Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Triples | Opponent: Harker SP | Judge:
Alterity
Contention 1 is Alterity

 I begin with the story of the Lorax who provides societies horrid denial of the otherness, or in Levinasian terms “Alterity”, of nature.
Dr.Suess 1971 ( “ The Lorax”, New york random house, Dr.Suess hidden gem that brainwashed little kids on hella philosophical shit, pages 1-28”)
At the far end of townwhere the Grickle-grass growsand the wind smells slow
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hack.Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back."

The opposite of the recognition of the infinite alterity of nature is a controlling attempt to break down and understand everything – This logic of control and refusal of our finitude causes the destruction of the Earth through endless consumption and machination.  
Wild, professor of philosophy, 80 – Professor of Philosophy at Yale University (John, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, professor and chair of philosophy at Northwestern University, 2/29/80, Introduction to Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, book written by Emmanuel Levinas, Springer, pp. 15-19, http://m.friendfeed-media.com/48926eed43741a4e07a8241b7ee87bd55b666514)

Hegel and his followers have also seen the accidental biases and eccentricities that make the
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as right, and history itself is not the final judge of history.

 An Affirmative ballot represents embracing Levinasian environmental ethics  as a means to fundamentally change the way humans interact with the environment or in the words of the resolution developing countries should prioritize environmental protection over resource collection when the two are in conflict because of our reorientation of our ethical stance with the environment.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER ‘The other is not the
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to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

We must embrace a levinasian ethic of encountering others. This ethic is not limited to people, it also applies to the environment. Once we recognize that the environment is the other- We have an infinite ethical obligation – encountering the Other as irreducible difference and acknowledging responsibility produces one’s own identity or subjectivity. This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional, not selfish
Casey 2009 (“Levinas and ecological ethics”, July 29th 2009, )
Introduction The work of Levinas provides a unique perspective in philosophy. Where Western philosophy
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the Other is its suffering, or at least its potential to suffer.

My ethic is a “first philosophy” that precedes and refutes rule systems which reduce the Other to a calculable entity – ethics should come from experience, not knowledge
Introna, professor of ethics, 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
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). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Disparity

Contention 2 is Disparity

My framework interpretation is that i affirm the resolution
Dauphinee, professor of politics, 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
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, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

A calculation for the ballot is not rational
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 _{Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK}

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
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, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

Humanity is a tiny speck in the history of a universe that will inevitably die
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. 16, No. 1, Pg. 80-95)TZ

Harman has no qualms about positing nonhuman objects that attract and repel each other.
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turning away has a defining quality. If not us, then who?

 This is a K of theory.
Gatens, 97 (Moira Gatens, Professor of Philosophy at Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, Corporeal Representations in/and the Body Politic, Writing on the body: female embodiment and feminist theory, 1997, p. 85-87)

It is not clear to me, taking into account the history of the constitution
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speaks but is not heard, only to join Narcissus at the pool.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker | Judge:
Development is an ongoing process that no country has completed; this era of globalization requires that we redefine the term of art that is “developing”. Development is a process, not a destination.
Tony Payne 13 Tony Payne joined the Scheffield department of Politics in 1985 and was promoted to Professor in 1993. He was Chairman of the Department between 1992 and 1995 and again between 1998 and 2001. He was the Director of the Political Economy Research Centre (PERC) from 1996 to 1999 and Co-Director from 2002 to 2004. He was Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Social Sciences from June 2008 until August 2012. He is now co-director (with Colin Hay) of the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI)., “We are all developing countries now!”, The University of Scheffield, 7 Jan 2013, BE
One of the
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as it were.

