co-author of Contemporary Family Law (Thomson/West) since the First Edition; the Fourth Edition was published in 2015.) , 'Bitch,' Go Directly to Jail: Student Speech and Entry into the School-to-Prison Pipeline (2016). 88 TEMPLE L. REV. (2016); GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-11; GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-11. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2782555 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2782555 All brackets were in original evidence BWSWJ Responding to these …suspended each year.38 Ross continues Violating a student …for her arrest.82 Counter speech is empirically effective – that’s the consensus of the lit. Davidson 16: Alexander Davidson “The Freedom of Speech in Public Forums on College Campuses: A Single-Site Case Study on Pushing the Boundaries of the Freedom of Speech” A Senior Project presented to The Faculty of the Journalism Department. California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. June 2016. p. 50-51 All experts agreed … combat the issue. Universities reify oppressive norms through oppressing and targeting critical studies as “anti- American” – any restrictions allow dominant empires to divide and rule through false claims of maintaining freedom for students Chatterjee and Maira ’14 (Chatterjee, Piya, and Sunaina Maira. “The imperial university: Race, war, and the nation-state.” The imperial university: Academic repression and scholarly dissent (2014): 1-50, --ghssk)
State warfare and … grounds” for terrorism. Theory Underview some theory analytics K Underview Discourse and pedagogy must engage the existing institution – wishing away policy discussion fails because neoliberalism is institutionally entrenched Jones and Spicer 9 (Campbell, Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at U of Leicester, Andre, Associate Professor in the Dept of Industrial Relations @ Warwick Business School U of Warwick, Unmasking the Entrepreneur, pgs. 22-23) The third strand … example Swedberg, 2000). Fairness is a prerequisite to any form of discussion – turns all your K impacts. Galloway 7: Galloway 7 (Ryan Galloway, Samford Debate Coach, Professor of Communication Studies at Samford, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007 Debate as a … of topical advocacy.
Tournament: Loyola | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mountain View DZ | Judge: Kris Kaya Open Source
9/10/16
SEPOCT - Orchid Island AC
Tournament: Loyola | Round: Octas | Opponent: La Canada AZ | Judge: Nick Steele, Scott Phillips, John Overing Open Source
10/14/16
SEPOCT - Orchid Island AC Meltdowns Advantage updates
Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harrison MZ | Judge: Jenn Melin Open Source
9/17/16
SEPOCT - Space AC v2
Tournament: Meadows | Round: 3 | Opponent: HW KK | Judge: Adam Bistagne Fission proves personal identity is reductionist – if the hemispheres of my brain were transplanted into 2 different people, neither would actually be me. Olson: Olson, Eric T., "Personal Identity", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Spring 2016 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2016/entries/identity-personal/. But now suppose … once: a contradiction. Thus the standard is act utilitarianism. Nuclear propulsion is on the docket for NASA – their program is restarting imminently Godwin 16: (CURT GODWIN, "NASA discusses SLS and Orion progress at ‘Day of Mars’ event" Read more at http://www.spaceflightinsider.com/space-centers/marshall-space-flight-center/nasa-sls-orion-mars-event/#pUrEG1ih3qyYB5FS.99, AUGUST 22ND, 2016) Tony Kim, project … about his rationale. And the trend is global – Russia plans to test propulsion tech by 2018 Atherton 16: (Kelsey D. Atherton, "RUSSIA WANTS TO TEST A NUCLEAR SPACE ENGINE IN 2018," March 11, 2016, http://www.popsci.com/russia-wants-to-test-nuclear-space-engine-in-2018) Space is expensive. … space to Earth. Thus the plan: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear propelled rockets and technologies.
