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NOTE: These are the cites for evidence I've read and have directed judges to flow on-case. This evidence pertains to a variety of strategies. Email me if you have questions.

Technocratic planning uses techniques of disciple and control that justify biopolitically invasive governance
Burke 2007 lecturer at Adelaide University School of History and Politics, “What security makes possible,” Working Paper 2007 p.11-12
Even if threats are credible … neither individual nor international security exist.

Suffering is inevitable –we will never be able to actually influence the world and death is inevitable. Life is a question of how we relate our individual ontologies
Lanza, professor at Wake Forest, 11/26/11 – considered one of the leading cell scientists in the world. He is currently Chief Scientific Officer at Advanced Cell Technology, and a professor at Wake Forest University School of Medicine (Robert, Why Do You Exist?, http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/biocentrism/201111/why-do-you-exist
New evidence continues to suggest that Einstein was right, … dimensionality; it's like a perennial flower that returns to bloom in the multiverse.

Environmental security leads to ineffective state intervention and militarism of the environment
Waever 1998, Ole, professor of International Relations at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, “Securitization and Desecuritization,” on security lipschutz http://www.ciaonet.org/book/lipschutz/index.html
Second in his critique of the notion of environmental … lead to militarization of environmental problems.

Framing the environment as a security issue is anti-political – it sacrifices all other considerations while re-installing the worst elements of the status quo.
Gourevitch 10 Alex, PhD from Columbia University, teaches at Harvard University, Public Culture 22:3, Fall, “Environmentalism — Long Live the Politics of Fear,” p. 418-424
Ironically, security is an unstable foundation for the … of an unequal and unjust society.

Even if warming is true, framing it as apocalypse is strategically even more dangerous.
Crist ‘7 – Ass. Prof. Sci and Tech in Society @ VT (Eileen, Telos 141, Winter, Beyond the Climate Crisis)
While the dangers of climate change … address—the ongoing destruction of life on Earth. 

The affirmative performs a world-view limited to a reactionary elite.  The think-tanks and policy papers that make up the AC exist in order to justify complacency with structural inequality, coercion, and hierarchy.
David Campbell Geography @ Durham Et Al ‘7 “Performing Security: The Imaginative Geographies of current US strategy” Political Geography 26 (4) doi:10.1016/j.polgeo.2006.12.002 (Other Authors: Luiza Bialasiewicz, Stuart Elden, Stephen Graham, Alex Jeffrey and Alison J. Williams
It is important to highlight the way performativity's idea of reiteration … on the genealogies of the idea of “rogue states” see Blum, 2002 and Litwak, 2000)

Initial framing precludes change – forgetting the AC is necessary
Bleiker 1 (Roland, Senior Lecturer and Co-Director – Rotary Centre of International Studies in Peace and Conflict Resolution, The Zen of International Relations, Ed. Chan, Mandeville, and Blieker, p. 38-39)
The power to tell … up spaces for a more inclusive and less violence prone practice of real world politics. 

Russia will never go to war against the United States – American strategic advantages could bleed the country dry and quickly cripple aggression
Stratfor 1 (2001 annual forecast, January 1, http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?selected=andid=101197andshowForecasts=1andforecasts=1)
Russia, likewise, is grossly … initiatives and bleed the country dry.

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China’s increasing rare-earth production by increasing processing capacity – the industry is growing now. Li in ’13:
Yue Li, analyst for the Wall Street Journal,  “In China, Rare Earths Resurface”, MoneyBeat, Sep 24, 2013
China’s rare earths … force China to lift its export quotas, it’s unlikely that the country will be able to satisfy exploding rare-earth demand forever.

Growth in rare earth metal are key to advancements in clean tech – there’s no alternative. Trujillo in ‘12
Iliana Cardenes Trujillo, The Earth Institute at Colombia University, “Rare Earth Metals: Another Challenge for the Green Economy?”, 4/2/12
Rare earth metals, such as yttrium, lanthanum or … have to increase by 8 and 14.

Clean tech innovation and growth of the industry solves runaway warming and environmental problems. Brook in ’10:
Clare Brook, the Guardian Professional Network, “Clean technology solutions to global warming need clear policies”, Monday 29 November 2010
Given all we know about the threat of climate change, and the …. This is arguably the biggest cloud blocking clean technology impetus.

The brink is now – scientific consensus indicates that this decade is uniquely key. Chestney in ’12:
NINA CHESTNEY, Journalist for Reuters, “Global warming close to becoming irreversible-scientists”, Mon Mar 26, 2012, ellipsis inserted by author
The world is close to reaching … a much hotter state."