Framework
I value morality because we should do moral things.
The value of the environment is infinite – A utilitarian environmental ethic is the best because it is non-anthropocentric and values nature as an end in itself.
Wolff 09 - (Brian G. M.S. in Environmental Biology from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and a Ph.D. in Conservation Biology from the University of Minnesota. He has been teaching biology, environmental biology, and ecology at the University of Minnesota and Normandale Community College since 1994. "Environmental Studies and Utilitarian Ethics"http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ889705.pdf) GHSGB
Human beings and
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arguments are common.
In context in of the environment, state-of-affairs questions are necessary – moral abstractions are insufficient.
Elliot 03 – (Herschel Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Florida “The Revolutionary Import of Garrett Hardin's Work”http:www.garretthardinsociety.org/tributes/tr_elliot_2003jul.html) GHSGB
As I pointed
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beliefs and theories.
Plan: Developing countries will prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction by halting offshore arctic drilling.
Arctic Drilling just started
The Nation 13 - (A newspaper citing what the Russians have said "Russia pumping oil at Arctic rig")GHSGB
MOSCOW - Russia’s state
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the Arctic region.”
Advantage 1: Spills
If drilling continues in the Arctic, a spill is a dead certain—experts agree.
Harvey and Walker 13 – (Fiona Fiona Harvey is an award-winning environment journalist for the Guardian. Prior to this, she worked for the Financial Times for more than a decade. She has reported on every major environmental issue, from as far afield as the Arctic and the Amazon, and her wide range of interviewees include Ban Ki-moon, Tony Blair, Al Gore and Jeff Immelt Shaun Shaun Walker is Moscow Correspondent for the Guardian. He has lived in Russia for several years and was previously Moscow Correspondent for The Independent. “Arctic oil spill is certain if drilling goes ahead, says top scientist”http:www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/19/arctic-oil-drilling-russia) GHSGB
A serious oil
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the group said.
Drilling in the arctic is the most dangerous form of drilling any where on earth; we don’t know how to clean up a spill. This spill destroys biodiversity.
Banerjee 12 – (Subhankar Subhankar Banerjee is an artist, educator and activist whose images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other Alaskan wild lands have captured international attention “Walking the Waters: How to Bring the Major Oil Companies Ashore and Halt the Destruction of Our Oceans”http:www.huffingtonpost.com/subhankar-banerjee/shell-arctic-drilling_b_1732835.html) GHSGB
While the blues
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Arctic’s clean atmosphere.
The spill disrupts the balance of the ocean—it causes tension between the tectonic plates which causes tsunamis and it releases mamolithic amounts of methane.
Young 10 –( Elizabeth M Bachelors Degree with Honors in Sociology: University Of California, Berkeley “How the BP Oil Spill Disaster could trigger a future mass-extinction”, http://www.helium.com/items/1906371-how-the-bp-oil-spill-disaster-could-trigger-a-future-mass-extinction)GHS//GB¶
The most disturbing
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more to come.
The aftermath of Tsunami’s cause the spread of disease.
Isidore et al 12, Alijunid, Kamigaki, Hammad, Oshitani – (Kouadio Dr. Kouadio Koffi Isidore is a Postdoctoral Fellow at United Nations University International Institute for Global Health Syed Dr. Syed Aljunid is a Professor of Health Economics and Senior Research Fellow at UNU International Institute for Global Health. Taro Dr. Taro Kamigaki is an Assistant Professor, at the Department of Virology of Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, in Sendai, Japan. Karen Karen Hammad is an Australian emergency nurse and Lecturer at the School of Nursing and Midwifery, Flinders University, South Australia. Hitoshi Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani is a Professor of Virology at Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, in Sendai Japan. Between 1999 and 2005 he was a regional advisor for Communicable Disease Surveillance and Response at the World Health Organization (WHO) Western Pacific Regional Office in Manila, the Philippines. “Preventing and controlling infectious diseases after natural disasters” http://unu.edu/publications/articles/preventing-and-controlling-infectious-diseases-after-natural-disasters.html#) GHSGB
Over the past
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potential infectious diseases.
Diseases spread and cause extinction—especially diseases that are from insects.
Daswani 96 – (Kavita, Reporter for the LA times, “Leading the way to a cure for AIDS,” South China Morning Post, January 4) GHSGB
Dr Ben-Abraham
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Advantage 2: Warming
Drilling for oil in the Arctic causes arctic sea ice to melt and global warming
Banerjee 13 – (Subhankar Subhankar Banerjee is an artist, educator and activist whose images of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and other Alaskan wild lands have captured international attention “Destabilization of Arctic Sea Ice Would Be Game Over for Climate” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/subhankar-banerjee/destabilization-of-arctic_b_4000445.html) GHSGB
"Arctic sea ice
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we have to.
Melting of the ice causes positive feedbacks—these cause extinction
Brandenburg and Paxson’99 John and Monica (Phds), Dead Mars, Dying Earth, p. 232
¶ One can imagine
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hardy microbes surviving.
Arctic Ice melting causes an Ice Age—this endangers our entire planet.
RSE 07 Religion, Science and the Environment, Symposium VII: ‘The Arctic: Mirror of Life’, RSE Symposium, http://www.rsesymposia.org/more.php?catid=170andpcatid=162
If the Arctic
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take urgent action.
Advantage 3: Militarism
Drilling in the Arctic is starting US-Russia conflict; the Arctic countries are militarizing and preparing for war.
Macalister 11 – (Terry Terry Macalister is energy editor of the Guardian. He has been employed at the paper and website for 12 years and previously worked for the Independent and other national titles “US and Russia stir up political tensions over Arctic” http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/jul/06/us-russia-political-tensions-arctic)GHS//GB
The seventh ministerial
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and other interests.¶
Any Russian conflict or instability carries a large risk of nuclear conflict or large epidemics that affect all of Eurasia
Oliker and Charlick-Paley 02 Olga and Tanya, (RAND Analysts) Assessing Russia’s Decline, RAND Books, p. online wyo-tjc
The preceding chapter
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or other facilities.
Russia nuke use causes US-Russia War- it is the only war scenario for human extinction
Bostrom 02 Nick, PhD and Professor at Oxford University, “Existential Risks: Analyzing Human Extinction Scenarios and Related Hazards,” March
A much greater
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humankind’s potential permanently.
A: interpretation: the affirmative may specify the affirmative advocacy and not defend the resolution on balance if it is stable and has a clear advocacy text, and that it is disclosed once broken.
B: I meet- I have a clear plan text and it either A. Disclosed or B. This is the first time I’ve read it.
C: Standards
1 Equitable debate
2 Depth of discussion

