Tournament: all | Round: 1 | Opponent: Friedrich Nietzsche | Judge: FDR
I'll only disclose stuff I write or have permission to disclose. See my aff wiki for other info.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Extinction outweighs:

1. reversibility
   2. future generations

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Text: All countries already or considering developing nuclear power should join the International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC).

CP creates networks for nuclear power without having to establish domestic facilities, educates countries on the safe and proper use of nuclear power—solves prolif and warming.
WNA 15 World Nuclear Association; Information on nuclear energy and the nuclear fuel cycle; August 2015; “International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation”; http://www.world-nuclear.org/information-library/current-and-future-generation/international-framework-for-nuclear-energy-coopera.aspx;  (8/8/2016)
The International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation (IFNEC), formerly the Global Nuclear Energy
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International Forum (GIF) and the Multinational Design Evaluation Programme (MDEP).

International organizations and regulatory frameworks are essential.
IEA 15 "Technology Roadmap: Nuclear Energy." IEA Technology Roadmaps (n.d.): n. pag. 2015. Web. 8 Aug. 2016
Regulators, whether in newcomer countries or established nuclear countries, should be strong and
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country can be built elsewhere with a minimum of duplicated effort and time.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
Nuclear energy is crucial to maintaining stability of the electric grid—several warrants
Bayh et al 15
Former United States Senator and former Governor of Indiana; “Nuclear Benefits: Always-On Reliability,” Nuclear Matters, Dec 03 2015 *Note: author inferred
The reliability of the electric grid depends on nuclear energy. One-fifth of
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important for reliability purposes as more intermittent resources are added to the mix.” 

Lack of accessibility increases probability of cyberattacks—those threaten the US grid
Mills 16
Mark P Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, CEO of the Digital Power Group (a tech-centric capital advisory group), faculty fellow at Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and an advisory board member of Notre Dame University’s Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values; “EXPOSED HOW AMERICA’S ELECTRIC GRIDS ARE BECOMING GREENER, SMARTER— AND MORE VULNERABLE,” June 2016, Manhattan Institute
State and federal mandates (including the federal Clean Power Plan) seek to move
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the control systems embedded in many solar panels and wind turbines themselves.78

Cyberattacks causes miscalc—goes nuclear war
Robert Tilford 12, Graduate US Army Airborne School, Ft. Benning, Georgia, “Cyber attackers could shut down the electric grid for the entire east coast” 2012, http://www.examiner.com/article/cyber-attackers-could-easily-shut-down-the-electric-grid-for-the-entire-east-coa *we don’t agree with the albeist language
To make matters worse a cyber attack that can take out a civilian power grid
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include the use of “nuclear weapons”, if authorized by the President.

Also causes structural violence—poorer communities disproportionally affected by grid breakdowns
Rodriguez 10
Rev. Samuel Rodriguez is the President of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. The NHCLC is the nation’s largest Hispanic Christian organization representing millions of Evangelicals and more than 40,000 U.S. Churches and seeks to reconcile evangelist Billy Graham’s message of salvation with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s march of prophetic activism through its “7 Directives” of Life, Family, Compassionate Evangelism, Stewardship, Justice, Education and Youth., “Environmental injustice in espanol,” Canada Free Press
 Yes, poor families, including many Hispanics, find it hard to pay
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microscopic soot now come from volcanoes, forest fires, and overseas sources.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
US naval power is on the brink of decline now—key internal link is military capacity
Cropsey 16
Seth Cropsey began his career in government at the Defense Department as Assistant to the Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger and subsequently served as Deputy Undersecretary of the Navy in the Reagan and Bush administrations, where he was responsible for the Navy's position on efforts to reorganize DoD, development of the maritime strategy, the Navy's academic institutions, naval special operations, and burden-sharing with NATO allies. In the Bush administration, Cropsey moved to OSD to become acting assistant secretary, and then principal deputy assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict. Cropsey served as a naval officer from 1985-2004, “SOS for a declining American Navy,” WSJ, Jan 06 2016
Late last week China confirmed that it is building its first aircraft carrier from scratch
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. What the nation can’t afford is to retreat as menaces increase abroad. 

Nuclear power is critical to US naval cred and power
Spencer and Spring 07
Jack Spencer is Research Fellow in the Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies, and Baker Spring is F.M. Kirby Research Fellow in National Security Policy for the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies, at The Heritage Foundation; “The Advantages of Expanding the Nuclear Navy,” Heritage Foundation, Nov 5 2007
Congress is debating whether future naval ships should include nuclear propulsion. The House version
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Navy will protect as primary combat ships or the environmental costs of emissions.

