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Counterplan Text: Aff actors should remove restrictions on constitutionally protected speech with the exception of Holocaust denial
Holocaust denial bans fight anti-Semitism JTA 15 ~JTA, "Romania Bans Holocaust Denial," July 24, 2015, Forward News.com, http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/317859/romania-bans-holocaust-denial/~~ OR The World Jewish Congress praised Romanian President Klaus Iohannis for enacting a law that makes AND of the fascist Legionnaires’ Movement with prison sentences of up to three years.
Holocaust denial in campus newspapers causes psychological trauma and increases the chance of similar atrocities happening again– the counterplan solves
Foxman and Firestone 10 ~Abraham H. Foxman (National Director Anti-Defamation League), Wayne L. Firestone *President Hillel: The Foundation for Jewish Campus Life), "Fighting Holocaust Denial in Campus Newspaper Advertisements: A Manual for Action," May 2010~ OR Holocaust denial is an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory which claims that the well- AND generation of Americans. We urge you to join us in this effort.
Protest are alienating alumni donors, who are of older generations. Hartocollis 8/4 Hartocollis 8/4 – Anemona Hartocollis, writer for NYT: August 4, 2016("College Students Protest, Alumni’s Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink" New York Times Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/us/college-protests-alumni-donations.html?'r=0 Accessed on 12/15/16)
Scott MacConnell cherishes the memory of his years at Amherst College, where he discovered his future métier as a theatrical designer. But protests on campus over cultural and racial sensitivities last year soured his feelings. Now Mr. MacConnell, who graduated in 1960, is expressing his discontent through his wallet. In June, he cut the college out of his will. "As an alumnus of the college, I feel that I have been lied to, patronized and basically dismissed as an old, white bigot who is insensitive to the needs and feelings of the current college community," Mr. MacConnell, 77, wrote in a letter to the college’s alumni fund in December, when he first warned that he was reducing his support to the college to a token $5. A backlash from alumni is an unexpected aftershock of the campus disruptions of the last academic year. Although fund-raisers are still gauging the extent of the effect on philanthropy, some colleges — particularly small, elite liberal arts institutions — have reported a decline in donations, accompanied by a laundry list of complaints. Alumni from a range of generations say they are baffled by today’s college culture. Among their laments: Students are too wrapped up in racial and identity politics. They are allowed to take too many frivolous courses. They have repudiated the heroes and traditions of the past by judging them by today’s standards rather than in the context of their times. Fraternities are being unfairly maligned, and men are being demonized by sexual assault investigations. And university administrations have been too meek in addressing protesters whose messages have seemed to fly in the face of free speech. Scott C. Johnston, who graduated from Yale in 1982, said he was on campus last fall when activists tried to shut down a free speech conference, "because apparently they missed irony class that day." He recalled the Yale student who was videotaped screaming at a professor, Nicholas Christakis, that he had failed "to create a place of comfort and home" for students in his capacity as the head of a residential college. A rally at New Haven Superior Court demanding justice for Corey Menafee, an African-American dining hall worker at Yale’s Calhoun College who was charged with breaking a window pane that depicted black slaves carrying cotton. Credit Peter Hvizdak/New Haven Register, via Associated Press "I don’t think anything has damaged Yale’s brand quite like that," said Mr. Johnston, a founder of an internet start-up and a former hedge fund manager. "This is not your daddy’s liberalism." "The worst part," he continued, "is that campus administrators are wilting before the activists like flowers." Yale College’s alumni fund was flat between this year and last, according to Karen Peart, a university spokeswoman. Among about 35 small, selective liberal arts colleges belonging to the fund-raising organization Staff, or Sharing the Annual Fund Fundamentals, that recently reported their initial annual fund results for the 2016 fiscal year, 29 percent were behind 2015 in dollars, and 64 percent were behind in donors, according to a steering committee member, Scott Kleinheksel of Claremont McKenna College in California. His school, which was also the site of protests, had a decline in donor participation but a rise in giving. At Amherst, the amount of money given by alumni dropped 6.5 percent for the fiscal year that ended June 30, and participation in the alumni fund dropped 1.9 percentage points, to 50.6 percent, the lowest participation rate since 1975, when the college began admitting women, according to the college. The amount raised from big donors decreased significantly. Some of the decline was because of a falloff after two large reunion gifts last year, according to Pete Mackey, a spokesman for Amherst. At Princeton, where protesters unsuccessfully demanded the removal of Woodrow Wilson’s name from university buildings and programs, undergraduate alumni donations dropped 6.6 percent from a record high the year before, and participation dropped 1.9 percentage points, according to the university’s website. A Princeton spokesman, John Cramer, said there was no evidence the drop was connected to campus protests.