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 4 | Opponent: East Side Catholic ED | Judge: McCurley, Stephanie
Plan Text: Latin American countries should implement Buen Vivir.
GUDYNAS 13
 Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development, “Transitions to post-extractivism: directions, options, areas of action”, Beyond Development, August 2013, DDA
The development styles...on its own.
It requires certain levels of coordination within Latin America, or at least among neighbouring countries, all of which will take time
GUDYNAS 2 clarifies the advocacy:
Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development., “Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow”, Society for International Development, 2011, DDA
Buen Vivir or...and ecological setting
CONTENTION 1 IS DEVELOPMENT
Despite the failures of development, our criticisms merely redefine the concept rather than questioning the core concept of progress itself. If we don’t change this mindset, the logic of development will lead to multiple environmental impacts.
ACOSTA 12
Alberto Acosta, Ecuadorian economist with a degree from the University of Cologne, Germany. He is professor at the Latin American Social Sciences Institute (FLACSO) – Ecuador, and a visiting professor at universities in Ecuador and abroad. He acts as an advisor for social movements and as an international consultant. Acosta was the Minister of Energy and Mines of Ecuador, manager of Oil Commercialization for the state-owned company CEPE and an employee at the Latin American Energy Organization (OLADE). From 2007 to 2008, he was president of the Constituent Assembly of Ecuador, “The Buen Vivir: An Opportunity to Imagine Another World“, Democracy: Inside a Champion, URL, June 7 2012, DDA
In fact, when...will not be fulfilled.
Warming causes extinction.
TICKELL 08
Oliver, Climate Researcher, The Guardian, 8-11, “On a planet 4C hotter, all we can prepare for is extinction”,http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange, DDA
We need to..planet by 2032
Buen Vivir provides the only mechanism to move beyond Western development.
GUDYNAS 3
Eduardo Gudynas, Eduardo Gudynas is a senior researcher at the Latin American Center of Social Ecology (CLAES), based in Uruguay. His expertise is on sustainable development and alternatives to development., “Buen Vivir: Today’s tomorrow”, Society for International Development, 2011, DDA
The classical Western...a pluricultural setting
Buen Vivir promotes a solidarity economy focused on promoting a state of sufficiency rather than maximizing efficiency.
ACOSTA 2
The basic value...and other inequalities
CONTENTION 2 IS YASUNI
Buen Vivir stops oil drilling in Yasuni National Park- Ecuador’s government has developed a plan to leave the oil in the ground premised on Buen Vivir.
FATHEUER 11
Thomas Fatheuer, studied social sciences and classical philology in Münster, Germany. From 2002 until 2010 he lived and worked in Brazil, for some of this time as head of the Brazil office of the Heinrich Böll Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Since 2011 he has worked as a freelance consultant and author in Berlin. , “A brief introduction to Latin America’s new concepts for the good life and the rights of nature”, Heinrich Böll Foundation Green Political Movement, Volume 17 in the Publication Series on Ecology, 2011, DDA
Leaving the oil in...a concrete agenda.
Oil drilling in Yasuni wrecks biodiversity and causes deforestation.
BASS ET AL. 10
Margot S. Bass,  Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F. McCracken, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Peter H. English, Kelly Swing, Gorky  Oil development destroys biodiversity, ramps up deforestation, and harms the environment.?Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C. Voigt, Thomas H. Kunz, January 19, 2010, Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park,http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008767
Explicit in the...the Ecuadorian Amazon
That is an additional link to climate change.
WATTS 7/16
Jonathan Watts, Latin America correspondent for the Guardian, “Ecuador approves Yasuni national park oil drilling in Amazon rainforest” The Guardian August 16, 2013
The two main...of climate change
Yasuni is uniquely key to long-term Amazonian biodiversity.
BASS 2
Margot S. Bass,  Matt Finer, Clinton N. Jenkins, Holger Kreft, Diego F. Cisneros-Heredia, Shawn F. McCracken, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Peter H. English, Kelly Swing, Gorky Villa, Anthony Di Fiore, Christian C. Voigt, Thomas H. Kunz, January 19, 2010, Global Conservation Significance of Ecuador's Yasuní National Park,http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008767
Yasuní National Park...allow upslope migrations
Amazonian biodiversity loss causes extinction.
TAKACS 96
David Takacs teaches environmental humanities (history, ethics, justice, politics) in the Institute for Earth Systems Science and Policy at California State “The Idea of Biodiversity: Philosophies of Paradise,” 1996, pg. 200-201)
So biodiversity keeps...bang but a whimper.
CONTENTION 3 IS SOLVENCY
Resource extraction is destroying the environment and is incompatible with Buen Vivir.
ACOSTA 3
This transformation should...guarantee adequate jobs
However the Rights of Nature doesn’t require a cessation of all resource use. Resources may be used so long as the functioning of ecosystems constrains the use of resources.
ACOSTA 4
These rights do..their native species
Underview
Ethical framework

