Tournament: Damus | Round: 1 | Opponent: idk | Judge: idk

Only capitalism can fuel the investments needed for creating a clean economy.  Economic growth is essential to protecting the environment because it is the only way to build coalitions of support.

Nordhaus and Shellenberger, 07-~Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, Ted and Michael, Managing Directors of American Environics, A social values research and strategy firm 15-17~
The politics we propose breaks with several widely accepted, largely unconscious distinctions, such
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, and power rather than unleash and direct them.

 

Prosperity and growth are essential to progressive social change—limits backfire.

Nordhaus and Shellenberger, 07-~Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility, Ted and Michael, Managing Directors of American Environics, A social values research and strategy firm 35-37~
Just as prosperity tends to bring out the best of human nature, poverty and
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denied their freedom than the environmental movement emerged because American suddenly started polluting.  

Despite crises, capitalism is sustainable

Buchan 10 (James, April 26,  British novelist and journalist who graduated from Oxford University, Correspondent for the Financial Times, The Enigma of Capital and the Crises of Capitalism, NewStatesman, http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2010/04/harvey-capital-class-nothing)
Harvey's Marxian language is as antiquated as heraldry, and there are such heraldic beasts
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? Again, the answer is a resounding 'Yes it can.'"

Resistance to capital is futile and dangerous – natural hierarchies of power are inevitable and sustain peace

Wilkinson 5 – Academic Coordinator of the Social Change Project and the Global Prosperity Initiative at The Mercatus Center at George Mason University
Will, Capitalism and Human Nature, Cato Policy Report Vol. XXVII No.
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taste for hierarchical status, but to no one's serious detriment.
 

Capitalism is key to the formation of successful space programs

Martin 10 (Robert, Amerika, June 21, http://www.amerika.org/politics/centrifuge-capitalism/, accessed: 3 July 2011)
Centralization and capitalism are necessary for any intelligent civilization, yet in excess drains the
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so padded from outside reality that they completely ignore the world around them. 

Extinction - we have to go to space

Garan, 10 – Astronaut (Ron, 3/30/10, Speech published in an article by Nancy Atkinson, "The Importance of Returning to the Moon," http://www.universetoday.com/61256/astronaut-explains-why-we-should-return-to-the-moon/, JMP)
Resources and Other Benefits: Since we live in a world of finite resources and
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of exploration. The first step is a sustainable permanent human lunar settlement. 

The expansion of capitalism makes war less likely

Griswold 5- Director of the Cato institute center for trade policy studies (Daniel, "Peace on earth? Try free trade among men," 12/28/05, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5344)
First, trade and globalization have reinforced the trend toward democracy, and democracies don't
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of their intertwined economies, a general war in Europe is now unthinkable. 

Capitalism solves disease

Norberg 3 – Fellow at Timbro and CATO ~Johan Norberg, In Defense of Global Capitalism, pg. 186~
One common objection to the market economy is that it causes people and enterprises to
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will play a larger role in dictating the purposes of research and production.

Extinction

Yu 9 - (5/22/09, Victoria, Dartmouth Undergraduate Journal of Science Writer, "Human Extinction: The Uncertainty of Our Fate," http://dujs.dartmouth.edu/spring-2009/human-extinction-the-uncertainty-of-our-fate)
A pandemic will kill off all humans. In the past, humans have indeed
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could only infect birds — into a human-viable strain (10). 

Capitalism best ensures value to life

Tracinski 8 – editor of the Intellectual Activist ~Robert, The Moral and the Practical, http://www.moraldefense.com/Philosophy/Essays/The_Moral_and_the_Practical.htm~~
Stated in more fundamental terms, capitalism is practical because it relies on the inexhaustible
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protects and encourages them—is an ever-increasing wealth and prosperity. 

Capitalism prevents conflict through information

Gartzke 7- PhD- associate professor of political science at UC San Diego (Erik, "The Capitalist Peace," 1/5/07, http://dss.ucsd.edu/~~egartzke/publications/gartzke_ajps_07.pdf)
While policy differences or resource competition can generate conflict, they need not produce contests
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its own markets when a nonintegrated target does not suffer (Gartzke 2006b).

The expansion of capitalism makes war less likely

Griswold 5- Director of the Cato institute center for trade policy studies (Daniel, "Peace on earth? Try free trade among men," 12/28/05, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5344)
First, trade and globalization have reinforced the trend toward democracy, and democracies don't
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of their intertwined economies, a general war in Europe is now unthinkable. 

Capitalism prevents war and disincentivises conflict- precludes the impacts of the kritik

Bandow 5- Former assistant to president Regan, Senior fellow @ the Cato institute (Doug, "Spreading Capitalism is good for Peace," 11/10/05, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5193/)
But Gartzke argues that "the 'democratic peace' is a mirage created by the overlap
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, provides a coercive step short of war to achieve foreign policy ends.

The spread of capitalism alone solves wars and conflicts

Bandow 5- Former assistant to president Regan, Senior fellow @ the Cato institute (Doug, "Spreading Capitalism is good for Peace," 11/10/05, http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5193/)
Positive economic trends are not enough to prevent war, but then, neither is
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capitalism - is the best means to encourage peace as well as prosperity. 

Capitalism is better at promoting fairness and equality to the poor rather than any alternative—History proves

Bartholomew, 06- Author of 'The Welfare State we're In' he is also a writer and columnist for the Daily Telegraph (James Bartholomew, "We need a revision course on why capitalism is a good thing" May 24th, 2006, Lexis-Nexis Academic)
Capitalism has made us richer and given us the opportunity of vastly more diverse experiences
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how vastly superior capitalism is to state control. We should be careful.