The impact is extinction – global warming is real and outweighs other risks on scientific consensus and probability. Deibel in ’07:
Terry Deibel, Professor of International Relations at the Naval War College, "Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic of American Statecraft," Conclusion: American Foreign Affairs Strategy Today, 2007
Finally, there is one major existential threat to … existence of life on this planet.

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The judge should place special emphasis on grading the knowledge claims of the AC since it is the baseline for the debate. The way we understand the world is influenced by particular discourses of knowledge.

Their narrow conception of politics ignores crucial areas more concerned with institutional power than effectiveness and means debaters take less away from the activity
Lee Jones is lecturer in International Relations at Queen Mary, University of London, BA Honors Univ of Warwick, MA in IR St Anthony’s, PhD IR Nuffield , Journal of Critical Globalization Studies Issue 1 2009
Having conceded where Nye has … for Security Assistance, Science, and Technology.

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Aff misses the boat—symbolic battles of representation are as if not more important than the plan
James K. Stanescu  PhD student at Binghamton University (SUNY) in the Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture program 11-8-09 http://wrongforum.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/reps-ks/
Harrigan argues that the representations … that happen in the 1AC, and all of them are open for debate.

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Fear of apocalypse causes endless violence in the name of security
Coviello 2k (Peter, Professor of English and Acting Program Director of Africana Studies at Bowdoin College, Queer Frontiers, p. 40-41)
Perhaps. But to claim that American … can scarcely be done without.

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Beginning discussions at the intellectual level is more productive—causes better social change which the agency of the state can’t access—this is empirically proven
Bilgin 5 Assistant Prof of International Relations at Bilkent University, REGIONAL SECURITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE, p54-
The point is that a broader …. Otherwise, they run the risk of constituting ‘threats to the future’.

Vote negative to reject the AC’s enframing. Only this accesses a healthy middle ground that reevaluates problematisation
Cheeseman and Bruce 96 (Graeme Cheeseman, Snr. Lecturer @ New South Wales, and Robert Bruce, 1996, Discourses of Danger and Dread Frontiers, p. 5-9)
This goal is pursued in ways which are still … those who are the targets of its criticisms.

Tournament: Colleyville Heritage | Round: 4 | Opponent: X | Judge: X
A – Interpretation: There are 145 developing countries in the world. World Bank in ’13:
World Bank , March 2013 - http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/country-and-lending-groups - Total of 145 countries.
Afghanistan Albania … RB Vietnam West Bank and Gaza Yemen, Rep. Zambia Zimbabwe

B – Violation: (contingent on aff) 

C – Reasons to Prefer:

Predictability – aff interp kills predictability because defending actually developed countries negates all neg prep. Even if they defend some developing countries doing the aff, it doesn’t solve because it forces me into cutting answers to interaction b/w developed and developing and explodes my research burden. The World Bank is the most predictable interp in the topic lit because it’s cited by multiple studies and experts in the field and is used commonly in the real-world. Also, their measure with GNI is the most common and accurate determinant of development. World Bank in ’14:
The World Bank, UN Group seeking to fight poverty and income inequality, "How We Classify Countries: A Short History", Copyright 2014, http://data.worldbank.org/about/country-classifications/a-short-history
The Bank's analytical income … terms over time.

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Clash – forcing me to defend developed countries for which I reasonably can’t be expected to prep for because of their inconsistency with the resolution kills clash by pitting under-developed neg strats against solid affs and skirting out of common disads to extraction industries. Martin in ’05:
Will Martin, Research Manager for Agriculture and Rural Development at the Development Research Group of World Bank, "Outgrowing Resource Dependence: Theory and Some Recent Developments", World Bank, 2005
The first part of the paper identifies … to participate in manufactures trade. 

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D – Framing Issues:

Drop the Debater –
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Competing Interpretations –
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The function of moral theorizing should be to resolve problems in practices that exist and to make practices more pragmatic. Lekan in ‘03:
Todd Lekan, Professor of Philosophy at Muskingum University, “Making Morality: Pragmatist Reconstruction in Ethical Theory”, Vanderbilt University Press, 2003
Since pragmatists take seriously the …  to help make practices more intelligent.

And, pragmatism commits us to the authority of consequences. Frega  in ‘12:
Roberto Frega, School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and Senior Researcher at the Centre for the Study of Social Movements - Institut Marcel Mauss, “Equal Accessibility to All: Habermas, Pragmatism, and the Place of Religious Beliefs in a Post-Secular Society”, Roberto Frega Constellations Volume 19, Number 2, 2012
A third theoretical module needs to be … concerning the regulation of family