respect for the equality of persons mandates consequentialism.
CUMMISKEY
Cummiskey, David. Kantian Consequentialism. Published by Oxford University Press. 1996. (p.142).
If I sacrifice...some to save many.
2. Moral uncertainty means we default to preventing extinction. Bostrom
(2011) Nick Bostrom, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford Martin School and Faculty of Philosophy
These reflections on...any existential catastrophe
3. deontological side constraints assume a distinction between acting and choosing not act. Otherwise, those side constraints could apply to mutually exhaustive options and would not tell us which action is moral. Governments are morally responsible for their omissions because they always face choices between different sets of policy options, all of which advantage some while disadvantaging others.
Cass R. Sunstein and Vermeule Adrian “Is Capital Punishment Morally Required? Acts, Omissions, and Life-Life Tradeoffs.  Copyright (c) 2005 The Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University.  Stanford Law Review December,2005 58 Stan. L. Rev. 703
The critics of...is not inaction at all.
A. INTERPRETATION: The negative must accept the affirmative standard if it is fair, substantively justified in the 1AC, and disclosed on the NDCA wiki prior to the round. Accept means to take as is, so they can’t reconceptualize my standard to exclude aff offense.

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge: Anyone
Infinity

Contention 1 is Infinity
I begin with the story of the Lorax who provides societies horrid denial of the alterity of nature.
Dr.Suess 1971 ( “ The Lorax”, New york random house, Dr.Suess hidden gem that brainwashed little kids on hella philosophical shit, pages 1-28”)
At the far end of townwhere the Grickle-grass growsand the wind smells slow
AND
that hack.Then the Lorax and all of his friendsmay come back."

First, the status quo changes the image of nature to a dead ting,
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. We must recognize the alterity of nature and our infinity towards it.
Casey 2009 (“Levinas and ecological ethics”, July 29th 2009, )
Introduction The work of Levinas provides a unique perspective in philosophy. Where Western philosophy
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the Other is its suffering, or at least its potential to suffer.

We must embrace nature and see its face before all else.
Tinnell 11 – Department of English, University of Florida (John, The Fibreculture Journal, issue 18 2011, FCJ-121 Transversalising the Ecological Turn: Four Components of Felix Guattari’s Ecosophical Perspective, http://eighteen.fibreculturejournal.org/2011/10/09/fcj-121-transversalising-the-ecological-turn-four-components-of-felix-guattariE28099s-ecosophical-perspective/)

Transversality, as can be surmised Watson’s insightful work on Guattari, moves hand
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come, or at least, the eco-humanities yet to come.

