Tournament: Columbia | Round: 6 | Opponent: Hunter College BL | Judge: Oliver Roth
Valuing Nature only for the benefits of humans entrenches anthropocentrism. Cochrane 1
Alisdair Cochrane, 2006 (London School of Economics and Political Science http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/21190/1/Environmental_ethics_28LSERO29.pdf) JMA
Although many environmental...of future individuals.

And,  Emphasizing material benefits of the environment in policy debates skews policies away from environmental protection. Doremus 2k
Holly Doremus, 2000 (Professor of Law, University of California at Davis, Washington and Lee Law Review, Winter 2000, “The Rhetoric and Reality of Nature Protection: Toward a New Discourse.”  Accessed via Academic Lexis/Nexis, May 23, 2011)
Combining esthetic and...values of nature.

And, Their anthropocentric framing of the environment justifies infinite abuse of the environment only for the sake of humans. Kortenkamp and Moore 01

Kortenkamp and Moore 2001 (University of Wisconsin – Madison – ECOCENTRISM AND ANTHROPOCENTRISM: MORAL REASONING ABOUT
ECOLOGICAL COMMONS DILEMMAS http://wikisdis.inrs.ca/images/e/ec/ZzC2ABc.pdf)
Ecocentrism and anthropocentrism... as social dilemmas.

The alternative moves past the anthropocentric ethic of the affirmative and extend ethics beyond humanity. Cochrane 2
Alisdair Cochrane, 2006 (London School of Economics and Political Science http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/21190/1/Environmental_ethics_28LSERO29.pdf) JMA
As noted above...implications of each.

And, we must challenge anthropocentrism to treat the environment with respect:  
Alisdair Cochrane, 2006 (London School of Economics and Political Science http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/21190/1/Environmental_ethics_28LSERO29.pdf) JMA
Clearly then, the...respect they deserve.

Tournament: Vassar Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Ofir Dinstein | Judge: Brennan Caruthers
The war on terror is caused by neoliberal interests. Lafer ‘06
(Gordon Lafer, Gordon Lafer is a political economist and is an Associate Professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center, Neoliberalism by other means: the “war on terror” at home and abroad, http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0739314042000251306)

The takeover of Iraq... than interested reasons. 

America’s own neoliberalism is the root cause of terrorism against it Beck ‘02
(Ulrich Beck, Professor of Sociology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich and holds a professorship at Munich University and at the London School of Economics, The Silence of Words and Political Dynamics ?in the World Risk Society†?, http://logosonline.home.igc.org/beck.pdf)

Perhaps this caricature... point of death. 

There are 2 individual impacts. 

First is human rights. 

Neoliberalism ensures market pressures will curtail rights claims. Boetsch 5
(Leopoldo Rodriguez PhD in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin “Privredna Izgradnja” http://scindeks-clanci.ceon.rs/data/pdf/0032-8979/2005/0032-89790502017B.pdf MW)

A new question... neoliberal political order. 

Second is racial incarceration. 

Neoliberalism has caused a massive increase in incarceration rates by jailing anyone who is not privileged by the benefits of class, color, and gender. Giroux 2005
(Henry Giroux professor of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University, West Chester University, College Literature, 32.1, Winter 2005, pp. 1-19)

The destruction of... progressive social movements. 

The alternative is total rejection of neoliberalism. Total rejection is key – the only way to produce real alternatives to neoliberalism is to refuse the allure of half measures. Werlhof 8 (Claudia von Werlhof. Werlhof is a professor at the Institute of Political Sciences at the University of Innsbruck. “The Globalization of Neoliberalism, its Consequences and Some of its Basic Alternatives.” 27 August 2008. Capitalism Nature Socialism. BA)

Still, euphoria would be... has already suffered. 

The role of the ballot is to undermine neoliberal oppression. 

Escaping neoliberal oppression is an epistemological prerequisite to any ethical theory. Neoliberal ideologies permeate themselves through society erasing the distinction between economic and moral behavior and creates arbitrary excuses for the elite class. Brown ‘03 Brown, Wendy. "Neo-liberalism and the end of liberal democracy." Theory and Event 7.1 (2003). Pg. 43-44

The extension of... act, actor, or rationale. 

Limitations to human rationality and the variability of to human value mean all ethics will concede that there is value in moral dialogue. Oppression arbitrary restricts voices thus oppression comes first under any moral theory. Clifford and Burke’08 Anti-Oppressive Ethics and Values in Social Work, Derek Clifford, and Beverley Burke. ,Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, http://www.palgrave.com/PDFs/1403905568.pdf

Our view of the nature... socially and culturally different.