New pledges and donations to the University of Missouri fell $6 million in December as the campus weathered the fallout of public discontent that also threatens to erode the school’s finances via state support and tuition revenue. December combines Christmas generosity and the promise of tax deductions on returns due April 15, making it a prime time for fundraisers at major institutions. In December 2014, new pledges and donations for all campus activities including athletics totaled $19.6 million, according to figures compiled by the university’s advancement office. Only $13.6 million came in this December, a drop of about 31 percent. The figures represent new commitments and donations that are not given in fulfillment of previous pledges, Vice Chancellor of University Advancement Tom Hiles said. For the three complete months since campus protests made international news in November, new pledges and donations to MU declined by about $7.4 million. Along with the decrease in new support, pledges totaling about $2 million were withdrawn, Hiles said. About 10 were gifts of $25,000 or more, including one for $500,000, he said. Total new pledges and donations in fiscal year 2015 totaled $147.6 million, down from a record $164.1 million in fiscal year 2014. The advancement office has fielded more than 2,000 calls from people upset with the university and tracks them by topic on a heat map. "It ran the gamut from" Assistant Professor Melissa "Click to Planned Parenthood to just a general lack of leadership," Hiles said. "‘Who’s in charge? Are the students running it?’ If I heard inmates are running the asylum one more time I was going to … . Those were the general categories." Student demonstrations over racism and marginalization on campus made international headlines after the Tiger football team announced it would boycott athletic activities in support of a hunger strike by Concerned Student 1950 member Jonathan Butler. Athletic donations also have dipped, including a 68 percent drop in December cash gifts compared to December 2014 and a 38 percent decline in new pledges and donations as tallied in Hiles’ office during November, December and January. The Athletic Department’s decreased fundraising over that period — $1.3 million — is included in the total campus decline of $7.4 million. Giving by smaller donors, defined as those who give less than $10,000, declined by about 5 percent in the three-month period, with drops in November and December somewhat offset by a January increase in giving. Small donors gave or pledged $4.76 million in the period, down from $5.02 million the previous year. "We definitely got hit in our annual fund and other points," Hiles said. "It was rough because normally December is our best month." While his office fielded calls, Hiles said staff members researched callers who said they would never donate again. The result, he said, was "about a 90 percent correlation with people who ... have never given." The final word on other financial issues is unresolved. A House committee already has denied the university a portion of the budget increase allocated to other state colleges and universities. Chairwoman Donna Lichtenegger, R-Jackson, cited Click’s continued employment and a demonstration that interrupted a UM System Board of Curators meeting for the cut. At a Wednesday hearing of the Joint Committee on Education, interim MU Chancellor Hank Foley said figures show an anticipated enrollment drop of 900 students, which roughly equates to a $20 million loss of tuition revenue.
