Tournament: Voices | Round: 1 | Opponent: MV Independent OZ | Judge: Scott Wheeler

CP

The USfg and Native Nations should establish a domestic climate policy that accelerates licensing and deployment of advanced nuclear reactor technologies, including an expedited demonstration of multi-pass fuel recycling and an integral fast reactor utilizing the S-PRISM design.

Expanding current nuclear tech WHILE demonstrating the IFR is crucial

Brook 10 ~Barry Brook, ARC Australian Laureate Professor and Chair of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Tasmania in the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Technology. He was formerly an ARC Future Fellow in the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Adelaide, Australia, where he held the Sir Hubert Wilkins Chair of Climate Change from 2007 to 2014, "IFR FaD 5 – the Gen III and Gen IV nuclear power synergy – why we need both," June 10, 2010, https://bravenewclimate.com/2010/06/10/ifr-fad-5~~
~The term LWR = light water reactor, that is, gen III thermal reactors (along with heavy water reactors, e.g. CANDU), like the kind now being built by the dozen in China; NRC = US nuclear regulatory commission; S-PRISM = prototype IFR, 300 MWe module; 4S = Toshiba’s nuclear battery (also a sodium-cooled fast reactor)~:
Ray Hunter: "What this country needs now is NRC’s full time attention to
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us, if we will just stop breathing for a day or two."

IFR’s are really safe – ignore evidence that doesn’t have the word "S-PRISM"

Blees et al. 11 ~Tom Blees1, Yoon Chang2, Robert Serafin3, Jerry Peterson4, Joe Shuster1, Charles Archambeau5, Randolph Ware3, 6, Tom Wigley3,7, Barry W. Brook7, 1Science Council for Global Initiatives, 2Argonne National Laboratory, 3National Center for Atmospheric Research, 4University of Colorado, 5Technology Research Associates, 6Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences, 7(climate professor) University of Adelaide, "Advanced nuclear power systems to mitigate climate change (Part III)," 2/24/11) http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change/-http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/02/24/advanced-nuclear-power-systems-to-mitigate-climate-change~~
Metal Fuel: The Ultimate Safety Valve One of the most important of the many
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be a reactor design that even the most paranoid could feel good about.

DA

Meeting domestic climate targets is key to further initiatives and to prevent international backsliding that locks in climate change.

Freeman, 3/16/2016, Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard University (Jody, "Obama’s Climate Challenge", https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-03-16/obama-s-climate-challenge)
Although the fight over the Clean Power Plan is domestic, the consequences of the
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Power Plan’s demise gave China a convenient excuse to backslide on its commitments.

Nuclear is the only means to meet Paris goals

Gavin Bade 16 (Gavin Bade, 6-14-2016, "With CPP on ice, utilities seek organized market reforms to save baseload plants," Utility Dive, accessed 9-13-2016, http://www.utilitydive.com/news/with-cpp-on-ice-utilities-seek-organized-market-reforms-to-save-baseload-p/420892/)
Additionally, retiring nuclear generation raises concerns that the U.S. will not
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, calling the notion "not just far-fetched but virtually impossible. 

Warming causes extinction

Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA
Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122
The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2
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adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.

Nuclear power stops dangerous quantities of emissions

Biello 13 – David, writes for the scientific American, Internally Cites James Hansen, Professor at Columbia University ("How Nuclear Power Can Stop Global Warming" http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-nuclear-power-can-stop-global-warming/) LADI
In addition to reducing the risk of nuclear war, U.S. reactors
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, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University, where Hansen works. 

warming perpetuates all inequalities

Hoerner 8—Former director of Research at the Center for a Sustainable Economy, Director of Tax Policy at the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland College Park, and editor of Natural Resources Tax Review. He has done research on environmental economics and policy on behalf of the governments of Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United States. Andrew received his B.A. in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve School of Law—AND—Nia Robins—former inaugural Climate Justice Corps Fellow in 2003, director of Environmental Justice and Climate Change Initiative (J. Andrew, "A Climate of Change African Americans, Global Warming, and a Just Climate Policy for the U.S." July 2008, http://www.ejcc.org/climateofchange.pdf)
Everywhere we turn, the issues and impacts of climate change confront us. One
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points and raising the average African American income by 3 to 4 percent. 

DA

Nuclear power use redirect fossil fuels to chemical applications—-key to the industry

Ongena 2 (J., Laboratorium voor Plasmafysica, Koninklijke Militaire School (Belgium), and G. Van Oost, Researcher – NFSR, "Energy For Future Centuries: Will Fusion Be An Inexhaustible, Safe And Clean Energy Source?", Fusion Science and Technology, https://crppwww.epfl.ch/crppfusion/fusion.pdf)
ABSTRACT The current power consumption in different parts of the world and an estimate of
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scheme causes irreplaceable basic chemicals to be lost forever on a gigantic scale.

Extinction

Danielpour 14 (Steven Danielpour, AIA, CSI, CCS, LEED AP BD+C, director of firmwide specifications at HOK, member of the corporate BuildingSmart, BIM, and Project Delivery boards, "Sustainable Coatings: Shifting the Paradigm," D+D, April 2014, http://www.cristalactiv.com/uploads/press/2014-0420Sustainable20Coatings'Danielpour20D+D20April202014.pdf)
New technologies and processes will help deliver the innovations needed to respond to mankind’s greatest
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we face are unprecedented in human history, but so are the opportunities. 

Moral uncertainty means extinction is a side constraint on ethics. Bostrom ‘11

Nick Bostrom ‘11, "The Concept of Existential Risk", 2011, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy http://www.existential-risk.org/concept.html
These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential
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the process of getting there (but rather, if possible, improved).