This obligation has to be infinite and unconditional, not selfish.
Ankor 9 – Ph.D. thesis for the Graduate School of the University of Technology in Sydney (Jo, BA in Cultural Tourism, December 2009, Pleasure and Dread: The Paradox of Travel, pp. 132-134, http://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/dspace/bitstream/handle/2100/1178/02Whole.pdf?sequence=2)

4.5 ?? LEVINAS’ PHILOSOPHY OF THE ENCOUNTER ‘The other is not the
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to a response that does not condemn the other through assumptions of recognition.

ethics should come from experience, not knowledge
Introna, professor of ethics, 3 – Professor of Organization, Technology, and Ethics at Lancaster University (Lucas, 2003, “Workplace Surveillance ‘is’ Unethical and Unfair,” Surveillance and Society, Volume 1, Number 2, pp. 210-216, http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/surveillance-and-society/article/download/3354/3317)

For Levinas the ‘force’, or rather the gravity, of ethics lies in
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). The force of the Other is fragile, not secure at all.

Totality
Contention 2 is Totality

The opposite of the recognition of the infinite alterity is a controlling attempt to break down and understand everything – this leads to impersonal domination and tyranny.
Wild, professor of philosophy, 80 – Professor of Philosophy at Yale University (John, Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, professor and chair of philosophy at Northwestern University, 2/29/80, Introduction to Totality and Infinity: An Essay on Exteriority, book written by Emmanuel Levinas, Springer, pp. 15-19, http://m.friendfeed-media.com/48926eed43741a4e07a8241b7ee87bd55b666514)

Hegel and his followers have also seen the accidental biases and eccentricities that make the
AND
as right, and history itself is not the final judge of history.

This logic of control and refusal of our finitude causes the destruction of the Earth through endless consumption and machination
Joronen, Ph.D. in geography, 11 – Ph.D. in Human Geography from the University of Turku (Mikko, Postdoctoral Researcher and head of the Development Studies programme in the Department of Geography and Geology at the University of Turku, Antipode, Vol. 43, No. 4, “Dwelling in the Sites of Finitude: Resisting the Violence of the Metaphysical Globe,” Pg. 1127-1154)

In spite of the revolutionary sense of “power-free letting-be”,
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and domination of nature, capable of calling the living earth a home.

Uncertainty
Contention 3 is Uncertainty

this recognition solves conflict
Dauphinee, professor of politics, 9 – Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at York University (Elizabeth, “Emmanuel Levinas,” from Critical Theorists and International Relations, edited by Jenny Edkins (Professor of International Politics at Aberystwyth University) and Nick Vaughan-Williams (Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Exeter), pp. 241-242)

Writing about the war in Bosnia, David Campbell argues that Levinasian thought is ‘
AND
, at reconciliation and refugee return (Campbell 1998a: 219–40).

The judge should vote affirmative if my ethical project is a good idea. Assuming ethical responsibility is a prerequisite to successful policy discourse.
Derrida 5  -- Jacques, Directeur d’Etudes at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, and Professor of Philosophy, French and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, 2005 _{Paper Machine p. 128-129)NK}

It doesn’t replace it—on the contrary, it is indissociable from it.
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, if there are ever decisions, is possible in any other way.

Linear policy predictions are impossible
Sa, professor of policy, 4 – Associate Professor of Public Administration and Policy at Dong-U College in South Korea (Deug-Whan, received his DPA from the Korea University, 2004, “Chaos, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice: Utilizing the Adaptive Model,” International Review of Public Administration, Volume 8, Number 2, pp. 119-128, http://www.kapa21.or.kr/data/data_download.php?did=1473)

In many cases, a small choice might lead to overwhelming results that generate either
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model provides decision-makers enough confidence to naturally accept uncertainty and chaos.

Death is an Other – denying its alterity is unethical
Hofmeyr, professor of philosophy, 7 – Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy in the School of Basic Social Sciences at the University of Pretoria in South Africa (Benda, Ph.D. on the work of Foucault and Levinas from Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands, Research Fellow and Guest Lecturer in the Department of Philosophical Anthropology in the Faculty of Philosophy, Theology and Religious Science of Radboud University Nijmegen, 2007, “Dying the Human Condition Re-reading Ivan Ilyich with Levinas,” The International Journal of the Humanities, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 129-136,http://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar?q=cache:ZJwem4DpYQgJ:scholar.google.com/andhl=enandas_sdt=0,5)

Suffering and death announce the absolute strangeness of a future ever future. Death is
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of death remained one of the modalities of the relationship with the Other”