Endowment funds are key to US competitiveness and innovation – ensures college quality. Leigh 14 Leigh 14 Steven R. Leigh (dean of CU-Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences), "Endowments and the future of higher education," UColorado Boulder, March 2014
These broad trends point directly to the need for CU-Boulder’s College of Arts and Sciences to increase endowment funding across the college. Endowments drive improvements in the quality of an institution and reflect alums, donors and supporters who recognize the importance of research universities in the 21st century. Endowed professorships are the first and most important component of increasing our academic quality. Named chairs recognize significant faculty achievements and help the university support faculty salary and research. CU-Boulder professors are among the most productive in the nation and are heavily recruited by competitors, including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Berkeley, Illinois, UC Irvine and many others. Often, these competitors offer our faculty endowed professorships, conferring prestige and research support. CU must provide its faculty with comparable support to be competitive. A second major area for endowments is student scholarships and, for graduate students, fellowships. A stable source of income that helps pay tuition is the most direct and effective way to offset the costs of education. Endowed scholarships are also effective recruiting tools for admitting the nation’s best to CU. Our dynamic programs, departments and majors are attracting more and more applicants, including the best in the nation. Like faculty support, endowed scholarships and fellowships confer prestige and, most importantly, allow students to focus entirely on academics without balancing jobs and worrying about future loan repayments. Finally, endowment funding for programs greatly enriches the institution, providing capabilities that are difficult to attain when tuition revenue provides the majority of funding. Institutions funded mainly by tuition must make sure that expenditures directly benefit students, which sometimes limits options for innovation and risk-taking. Programmatic funding enables faculty and students to take risks in their research and creative work. For example, in my own field, this might involve traveling to an unexplored region to prospect for human fossils or archaeological sites. Support for high-risk projects allows our faculty and students to develop new areas of knowledge, benefitting society by broadening the capacity of the institution to innovate. The future of higher education, including CU’s future, depends to a large degree on how successfully we can build major endowments. Ultimately, U.S. competitiveness and leadership in the global knowledge economy depends on this as well. For alums, donors and supporters, endowments indelibly affirm the importance of higher education and enduringly preserve its viability and vitality.
Analytic
Innovation solves great power war
Taylor 4 – Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mark, "The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4/1/2004, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor)RGP I. Introduction Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations AND , and war, international systems would not exist in the first place.
International law banned hate speech Tsesis 10 ~Alexander Tsesis (Faculty Loyola University, Chicago, School of Law), "Burning Crosses on Campus: University Hate Speech Codes.", 43 Connecticut Law Review 617 (2010), lawecommons.luc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1125andcontext=facpubs~ OR
University administrators wishing to deter hate speech on their campuses will need to review Supreme Court precedents, especially Chaplinsky, R.A. V., and Black, to identify how to achieve the goal while respecting speakers' First Amendment rights. International norms, while not binding on American courts, provide advisory insight for colleges wishing to balance the dignity rights of those targeted by hate speech and the liberty rights of speakers.' 6 3 There are recent signs of some Supreme Court justices' willingness to consider international legal standards. In Lawrence v. Texas, a case recognizing the constitutional value of consensual, adult sexual intimacy,'" and Roper v. Simmons, 65 invalidating the death penalty in cases involving juvenile offenders,'6 6 the majority of the Court demonstrated an openness to international norms. 67 Throughout the world, democracies recognize that on campuses and at other public places hate speech can be suppressed because it poses a social threat and does not constitute a form of legitimate political debate. The general trend is to balance the rights of speakers against the interests of persons who are the targets of hateful statements.'16 In this area of law, countries that bar the use of racial and ethnic incitement tend to follow international standards of civility. Typically, the balance is struck more in favor of the victims' rights, in contrast to the United States' inclination towards the interests of speakers. The international trend began in the aftermath of World War II, when the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. It obligates signatory states to punish the "~d~irect and public incitement to commit genocide."' 6 9 Not satisfied with the rather limited scope of the Genocide Convention, multiple members of the United Nations broadened the coverage through the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination. The latter convention requires signatories to punish "all dissemination of ideas based on racial superiority or hatred, incitement to racial discrimination." 7 0 The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is yet another relevant international agreement. It requires that "~a~ny advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence" be "prohibited by law." 7' US adherence to international law concerning hate speech is key to credibility in international human rights Cohen 15 ~Tanya Cohen, "It’s Time To Bring The Hammer Down On Hate Speech In The U.S." Thought Catalog, 5/1/2015 ~ Recent scandals involving right-wing hatemongers like Phil Robertson, Donald Sterling, Bill Maher, and the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity have brought to light one of America’s biggest embarrassments: the fact that America remains the only country in the world without any legal protections against hate speech. In any other country, people like Phil Robertson and Donald Sterling would have been taken before a Human Rights Commission and subsequently fined and/or imprisoned and/or stripped of their right to public comment for making comments that incite hatred and violence against vulnerable minorities. But, in the US, such people are allowed to freely incite hatred and violence against vulnerable minorities with impunity, as the US lacks any legal protections against any forms of hate speech – even the most vile and extreme forms of hate speech remain completely legal in the so-called "land of the free". Not only is this a violation of the most basic and fundamental human rights principles, but it’s also an explicit violation of legally-binding international human rights conventions. For many decades, human rights groups around the world – from Amnesty International to Human Rights First to the United Nations Human Rights Council – have told the United States that it needs to pass and enforce strong legal protections against hate speech in accordance with its international human rights obligations. As of 2015, the US is the only country in the world where hate speech remains completely legal. This is, in fact, a flagrant violation of international human rights law. The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD) both mandate that all countries outlaw hate speech, including "propaganda for war" and the dissemination of any "ideas based on racial superiority or hatred". The ICCPR and ICERD are both legally-binding international human rights conventions, and all nations are required to uphold them in the fullest. By failing to prosecute hate speech, the US is explicitly and flippantly violating international human rights law. No other country would be allowed to get away with this, so why would the US? The United Nations has stated many times that international law has absolute authority. This is quite simply not optional. The US is required to outlaw hate speech. No other country would be able to get away with blatantly ignoring international human rights standards, so why should the US be able to? The US is every bit as required to follow international human rights law as the rest of the world is.
