Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 5 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
My thesis is that placing value on resource extraction obfuscates the reality that the earth is finite. It justifies a limitless consumption of resources that we extract.

First, Resource extraction is happening at an alarming rate. We are literally losing the earth.  Morgan.
DAVID MORGAN Senior Producer at CBSNews.com  May 15, 2012 “Report : Consumption of Earth’s Resources Unsustainable” CBS News   Repo”  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-consumption-of-earths-resources-unsustainable/ DS/PGGV

The Earth's population ... consumption patterns.
And, consumption causes environmental degradation Jorgenson,

Institute for Research on World-Systems, Department of Sociology at the University of California (Andrew K, 2003, “Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis,” http://www.irows.ucr.edu/andrew/papers/jorgensonSP.pdf)//DR. H

The Ecological Footprint...particularly the core. (Burns et al. 2001:12)


Environmental degradation leads to poverty and destruction of human rights, Shah,

Shah 11 Editor of Global Issues (Anup, March 6, 2011, “Consumption and Consumerism Author And Page Information,” Global Issues, http://www.globalissues.org/issue/235/consumption-and-consumerism)//DR. 

Today’s consumption is ...standard of consumption.

And, Current Consumption Patterns Trade off with the ability of future generations to sustain themselves. You Should Evaluate These Impacts With Equal Importance to Questions of Nuclear War. Kibert et al,

Kibert et al. 12  Charles J. Kibert (Charles J. Kibert is a Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida. He is co-founder and President of the Cross Creek Initiative, a non-profit industry/university joint venture seeking to implement sustainability principles into construction. He has been vice-chair of the Curriculum and Accreditation Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and helped create the first ever student chapter of the USGBC for which he serves as faculty advisor.), Leslie Thiele (teaches political theory and serves as Director of Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida. His interdisciplinary research focuses on sustainability issues and the intersection of political philosophy and the natural sciences. His central concerns are the responsibilities of citizenship and the opportunities for leadership in a world of rapid technological, social, and ecological change. ), Anna Peterson, (Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her main research and teaching areas are environmental and social ethics, religion and politics, and religion in Latin America.), and Martha Monroe (Professor of Environmental Education and Extension, at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation of the University of Florida), The Ethics of Sustainability, http://www.cce.ufl.edu/current/ethics/Ethics20of20Sustainability20Textbook.pdf)//EA

While an ... to future generations


And Current Consumption Rates lead to disease, deforestation, desertification, and acidification, multiple warrants
Kibert 2

Biodiversity refers to ... affected by desertification.

Sustainability starts in the round. Kahn provides both the alternative and the solvency. Kahn 1,

Kahn, ‘9 (Richard, Associate Professor of educational foundations and research at the university of North Dakota, “Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue”, from J. Sandlin and P. McLaren’s Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning Beyond the Shopocalypse, http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue, JD)

 Running on the Treadmill  ... to the imagination!

And, developing countries are particularly important. We need their voices at the table in developing policy that will save the world. Kahn 2,

Kahn, 08 (Richard, Associate Professor of educational foundations and research at the university of North Dakota, “From Education for Sustainable Development to  Ecopedagogy: Sustaining Capitalism or Sustaining Life?”, Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, Vol. 4 No.1, proquest)

Despite reasons to ... the world by 2032 (United Nations Environment Programme, 2002).

And, don't worry, I link under whatever framework you run. Rejecting extraction and the plague of consumption solves the root cause of other social questions, too.
Evans et al,

Bob Evans, Professor and Director of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute at the University of Northumbria, PhD in environmental planning and degrees in politics and sociology, Julian Agyeman, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, Robert D. Bullard, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Ph.D. in Sociology, "Just Sustainability," 2003, page 1SH

In recent ... future and fates.

And the evaluate the kritik before theory.

Butler (1 Judith. Precarious Life 2010.)
Dissent and debate depends ...maintain its popularity.

2. The kritik questions the very notion of theory as an acceptable pedagogical goal because it shifts the debate away from important discourse.  Theory is just a ruse of objectivity that obfuscates real problems. There is no such thing as objectivity.

Delgado, Law Prof at U. of Colorado, 1992 Richard, “Shadowboxing: An Essay On Power,” In Cornell Law Review, May
We have cleverly ...judge our own acts.

Tournament: Berk | Round: 1 | Opponent: Any | Judge: Any
My thesis is that placing value on resource extraction obfuscates the reality that the earth is finite. It justifies a limitless consumption of resources that we extract.

