Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 7 | Opponent: Jason Yang | Judge: Aaron Timmons

Always Protect the Environment PIK

I negate.

Part 1 is Framework

The role of the ballot is for the judge to embrace the epistemological position of the humanist educator, which seeks to liberate subjugated Beings and help claim their subjectivity through critical deconstruction and discourse.

Freire 

Authentic education is not carried on by "A" for "B" or
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and be liberated, with the people—not to win them over.

This is key because 

This critical practice is key to understanding other oppressive ideologies and serves as a means to check subjugation and violence in the status quote.

Giroux 

Education as a critical practice could provide the means for disconnecting commonsense learning from the
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politics, disassociated from the search for justice, becomes a power grab."

2. Ontological questionings are imperative to answer all other ethical questions.

Cropsey 

On the surface there is little indication that this project has a practical or political
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man thus seems to lie behind Heidegger’s concern with the foundations of science.

Part 2 is the counter advocacy

Text: Developing Countries should always prioritize environmental protection over resource extraction. The shift in action is an example of an ideological shift against the capitalist regime.
Competition
I textually compete because the aff is confined to defending environmental protection only when the two are in conflict. This means the perm fails because that would make the aff extra topical. That kills topical constraints because absent that the aff has an infinite number of topical advocacies. Topical constraints are key to fairness because giving the aff an unlimited number of structurally skews the debate in their favor.
The CP also competes on net benefits.
Net benefits and Solvency

Resource extraction creates a dependent relation that prevents opposition to capitalism.

Greyl et al 2013, L., Ojo, G. U., Williams, C., Certoma, C., Greco, L., Ogbara, N. Ohwojeheri , A. 2013. Digging deep corporate liability. Environmental Justice strategies in the world of oil. EJOLT Report No. 9, 73 p.
In fact, while Northern countries, together with continuing in oil-extraction activity
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that this is not a process happening only in low income export countries.

AND Capitalist agenda is hidden behind their false promises of economic growth —- when we zoom out and evaluate the big picture —- countries rarely benefit.

Ferguson 05 ~ Seeing like an Oil Company: Space, Security, and Global Capital in Neoliberal AfricaAuthor(s): James FergusonSource: American Anthropologist, New Series, Vol. 107, No. 3 (Sep., 2005), pp. 377-382Published by: Wiley on behalf of the American Anthropological AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3567023 .Accessed: 27/12/2013 23:30~ STHS JB
We have become used to a picture of Africa as a continent abandoned by global
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not entailed investment in the construction of national "grids" of legibility. 

Capitalism is devoid of ethics—it objectifies all people and inter-personal relations.

Lamothe 12,
(Ryan LaMothe, Professor of Theology at St. Meinrad College, 7 July 2012, "The Spirits of Capitalism and Christianity and Their Impact on the Formation of Healthcare Leaders", Journal of Religion and Health, 7/9/13 SS,  http://link.springer.com/article/10.10072Fs10943-012-9631-8/fulltext.html)
The third point deals with the symbol system itself. In contending that capitalism fosters
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, morality and care are grafted onto capitalism, limiting its less savory effects

Refusing to participate in capitalism is the first step toward hollowing out the system and replacing it with an alternative- This also means reject the affirmative as a complete rejection of capitalist ideology is needed to solve the capitalist beast.

Herod 4 (James, renowned philosopher, author, and social activist, "Getting Free", http://site.www.umb.edu/faculty/salzman_g/Strate/GetFre/06.htm)
It is time to try to describe, at first abstractly and later concretely,
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another, and not merely reforming one way of life into something else.

Tournament: NDCA | Round: 2 | Opponent: Los Altos SD | Judge: Monica Amestoy

Part 1 is the FW

First,

The resolution is a guide from which we derive any meaning and with that meaning we must understand and accept the assumptions that come with the terms that we use, thus we must critically deconstruct the discourse to determine what is inherent in the acceptance of the terms we use. Hayward and O~’Donnell^^^^

It can be argued that words frame, mobilise and motivate political thought and action
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1989: 14), and to do so by relying on linguistic analysis.

The mode of thought transferred through critical discourse creates modes of questioning oppression and exclusion which can be observed through certain actions we endorse, by preventing certain critical ideas from appearing, when it functions on a higher level. Butler^^^^

Dissent and debate depend~~~s~~~ upon the inclusion of those who maintain critical
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war can claim popular consent, and no administration can maintain its popularity.