International credibility solves multiple scenarios for extinction.
Nye and Armitage 07 ~Joseph Nye (University Distinguished Service Professor at Harvard University, and previous dean of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government) and Richard Armitage (13th United States Deputy Secretary of State, the second-in-command at the State Department, serving from 2001 to 2005), "CSIS Reports – A Smarter, More Secure America", 11/6, 2007http:www.csis.org/component/option,com'csis'pubs/task,view/id,4156/type,1/~ Soft power is the ability to attract people to our side without coercion. Legitimacy AND least as much as their ability to destroy the enemy’s will to fight.
Analytical
If the US backs out of being pioneers for human rights abuses, there will be several crises in other countries regarding human rights abuses since we’re the most stringent enforcer.
Timeframe – Human rights abuses are occurring now and US can’t back out – we need to take a stance on Korea and the Middle East before these conflicts get worse.
1/8/17
NovDec- CP- Community Relations
Tournament: Ridge Debates | Round: 5 | Opponent: Success Academy SC | Judge: Adegoke Fakorede CP Text: The USFG should implement a system of community relations through civilian review, legal oversight, early intervention, de-escalation, and video release through bodycams instead of limiting QI. TF 16 Task Force (Group that reviews Chicago police officer accountability) “Recommendations for Reform: Restoring Trust between the Chicago Police and the Communities they Serve” April 2016. Executive Summary. NB This moment that we are in requires each of us to ask difficult but necessary AND , and turned out at community forums provided the foundation for this work.
CP Text: Departments should train police officers through the following methods to stop dog abuse instead of limiting qualified immunity in cases of animal brutality.
Tournament: Ridge Debates | Round: 5 | Opponent: Success Academy SC | Judge: Adegoke Fakorede Federal judges are burning out with skyrocketing casework- the brink is now Bendery 15 Jennifer Bendery, 9-30-2015, "Federal Judges Are Burned Out, Overworked And Wondering Where Congress Is," Huffington Post, span class="skimlinks-unlinked"http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/judge-federal-courts-vacancies'us'55d77721e4b0a40aa3aaf14b/span~~ NB WASHINGTON — It was Labor Day weekend and Lawrence O’Neill desperately wanted to get out AND long-term when you don’t give people the help they absolutely need."
QI prevents frivolous trials- that clogs courts Beerman 09 Beermann, Jack Michael. (Professor of Law and Harry Elwood Warren Schoolar, BU School of Law' "Qualified Immunity and Constitutional Avoidance" Boston University School of Law Working Paper No. 09-51. December 2, 2009 NB This two-pronged formulation of the qualified immunity standard36 lasted only seven years. AND would prevail before trial, which was the stated motivation for the change.