US naval power maintains global peace and solves every impact
Eaglen and McGrath, 11 analyst on defense issues in US Congress, Pentagon at Office of the Sec of Defense and Joint Staff, specialist in defense strategy and industrial base, staff member of the congressional Quadrennial Defense Review Independent Panel / founding director of Delex Consulting Studies and Analysis, specialist in Defense and National Security (Mackenzie and Bryan, “Strengthening US Seapower: Implications for Defense Policy”, 5/16/11; http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/05/thinking-about-a-day-without-sea-power-implications-for-us-defense-policy
Providing Security That Protects and Bolsters the U.S. Economy Modern American sea
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American people, and these benefits far outweigh the costs of maintaining it.

Tournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any
US carbon emissions low now due to a slump in coal-on track to meet environmental goals
McMahon 6/23 Jeff McMahon, contributor at Forbes, "U.S. On Track To Achieve 2030 Emissions Goals In 2016," Forbes Magazine, June 23, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/06/23/u-s-on-track-to-achieve-2030-emissions-goals-in-2016/~~#fa3d9fa42c8e~~ JW
A dramatic slump in coal production has pushed U.S. carbon emissions so
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," Cohan said, "if the Clean Power Plan is not implemented." 

Closing nuclear plants forces increased fossil fuel use
Roston 15 Eric Roston, writer for Bloomberg, "Why Nuclear Power Is All but Dead in the U.S." Bloomberg News, April 15, 2015, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-04-15/soon-it-may-be-easier-to-build-a-nuclear-plant-in-iran-than-in-the-u-s-~~ JW
*ellipsis from original text
Say what? The U.S. achieved
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of this is taking place under the mantle of economic and ecological modernization.

Fossil fuels screw over indigenous communities
Kernan 15
Mark Kernan, 8-20-2015, "The Economics of Exploitation: Indigenous Peoples and the Impact of Resource Extraction," counterpunch.org, http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/08/20/the-economics-of-exploitation-indigenous-peoples-and-the-impact-of-resource-extraction/
Since the advent of the current round of economic globalisation, in the last quarter
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, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much."

High probability risk of extinction from climate change
Meyer 4/29 Robinson Meyer, associate editor at The Atlantic, where he covers technology, "Human Extinction Isn't That Unlikely," The Atlantic, April 29, 2016, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/04/a-human-extinction-isnt-that-unlikely/480444/~~ JW
Nuclear war. Climate change. Pandemics that kill tens of millions. These are
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climate scientists agree that the same phenomenon would follow any major nuclear exchange.)

Tournament: HW | Round: 2 | Opponent: idk | Judge: Paras Kumar
Their politics of production will always be utilized to promote regimes of social death and military domination
Occupied UC Berkeley in 2010 (anonymous graduate student in philosophy, “The University, Social Death and the Inside Joke,” http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=20100220181610620)
Universities may serve as progressive sites of inquiry in some cases, yet this does
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interpretation and every connotation, no longer denoting anyone or anything."56

The 1AC’s research methodology relies on colonial theories of change that commodify pain in the Academy-turns case.
Tuck and Yang – ’14 – Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, SUNY New Paltz and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego (Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “R-Words: Refusing Research,” Humanizing Research, https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/evetuck/files/2013/12/Tuck-and-Yang-R-Words_Refusing-Research.pdf, p. 223-226, MM) language modified
Research is a dirty word among many Native communities (Tuhiwai Smith, 1999),
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2010, p. 8) takes the shape of a pain narrative.

Vote negative to engage in a refusal of their research methodology—questioning their knowledge production is key to solving the aff.
Tuck and Yang – ’14 – Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations, SUNY New Paltz and Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego (Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang, “R-Words: Refusing Research,” Humanizing Research, https://faculty.newpaltz.edu/evetuck/files/2013/12/Tuck-and-Yang-R-Words_Refusing-Research.pdf, p. 237-242, MM)
Refusal is not just a "no," but a redirection to ideas otherwise unacknowledged
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connects our conversation back to desire as a counterlogic to settler colonial knowledge.

Tournament: HW | Round: 5 | Opponent: Santa Monica RE | Judge: Chris Castillo
To enforce any rights claims at all, the state must have the authority to legislate based on universality-the deontological principle of acting on a universalizable maxim.
Ripstein  Bracketed for clarity
All people have the right to act for themselves. Kant argues that provision for
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through which laws are made is one that can bind everyone it governs.

