Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Triples | Opponent: Strake Jesuit RB | Judge: Clancy, Harris, Xu
African economy growing now due to resource extraction
Lazare 10/8 Sarah, staff writer for Common Dreams, “World Bank Admits: 'Economic Growth' in Africa = Resource Extraction, Inequality, Poverty: New report shows so-called growth is 'bleeding Africa dry’,” 10/8/2013
The World Bank is admitting that so-called economic growth in Africa, rooted
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Uyi Ojo inPambazuka News. "Collectively, they are bleeding Africa dry."

And mining and oil production in Africa are in conflict with the environment
Nowlin 12 Jillian Nowlin, 9/10/2012, “The Environmental Destruction and Resource Exploitation of African Land Grabs”, International Institute for Justice and Development
As briefly discussed in the previous articles on land grabs, resource extraction, agribusiness
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require extensive amounts of water that is already a scarce resource in Africa.

Empirical evidence indicates that an economically weak Africa will devolve into cycles of wars
Anyanwu 02 John C. Anyanwu, Principal Research Economist Development at African Development Bank, “Economic and Political Causes of Civil Wars in Africa: Some Econometric Results,” December 2002,
Table 1 shows the descriptive statistics for Africa for the period, 1960-1999
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the risk of civil war is proportional to the size of the population.

African conflicts escalate into nuclear war – drawing in world powers
Deutsch 02 Dr. Jeffrey Deutsch, Founder of the Rabid Tiger Project: An Organization Devoted to Political Risk Consulting and Related Research, Contributing Editor for Russian Politics, and PHD in Economics from GMU, 11-18-02, http://www.rabidtige...letterv2n9.html, ACC: 4.25.05, p. online
The Rabid Tiger Project
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to go fishing.

Nuclear war causes extinction
Viegas 09 By Jennifer Viegas Wed Nov 11, 2009 01:39 AM ET. Human Extinction: How Could It Happen?
Humans could become extinct, a new study concludes, but no single event,
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or near nuclear war/engagement between any two nations," Lopes said.

Tournament: Stanford | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland NN | Judge: Kevin Yanofsky
First, is the link- environmentalism is a façade- the 1AC’s affirmation of the resolution is biopolitical control dressed in the pretty appearance of environmental reforms
Timothy Luke 97, The (Un)Wise (Ab)Use of Nature: Environmentalism as Globalized Consumerism?
A political, economic, and technical incitement to talk about ecology, environments,
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political economy with global ecology as a form of green geo-politics.
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In conclusion, Foucault is correct about the network of governmentality arrangements in the modern
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becomes an integral element of this fascinating new regime's order of social normalization.

Second, is the impact- the biopolitical drive to create a better life is counter-productive and is the root cause of wars, genocide, and will inevitably cause extinction
George Kouros 97, Yale Law Graduate and BA in Philosophy from Emory, “Become What You Are”
Although the consequences are grave, the administrative practices of biopower goes
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a "happier human being," maintains the conditions for a eugenic nightmare.
And, impact turns case- we destroy the environment as a means to escape the biopolitical control of the government, so I control the root cause

The alternative is to acknowledge that state domination exists but view it from an external perspective – every single form of resistance ruptures the system – whole-hearted rejection is vital
Policante 10 – (Amedeo, Doctoral Candidate in Politics @ University of London, “War against Biopower – Timely Reflections on an Historicist Foucault” Theory and Event, 2010, Project Muse) SIyer
Finally, in order to break the binding gaze of biopower, it will be
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the radical difference of living and the haphazard contingency of her own death.
It is in this simple act of exposure that the event reveals itself. Every
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multitude of milieus and movements that continue to resist its arrangement"56.

AND, the role of the ballot is to endorse the debater who best deconstructs these oppressive norms:
William Spanos Professor of English at Binghamton University, The End of Education: Towards Posthumanism, 1993, p. 196.
In insisting that the theoretical practice of the oppositional intellectuals ought to be a local
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the benefit of all “mankind,” if not for knowledge’s own sake.

Tournament: CPS | Round: 1 | Opponent: PV Peninsula AJ | Judge: Michelle Jiang
Morality must account for the nature of persons as distinct entities
Quinn Quinn, Warren S. Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 98, No. 3 (Jul., 1989). JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2185021
A person is constituted by his body and mind. They are parts or aspects
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being in his own right but as a cell in the collective whole.

The intention of harm destroys the worth of individuals
Quinn Quinn, Warren S. Actions, Intentions, and Consequences: The Doctrine of Doing and Allowing. The Philosophical Review, Vol. 98, No. 3 (Jul., 1989). JSTOR. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2185021
The agent of direct harm, on the other hand, has something in mind
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the victim may be cast in some role that serves the agent's goal.

Thus, the standard is maintaining consistency with individual freedom

The intent of environmental protection is to restrict individual economic freedom
Patruti Alexandru Patruti “The Ethics of Environmental Protection”
As we have stated above, this fundamental normative principle regarding nonaggression is nothing more
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opinion, the free market is the most efficient mechanism for environment protection.

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Tournament: CPS | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Miramonte TK | Judge: Yanofksy, MAmestoy, Graham
A. Interpretation: Standards and ethical frameworks must account for the moral value of all potential impacts and reach moral conclusions based on their analytical comparison; they cannot be based purely on descriptive observations of the status quo.  

B. Violation:

C. Standards:

1. Ground
   A) Turn Ground
   B) Reciprocity

D. Fairness

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Palo Alto AL | Judge: Niemi, Smith, Xu
A. Interpretation: if the affirmative has theory interpretations in the 1AC that could possibly be extended and developed into a full shell in the 1AR, they must specify a) potential violations b) implications of winning the abuse story, drop the debater/arg etc. To clarify, this must be in the 1AC, not explained in later speeches or clarified in CX.
B. Violation:
C. Standards

1. Strategy skew
   2. Substantive clash
   D. fairness, drop the debater, competing interps