Police misconduct cases clog courts Osnos 2k: Evan Osnos, Tribune Staff WriterChicago Tribune. "City to try mediation of cop brutality cases". November 15, 2000. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-11-15/news/0011150315'1'civil-rights-cases-mediation-police-department. RW Hoping to avert costly legal battles over alleged police brutality, the City of Chicago AND seized evidence without a warrant and were later sued by the man for financial
Court clog collapses the federal judiciary – overburdens dockets, expansion can't keep pace. Oakley 96 John B. Oakley, Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus US Davis School of Law, 1996 The Myth of Cost-Free Jurisdictional Reallocation Personal effects: The hidden costs of greater workloads. The hallmark of federal justice AND would raise the most serious questions of the future course of the nation.
Court clog leads to poor decisions and hurts the minorities the worst- turns case Brunt 15 Alexa Van Brunt, "Poor people rely on public defenders who are too overworked to defend them" Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/17/poor-rely-public-defenders-too-overworked, June 17, 2015. Money can buy you a great defense team, but what if you can’t afford AND This group bears the brunt of our public defender systems’ underfunding and overwork.
Court legitimacy is high now- trust is on the brink with lack of abidance to constitutional precedent
Gershman 4-8 ~Jacob Gershman (Jacob Gershman covers law for The Wall Street Journal and is lead writer of the Law Blog. He previously wrote about New York politics for the Journal and the New York Sun.) 4-8-2016, "How Supreme Court Legitimacy is Shaped," WSJ, http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2016/04/08/how-supreme-court-legitimacy-is-shaped/~~ NB GOP Sen. Chuck Grassley, in remarks on the Senate floor earlier this week AND with rulings doesn’t by itself fuel a perception that the court is politicized.
SCOTUS already ruled qualified immunity as legal- past 30 years prove
Kinports 16 ~Kinports, Kit. (Professor and Polisher Family Distinguished Faculty Scholar, Penn State Law) 2016. "The Supreme Court's Quiet Expansion of Qualified Immunity"~ NB In its 1982 decision in Harlow v. Fitzgerald, the Supreme Court openly refashioned AND sum- mary judgment in the light most favorable to the plaintiff.10
Overruling uniquely decimates Court legitimacy.
Kozel 10 ~(Randy J. – Associate Professor of Law at the University of Notre Dame, "ARTICLE: Stare Decisis as Judicial Doctrine," 67 Wash and Lee L. Rev. 411, 2010, LexisNexis)~ NB A more widely debated example comes from Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey AND extraordinarily reluctant to overrule its precedents based on concerns over perceived legitimacy. n307
Weakening the court prevents sustainable development- leads to more anthropocentrism.
Stein 05 ~Stein, New South Wales Court of Appeal former judge, 2005 (Paul Stein, "Why judges are essential to the rule of law and environmental protection", IUCN Environmental Policy and Law Paper No. 60, online, ldg)~ The Johannesburg Principles state: "We emphasize that the fragile state of the global AND is, we must not shirk our duty. Pg. 53-54
Extinction
Barry 13 ~(Glen, "ECOLOGY SCIENCE: Terrestrial Ecosystem Loss and Biosphere Collapse", 2-4, http://forests.org/blog/2013/02/ecology-science-terrestrial-ec.asp, ldg)~ Blunt, Biocentric Discussion on Avoiding Global Ecosystem Collapse and Achieving Global Ecological Sustainability Science AND that across scales when enough life is lost beyond thresholds, living systems die
12/11/16
NovDec- DA- Departments
Tournament: Ridge Debates | Round: 5 | Opponent: Success Academy SC | Judge: Adegoke Fakorede Litigation slows down effectiveness of police departments Rosen 05 Rosen, Michael M.(Attorney in San Diego at Fish and Richardson PC, an intellectual property law firm) "A Qualified Defense: In Suport of the Doctrine of Qualified Immunity in Excessive Force Caess, With Some Suggestions for its Improvement" Golden Gate University Law Review. Volume 35. Issue 2. January 2005. http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/ggulrev . NB It is hard to deny that the more time police officers spend at trial defending AND immunity can play in reducing unnecessary costs and in improving deterrence of crime.