There’s a moral obligation to act even when our words won’t have an effect
Filice 90 (Carlo, Asst Prof of Philosophy @ State University of New York, On the Obligation to Keep Informed about Distant Atrocities, Geneseo, Human Rights Quarterly, Aug, Vol. 12, No. 3. p. 397-414)UM
Objection 111: Help only those you can, i.e., your neighbors
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efforts must not collapse into the need to limit one's focus to parochial matters

rhythm is crucial to solvency- syntax and rhythm brings understanding and a new level of consciousness about environmental problems
Nowottney, 1962
(Winifred, The Language That Poets Use, p. 12)

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge: Anyone
I take the UN’s stance on developing countries:

"Criteria for Identification and Graduation of LDCs." UNOHRLLS. The United Nations, 2013. Web. 18 Dec. 2013. http://unohrlls.org/about-ldcs/criteria-for-ldcs/.

"United Nations Statistics Division- Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications (M49)." United Nations Statistics Division- Standard Country and Area Codes Classifications (M49). The United Nations, 2012. Web. 18 Dec. 2013. http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49.htm.

Environment is defined as
"Environment." Merriam-Webster.com. Merriam-Webster, n.d. Web. 12 Dec. 2013. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/environment.
 Conditions…that...affect growth

I value respect.

Respect is a key governmental obligation.

H. L. A. Hart in 79 (former principal of Oxford University, Tulane Law Review, “The Shell Foundation Lectures, 1978-1979: Utilitarianism and Natural Rights”, April, 53 Tul. L. Rev. 663, l/n)

and, individuals are part of a larger community.

Kegley, Jacquelyn Ann K. "Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy." Royce, Josiah (1855-1916): Overview. N.p., 12 May 2011. Web. 18 Dec. 2013. http://www.iep.utm.edu/roycejos/.

and, excluding others from the human family justifies infinite violence against them. Kelman explains:

Kelman, H. G. (1973), Violence without Moral Restraint: Reflections on the Dehumanization of Victims and Victimizers. Journal of Social Issues, 29: 25–61. doi: 10.1111/j.1540-4560.1973.tb00102.x       

Thus, the standard is protecting communites.

Kirkham, Amie. Unintended Impacts: Resource Extraction Wealth, Polygyny and Violence against Women in the Hela Province of Papua New Guinea : A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of Master of Arts at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Thesis. University of Otago., 2013. N.p.: University of Otago, New Zealand, n.d. Print.

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: Anyone | Judge: Anyone
Contention 1: Capitalism

I affirm; developing countries should prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction when the two are in conflict; A moral obligation is “an obligation arising out of considerations of right and wrong.”
WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.

First, the digging up of natural resources is rooted in capitalistic ideologies. Only breaking away from the consumption/production logic can we avoid extinction.
Trainer 7 (Senior Lecturer, School of Social Work, University of New South Wales (Ted, Renewable Energy Cannot Sustain A Consumer Society, pg. 125-126)
The core “limits to growth” claim is that the huge global problems we
AND
ways. Few people seem to grasp the magnitude of the required reductions.

Thus, affirmation of the resolution is a rejection of capitalism, as in a
AND
its inevitable collapse – this is key to develop a real political strategy.
Herod 4 (James, renowned philosopher, author, and social activist, “Getting Free”, http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm)
It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely,
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another, and not merely reforming one way of life into something else.

And the impacts

First, Capitalism is the root cause of every single impact. It causes incalculable deaths—nothing can outweigh—this is war
Herod 7-Social Activist since 1968, owns an awesome website, Attended Columbia University and spent a year abroad at the University of Beirut (Lebanon)(James, 2007, “Getting Free” Pg. 22-23)
We must never forget that we are at war, however, and that we
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Hun look like boy scouts. This is a terrible enemy we face.

Ethics and VTL impact:
Zizek and Daly ‘4(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 18-19)
For Zizek, a confrontation with the obscenities of abundance capitalism also requires a transformation
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that, like Zizek’s own thought, exhorts us to risk the impossible.

Ethics first- you cannot separate your ethical orientation from the way in which you come to understand politics
Meszaros 95 (Istavan, Prof. Emeritus @ U of Sussex, Beyond Capital: Towards a Theory of Transition, p 409-410)
Politics and morality are so closely intertwined in the real world that it is hardly
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to be stirred up, but as something that has to be built. 