Adv 1 = Accidents Accidents are likely and devastating – the nuclear industry manipulates space discourse to erase potential dangers. Grossman 15: (Karl Grossman, "NASA's warning - SpaceX crash highlights dangers of nuclear power in space", 2nd July 2015 http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/Blogs/2929123/nasas_warning_spacex_crash_highlights_dangers_of_nuclear_power_in_space.html) A month ago … a chance on." Grossman ’05 continues: (Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, “The Case Against the Plutonium Space Race So what happens when the sky begins to fall?” Space4Peace, By Karl Grossman Printed from the BoiseWeekly. 16 March 2005FT) The danger in … to 40 million. Nuclear tech will spillover risking accidents with other technology but public resistance keeps it in check – preventing nuclear in space is key to dismantling the industry’s line of justification. Grossman (Karl Grossman, Investigative reporter, "The Deadly Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead", 04/12/2012 01:57 pm ET | Updated Jun 12, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/the-deadly-folly-of-nucle_b_1417149.html) The crash last … deeply concerns us. Plutonium 238 is uniquely toxic –NASA officials concede there’s no cleanup plan. Gagnon ‘11: (Bruce, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space group, 7/1/11, http://www.space4peace.org/articles/plutonium_space_launch.htm) JPG NASA sadly appears … afford to take. Extinction Pry 10 – (Peter Vincent, director of the U.S. Nuclear Strategy Forum, “What America Needs to Know About EMPs” http://wethearmed.com/index.php?topic=8450.0) EMP is not … EMP Commission's recommendations. Accidents hurt the poor the most – they lack resources to escape and cope with radiation damage. Cousins et al. ’13: (Elicia Cousins, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta. “Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience.”Carleton College, Environmental Studies Comprehensive Project Northfield, MN, USA. 2013FT) A similar trend … a nuclear accident. Adv 2 = Plutonium-238 Nuclear propelled rocket development requires production of plutonium-238. Ambrose ’16: (Mitch Ambrose Government Relations Division American Institute of Physics mambrose@aip.org 301-209-3095, "Oak Ridge Scientists Produce First Plutonium-238 in 28 Years" AIP. Publication date: 2 February 2016) On Dec. 22, … NASA authorization bill. And plutonium production is not politically neutral – the state frames land of indigenous people as “wastelands” to justify using them as sites of uranium mining. Endres ’09: Danielle Endres, Department of Communication, University of Utah “From Wasteland to Waste Site: The Role of Disocurse In Nuclear Power’s Environmental Injustice.” Routledge, November 2009FT) Wasteland, like most … pollution (LaDuke 1999).9 Plutonium is responsible for second worst nuclear event of all time – supercharges AC impacts. Greenpeace (Greenpeace, "The second biggest nuclear disaster in history", http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/mayak-nuclear-disaster280907/, No Date) The Mayak nuclear … the climate crisis. The Oak Ridge plant has a history of human experimentation, risks envi harm, and harms workers. McCally (Michael McCally, MD, PhD, Christine Cassel, MD, Daryl G. Kimball, "U.S. Government-Sponsored Radiation Research on Humans 1945-1975", 4 Medicine and Global Survival 1994; Vol. 1, No. 1, At the time of publication, MM was Health Program Officer, Chicago Community Trust, and Lecturer in Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA; CC was Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Society, and Professor of Medicine and Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA; DGK was Associate Director for Policy, Physicians for Social Responsibility Washington, DC USA.) In early December … the expected rate 30. Adv 3 = Militarization Nuclear power in space leads to space weapons—inevitable consequence and hidden motive for nuclear space programs. Grossman 3: Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York/College at Old Westbury, February 5 2003, “Nukes-in-Space in Columbia's Wake”, http://www.space4peace.org/articles/columbiaswake.htm Gagnon, coordinator of … out into space.” Space weaponization causes extinction—outweighs nuclear war. Mitchell, 01 – Associate Professor of Communication and Director of Debate at the University of Pittsburgh (Dr. Gordon, ISIS Briefing on Ballistic Missile Defence, “Missile Defence: Trans-Atlantic Diplomacy at a Crossroads”, No. 6 July, http://www.isisuk.demon.co.uk/0811/isis/uk/bmd/no6.html) A buildup of … conflict ever seen. Believe Grossman—he’s the leading expert in the field. Dupre ’11: (Deborah Dupre, Author for the examiner, The Huston Free Thinkers, 19 May 2011, “Exclusive Karl Grossman Interview: Fukushima Fallout over US Censored By News”, http://www.houstonfreethinkers.com/index.php?option=com_contentandview=articleandid=507:exclusive-karl-grossman-interview-fukushima-fallout-over-us-censored-by-newsandcatid=63:japanese-tragedyandItemid=135) Karl Grossman: Nuclear … represented in lecture. Their authors make up numbers to justify their projects MacAvoy 4: Joseph J. MacAvoy, received his A.B. in Astrophysics from Princeton University in 2001, and expects to receive his Juris Doctor and Master of Public Policy Degrees from the College of William and Mary in 2005, 2004, Nuclear Space and the Earth Environment: The Benefits, Dangers, and Legality of Nuclear Power and Propulsion in Outer Space, 29 Wm. and Mary Envtl. L. and Pol'y Rev. 191 (2004), http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol29/iss1/6 In its risk … capabilities in space."1 87 Underview There are at most five affs if people can spec uses of nuclear energy. Shah 11: Abhishek Shah, 5 Apr, 2011, http://www.greenworldinvestor.com/2011/04/05/uses-of-nuclear-power-nuclear-transport-shipssubmarinesagriculturehuman-healthelectricityfuturistic-applications/ "Uses of Nuclear Power – Nuclear Transport (Ships,Submarines),Agriculture,Human Health,Electricity,Futuristic Applications" Nuclear Power has … Denmark about 8.” Policymaking is key to political activism, which turns the K. Coverstone 5: Alan Coverstone MBA in communication, debate coach “Acting on Activism” 2005. http://home.montgomerybell.edu/~coversa/Acting20on20Activism20(Nov2017-2005).doc An important concern … in America today. Solutions to oppression need to be grounded in policy rather than abstraction. K’s must be tied to an implementable, political solution to be effective. Bryant 12: Left,” Larval Subjects—Levi R. Bryant’s philosophy blog, November 11th, Available Online at http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/, Accessed 02-21-2014) Unfortunately, the academic … luck with that.