Court cases against the police kill city budgets and harm local economy. Elinson and Frosh 15 Zusha Elinson (Zusha Elinson is a U.S. news reporter based in Northern California) and Dan Frosch (Dan Frosch is a general assignment reporter for The Wall Street Journal's Southwest Bureau.), 7-15-15, "Cost of Police-Misconduct Cases Soars in Big U.S. Cities," WSJ, http://www.wsj.com/articles/cost-of-police-misconduct-cases-soars-in-big-u-s-cities-1437013834~~(VR 10/31/16) The cost of resolving police-misconduct cases has surged for big U.S AND death after being put in a police chokehold last summer sparked widespread protests.
Police budget cuts turns and outweighs the case- multiple warrants A. Higher crime rates in impoverished areas Jackman 10 Tom Jackman (Washington Post Staff Writer ), 9-30-2010, "Police fear crime increase as recession saps forces," No Publication, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/29/AR2010092907447.html~~(VR 10/31/16) Police chiefs across the country say that they are feeling the effects of the nation's AND .6 million. "We won't have enough officers," he said.
B. Lack of Police training- leads to more misconduct and police brutality. Hollowell 11 Perry W. Hollowell (Perry W. Hollowell recently retired as Chief of Police, but has also been a Sheriff, Chief Deputy, Captain, Lieutenant and Sergeant while serving with three jurisdictions. Along with a thirty-five year law enforcement career he has also had a successful military career retiring after twenty-two years of service. A strong training background includes training law enforcement and military on both a national and international basis. Along with educating thousands of police and military, Perry has been adjunct faculty for three colleges. He has also pursued numerous hours of professional development programs to include the FBI National Academy, U.S. Army Sergeant’s Major Academy and a Master of Business Management Degree. His training, experience and education has provided the opportunity to train in a wide variety of topics.), 2011, "Are Budget Cuts Killing Police Officers?" N.p, http://www.in.gov/ilea/files/Are'Budget'Cuts'Killing'Police'Officers'11-01-11.pdf (VR 11/1/16) While it can be argued that budget cuts are making life more dangerous for law AND could easily see how an officer under stress would revert to his firearm.
C. Incentivizes unjust arrests to make more money Benson 15 Thor Benson (Thor Benson is a traveling writer based in Los Angeles, California. He regularly contributes to ATTN:, and his writing has also been featured in The Atlantic, Wired, Rolling Stone, Vice, The Verge, and elsewhere. ), 5-16-2015, "The 4 Disturbing Reasons Why Police Obsess over Petty Crime," ATTN:, http://www.attn.com/stories/1663/police-departments-prioritize-drug-crimes-over-violent-crimes~~(VR 10/1/16) Why so much attention on low-level drug offenders? One major reason is AND enough overall arrests, the department can lose some of its federal funding.
12/11/16
NovDec- No Spec
Tournament: Ridge Debates | Round: 3 | Opponent: Stuyvesant AS | Judge: Elaine Huange Interpretation: The affirmative must defend a limit on qualified immunity in all cases, they may not defend limiting qualified immunity only in cases of animal brutality. Counterplans that limit qualified immunity in individual cases are illegitimate.
Ground 2. Topic Education
12/11/16
SeptOct- CP- Japan SMR
Tournament: Bronx | Round: 2 | Opponent: Daniel Lin | Judge: Munawar Rahman CP Text: The federal government of Japan switch to the use of Small modular nuclear reactors
SMRs solve safety downsides to nuclear power—solves case Loudermilk 11 Micah J. Loudermilk is a Research Associate for the Energy and Environmental Security Policy program with the Institute for National Strategic Studies at National Defense University, contracted through ASE Inc. “Small Nuclear Reactors and US Energy Security: Concepts, Capabilities, and Costs” 31 May 2011 Accessed date: 8-21-12 y2k. RW. The debate over nuclear energy over the years has consistently revolved around the central question AND certain type—the two are mutually exclusive, also competes through net benefits
Waste
SMRs are use upgraded waste storage which solves their waste arguments Rosner and Goldberg 11 Robert, William E. Wrather Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Physics, and the College; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Director, Energy Policy Institute; Enrico Fermi Institute; Harris School of Public Policy and Stephen, Special Assistant to the Director, Argonne National Laboratory, Energy Policy Institute at Chicago The Harris School of Public Policy Studies, "Small Modular Reactors – Key to Future Nuclear Power Generation in the U.S.", November, https://epic.sites.uchicago.edu/sites/epic.uchicago.edu/files/uploads/EPICSMRWhitePaperFinalcopy.pdf While the focus in this paper is on the business case for SMRs, the AND a detailed examination of these issues is beyond the scope of this paper.
