Tournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep MK | Judge: Jenni Melin

Nuclear Power Neoliberalism AC

Framework

The standard is resisting capitalism

We have an ethical responsibility to confront the horrors of capitalism – the current economic rational makes people expendable, giving them no value to life

Žižek and Daly, 04
Slavoj Zizek and Glyn Daly, Senior Lecturer in Politics in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at University College, Northampton, 2004, Conversations With Zizek, p. 14-16
For Zizek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol
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abject Other to that of a ‘glitch’ in an otherwise sound matrix. 

Thus, I advocate that countries ought to prohibit the production of nuclear power

Prohibiting nuclear power puts a stop to the capitalist machine

Chen, 11
Michelle Chen is Colorlines' Global Justice columnist. She is a regular contributor on labor issues at In These Times, as well as a member of the magazine's Board of Editors, "The Radioactive Racism Behind Nuclear Energy", http://www.colorlines.com/articles/radioactive-racism-behind-nuclear-energy ZA
Although the specter of nuclear weaponry still looms in debates on North Korea and Iran
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the danger zone to the populations they see as less worthy of protection.

Contention One: Nuclear Progress

Consumption is the heart of violence in capitalism – progress and prosperity, coupled with technological advancement, are responsible for the current chaotic climate

Robbins, 05
Richard Robbins is a Distinguished Teaching Professor of anthropology at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, "GLOBAL PROBLEMS AND THE CULTURE OF CAPITALISM" ZA
William Rees, an urban planner at the University of British Columbia, estimated that
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, brings on economic recession or even depression, along with massive unemployment.

Any risk of nuclear leakage is a risk not worth taking – Fukushima’s environmental consequences have been covered up for years

Michael, 15
Fukushima: the Extinction-Level Event that no one is Talking About. Doug Michael. March 30, 2015
Japan is a nation containing many nuclear reactors which produce roughly 30 of the nation’s
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does not exist to remove the highly radioactive debris from the damaged reactors:

Peak uranium is coming

Ahmed, 13
Dr Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development, "The Coming Nuclear Energy Crunch", July 2, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/jul/02/nuclear-energy-crunch-uranium-peak-blackouts ZA
As the British and American governments signal their renewed commitments to nuclear power as a
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thus suggest that a worldwide nuclear energy phase-out is in order."

Nuclear reactors and waste disposal sites cause massive death rates for workers and people living nearby, facilitating structural violence

Alldred et al, 09 
Mary Alldred and Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Environmental Injustice in Siting Nuclear http://www3.nd.edu/~~kshrader/pubs/final-pdf-ej-nuke-siting-wi-Alldred'08-0544.pdf
In stages (2)–(5) of the nuclear fuel cycle, tens of
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other people would be allowed to receive higher, even fatal, doses.

The consumption mentality of capitalism will lead to environmental destruction, resource depletion, and massive structural violence – acceleration demands economic rationality whereupon technological developments that support competition are associated with social dislocation

Williams and Srnicek, 13  
(Alex, PhD student at the University of East London, presently at work on a thesis entitled 'Hegemony and Complexity', Nick, PhD candidate in International Relations at the London School of Economics, Co-authors of the forthcoming Folk Politics, 14 May 2013, http://criticallegalthinking.com/2013/05/14/accelerate-manifesto-for-an-accelerationist-politics/) Csmith
01. INTRODUCTION: On the Conjuncture 1. At the begin­ning of
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growth and social innovation becomes encrusted with kitsch remainders from our communal past. 

It only gets worse – capitalism has transformed into a new system that combines market forces with the politics of death to create death worlds, full of populations deserving of death insofar as they are perceived as a threat to western capitalism

Banerjee, 06
(Bobby Banerjee is Professor of Strategic Management and Director of Research at the International Graduate School of Business, University of South Australia. Live and Let Die: Colonial Sovereignties and the Death Worlds of Necrocapitalism. VOLUME 5 NUMBER 1, 2006, http://www.borderlands.net.au/vol5no1'2006/banerjee'live.htm Csmith)

1. The above quote is from a memo Jan Coen wrote to his staff
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   homo sacer , in a state of exception outside national and international law.

Neoliberalism is the newest stage for otherization – movements of identity cannot prosper without the eradication of the mechanism for oppression

Kovel, 07
(Joel, Professor of Social Studies at Bard College, "The Enemy of Nature", p. 122-24, , 2002, arh)
The path leading from the first violent expropriation of labor to the heights of capital
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the female at the "nature" end of the bifurcation within humanity.