Tournament: UPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Eastside Catholic Meehan | Judge: Hudgens

1. China is key to global rare earths. The Asahi Shimbun 12
   THE ASAHI SHIMBUN. Companies seek to reduce reliance on Chinese rare earths. September 25, 2012. http://ajw.asahi.com/article/asia/china/AJ201209250059.

China accounts for … motors and magnets.

2. Rare earth metals are key to clean tech. Vowles 13
(Glenn Vowles, Open University Associate Lecturer in Environment) “Rare Earth Elements and the Environment” Sustainable Cities Aug 26 2013

All these greener … case of biomass/biofuel. 

3. Clean Green tech is key to solve global warming. UCS 11
(Union of Concerned Scientists) “Solutions to Global Warming” Climate Hot Map: GLOBAL WARMING EFFECTS AROUND THE WORLD 2011

There is no … provide important breakthroughs 

Note: I didn't read warming means extinction since he impacted to warming w/out reading warming linking to extinction so I didn't want him to link to extinction solely on warming. his scenario: warming -- loss of Biod -- biod loss means extinction

Tournament: UPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Interlake Chen | Judge: Judge Change - idk

1. Green consumerism sustains consumption in another form, buying into the reforms of the “green economy” depoliticizes the role of the individual. Kahn 09
   Richard Kahn, 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, 2009. http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue

Since green consumerism’s … and political action. 

2. This makes extinction inevitable: try or die for the alt. Heinberg 04
(Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow of the Post Carbon Institute, faculty @ New College of California , author and recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for excellence in energy education, Power Down: Options and Actions for a Post-Carbon World, P. 148-150. 2004)

Now perhaps we … wanted by pressing buttons.

3. Reject the AFF’s “greenwashed” consumerism to rethink our individual consumption of resources and endorse a radical pedagogy aimed at restructuring of society around sustainable imperatives. Kahn 09
Richard Kahn, 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, 2009. http://antiochla.academia.edu/ecopedagogy/Papers/84865/Producing_Crisis_Green_Consumerism_as_an_Ecopedagogical_Issue

The Chairman of … to the imagination!   

4. And the role of the ballot is to question the epistemology of policies. Dixon and Dogan 04
John DIXON Public Management @ Plymouth AND Rhys DOGAN Politics @ Plymouth ‘4 “The Conduct of Policy Analysis: Philosophical Points of Reference” Review of Policy Research 21 (4) p.

The proposed fifth … informing intellectual discipline.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Interlake Chen | Judge:
I value morality and the standard is utilitarianism. 

First, Morality must be a universal rule, this means util. Pettit 2k    
Phillip Pettit. “Non-Consequentialism and Universalizability.” 2000.

Every prescription as …  in similar circumstances. 

And, Non-consequentialist theories fail since they require maximization to be universalizeable. Pettit 2k  
Phillip Pettit. “Non-Consequentialism and Universalizability.” 2000.

The upshot is … of their commitment.

Second, Determinism is true. Newell 09
Indiana Undergraduate Journal of Cognitive Science 4 (2009) 54-64. Can Neuroscience Inform the Free Will Debate? Brandi Jo Newell. Psychology Wellesley College.

For example, by … of free will.

Determinism means util. Greene and Cohen 04
Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen – 2004 Department of Psychology, Center for the Study of Brain, Mind, and Behavior, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA, “For the law, neuroscience changes nothing and everything,” Phil. Trans. R. Soc.Lond. B, November 2004. The Royal Society.

Contention 1 is Fossil Fuels

A. Environmental problems in developing countries are due to poverty. Walter and Ugelow 79 

The available evidence … in the foreseeable future (10).

Fossil fuels are key to economic growth of developing countries. There’s no alternative.
Levi 13 writes
Moving away from … that would suffer.

Fossil fuels are key to biodiversity. Goklany 12
Indur Goklany (has worked with federal and state governments, think tanks, and the private sector for 40 years and written extensively on the interactions between globalization, economic development, environmental quality, technological change, climate change, risk analysis, and human well-being. He has published in Nature, the Lancet, Energy and Environment, and other journals. He is the author of several books, including The Improving State of the World: Why We’re Living Longer, Healthier, More Comfortable Lives on a Cleaner Planet and The Precautionary Principle: A Critical Appraisal of Environmental Risk Assessment). “Humanity Unbound How Fossil Fuels Saved Humanity from Nature and Nature from Humanity.” http://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa715.pdf, December 20, 2012

The collective demand … chronically hungry worldwide.

Resource extraction leads to a long-term transition to sustainability, solving their impacts. Goklany 12 

This hypothesis postulates … reducing these effects.

Tournament: UPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Interlake Chen | Judge: X
A. Interpretation – Aff must defend the implementation of prioritizing environmental protection over resource extraction in a specific country or group of countries.