No Fukushima repeat-~--SMRs eliminate need for outside electricity Carroll 12: Jeff, JD from the University of Chicago, March/April, "A new generation", mag.uchicago.edu/science-medicine/new-generation From a safety standpoint, the design of small modular reactors would prevent the problems AND please download the newly published booklet on 'Advances in SMR Technology Development 2014'.
12/11/16
SeptOct- CP- Thorcon MSR
Tournament: Byram Hills Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Newark Science OS | Judge: Talia Coyne The Aff actor ought to buy Molten Salt Reactors from Thorcon to produce nuclear power and be used exclusively.
Thorcon 16 (#1) Jack Devanney et al. 2015, “ThorCon the Do-able Molten Salt Reactor Executive Summary,” Martingale, Inc, http://thorconpower.com/docs/exec_summary.pdf(Team includes: Jack Devany has MS in naval architecture and a PhD in management science from MIT. There he served on the faculty of Ocean Engineering for ten years. Ralph Moir is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT. Chris Uhlik has PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University)) Currently mankind consumes electricity at a rate of about 2,500 GWe. This AND four years Each of these requirements has important implications for the ThorCon design.
Thorcon MSRs can be rapidly produced for Aff actor
Thorcon 16 (#2) Jack Devanney et al. 2016, “Rapid Deployment,” Thorcon, http://thorconpower.com/features/deployable(Team includes: Jack Devany has MS in naval architecture and a PhD in management science from MIT. There he served on the faculty of Ocean Engineering for ten years. Ralph Moir is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society. He holds BSc and PhD degrees in nuclear engineering from MIT. Chris Uhlik has PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University) OR The photo on the right is a shot of the Hyundai shipyard in Ulsan, AND It’s simply a matter of our deciding to take advantage of this capability.
Thorcon MSRs are safe, cannot melt, have no long term waste, cheap, sustainable, antiprolif, and unweaponizable
Williams 16 Stephen Williams - retired software engineer and former technical writer, preoccupied with the many issues surrounding energy use, such as climate change, ocean acidification, energy poverty, and pollution. July 4, 2016, ZME Science, “How Molten Salt Reactors Might Spell a Nuclear Energy Revolution“,http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/what-is-molten-salt-reactor-424343/ OR A molten salt reactor (MSR) is a type of nuclear reactor that uses AND stockpiles of plutonium, making these materials unavailable for use in nuclear weapons.
12/11/16
SeptOct- DA- Fossil Fuels
Tournament: Byram Hills Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Newark Science OS | Judge: Talia Coyne The Paris Agreement put pressure on countries to exploitation of resources thus shifting the world away from fossil fuel usage.
A ban is empirically verified to cause a shift back to fossil fuels. Chameides 12
Chameides, Bill (Dean of Nicholas School of the Environment 2007-2014, AND off coal plants first? You have to do one or the other.”
Fossil fuels increase CO2 emissions which are the strongest internal ink to warming NWF 15 National Wildlife Federation, 2015. “Global Warming is human caused”. National Wildlife Federation. https://www.nwf.org/Wildlife/Threats-to-Wildlife/Global-Warming/Global-Warming-is-Human-Caused.aspx. RW Scientists have concluded that most of the observed warming is very likely due to the AND atmosphere. This CO2 is the biggest factor responsible for recent warming trends.
Warming causes extinction Flournoy 12 Don Flournoy 12, Citing Feng Hsu, PhD NASA Scientist @ the Goddard Space Flight Center and Don is a PhD and MA from UT, former Dean of the University College @ Ohio University, former Associate Dean at SUNY and Case Institute of Technology, Former Manager for University/Industry Experiments for the NASA ACTS Satellite, currently Professor of Telecommunications @ Scripps College of Communications, Ohio University, “Solar Power Satellites,” January 2012, Springer Briefs in Space Development, p. 10-11 In the Online Journal of Space Communication , Dr. Feng Hsu, a NASA AND is simply too high for us to take any chances” (Hsu 2010