10/29/16
SEPOCT - Space Case
Tournament: Bronx | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Success Academy SC | Judge: Chetan Hertzig, Cati Kalinoski, Andrew Monagle
SepOct – Space Case Bronx Elims
PT 1 - Framework
I value morality.
We need to create systems that focus on strategies to stop oppression and make our ethical categorizing meaningful – otherwise people are arbitrarily excluded. Winter and Leighton 99
(Deborah DuNann Winter and Dana C. Leighton. Winter: Psychologist that specializes in Social Psych, Counseling Psych, Historical and Contemporary Issues, Peace Psychology. Leighton: PhD graduate student in the Psychology Department at the University of Arkansas. Knowledgable in the fields of social psychology, peace psychology, and ustice and intergroup responses to transgressions of justice) (Peace, conflict, and violence: Peace psychology in the 21st century. Pg 4-5)) Finally, to recognize AND to reduce it.
Thus the standard is Minimizing Structural Violence. The standard is aggregative – we want to reduce in the aggregate as many instances of institutional oppression, arbitrary disparities, and material inequality as possible. Prefer this standard additionally because:
PT 2 – Inherency and Plan
Nuclear propulsion is on the docket for NASA – their program is restarting imminently Godwin 16
Thus the plan: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear propelled rockets and nuclear propelled technology used for space exploration. Gagnon and Grossman are the solvency advocates – they’ve been writing against propulsion for over 15 years. The plan bans RTGs currently in use, nuclear propulsion, and other nuclear propelled spacecraft.
Pt 3 - Contention
C1: Accidents
Accidents are likely and devastating – the nuclear industry manipulates space discourse to erase potential dangers.
Nuclear tech will spillover risking accidents with other technology but public resistance keeps it in check – preventing nuclear in space is key to dismantling the industry’s line of justification.
Grossman 12 (Karl Grossman, Investigative reporter, "The Deadly Folly of Nuclear Power Overhead", 04/12/2012 01:57 pm ET | Updated Jun 12, 2012, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karl-grossman/the-deadly-folly-of-nucle'b'1417149.html) The crash last week of a U.S. drone on the Seychelles Islands AND ~ Tennessee to Idaho. Every single part of this process deeply concerns us
Plutonium 238 is uniquely toxic –NASA officials concede there’s no cleanup plan.
Gagnon ‘11: (Bruce, Coordinator of the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space group, 7/1/11, http://www.space4peace.org/articles/plutonium'space'launch.htm) JPG NASA sadly appears committed to maintaining their dangerous alliance with the nuclear industry. Both AND nukes into space. It's not a gamble we can afford to take.
Accidents hurt the poor the most – they lack resources to escape and cope with radiation damage.
Cousins et al. ’13: (Elicia Cousins, Claire Karban, Fay Li, and Marianna Zapanta. "Nuclear Power and Environmental Justice: A Mixed-Methods Study of Risk, Vulnerability, and the Victim Experience."Carleton College, Environmental Studies Comprehensive Project Northfield, MN, USA. 2013FT) A similar trend is evident in the United States, where low-income populations AND people coping with stress and the associated health impacts of a nuclear accident.
C2: Plutonium-238
Nuclear propelled rocket development requires production of plutonium-238.
Ambrose ’16: (Mitch Ambrose Government Relations Division American Institute of Physics mambrose@aip.org 301-209-3095, "Oak Ridge Scientists Produce First Plutonium-238 in 28 Years" AIP. Publication date: 2 February 2016) On Dec. 22, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced in a AND ." The Senate has yet to begin consideration of a NASA authorization bill.
And plutonium production is not politically neutral – the state frames land of indigenous people as "wastelands" to justify using them as sites of uranium mining.
Endres ’09: Danielle Endres, Department of Communication, University of Utah "From Wasteland to Waste Site: The Role of Disocurse In Nuclear Power’s Environmental Injustice." Routledge, November 2009FT) Wasteland, like most words, is polysemous. In common parlance, wasteland is AND land being turned into a wasteland from toxic pollution (LaDuke 1999).9
Plutonium is responsible for second worst nuclear event of all time – this supercharges AC impacts.