Tournament: Voices | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brentwood ELi | Judge: Shailjia Somani

Util Fwk

The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing.

First, the constitutive obligation of the state is to protect citizen interest—individual obligations are not applicable in the public sphere. Goodin 95

Robert E. Goodin. Philosopher of Political Theory, Public Policy, and Applied Ethics. Utilitarianism as a Public Philosophy. Cambridge University Press, 1995. p. 26-7
The great adventure of utilitarianism as a guide to public conduct is that it avoids
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thus understood is, I would argue, a uniquely defensible public philosophy.

Second, only impacts and values that exist in the physical world are relevant. Physical realism is the only meaningful ontology. Williams 44,

Donald Williams. "Naturalism and the Nature of Things." The Philosophical Review, Vol. 53, No. 5 (Sep., 1944), pp. 417-443. Duke UP. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2181355**
Casting up our accounts to this point, we observe that physical realism is in
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in patterns of action in the ordered dimensions of a spatio-temporal hypersphere

Moral uncertainty means extinction is a side constraint on ethics. Bostrom ‘11

Nick Bostrom ‘11, "The Concept of Existential Risk", 2011, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy http://www.existential-risk.org/concept.html
These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential
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the process of getting there (but rather, if possible, improved). 

K

Recognizing that the epistemology of capitalism manipulates our understanding of policy is a pre-condition to evaluating the resolution. Marsh 95,

Marsh 95- Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University, PhD from Northwestern University (James, Critique Action and Liberation, p 331-2)
Is it reasonable, therefore, even to talk about the possibility of a socialism
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move on. Recent events in eastern Europe only confirm such a judgment.

The role of the ballot and judge as an educator is to reject arguments based on asymmetrical power relations—because pedagogical contexts are inherently political, we have a unique opportunity to promote real change.  Trifonas 03,

PETER PERICLES TRIFONAS. PEDAGOGIES OF DIFFERENCE: RETHINKING EDUCATION FOR SOCIAL CHANGE/ RoutledgeFalmer. New York, London. 2003. Questia.
If we superimpose my formulation of "power as relation" on the discussion concerning
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to make the world a better place for us and for our children.

The energy debate has been subsumed into a single-issue form of politics—it’s a palliative that forces us into ignoring the class struggle at the heart of energy politics—the Kritik turns case; sustainable energy change can only occur with the alternative. Huber ‘13

Huber 13 Matt "What do we mean by "Energy Policy"? Life, Capitalism, and the Broader Field of Energy Politics" State of Nature May 4th 2013 http://www.stateofnature.org/?p=7138**
In the 1970s we saw the rise of a peculiar concept: "energy policy
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begin to reimagine life and freedom as only possible through collective political struggle.

Nuclear power is not intrinsically harmful or dangerous. The ruling class’s control over the technology makes those harms possible. They choose to build the plants near minority populations or to cut corners during their construction. Turns case—freeing technology from the limitations of capitalism solves the aff. SLP ‘81

SLP 81 "Socialism and Nuclear Power" A Socialist Labor Party Statement 1981 http://www.slp.org/res'state'htm/soc'nuc'power.html**
Socialists can bring many important insights to the questions and concerns raised by nuclear technology
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the horror it currently is to the benefactor of an emancipated working class.

Using the state both makes capitalism a coherent mode of social interaction and constitutes the framework for global incorporation of capitalism

Meszaros 95 ~Istavan, (Prof. Emeritus @ Univ. Sussex) Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, P. 65  wyo~   
The modern state as the comprehensive political command structure of capital — is both the
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faithful to the Marxian concern with the ‘withering away’ of the state.

Prioritizing democracy frameworks  re-entrenches the link – they’re sustaining the capitalist system through the state. Zizek ‘2K

Zizek, 2k1("Repeating Lenin" Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ljubljana, Slavoj Zizek)
What are we to say to this? Again, the problem resides in the
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-democratic "post-ideological" consensus - or it means nothing.

The alternative is the rise of an environmental working class that breaks down hegemonic structures and capitalism—that prevents extinction. Foster ‘13

Foster 13 – John Bellamy Foster, Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon, Editor of the Monthly Review, holds a Ph.D. from York University, 2013 ("The Epochal Crisis," Monthly Review, Volume 65, Issue 05 (October), Accessed on 7/18/2014 from http://monthlyreview.org/2013/10/01/epochal-crisis)
It is an indication of the sheer enormity of the historical challenge confronting humanity in
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humanity thus rests as never before on the revolutionary struggle of humanity itself.

DA

Meeting domestic climate targets is key to further initiatives and to prevent international backsliding that locks in climate change.

Freeman, 3/16/2016, Archibald Cox Professor of Law at Harvard University (Jody, "Obama’s Climate Challenge", https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2016-03-16/obama-s-climate-challenge)
Although the fight over the Clean Power Plan is domestic, the consequences of the
AND
Power Plan’s demise gave China a convenient excuse to backslide on its commitments.

Nuclear is the only means to meet Paris goals

Gavin Bade 16 (Gavin Bade, 6-14-2016, "With CPP on ice, utilities seek organized market reforms to save baseload plants," Utility Dive, accessed 9-13-2016, http://www.utilitydive.com/news/with-cpp-on-ice-utilities-seek-organized-market-reforms-to-save-baseload-p/420892/)
Additionally, retiring nuclear generation raises concerns that the U.S. will not
AND
, calling the notion "not just far-fetched but virtually impossible. 

Warming causes extinction

Mazo 10 – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA
Jeffrey Mazo, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122
The best estimates for global warming to the end of the century range from 2
AND
adaptation to these extremes would mean profound social, cultural and political changes.