To negate means to deny the existence of any truth, meaning that the negative need only disprove the aff~’s epistemological stance as truth to win the round

Thus the role of the ballot is to embrace the will to power

Kulczyk, Konrad We Are Not Alone in the Universe: From the origins of civilizations and religions to Humankind~’s final destiny, pp 244, 2012

The inner strength of man, which enables him to defeat himself and to mold
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anymore, the rise of the overman is the solution suggested by Nietzsche.

Prefer this ROB because

This methodology is key to understanding life and all of its ethical mysteries, means it~’s a prerequisite to understanding the concepts of the 1ac. Holds intl link to offense

Bittner, Rudiger. "Masters without Substance" Nietzsche~’s Postmoralism: Essays on Nietzsche~’s Prelude to Philosophy~’s Future, pp 42, 2001. 

So the doctrine of the will to power and the denial of substance are linked
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should still be being in which the activity of life would only inhere.

Ontology has to come first – the crisis rhetoric that drives the aff already assumes a particular ontology that demands interrogation before any ethical action is possible

Glazebrook 2k, Trish, Professor @ Fordham U, 2000. Heidegger~’s philosophy of science. New York: Fordham University Press, p. 47 -8
What interested Heidegger about Kant, he read as ontology. He sought to take
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, for he missed Kant~’s separation of the a priori from the pure.

Ontological questions must be asked and answered first

Cropsey, History of Political Philosophy 1987 p. 891

On the surface there is little indication that this project has a practical or political
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man thus seems to lie behind Heidegger~’s concern with the foundations of science.

Part 2 is the Criticism

The affs drive for a "stable environment" ignores that really humans have no power over our surroundings – thus it never truly exists

Goodwin 7 (Kingsley Goodwin, University College Dublin ,Postmodernism, deep ecology and the idea of wildness: Some problems with Drenthen~’s formulations ETHICAL PERSPECTIVES: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ETHICS NETWORK 14, no. 4 (2007): 501-512., )

Drenthen~’s wildness is also much more abstract. For an example of nature that is
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seem to recognise the value of this impulse for effectively caring about nature.

This mentality leads to an inability to exert our individual power and destroys the value of individual subjectivity

Slavery to the ascetic ideal covers over the meaninglessness of suffering, denying any ability to be human at all leading to nihilism.

Nietzsche 1887
(German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, pg89-90, KV)

If we leave aside the ascetic ideal, then man, the animal man,
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the start: man will sooner will nothingness than not will . . .

Notions of absolute and universal ethics create perpetuate normative notions of morality and attempts to legislate life, thus destroying subjectivity

Brobjer 03
~Thomas H. Nietzsche’s Affirmative Morality: An Ethics of Virtue The Journal of Nietzsche Studies 26 (2003) 64-78 Project Muse~ ~ct~

Nietzsche’s project is not that of a nihilist, not a rejection of all values
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of value, as for Oedipus before the Sphinx, is thus man21 

Alternative: Vote negative to forget the 1ac.

Memory entails a cling to pain that only active forgetting can allow us move past. This opens space for an ethics of hope.

Nietzsche 1887
(German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, pg25-26, KV)

We can ascribe to forgetfulness the fact what while we are digesting what we alone
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the will can intervene, without breaking this long chain of the will.

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JN | Judge: Courtney Nunley

OUTTA DIS WORLD CP

A is the Text: Developing countries will prioritize resource extraction over environmental preservation by utilizing their resources to contribute to an outer space colony. Funding is guaranteed and the policy will be implemented through normal means.
B is the competition

The CP competes through net benefits.

Space colonization requires the full utilization of Earth’s resources, which means that developing countries must prioritize resource extraction over environmental preservation. Engdahl 08:

Engdahl  2008 (Sylvia Engdahl has written many non-fiction books on space exploration and development. November 5, 2008. http://www.sylviaengdahl.com/space/survival.htm) STHS JB
I have called this stage in our evolution the "Critical Stage." Paul Levinson
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dictatorship that would be necessary to maintain a "sustainable" global civilization. 

C is the Net Benefit and Solvency

Space colonization is key-it’s time to leave Earth or face extinction. Fox 10:
Fox News 10

(Fox News, "Abandon Earth or Face Extinction, Stephen Hawking Warns – Again",http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/09/abandon-earth-face-extinction-warns-stephen-hawking/, 6/9/10) STHS JB
It’s time to abandon Earth, warned the world’s most famous theoretical physicist. In
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species should be safe, as we spread into space," he said.

And, dispersal of humanity across space is key to reducing existential threats to Earth – other species extinction cases prove. Sowers 02:

Sowers, 2 (George Sowers, transhumanist, "The Transhumanist Case for Space," April 2002,http://www.georgesowers.com/Other_pdf/The_trans_case_for_space.pdf) STHS JB
What can we do to maximize our odds of survival, irrespective of what those
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far less exposed to extinction by our own stupidity or just bad luck.

