Tournament: Cedar Ridge Stony Point Swing | Round: 1 | Opponent: NA | Judge: NA
A is the link-
The 1AC is not benign but rather is part of a global process to shift the blame of environmental degradation to the world's poor, effectively blaming the victim.
Gray and Moseley 05
A Geographical Perspective on Poverty-Environment Interaction Leslie C. Gray and William G. Moseley The Geographical Journal, March 2005. Gray works for the environmental studies at the Santa Clara university and Mosley at the department of geography at Macalester College.
The attempt to....margin into poverty

And the 1AC's representation of problems as external absolve the culpability of all other actors besides the developing country, including individuals, corporations and developed countries that are just as responsible, if not more, for the problems. This preserves the status quo and allows for the rest of society to consume without guilt.
Bobertz 95
  Bradley C. Bobertz, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law, 1995, 73 TEXAS LAW REVIEW 711, p. 715
In environmental law...fear of reprisal

B is the impact-
The 1ACs refusal to acknowledge the underlying causes of resource extraction and denial of who is truly responsible shatters their solvency and makes the harms of the affirmative inevitable as developing countries will meagerly attempt to reform but still suffer the abuses that caused the problems.
Nath 01
White Collar Invasion: developed country policies leading to environmental degradation in South Vikas NathInlaks Fellow, London School of Economics, 2001
Comparing ecological footprints...are truly global

C is the Alternative-
We must reject the affirmative's scapegoating and accept our own responsibility for the world's problems. Only when developing countries and individuals accept their own guilt can we effectively make changes to our resource consumption and solve the problem and begin to dematerialize and reduce our resource consumption which is the main cause of environmental degradation.
Behrens et Al 07
Arno Behrens, et al, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, 2007, "The material basis of the global economy: Worldwide patterns of natural resource extraction," Ecological Economics 64 (2007) 444-453, p. 451-2
anthroprogenic pressures on...natural resource use