Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JE | Judge: Em Parker

Link - The Affirmative externalizes blame for the environment by beginning with an examination of what the government should do to fix resource extraction – This is a form of denialism that absolves us of the responsibility to change our habits of consumption while only making environmental harms worse

Rees 10, School of Community and Regional Planning, University of British Columbia, 2010 (William, "Whats blocking sustainability? Human nature, cognition, and denial", Sustainability: Science, Practice, 26 Policy 6(2):13-25, http://sspp.proquest.com/archives/vol6iss2/1001-012.rees.html-http://sspp.proquest.com/archives/vol6iss2/1001-012.rees.html, accessed 7/11/12)

Just what is going on here? Humans are the self-proclaimed "best
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Meanwhile, the loss of ecosystem integrity accelerates around the world.

Impacts- This denial of individual Agency outweighs all other impacts – it is the foundation of all value

Lang 99, American University in Cairo, Assistant Professor of Political Science 1999, (Anthony F., Jr., "Responsibility in the International System: Reading US Foreign Policy in the Middle East," European Journal of International Relations, Volume 5, Number 1, p. 78-79)

Following these three thinkers, I assume the following meaning for agency — agency is
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necessary step in the creation of a true democracy (Arendt, 1958). 

Alternative – Reject the affirmatives external framing of environmental harms in favor of individual accountability

Princen 01, University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources and Environment, 2001, (Thomas, "Consumption and its Externalities: Where Economy Meets Ecology", Global Environmental Politics 1:3, August, EBSCO, p.27)

In short, the consumption angle is a means of "rethinking how humans relate
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routinely escape responsibility via distanced commerce and the black box of consumer sovereignty.

The aff functions in the post-fiat world, which means they only function within the world we imagine in the round, while the K functions in the pre-fiat world, which is to say the real world. Prefer pre-fiat arguments because they are most applicable to real-world situations.

AND, Discourse determines what we do and do not think about

Bleiker 97, Roland. (Professor of International Relations at U of Queensland. Forget IR Theory. Alternatives: Global, Local, Political, volume 22, issue 1. p63-64. http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644880-http://www.jstor.org/stable/40644880)

Discourses, in a Foucaultian sense, are subtle mechanisms that frame our thinking process
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false propositions based on the standards of evaluation it established to assess them.

Discourse determines what we are able to think about and dominated social practices, therefore discourse functions in the pre-fiat world.