And, space colonization solves for global food shorages. Siegfried 03:

Siegfried, 03 – Program Manager of McDonnell Douglas SEI team with system design that featured common Lunar/ Mars systems (W. H., "Space Colonization—Benefits for the World"http://www.aiaa.org/participate/uploads/acf628b.pdf)
SPACE COLONIZATION MUST HAVE LOW-WATER, LOW-PESTICIDE PLANT GROWTH AND WASTE AND WATER PURITY CONTROL STHS JB
Two of the items listed here represent major concerns of most developed nations and are
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-regenerative systems as a path toward solution of Tokyo’s waste management problems.

And, space colonization solves disease through a better understanding of immune systems. Siegfried 03:

Siegfried, 03 – Program Manager of McDonnell Douglas SEI team with system design that featured common Lunar/ Mars systems (W. H., "Space Colonization—Benefits for the World"http://www.aiaa.org/participate/uploads/acf628b.pdf)
SPACE COLONIZATION MAY LEAD TO HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, AGING, AND DISEASE AMELIORATION STHS JB
Many current human problems are the result of failures of the body’s natural immune system
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function-related illnesses can result from a comprehensive approach to Space Colonization.

And I am winning on Timeframe, Plan can be possible as soon as 2024 HSW:

http://science.howstuffworks.com/living-in-space.htm
Beginning with short flights and working up to extended trips, NASA estimates that the
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the lunar base as a launch site for a manned mission to Mars.

Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake JN | Judge: Courtney Nunley

Jan/Feb Property Rights NC

The resolution asks an unqualified question about morality in a specific circumstance. This means both sides need to propose and defend a binding moral rule. Since the resolution asks us for guidance in a specific scenario, by its very nature it is asking for a mandatory rule for action.

The meta-ethic is constitutivism.  

Only constitutivism provides a non-optional account of morality.  Kastafanas

Kastafanas, Paul.  "Deriving Ethics from Action: A Nietzschean Version of Constitutivism."  2011.
Enter a third theory, which attempts to do just that: constitutivism. According
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for action that arise merely from the fact that one is an agent.

A right to ourselves necessarily includes a right to property. Locke : 

Locke, John. Chapter 5 On Property. Two Treatises on Government (16-8-1690).  http://www.lonang.com/exlibris/locke/loc-205.htm

Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every
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where there is enough, and as good left in common for others.

Thus, the standard is consistency with property rights.

My thesis and sole contention is Environmental protection is inconsistent with property rights. Feser Explains:

http://www.iep.utm.edu/nozick/~~23SH2a Edward Feser Email: edwardfeser@hotmail.comPasadena City College U. S. A. STHS JB
So far this all might seem fairly uncontroversial. But what follows from it,
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to charge whatever they want to for the use of their own property).

Tournament: Winston Churchill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Unknown | Judge: Unknown

Water DA

A. Uniqueness

Somalia has a serious lack of water.

SWALIM (2007): Water Resources of Somalia. Water Reports Series
http://www.faoswalim.org/Water20Reports20Series
Nearly four out of every five Somalis in 2006 had no access to improved water
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water that has developed into conflicts at household and clan level.  In addition

B. Link

Environmental protection is causing Somalia to not use their ground water.

Elmi, Mohamud. "Hiiraan Online." Somalia: It Is Time to Utilize Groundwater. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. http://www.hiiraan.com/op4/2013/apr/28939/somalia_it_is_time_to_utilize_groundwater.aspx.
The information above tells us that ground water is abundant 30 times than surface water
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entire landscape into a green piece of earth if it is managed properly.

C. Impacts

There are 3 immediate issues with a lack of water.

Disease

Riewer, Tyler. "Charity: Water." Why Water. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. http://www.charitywater.org/whywater/.
Diseases from unsafe water and lack of basic sanitation kill more people every year than
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can be prevented simply by improving water supply, sanitation, and hygiene.

Gender Inequality

Riewer 2, Tyler. "Charity: Water." Why Water. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. http://www.charitywater.org/whywater/.
In most rural communities worldwide, women and young girls are responsible for walking to
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are often the first chance for women to step into elected leadership roles.

Food Supply

Riewer 3, Tyler. "Charity: Water." Why Water. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Dec. 2013. http://www.charitywater.org/whywater/.
Feeding our world takes up to 90 of our freshwater withdrawals. When a
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sufficient households are less affected by conflict, famine or inadequate government services.