Tournament: Scarsdale | Round: 5 | Opponent: anyone | Judge: anyone
I value morality as implied by the resolution.
1.) Korsgaard describes that the way we understand the world only makes sense in the context of reason.
Christine Korsgaard. "The Normative Constitution of Agency." Harvard University.
But – and this is the second step - in unifying our conception of the
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you into the active subject of a unified object – a knowable world.
2.) Engstrom describes that all cognition has subject universal validity, such as that rational agents can come to a universal truth, and that the truth must be universally acceptable.
Stephen Engstrom ~Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh~. Universal Legislation as a Form of Practical Knowledge.
As I mentioned, however, there is another sense in which rational cognition can
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double universal validity is characteristic of principles of both theoretical and practical knowledge.
3.) It is impossible to universalize denying someone’s freedom.
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~Engstrom, Stephen. Universal Law as the Form of Practical Knowledge. Harvard University Press. 2009. Pg.18.~
Now on the interpretation we have been entertaining, applying the formula of universal law
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of a persons’s outer freedom is incompatible with the limitation of the same.
Thus the standard protecting individual outer freedom.
My advocacy is that on balance, in less industrialized environments, environmental protection should be valued over resource extraction when the two are in conflict. I reserve the right to clarify how my position works, so put away your theory files until you check with me in CX.
1.) Resource extraction is contradictory in nature and cannot be supported by practical reason.
ATANER 1
~Attila Ataner, University of Western Ohio, Philosophy Major, McMaster University, KANT ON FREEDOM, PROPERTY RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, Digital Commons of McMaster, http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=861226context=opendissertations-http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=861226context=opendissertations, October 2012~
We can also make our point with a series of questions: If "~f
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fit for the realization of human purposes, must be maintained in perpetuity.
2.) Use of resources in the squo is definitionally unsustainable.
ATANER 2
The second, perhaps all too obvious observation to be made in connection with the
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is "their" resources that will have been made unavailable to them).
Part of freedom is being able to do what you want with your lands,
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extract resources, it would lead to nobody being able to extract resources.
3.) It isn’t impermissible to coerce environmental protection under Kantian ethics.
ATANER 3
My primary aim in this thesis is to establish that owners of natural resources and
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especially land, might constitute a transgression (a hindrance) of freedom.
ATANER 3 serves as a weighing mechanism – coercion is not a bad under Kantian ethics because deontology allows for limitations of freedoms to protect true freedoms.
4.) The basis of resource extraction is based on coercive ideologies.
CLARK
~Katherine Clark, Professor at UC Boulder, Natural Resource Extraction, Armed Violence, and Environmental Degradation, NCBI Database, December 2010, JK~
In developing our theoretical model, we start with the assertion that those groups that
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Evans et al., 2002; Gedicks, 2001; Moody, 2007).
5.) Natural resources can only be achieved empirically through armed violence against protest to resource extraction.
CLARK 2
The evidence presented in this article clearly demonstrates that armed violence is associated with the
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sociology research the degree to which armed violence underpins the current ecological crisis.
Underview 1: Aff gets RVIs.
Underview 2:
The Earth is warming now, and resource extraction is the main cause of the CO2 emissions. We must act now, and a stance on environmental protection is uniquely key to solving because resource extraction will just continue to cause emissions.
EDF 14
~Environmental Defense Fund, Nonprofit in cause of trying to reduce emissions in the US, Human Activity is Causing Global Warming, EDF, 2014~
Scientists have closed the case: Human activity is causing the Earth to get hotter
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There’s a path forward, and thousands of people like you are helping.¶
TICKELL
~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-http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/11/climatechange~~
We need to get prepared for four degrees of global warming, Bob Watson told
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warming caused by human emissions could propel us towards a similar hothouse Earth.
Underview 3: The resource curse is real.
1.) Empirically proven – resource rich countries face economic hardship.
IMF writes,
http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2003/03/ebra.htm
In the 1960s, the Netherlands experienced a vast increase in its wealth after discovering
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as a problem, policymakers must help the economy cope with their ramifications.