Greenpeace No Date (Greenpeace, "The second biggest nuclear disaster in history", http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/news/features/mayak-nuclear-disaster280907/, No Date) The Mayak nuclear plant in the Southern Urals was one of the dark secrets of AND technologies and energy efficiency the world urgently needs to tackle the climate crisis.
And the Oak Ridge plant that produces US plutonium has a history of human experimentation, environmental harms, and damage to workers.
McCally 94 (Michael McCally, MD, PhD, Christine Cassel, MD, Daryl G. Kimball, "U.S. Government-Sponsored Radiation Research on Humans 1945-1975", 4 Medicine and Global Survival 1994; Vol. 1, No. 1, At the time of publication, MM was Health Program Officer, Chicago Community Trust, and Lecturer in Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA; CC was Chief of the Section of General Internal Medicine, Director of the Center on Aging, Health and Society, and Professor of Medicine and Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL USA; DGK was Associate Director for Policy, Physicians for Social Responsibility Washington, DC USA.) In early December 1993, a dark chapter of the United States' cold war experience AND veterans in which the leukemia rates were twice the expected rate ~30~.
Contention 3 is Framing – Prefer aff evidence on the technology debate:
Believe Grossman—he’s the leading expert in the field.
Space colonization will only replicate anti-black eugenics and the violence of European Colonialism.
Ball ’15: (Charing Ball. “HOUSTON WE HAVE A PROBLEM: WHERE ARE THE BLACK FINALISTS FOR THE ONE-WAY TRIP TO MARS?” Madame Noire. February 18, 2015FT) Something intergalactically amazing AND Black folks will.
Policymaking is key to political activism, which turns the K.
Solutions to oppression need to be grounded in policy rather than abstraction. K’s must be tied to an implementable, political solution to be effective.
Racial progress has occurred though legal change – pessimism ignores specific reforms that achieved lasting reductions in racial inequality
Omi and Winant 13: Michael Omi (Sociologist at UC Berkeley, focusing on antiracism scholarship and Asian American studies) and Howard Winant (Professor of Sociology affiliated with the Black Studies and Chicana/o Studies departments of UC Santa Barbara), Resistance is futile?: a response to Feagin and Elias, Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 36, Issue 6, p. 961-973, Special Issue: Symposium - Rethinking Racial Formation Theory. 2013. In Feagin and AND is not futile.
Plants are scheduled to be built in an earthquake zones and wouldn’t be able to withstand.
Namli 14: Hanife Topal-Namli, Ph.D. Dr. Namli, obtained her Ph.D. in the field of Economics in Anadolu University in Turkey, in 2012. She holds a M.A. degree in Economics as well. She has been teaching in North American University in Houston, Texas since 2012 as a visiting professor. Between the years 2008 and 2012 she taught various economics and finance courses in Dumlupinar University, Turkey. Her research and teaching activities have focused on financial management, global financial regulations, financial economics, global financial crisis and recently nuclear power economics. and Suat Sean Namli, Ph.D. Dr. Namli, holds a Master of Science and a Ph.D. in the field of Mathematics from Louisiana State University. He has been teaching and conducting various administrative duties in North American University since 2008. Currently he is working as a Dean of Enrollment Management in the same university. He has several publications in mathematics field. His research activities have focused on stochastic analysis and financial mathematics. “NUCLEAR POWER IN TURKEY: PROS AND CONS” The 2014 WEI International Academic Conference Proceedings. The West East Institute. November 2014. http://www.westeastinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Hanife-Topal-Namli.pdf Seismic risk: Turkey … too seismically active. (Atiyas et al. 2012)
Turkey doesn’t have resources to operate safely and is especially bad at responding to earthquakes too.
Meltdowns emit mass radiation and devastate the environment which is incredibly harmful - study of over 400 thousand over 50 years shows that hormesis is wrong.
Mushak 7 (Paul, PB Associates, Durham, North Carolina, Environmental Health Perspectives, April 1, Lexis) Radiologic hormesis. Some …for occupational protection.
Fukushima proves damage to the environment and human health is irreversible.
Outweighs warming – renewables will fill in and mitigate your impacts but meltdown damage is irreversible.
Gunter and Kamps 13: Linda Pentz Gunter specializes in international nuclear issues. She also serves as director of media and development. Linda's issue works focuses on the nuclear power-nuclear weapons connection; wildlife impacts; nuclear France; and uranium mining and human rights and Kevin Kamps specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; Congress watch; climate change; federal subsidies.Click on Kevin's name to open full bio. And see Kevin Kamps' 1992 Walk Across America for Mother Earth "Winter Count Poster" and key, documenting the cross country march that introduced him to anti-nuclear activism. “Don't trade global warming for nuclear meltdowns” CNN. November 7, 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/opinion/pandora-nuclear-gunter-kamps/ From a purely … interests of humanity.
