Tournament: UPS | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Immaculate Heart Shin | Judge:
The standard is util. Reasons to prefer are responsive arguments to alternative frameworks which allows for a discussion in the 1AR.

Parameterization Standards:
A. Real-World
B. Stable Locus

C1: Amazon key to global environment/under threat.

A.Amazon forest dieback causes feedback loop, destroying rainforest – brink is now
Soltani Atossa (Former campaign director, Rainforest Action Network; Conservation Director for the City of Santa Monica). "Climate Change and the Amazon Rainforest." Amazon Watch. Amazon Watch, n.d. Web. http://amazonwatch.org/work/climate-change-and-the-amazon-rainforest
"Carbon dioxide...to halt deforestation."

B. Amazonian biodiversity loss causes extinction – on par with nuclear winter
Takacs David (Environmental Humanities Professor at CSU Monterey Bay), “The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise” pg. 200-01
"Biodiversity keeps the...a nuclear winter."

C. . Amazon redistricting will hurt conservation efforts
Rapoza Kenneth. "Environmental NGOs Blast Brazil Pres For Amazon Re-Mapping." Forbes Brazil, Russia, India and China 08 March 2012, n. pag. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2012/03/08/environmental-ngos-blast-brazil-pres-for-amazon-re-mapping
"Fourteen...for possible construction."

C2: The exploitation of the Amazon is rooted in a colonial concept that has led to mass oppression

A.Amazonian exploitation is rooted in colonialist mindsets
Callaway Isabell, Kelsey Evezich, Andrew Tan-Delli Cicchi, and Prof. Baletti. "Activism in the Amazon." Amazonian Activism. Duke University, n.d. http://sites.duke.edu/activizonian/sample-page/
"Inequality, environmental...in the region today."

B. Coloniality denies the oppressed the right to being- leads to a pervasive omnipresent death
Maldonado-Torres 07 Nelson (Professor Comparative Literature Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Education: Ph.D in Religious Studies, with distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, Brown University (2002). Exchange at Harvard University—Spring 1996. Certificate for Outstanding Work in Africana Studies. B.A. in Philosophy, summa cum laude, University of Puerto Rico (1994). GPA 4.00. Exchange at Hunter College, C.U.N.Y.—Fall 1991) “ON THE COLONIALITY OF BEING Contributions to the development of a Concept” 2007
"The absent of...an incomplete death."

PTX: The Brazilian Federal Government and the Presidential Representative Democratic Republic of Peru will cede all land tenure rights to indigenous peoples.
Sunderlin William D. (BA degree in American Civilization from Williams College, MSc and PhD degrees in Rural Sociology from Cornell University), Jeffery Hatcher (Director of Global Programs at the Rights and Resources Initiative), and Meghan Liddle. "From Exclusion to Ownership? Challenges and Opportunities in Advancing Forest Tenure Reform." Rights and Resources Initiative. Rights and Resources Initiative, n.d. http://www.rightsandresources.org/documents/files/doc_736.pdf

Indigenous land-tenure zones will solve for deforestation and historical oppression
Davis Shelton H. (Principal sociologist in the Environment Department of The World Bank, Washington, DC), and Alaka Wali (Associate professor of anthropology at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland). "Indigenous Land Tenure and Tropical Forest Management in Latin America ." Special Amerindian Projects. The World Bank, 20 Apr 1994. http://info.worldbank.org/etools/docs/library/136160/tslg/pdf/forest.pdf
"Conventional models of...a feasible conservation".

Tournament: TOC | Round: 2 | Opponent: XX | Judge:
Paramet Standards:

A. Real World
B. Stable Locus

Standard: Util

c1) economic growth=extinction/calamity
A. Growth=warming=environmental destruction
Simms Andrew (policy director of the new economics foundation, the award-winning UK think-and-do tank, and head of nef's Climate Change Programme), 1-25-2010, “Growth is good … isn't it?” The Guardian, http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cif-green/2010/jan/25/uk-growth-energy-resources-boundaries

B. Resource extraction key to global economy
Lee Bernice. "The Geopolitics of the Modern Resource Boom ." Quarterly Americas. Winter 2013: n. page. http://americasquarterly.org/content/geopolitics-modern-resource-boom

PTX: Developing countries will abandon all industry-based extraction of resources.
Vail Jeff (attorney at Davis Graham and Stubbs LLP in Denver, Colorado specializing in litigation and energy issues, former intelligence officer with the US Air Force and energy infrastructure counterterrorism specialist with the US Department of the Interior), 4-28-2005, “The Logic of Collapse,” http://www.jeffvail.net/2005/04/logic-of-collapse.html