Contention 2 is Framing
The role of the judge is as an intellectual determining the value of our speech acts
2. Prefer our interp-
A. It’s a gateway—the validity of one’s method of knowledge is the entire starting point for political query—if you have a false understanding of the problem, your solution will fail.
Smith ’96 Steve, Professor of International Politics at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, “Positivism and Beyond,” International theory: Positivism and beyond, New York: Cambridge University Press, 12-1 3
But the stakes are also high because of the links between theory and practice.
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are far more considerable than at first sight seem to be the case.

F. Put your theory shells away, Your education isn’t valuable and nothing is fair under capitalism- Capitalistic expansion has ruined education by promoting pedagogical practices that support corporate power, religious fundamentalism and neo-conservative ideology.
Giroux 4 (Henry, professor of Cultural Studies at McMaster University, “Public Pedagogy and the Politics of Neo-liberalism: making the political more pedagogical” Policy Futures in Education, Volume 2, Number 3 and 4, 2004)
At this point in American history, neo-liberal capitalism is not simply too
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30 years, particularly under the ruthless administration of George W. Bush.

And prefer the affirmative evidence, at the epistemological level, the negative’s knowledge is not value-neutral; its production is contingent on a specific separation of labor that privileges a small scientific and military elite, and its employment actively sustains capital, their knowledge should be held as suspect
Dickens and Ormrod 7
It should be noted that, contrary to Lerner’s (1991) argument, Alfred
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the constraints of the “ordinary” world’ (Ferguson 1990: 1).
*Peter, Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Essex and James, Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Brighton Cosmic Society: Towards a sociology of the universe, pg 31-32,

Tournament: CPS | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Miramonte AB | Judge: panel
The First Plank is exclusion

Resource extraction in developing countries is a tool to meant to systemically exclude others and exploit them
Adeola 4 Environmental Injustice and Human Rights Abuse: The States, MNCs, and Repression of Minority Groups in the World System, Francis O. Adeola, Department of Sociology University of New Orleans
Among the recent cases of environmental injustice and human rights violations in the Third World
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, 2000b; Bullard 1990; Morrison 1976; Glazer and Glazer 1998).

The 2nd Plank is inclusion under the Jolly Roger:

 The pirate ship became an early beacon of freedom.
Land, 07 (Chris Land, Lecturer in Management at the University of Essex, “Flying the black flag: Revolt, revolution and the social organization of piracy in the ‘golden age’”, May 29, 2007, http://moh.sagepub.com/content/2/2/169, rm) *ALTERED SLIGHTLY FOR GENDERED LANGUAGE

Although the pirates rejected the matrix of state, family and capital this does not
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fiction but nevertheless had a firm basis in the realities of pirate life. 

The nomadic war machine established by golden age pirate society represented a direct challenge to
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they were abandoned and many joined the pirate communities they had once left.
Kuhn, 10 (Gabriel Kuhn, “Life Under the Jolly Roger”, Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck and general badass, “Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy”, Pg 98-100, rm)

The French philosopher-psychoanalyst duo Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari introduced the concept of
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always clear where on this spectrum we can place the golden age pirate…

Eventually the state ceased its focus on privateering and shifted to an even more control-oriented regime. The golden age of piracy was brought to an end when the state annexed the ocean – imposing a grid of intelligibility which defined the ocean as a theatre for war.
Kuhn, 10 (Gabriel Kuhn, “Life Under the Jolly Roger”, Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck and general badass, “Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy”, Pg 27-30, rm)

If it is true “that the nomads have no history but only
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consensual society free of the constraints that dominated their lives at home.23

The way the state approached the anomaly of Golden Age Piracy is but one example
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same, but a plural outlook that exists on a thousand different plateaus.  
Davis 09 (Wade Davis, Wade Davis is the best-selling author of
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Matters in the Modern World, pp. 192-197, azp)

Before she died, anthropologist Margaret Mead spoke of her singular fear that, as
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a place on the bottom rung of an economic ladder that goes nowhere. 

The Third Plank is the Treasure Chest:

Traditional revolutions are prefigured to fail – state power is too diffus.  This is
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that reclaims this space as a temporary autonomous zone of creativity and inclusion.
Bey, 85 (Hakim Bey – a pseudonym under which the writer Peter Lamborn Wilson writes, Terrorist Poet, “T. A. Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, 1985, http://hermetic.com/bey/taz3.html#labelTAZ, rm)
*NOTE: TAZ = Temporary Autonomous Zone 

Pirate Utopias THE SEA-ROVERS AND CORSAIRS of the 18th century created an "
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--the realization that the TAZ begins with a simple act of realization.