First, Resource extraction is happening at an alarming rate. We are literally losing the earth.  Morgan.
DAVID MORGAN Senior Producer at CBSNews.com  May 15, 2012 “Report : Consumption of Earth’s Resources Unsustainable” CBS News   Repo”  http://www.cbsnews.com/news/report-consumption-of-earths-resources-unsustainable/ DS/PGGV

The Earth's population ... consumption patterns.
And, consumption causes environmental degradation Jorgenson,

Institute for Research on World-Systems, Department of Sociology at the University of California (Andrew K, 2003, “Consumption and Environmental Degradation: A Cross-National Analysis,” http://www.irows.ucr.edu/andrew/papers/jorgensonSP.pdf)//DR. H

The Ecological Footprint...particularly the core. (Burns et al. 2001:12)

Environmental degradation leads to poverty and destruction of human rights, Shah,

Shah 11 Editor of Global Issues (Anup, March 6, 2011, “Consumption and Consumerism Author And Page Information,” Global Issues, http://www.globalissues.org/issue/235/consumption-and-consumerism)//DR. 

Today’s consumption is ...standard of consumption.

And, Current Consumption Patterns Trade off with the ability of future generations to sustain themselves. You Should Evaluate These Impacts With Equal Importance to Questions of Nuclear War. Kibert et al,

Kibert et al. 12  Charles J. Kibert (Charles J. Kibert is a Professor and Director of the Powell Center for Construction and Environment at the University of Florida. He is co-founder and President of the Cross Creek Initiative, a non-profit industry/university joint venture seeking to implement sustainability principles into construction. He has been vice-chair of the Curriculum and Accreditation Committee of the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and helped create the first ever student chapter of the USGBC for which he serves as faculty advisor.), Leslie Thiele (teaches political theory and serves as Director of Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida. His interdisciplinary research focuses on sustainability issues and the intersection of political philosophy and the natural sciences. His central concerns are the responsibilities of citizenship and the opportunities for leadership in a world of rapid technological, social, and ecological change. ), Anna Peterson, (Department of Religion at the University of Florida. She received her PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her main research and teaching areas are environmental and social ethics, religion and politics, and religion in Latin America.), and Martha Monroe (Professor of Environmental Education and Extension, at the School of Forest Resources and Conservation of the University of Florida), The Ethics of Sustainability, http://www.cce.ufl.edu/current/ethics/Ethics20of20Sustainability20Textbook.pdf)//EA

While an ... to future generations

And Current Consumption Rates lead to disease, deforestation, desertification, and acidification, multiple warrants
Kibert 2

Biodiversity refers to ... affected by desertification.

Sustainability starts in the round. Kahn provides both the alternative and the solvency. Kahn 1,

Kahn, ‘9 (Richard, Associate Professor of educational foundations and research at the university of North Dakota, “Producing Crisis: Green Consumerism as an Ecopedagogical Issue”, from J. Sandlin and P. McLaren’s Critical Pedagogies of Consumption: Living and Learning Beyond the Shopocalypse, http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue, JD)

 Running on the Treadmill  ... to the imagination! 

And, developing countries are particularly important. We need their voices at the table in developing policy that will save the world. Kahn 2,

Kahn, 08 (Richard, Associate Professor of educational foundations and research at the university of North Dakota, “From Education for Sustainable Development to  Ecopedagogy: Sustaining Capitalism or Sustaining Life?”, Green Theory and Praxis: The Journal of Ecopedagogy, Vol. 4 No.1, proquest)

Despite reasons to ... the world by 2032 (United Nations Environment Programme, 2002).

And, don't worry, I link under whatever framework you run. Rejecting extraction and the plague of consumption solves the root cause of other social questions, too.
Evans et al,

Bob Evans, Professor and Director of the Sustainable Cities Research Institute at the University of Northumbria, PhD in environmental planning and degrees in politics and sociology, Julian Agyeman, Assistant Professor of Environmental Policy and Planning at Tufts University, Robert D. Bullard, Professor of Sociology and Director of Environmental Justice Resource Center at Clark Atlanta University, Ph.D. in Sociology, "Just Sustainability," 2003, page 1SH

In recent ... future and fates.

And the evaluate the kritik before theory.

Butler (  Judith. Precarious Life 2010.)
Dissent and debate depends ...maintain its popularity.

2. The kritik questions the very notion of theory as an acceptable pedagogical goal because it shifts the debate away from important discourse.  Theory is just a ruse of objectivity that obfuscates real problems. There is no such thing as objectivity.

Delgado, Law Prof at U. of Colorado, 1992 Richard, “Shadowboxing: An Essay On Power,” In Cornell Law Review, May
We have cleverly ...judge our own acts.