Adv 2 is Terror
Turkish nuclear power is uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks and materials can be stolen for dirty bombs.
Ergun et al 14: Doruk Ergun and Can Kasapoglu (research fellows at EDAM) “Securing Turkey’s Prospective Nuclear Energy Program: A Strategic Nuclear Security Risk Analysis” Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies the article doesn’t specify the date, but all the dates-accessed in the bibliography are from 2014, and the article doesn’t cite anything later than 2014 http://edam.org.tr/document/NuclearBook3/edam_nucphysec2015_ch1.pdf JW In order to … the facility site.
Terrorists can acquire plutonium from nuclear facilities to make nukes and dirty bombs – every step of the nuclear process is incredibly vulnerable.
Sovacool and Cooper 8: Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW The Nobel Prize … nuclear weapons proliferation.562
Threats are real even if everyone is rational – history proves.
Rhodes 9: RICHARD RHODES He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and currently he is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the first of four volumes he has written on the history of the nuclear age. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995), Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007), and The Twilight of the Bombs (forthcoming in autumn 2010) are the others. Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety 14 DECEMBER 2009 The response was … of sending a message.
The role of the ballot is to evaluate the simulated consequences of the aff policy.
Excessive focus on discourse and representations kills the liberal movements you seek to promote.
Fairness is a prerequisite to any form of discussion – turns all your K impacts.
Galloway 7: (Ryan Galloway, Samford Debate Coach, Professor of Communication Studies at Samford, Contemporary Argumentation and Debate, Vol. 28, 2007 Debate as a … of topical advocacy.
Policymaking is key to political activism, which turns the K.
Solutions to oppression need to be grounded in policy rather than abstraction. K’s must be tied to an implementable, political solution to be effective.
Tuathail 96: (Gearóid, Professor of Government and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, The patterned mess of history and the writing of critical geopolitics: a reply to Dalby, Political Geography 15:6/7, p 661-5 http://www.nvc.vt.edu/toalg/Website/Publish/miscellaneous/DalbyResponse.htm) While theoretical debates … is human history.
Theorizing can’t fix the world—we can’t end conflict, just manage it.
Nik Hynek 13, Department of International Relations and European Studies and David Chandler, Metropolitan University Prague AND Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Westminster CSS=Critical Security Studies, “No emancipatory alternative, no critical security studies”, Critical Studies on Security, 1:1, 46-63 The double irony … same as critique.
10/30/16
SEPOCT - Util AC
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Byram Hills AG | Judge: Nathan Cha I value morality. Fission proves personal identity is reductionist – If the hemispheres of my brain were transplanted into 2 different people, neither would actually be me. Parfit: Derek Parfit “Persons and Reasons” Oxford University Press. 1984. BE It is in … part of myself. And this justifies util. Gruzalski: Bart Gruzalski “Parfit's Impact on Utilitarianism” University of Chicago Press. 1986. BE Parfit concludes his … person-centered theoretical competitors. Thus the standard is maximizing expected well-being.
Collective action results in tradeoffs and conflicts that only util can resolve. Woller summarizes: Gary Woller BYU Professor “An Overview by Gary Woller” A Forum on the Role of Environmental Ethics. June 1997. p. 10 Moreover, virtually all … making it worse. 2. No act omission distinction for states since their implicit approvals of actions still entail moral responsibility. Sunstein and Vermuele In our view, … violations require aggregation. I defend – Resolved: Countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power. Advantage 1 is the Arctic Warming is increasing at alarming rates – we’ll cross critical thresholds soon but the worst impacts can still be avoided. Putic 9-29: George Putic, 9-29-2016, "Report: Floods, Droughts, Storms Likely to Increase Sharply in Future," VOA, http://www.voanews.com/a/environmental-report-says-floods-droughts-storms-likely-to-increase-sharply-in-future/3530383.html Seven renowned environmental … endanger coastal areas. Construction on Russia’s floating nuclear power plant is underway in the Arctic and it’ll be complete this month – Russia plans to mass produce and 15 other countries are interested in developing in the near future. Cunningham 15: Nick Cunningham “Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors” Apr 27, 2015. http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Russia-To-Power-Arctic-Drilling-With-Floating-Nuclear-Reactors.html Russia’s reactor, called … nuclear power plant. Floating nuclear power plants will wreck the Arctic ionosphere and trigger a cascading climate change effect on planetary ecosystems. Kuznetsov et al 4: Vladimir Mikhailovich Kuznetsov 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. He is the main editor of the "Radiation and Society" journal, a member of the Higher Ecological Committee of the Russian State Duma, director of Green Cross Russia’s Program on Nuclear and Radiation Safety and a member of the International