Tournament: VBT | Round: 5 | Opponent: Nicholas Rodgers | Judge: Monica Amestoy
The affirmative projects western values upon developing countries
Beckerman 96 Beckerman, Wilfred, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. “Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered.” publ. 1996.

In the richer countries of the world it is at least understandable that important sections
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poor water, housing, sanitation and nutrition, by sickness and disease."
Environmentalism’s paternalistic crusade leaves those in the third world no better off
Nelson 03 Nelson, Robert H., professor at the School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland, College Park. Environmental Colonialism: “Saving” Africa from Africans. The Independent Review, v. VIII, n.1, Summer 2003, ISSN 1086-1653, ppg 65– 86.  Accessed online 12.30.2013 SW http://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_08_1_5_nelson.pdf

For the villagers living today in proximity to Arusha National Park, there are clear
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the 1970s between international conservation and development organizations. (1999, 234)

This mindset reinforces the logic of inferiority—
Khan 94 (Ali Khan, Law Professor 3at Washburn University school of Law, “Lessons from Malcolm X: Freedom by Any Means Necessary,” 38, Howard Law Journal 81, http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/howlj38andid=89andtype=textandcollection=journals)
The second aspect of oppression is a systematic assault on the inherent human dignity of
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marks of inferiority and degradation eliminate the dignity of the entire group.56

And the affirmative’s irrational ideology risks hasty and dramatic action
Beckerman 96 Beckerman, Wilfred, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. “Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered.” publ. 1996.
Melodramatic appeals to a total revolution in people's aspirations of the kind that have been
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for itself, overcoming major problems like overpopulation, starving and worldwide diseases.

The alternative is to reject the affirmative’s framing in favor of a mode of thought that recognizes problems
Beckerman 96 Beckerman, Wilfred, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. “Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered.” publ. 1996.
It may well be true, as Jonathan Porritt has said, that "Politically
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will do very well. What is needed is that we use them.
Root Cause of environmental problems
Beckerman 96 Beckerman, Wilfred, Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, and a former member of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution. “Through Green-Colored Glasses: Environmentalism Reconsidered.” publ. 1996.
But the worst environmental problems are those found in the Third World. These are
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intact wildlands themselves, will save biodiversity from the mill of human poverty."
Representations are key to understanding power relations
Biyanwila 8—University of Western Australia (Janaka, Re-empowering labour : Knowledge, ontology and counter-hegemony, http://www.tasa.org.au/uploads/2011/05/Biyanwila-Janaka-Session-59-PDF.pdf)
An essential component of union power and issues of empowerment is the production of knowledge
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culture and in the structure, not only in the ‘human mind’”.
Representations influence our thought processes
Bleiker ‘1 (Ronald Bleiker, Senior lecturer and co-director of Rotary centre of International studies in Peace and Conflict resolution, 2001, “The Zen of International Relations”, edited by Stephen Chan, Peter Mandeville, and Ronald Blieker, p. 47)
The doorkeepers of IR are those who, knowingly or unknowingly make sure that the
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the rules of a discursive police which is reactivated each time one speaks.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
A) Is the uniqueness and link, Global food supply is dependent on phosphate mining, but it trades off with environmental protection. Developing countries are uniquely key. 

Pearce 11 (Fred, environmental consultant for New Scientist magazine) “Phosphate: A Critical Resource Misused and Running Low” Yale Environment 360, 7/7/2011 DD

Most of us, most days… American farmers’ phosphate needs. 

B) Is the impact, Food shortages cause multiple scenarios for extinction.
Brown 09 (Lester, US environmental analyst, founder of the Worldwatch Institute, and founder and president of the Earth Policy Institute) “Could Food Shortages Bring Down Civilization?” Scientific American, May 2009 DD  
For many years … global civilization itself.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
Resource extraction does not include renewable resources
Alamance County Board of Commissioners 11 “ALAMANCE COUNTY HEAVY INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE” Oct 31 AT
Resource Extraction means the removal of any naturally occurring
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include timber, surface or subsurface water, or any renewable resource.
They explode limits – key to fairness

Tournament: VBT | Round: 1 | Opponent: all | Judge: all
A) Uniqueness: US support checks Saudi prolif in the status quo – strong relations and perception of US strategic support are key

Guzansky 13 Yoel Guzansky is a fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies, Tel Aviv University. His main research area is Gulf security. He has also served as Iran coordinator at Israel's National Security Council. His recent publications include The Gulf States in a Changing Strategic Environment (2012), One Year of the Arab Spring: Global and Regional Implications, and The Gulf States: Between Iran and the West – Middle East Quarterly¶ Spring 2013, pp. 59-64 – available at: http://www.meforum.org/3512/saudi-arabia-pakistan-nuclear-weapon
B) Link: Oil imports from Saudi Arabia are uniquely key to Saudi-US relations.

Arab American Giving 13, The Importance of Saudi Arabia to the US Economy, http://www.arabamericangiving.org/the-importance-of-saudi-arabia-to-the-us-economy.php. March 2013 is last date cited
C) Impact: Saudi prolif causes extinction.
Edelman ’11 (Eric –Distinguished Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments and Former U.S. Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Foreign Affairs, Jan/Feb, http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/67162/eric-s-edelman-andrew-f-krepinevich-jr-and-evan-braden-montgomer/the-dangers-of-a-nuclear-iran)