Collapse ends transmissions and removes ideological blinders--sustainable transition possible
Tammilehto Olli (Writer and Independent Researcher, Universities of Helsinki and Oulu), 2012, On the Prospect of Preventing Global Climate Catastrophe due to Rapid Social Change, Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23:1, 79-92, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2011.648842

Immediate action critical
Ulansey David (Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Ph.D. From Princeton), 2006, “The Impending Mass Extinction and How to Stop It”, http://www.energybulletin.net/node/23694

Tournament: TOC | Round: 6 | Opponent: XX | Judge:
Standard: Util

1. Paramet

A. Real World

B. Stable Locus

2. Advocacy Text
The Russian Federation will create and maintain a mining moon base to relocate resource extraction from Earth’s environment and replace harmful fuel practices.
Brown 12/15/2008, Gaelan, Vermont Commons, “An Energy Optimist: Will Obama and Chu Mine the Moon for Cold Fusion?” http://www.vtcommons.org/blog/2008/12/15/energy-optimist-will-obama-and-chu-mine-moon-cold-fusion-good-luck-re-localizing, mat

C1: Fossil Fuel Dependence = Extinction

A. Global Warming

1. Fossil Fuels are the root cause of global warming
   O’Driscoll Patrick and Dan Vergano (USAToday Staff Wrtiers – cites international studies of the IPCC report done by Jerry Mahlman, the former director of the federal government’s Geophysical Fluid Dynamics), March 1, 2007, “Fossil fuels are to blame, world scientists conclude,” http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-01-30-ipcc-report_x.htm

2. Best methodology shows positive feedbacks will push us past the tipping point – causes extinction
Guterl Fred (Executive Editor of Scientific American, expert in Climate and Environment), Science Policy, citing James Hanson, a NASA scientist, “Climate Armageddon: How the World’s Weather Could Quickly Run Amok”, 5/25/12; http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-worlds-weather-could-quickly-run-amok

B. Resource Wars

1. Fossil fuels are finite – alternate sources key
   Dixon – 11, Thomas Homer-Dixon, holds the Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, and is a Professor in the Centre for Environment and Business in the Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, January/February 2011, “Economies Just Can’t Keep on Growing” http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/01/02/unconventional_wisdom?page=02C1andsms_ss=facebookandat_xt=4d5030e7468d24282C0

2. Limited resources lead to wars
Trainer Ted, Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the School of Social Work, University of New South Wales, July 2002, ssis.arts.unsw.edu.au/tsw/D62IfYouWantAffluence.html

3. Going beyond Earth is key to solving
Feng and Cox 09- Feng Hsu, Ph.D. and Sr. Fellow of the Aerospace Technology Working Group, Ken Cox, Ph.D. and Founder and Director of the Aerospace Technology Working Group, February 20, 2009, “Sustainable Space Exploration and Space Development - A Unified Strategic Vision,” http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=30702

3. Going beyond Earth is key to solving
Feng and Cox 09- Feng Hsu, Ph.D. and Sr. Fellow of the Aerospace Technology Working Group, Ken Cox, Ph.D. and Founder and Director of the Aerospace Technology Working Group, February 20, 2009, “Sustainable Space Exploration and Space Development - A Unified Strategic Vision,” http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=30702

C2: Lack of REEs in Squo leads to economic collapse and extinction – mining solves

A. China can no longer meet global REE demand
Bradsher Keith, writer for NYT, 5/2/11, “Supplies Squeezed, Rare Earth Prices Surge”, http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/03/business/03rare.html, 6/23/11, JPW

B. REEs are key to Global Economy
Blakely Christopher, Joseph Cooter, and et al. "Rare Earth Metals and China." Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, n.d. http://sites.fordschool.umich.edu/china-policy/files/2012/09/Rare-Earth-Metals-China.pdf

C. Economic decline causes extinction

Solvency

Helium-3 solves fossil fuel dependence
D’Souza  Marsha R., Diana M. Otalvar, Deep Arjun Singh, February 17, 2007,“HARVESTINGHELIUM-3 FROM THE MOON,” An Interactive Qualifying Project Report submitted to the faculty of the Worcester Polytechnic Institute http://www.wpi.edu/Pubs/E-project/Available/E-project-031306-122626/unrestricted/IQP.pdf

And, REEs can be sustainably mined from the moon
Spence, 10 Ann, Staff writer, Ceramic Tech Today, “The next frontier? Lunar mining for rare earth elements?” http://ceramics.org/ceramictechtoday/2010/11/16/the-next-frontier-lunar-mining-for-rare-earth-elements/ , accessed July 5, 2011, BJM

Russia is key - Russian space exploration is more focused, making it solve better
Elhefnawy Nader ( taught at the University of Miami, and has published widely on space and international issues) 2008. “ A Russian resurgence? (part two)” The Space Review, http://www.thespacereview.com/article/1251/1 NEH)