Technical Committee on ТС-322 “Nuclear Technology” Standardization. Furthermore, he is the author of many publications addressing safety issues at atomic engineering installations, including “State of Radiation” (1994), “Russian nuclear engineering. Yesterday, today, tomorrow. The observations of an independent expert” (2000) and “The Main Problems and Current Con- dition of Safety at Nuclear Fuel Enterprises” (2002, 2003). He was chairman of the public environmental expert review body which investigated the Pevek FNPP project, Alexey Vladimirovich Yablokov corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Science. He is a former environmental adviser to the Russian President (1991-1993), former chairman of the governmental commission on sea-dumping of radioactive wastes (1993) and is the author of many publications on radiation and environmental problems (including the “Nuclear mythology” report 1993, 1995, 1997.), Ilya Borisovich Kolton scientific collaborator in the Kurchatov Institute within the technological-scientific centre of GosAtomNadzor (the Russian Federal Inspectorate for Nuclear and Radiation Safety) (1997-2000). In 1962 and again in 1972, he participated in a nuclear submarine expedition to the North Pole. He was a member of the public environmental expert review body which investigated the Pevek FNPP project and is the author of several publications discussing the safe exploitation of nuclear energy., Yevgeney Yakovlevic Simonov 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. He was also a State inspector for Nuclear Safety at GosAtomNadzor. He is a member of the public environmental expert review body which investigated the Pevek FNPP Project and the author of a number of publications discussing the safe exploitation of nuclear energy in Russia., Igor Victorovich Forofontov coordinator of the Greenpeace nuclear campaign in Russia. He graduated from the physics faculty of Leningrad State University., Vladimir Mikhailovich Desyatov trained shipbuilding engineer. In Soviet times, he worked for a nuclear submarine construction plant in Komsomolsk-upon-Amur, after which he became a deputy of the Higher Soviet and a member of the Ecological Committee of the Higher Soviet (1989- 1991). He has also been a representative of the President of Russia in the Khabarovsk region (1991- 1993) and is the author of a number of publications addressing safety at atomic engineering installations., Alexandr Konstantinovich Nikitin retired first rank captain and a former nuclear installations safety inspector for the Russian Ministry of Defense (1987-1992). He is co-author of the report “Northern fleet. Potential hazard of radioactive pollution in the region” (1996) and a number of other publications concerning the problems of radiation safety in the northern seas. “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. http://www.greencross.ch/uploads/media/gc_fnpp_book.pdf When normal operating … a vent pipe. Disrupting the Arctic climate will dismantle carbon storage functions and crush Earth's ecosystem. WWF 10: World Wildlife Fund “Drilling for Oil in the Arctic: Too Soon, Too Risky” December 1, 2010. http://assets.worldwildlife.org/publications/393/files/original/Drilling_for_Oil_in_the_Arctic_Too_Soon_Too_Risky.pdf?1345753131 The Arctic and … the entire planet. Independently, floating reactors caused increased Arctic oil and gas drilling. Cunningham 15: Nick Cunningham “Russia To Power Arctic Drilling With Floating Nuclear Reactors” Apr 27, 2015. http://oilprice.com/Alternative-Energy/Nuclear-Power/Russia-To-Power-Arctic-Drilling-With-Floating-Nuclear-Reactors.html It would sit … pace of drilling. Increased Arctic drilling risks oil spills and accelerates climate change by emitting gases 20 times deadlier the carbon dioxide and absorbing solar energy Walsh 12: Bryan Walsh Foreign Editor at TIME, handing international news in the magazine and online. Previously he covered energy and environmental issues for TIME, and was the Tokyo bureau chief in 2006 and 2007. “It’s Not Just Spills—the Climate Risks of Arctic Drilling” Time. July 20, 2012. http://science.time.com/2012/07/20/its-not-just-spills-the-climate-risks-of-arctic-drilling/ Royal Dutch Shell … years—even worse. Climate change disproportionately affects people of color and causes extinction. Pellow 12: (David Naguib Pellow 12, Ph.D. Professor, Don Martindale Endowed Chair – University of Minnesota, “Climate Disruption in the Global South and in African American Communities: Key Issues, Frameworks, and Possibilities for Climate Justice,” February 2012, http://www.jointcenter.org/sites/default/files/upload/research/files/White_Paper_Climate_Disruption_final.pdf) It is now … the global North. Advantage 2 is Meltdowns The probability of a core meltdown is 69.8 in the next 10 years. Rose and Sweeting 16: Thomas Rose professor of sensor technology at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, in Germany, and an honorary senior research associate in the University College London’s Department of Science and Technology Studies of University College London; he holds a doctorate in nuclear physics and worked for several years in industry. He is interested in sensor systems and the relation between science and society and Trevor Sweeting emeritus professor of statistics at University College London, UK. He holds a doctorate in statis- tics and has published widely on both theoretical statistics and applications in medicine, engineering, computer science