To secure this state authority, we need an objective, impartial observer that represents both parties. You need an omnilateral will. Kant :
When I declare (by word or deed), “I will that an external thing shall be mine,” I thereby declare it obligatory for everyone else to refrain from using the object of my will.  This is an obligation that no one would have apart from this juridical act of mine.  Included in this claim, however, is an acknowledgment of being and that I’m reciprocally bound to everyone else to a similar and equal restraint with respect to what is theirs. The obligation involved here comes from a universal rule of the external juridical relationship that is, the civil society.  Consequently, I am not bound to leave what is another’s property untouched if everyone else does not in turn guarantee to me with regard to what is mine that he will act in accordance with exactly the same principle.  This guarantee does not require a special juridical act, but is already contained in the concept of being externally juridically bound to a duty Verpflichtung on account of the universality, and hence also the reciprocity, of an obligation coming from a universal rule. Now, with respect to an external and contingent possession, a unilateral Will cannot serve as a coercive law for everyone, since that would be a violation of freedom in accordance with universal laws.  Therefore, only a Will binding everyone else—that is, collective universal (common), and powerful Will—is the kind of Will that can provide the guarantee required.  The condition of being subject to general external (that is, public) legislation that is backed by power is the civil society. Accordingly, a thing can be externally yours or mind only in a civil society.

This outweighs:

A. Actor-specificity. Even if your framework is true for individuals, it fails for states. There’d be no point of a state if it just permitted infinite rights violations.

B. Normative force: Even if the AC framework is true, it’s not binding without an omnilateral will to enforce it, so it can’t generate any obligations. 

C. Magnitude. The alternative is infinite rights violations.

Thus, the standard is consistency with the omnilateral will. 

Seditious speech should be prohibited-it’s inconsistent with state authority
Varden 10
Helga Varden Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois “A Kantian Conception of Free Speech” Springer. 2010
To understand Kant’s condemnation of seditious speech, remember that Kant, as mentioned above
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qua private citizens, it is a public crime (6: 331).

The aff allows seditious speech like flag burning
Wrenn 05
From Magic City Morning Star DOUG WRENN Flag Burning: Free Speech Or Sedition? By Doug Wrenn Jul 11, 2005 - 8:32:00 AM
The so-called "Supreme" Court claims that flag burning is free speech
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which thus makes it a federal, and not just a state matter.

Tournament: cps | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
The aff allows seditious speech like flag burning
Wrenn 05
From Magic City Morning Star DOUG WRENN Flag Burning: Free Speech Or Sedition? By Doug Wrenn Jul 11, 2005 - 8:32:00 AM
The so-called "Supreme" Court claims that flag burning is free speech
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which thus makes it a federal, and not just a state matter.

their speech act undermines vital military strategy
EYAGO 05 Political Commentary – Sound Politics Reporter 7/8, http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/004721.html, Sound Commentary on Current Events in Seattle, Puget Sound and Washington State
Finally, I am angry at those who undermine our efforts to conduct this war
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our public leaders. What they do for political gain is completely unconscionable.

Heg solves several scenarios for war and extinction
Bradley A. Thayer, November/December, 2006 “In Defense of Primacy,” NATIONAL INTEREST Issue 86
THROUGHOUT HISTORY, peace and stability have been great benefits of an era where there
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, for the United States humanitarian missions are the equivalent of a blitzkrieg.

Heg solves warming
Cascio ‘8 (Jamais, Writer for the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, The Big Picture: Climate Chaos)
The relationship between climate chaos and the rise of the post-hegemonic world is
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global capacity to deal with global warming, this is the most dangerous.

Extinction – several scenarios
Holthaus 14 (Eric Holthaus, meteorologist at Arizona State University and the New America Foundation, citing Navy Adm. David Titley and IPCC studies, 4/21/14, “US military is preparing for ‘climate change war’,” http://bangordailynews.com/2014/04/21/politics/us-military-is-preparing-for-climate-change-war/, Keerthi, Acc 4/21/14)
The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has just completed a series
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. Unfortunately, it’s usually at the last minute, usually under duress.

Vote neg to align ourselves with hegemony – the academic sphere of debate is key
Mearsheimer 1995 Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. West Point graduate, retired Air Force officer (John, Professor Political Science at the University of Chicago, International Security, Summer, p. 93)
The discussion of institutions up to now has a distinct academic flavor. However,
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-causing effects of institutions until they have solid evidence to support their positions

Tournament: cps | Round: 2 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
Interpretation: The affirmative must specify a normative ethic in the text of the 1AC.