 This debate does not end after the 1ac, the question of exclusion and fascism within our community should continue inside and outside the round.   
Kuhn, 10 (Gabriel Kuhn, “Life Under the Jolly Roger”, Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Innsbruck and general badass, “Life Under the Jolly Roger: Reflections on Golden Age Piracy”, Pg 174-180, rm)

In short, the golden age pirates are not “ours”—but their legacy
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part of the myth real, if only for a short time.”43

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Mission San jose | Judge: Panel
This is who we are.
The Zapatista National Liberation Army.
The voice that arms itself to be heard.
The face that hides itself to be seen.
The name that hides itself to be named.
The red star who calls out to humanity and the world
To be heard, to be seen, to be named.
The tomorrow to be harvested in the past.

Behind our black mask,
Behind our armed voice,
Behind our unnameable name,
Behind us, who you see,
Behind us, we are you.

Behind we are the simple and ordinary men and women,
Who are repeated in all races,
Painted in all colors,
Speak in all languages
And live in all places.
The same forgotten men and women.

The same excluded,
The same untolerated,
The same persecuted,
We are you.

-Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos
(Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos, insurgent leader for the EZLN, in charge of all public statements, Our World is Our Weapon, pg. 103-104, Seven Stories Press: New York, Luke Newell)

Contention 1 is the movement

Resource extraction in developing countries is influenced by neoliberalism. Corporations and states suppress indigenous groups with violence.
Downey et al. 10 writes
Liam Downey, Eric Bonds, and Katherine Clark (University of Colorado at Boulder). “Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation.” Organ Environ. 2010 December ; 23(4): 417–445.http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3169238/pdf/nihms317120.pdf
Of course, transportation technology ….naval shipping lanes (Klare, 2001, 2004).5

A neoliberal mindset has 2 implications
a. Neoliberal governmentality ensures war, disease, and environmental collapse
Giroux 6 (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in Canada.  “Dirty Democracy and State Terrorism: The Politics of the New Authoritarianism in the United States,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 26.2 (2006) 163-177.)
While it would be ludicrous to suggest that the United States either represents a mirror
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1990s alone, war forced 20 million children to leave their homes.16  

B. Capitalism makes its victims anonymous, destroying the ability to find value in life
Zizek and Daly ‘4(Slavoj and Glyn, Conversations with Zizek page 18-19)
For Zizek, a confrontation with the obscenities of abundance capitalism also requires a transformation
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that, like Zizek’s own thought, exhorts us to risk the impossible.

Contention 2 is Viva la Zapatista
Declaration of war
Nail 12 (Thomas, postdoctoral lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, “Returning to Revolution”, ed. Claire Colebrook et al., p 102-103)-jn

It is also possible, however, that revolutionary interventions really split political life down
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is acknowledged but ultimately staved off through mediating forms of compromise and representation.

¡Ya Basta! — Enough is enough.
.

You are all apart of the movement, negating shows the denial of a revolution.
Nail 12 (Thomas, postdoctoral lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, “Returning to Revolution”, ed. Claire Colebrook et al., p 139)-jn
As a body politic, Zapatismo invents a new condition for social order and inclusion
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Zapatismo as a social body each time they meet (see Chatterton 2007). 

Join it
Nail 12 (Thomas, postdoctoral lecturer in the Philosophy Department at the University of Denver, “Returning to Revolution”, ed. Claire Colebrook et al., p 8-9)-jn

So, if there are no universal foundations or categories for all political life,
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useful to those engaged in the present revolutionary task of changing the world.

Resistence
Couldry, 2010 Nick, Professor of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths University of London, “Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism”, LW

This reflexive concern with the conditions for voice as a process, including those that
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and thinking beyond the neoliberal framework that did so much to cause it. 

This is the only way to change the world—each and every instance is key
Rodriguez 9 (Arturo, professor in the College of Education at Boise State University, “Anti-capitalist Analytical Fusion: Science, Pedagogy and Revolution”, Journal for Activist Science and Technology Education, volume 1, number 2, pp. 48-58)-jn-gender+disability modified

If the above resembles a rant consider why a string of words that includes political
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more importantly, offer an alternative to the living currently destroying the planet.
Engage with it
Barsky 2008 (Robert F., professor of English, French, and comparative literature at Vanderbilt University, “Safe Spaces in an Era of Gated Communities and Disproportionate Punishments,” http://www.mlajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1632/prof.2008.2008.1.40)

I was going to propose a moratorium on the consequences of taking intellectual risks within
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into our terrified worlds. I hope it’s as contagious as can be.