and elsewhere. His current interests include Bayesian statistics and the theory of inference, statistical methodology for the fitting of prognostic models in medical research, and evaluation of infor- mation retrieval systems in computer science. (2016) “How safe is nuclear power? A statistical study suggests less than expected” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 72:2, 112-115, DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2016.1145910 Thus the best … probability of 50.4. Not enough nuclear reactors to solve warming, and if there were they’d melt down. Makhijani 10: Arjun Makhijani, Ph.D. “Carbon-Free and Nuclear-Free: A Roadmap for U.S. Energy Policy” Institute for Energy and Environmental Research. November 5, 2010 If nuclear power … to the present.31 Prefer my evidence: 2) Past studies use incorrect and biased methodology. Rose and Sweeting 16: Thomas Rose professor of sensor technology at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, in Germany, and an honorary senior research associate in the University College London’s Department of Science and Technology Studies of University College London; he holds a doctorate in nuclear physics and worked for several years in industry. He is interested in sensor systems and the relation between science and society and Trevor Sweeting emeritus professor of statistics at University College London, UK. He holds a doctorate in statis- tics and has published widely on both theoretical statistics and applications in medicine, engineering, computer science and elsewhere. His current interests include Bayesian statistics and the theory of inference, statistical methodology for the fitting of prognostic models in medical research, and evaluation of infor- mation retrieval systems in computer science. (2016) “How safe is nuclear power? A statistical study suggests less than expected” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 72:2, 112-115, DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2016.1145910 In the past, … Islam and Lindgren. 3) Learning curve is empirically denied – no reduction in accidents over time despite tech improvements – flaws are because of data suppression. Rose and Sweeting 16: Thomas Rose professor of sensor technology at the Münster University of Applied Sciences, in Germany, and an honorary senior research associate in the University College London’s Department of Science and Technology Studies of University College London; he holds a doctorate in nuclear physics and worked for several years in industry. He is interested in sensor systems and the relation between science and society and Trevor Sweeting emeritus professor of statistics at University College London, UK. He holds a doctorate in statis- tics and has published widely on both theoretical statistics and applications in medicine, engineering, computer science and elsewhere. His current interests include Bayesian statistics and the theory of inference, statistical methodology for the fitting of prognostic models in medical research, and evaluation of infor- mation retrieval systems in computer science. (2016) “How safe is nuclear power? A statistical study suggests less than expected” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 72:2, 112-115, DOI: 10.1080/00963402.2016.1145910 We also wanted … failure than others. Fukushima proves damage to the environment and human health is irreversible. Rosen 12: Dr Alex Rosen, University Clinic Düsseldorf, Department of General Pediatrics, (“Effects of the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns on environment and health” March 9th, 2012, https://www.ippnw.de/commonFiles/pdfs/Atomenergie/FukushimaBackgroundPaper.pdf) LADI The Tōhoku earthquake … unscientific and immoral. Outweighs warming – renewables will fill in and mitigate your impacts but meltdown damage is irreversible. Gunter and Kamps 13: Linda Pentz Gunter specializes in international nuclear issues. She also serves as director of media and development. Linda's issue works focuses on the nuclear power-nuclear weapons connection; wildlife impacts; nuclear France; and uranium mining and human rights and Kevin Kamps specializes in high-level waste management and transportation; new and existing reactors; decommissioning; Congress watch; climate change; federal subsidies.Click on Kevin's name to open full bio. And see Kevin Kamps' 1992 Walk Across America for Mother Earth "Winter Count Poster" and key, documenting the cross country march that introduced him to anti-nuclear activism. “Don't trade global warming for nuclear meltdowns” CNN. November 7, 2013. http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/07/opinion/pandora-nuclear-gunter-kamps/ From a purely … interests of humanity. Advantage 3 is Space Nuclear propulsion is on the docket for NASA – their program is restarting imminently which expands to the private industry – progress is being made towards useable propulsion tech. Gebhardt 15: Chris Gebhardt, "NASA awards contracts for deep-space advanced propulsion systems", November 23, 2015, https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2015/11/nasa-awards-contracts-deep-space-advanced-propulsion-systems/) NASA has awarded … thermal propulsion design. To date, in addition to the contract awards already in place, NASA and its partner agencies have completed fabrication and testing of a new graphite composite fuel element for a 2,800K hot hydrogen flow system for potential nuclear thermal propulsion elements. Accidents are likely and devastating – billions will be exposed to tons of radiation and the death toll is projected to be in the billions. Grossman 15: (Karl Grossman, "NASA's warning - SpaceX crash highlights dangers of nuclear power in space", 2nd July 2015 http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/Blogs/2929123/nasas_warning_spacex_crash_highlights_dangers_of_nuclear_power_in_space.html) That claim of … a chance on." Grossman 5 continues: (Karl Grossman, professor of journalism at the State University of New York College at Old Westbury, “The Case Against the Plutonium Space Race So what happens when the sky begins to fall?” Space4Peace, By Karl Grossman Printed from the BoiseWeekly. 16 March 2005FT) http://www.energy-net.org/N-LET/EN/0BULL/05318RB.TXT The danger in … to 40 million. Underview
Aff causes a switch to renewables – nuclear is not cost sustainable – within industry experts conclude that it will be overtaken by renewables and is on the decline. Mann 4-7: Bryan Mann “Unable To Compete On Price, Nuclear Power On The Decline In The U.S.” NRP. April 7, 2016. http://www.npr.org/2016/04/07/473379564/unable-to-compete-on-price-nuclear-power-on-the-decline-in-the-u-s Renewable energy and … reactors," he says. And renewable usage is the only way to solve global warming – we must fully switch our energy source soon – IPCC report goes aff Wasserman 14: climate change journalist (Harvey, reporting on the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the IPCC, “UN Panel: Renewables, not Nukes, Can Solve Climate Crisis”, http://www.progressive.org/news/2014/04/187639/un-panel-renewables-not-nukes-can-solve-climate-crisis) The authoritative Intergovernmental … standards of living.” 3. K Pre-empts a. Policymaking is key to political activism, which turns the K. Coverstone 5: Alan Coverstone MBA in communication, debate coach “Acting on Activism” 2005. http://home.montgomerybell.edu/~coversa/Acting20on20Activism20(Nov2017-2005).doc An important concern … in America today. b. Solutions to oppression need to be grounded in policy rather than abstraction. K’s must be tied to an implementable, political solution to be effective. Bryant 12: Left,” Larval Subjects—Levi R. Bryant’s philosophy blog, November 11th, Available Online at http://larvalsubjects.wordpress.com/2012/11/11/underpants-gnomes-a-critique-of-the-academic-left/, Accessed 02-21-2014) Unfortunately, the academic … luck with that.
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SEPOCT - Util Terror Advanage
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Byram Hills JB | Judge: Paul Zhou Countries are increasing nuclear power production and becoming increasingly more vulnerable in the squo – terrorists are aggressively seeking nuclear material to build weapons and dirty bombs. NY Times 16: Editorial Board, 3-27-2016, "Keeping Nuclear Weapons From Terrorists," New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/28/opinion/keeping-nuclear-weapons-from-terrorists.html The recent attacks … plug security gaps. Terrorists can acquire plutonium from nuclear facilities to make nukes and dirty bombs – it’s not just facilities that are the problem – every step of the process is incredibly vulnerable. Sovacool and Cooper 8: Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 h p://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW The Nobel Prize … nuclear weapons proliferation.562 That’s the most likely existential threat. Rhodes 9: RICHARD RHODES He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and MIT, and currently he is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. Rhodes is the author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), which won the Pulitzer Prize in Nonfiction, National Book Award, and National Book Critics Circle Award. It was the first of four volumes he has written on the history of the nuclear age. Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb (1995), Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007), and The Twilight of the Bombs (forthcoming in autumn 2010) are the others. Reducing the nuclear threat: The argument for public safety 14 DECEMBER 2009 The response was … sending a message. Probability of an attack is incredibly high and new tech can’t solve – here’s more warrants – and an attack causes huge blackouts that devastate the economy. Sovacool and Cooper 8: Benjamin Sovacool (Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globaliaztion, part of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, adjunct professor at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University) and Christopher Cooper (Principal Partner for Oomph Consulting, LLC, former Executive Director of the Network for New Energy Choices) “Nuclear Nonsense: Why Nuclear Power is No Answer to Climate Change and the World's Post- Kyoto Energy Challenges” William and Mary Environmental Law and Policy Review Volume 33 Issue 1 Article 2 2008 http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/wmelpr/vol33/iss1/2 JW Nuclear plants face … be stored onsite." ° Econ decline causes global nuke war and extinction – many statistical analyses. Royal 10: Jedediah Royal (Director of Cooperative Threat Reduction at the U.S. Department of Defense) “Economic Integration, Economic Signaling and the Problem of Economic Crises” Economics of War and Peace: Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives p. 213-214 2010 Less intuitive is … deserves more attention.
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